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Futuremark’s PCMark 10 Basic Edition arrives as a fast, modern benchmark aimed squarely at measuring real-world Windows PC performance — and it’s available as a free download via TechPowerUp’s downloads vault, packaged as the Basic Edition with the standard benchmark suite for cross-system...

Amazon and Google quietly rewrote a key piece of cloud plumbing at re:Invent: a jointly engineered, open‑API multicloud interconnect that promises private, high‑speed links between AWS and Google Cloud provisioned in minutes — and it arrived with AI as the accelerant. The move is more than...

VLink today announced it has achieved the Microsoft Solutions Partner designation for Digital & App Innovation (Azure) — a formal recognition that positions the company as a validated provider of cloud-native application development, application modernization, and DevOps-led delivery on...

Microsoft has opened public preview for Azure Service Groups, a tenant-level abstraction that lets organizations create flexible, cross‑subscription groupings of resources for visibility, observability, and lightweight management without changing RBAC or policy inheritance across the resource...

Gartner’s warning that VMware could lose roughly a third of its workloads to hyperscalers by 2028 has snapped the industry into high alert, but parsing the numbers, the causes, and the practical options for IT teams shows a market in rapid re‑arrangement rather than an immediate collapse. The...

Microsoft’s productivity stack is entering a new, more plural era: after years of deep integration with OpenAI’s models, Microsoft is reported to be adding Anthropic’s Claude — specifically the Sonnet model family — into Office 365’s Copilot workflows, creating a multi‑model orchestration that...

Phison’s latest public testing and community forensics have reframed the mid‑August Windows 11 SSD scare: what began as frantic reports that the Windows 11 August cumulative updates (commonly tracked as KB5063878 and the related KB5062660) were “bricking” NVMe drives now appears to be a...

Phison has publicly acknowledged and replicated a key finding first raised by the PCDIY community: a wave of disappearing and allegedly “bricked” NVMe SSDs linked in timing to Windows 11’s August cumulative update (KB5063878) appears to have been driven, in at least some test cases, by...

Microsoft’s latest service alert closes one chapter in a nervous week for Windows users: after partner-assisted lab validation and an internal probe, Microsoft says it found no evidence that the August 2025 Windows 11 security update caused a platform‑wide SSD failure mode — and Phison, the...

Microsoft and Phison say their investigations found no reproducible link between the August Windows 11 24H2 cumulative update (commonly tracked as KB5063878) and the social-media reports that the patch “bricked” or made certain SSDs vanish during heavy writes, but the incident exposes a fragile...

A wave of community test results and vendor confirmations this week has put the latest Windows 11 cumulative update under a harsh spotlight: several SSDs can disappear from Windows during sustained, large write operations after installing the August 12, 2025 update (KB5063878), with a...

Phison’s terse lab summary — that it “was unable to reproduce” the reports that a mid‑August Windows 11 update could “brick” SSDs after more than 4,500 cumulative test hours — changed the tone of a fast‑moving controversy, but it did not close the book on a worrying, reproducible symptom set...

Cloud migration is no longer a mere option for ambitious enterprises; it’s the engine powering digital transformation, making businesses more agile, scalable, and ready to capitalize on artificial intelligence. Among cloud providers jockeying for enterprise workloads, Microsoft Azure is rapidly...

In a recent column, economist Ray Perryman discusses the challenges of work overload and its impact on efficiency. He highlights that while remote work has become more prevalent, some companies are urging employees to return to the office, believing it will enhance collaboration and...

Microsoft is introducing a new feature in Windows 11 called Adaptive Energy Saver, designed to enhance battery life on laptops and tablets by intelligently managing power consumption based on system workload. Unlike the traditional energy saver mode, which activates when the battery reaches a...

Windows 11 users have long sought smarter, less disruptive ways to extend the battery life of their laptops and tablets. Now, Microsoft is responding to that demand with a significant update: the Adaptive Energy Saver, introduced in preview with Windows 11's latest Canary build. This feature...

In recent years, the traditional boundaries of the workday have blurred, giving rise to what experts now term the "infinite workday." This phenomenon, characterized by continuous work engagements stretching from early morning into late night, has been substantiated by comprehensive research from...

A new dawn should feel like a fresh start, yet for millions of knowledge workers worldwide, it increasingly begins as an extension of yesterday’s unfinished business. This elusive boundary between personal life and professional obligations lies at the heart of Microsoft’s latest Work Trend Index...

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the promise of a balanced workday has given way to an "infinite workday," where employees find themselves tethered to their jobs from dawn until well into the night. Microsoft's 2025 Work Trend Index sheds light on this phenomenon, revealing that the...

The traditional 9-to-5 workday is becoming a relic of the past, giving way to what Microsoft terms the "infinite workday." This shift, driven by the rise of remote work, has blurred the lines between professional and personal time, leading to a continuous work cycle that extends beyond...