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The latest Bedrock coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Minecraft Bedrock Realms Outage: How Azure Front Door Failure Disrupted Cloud Gaming
A widespread outage of Minecraft Bedrock Realms on May 23, 2024, left millions of players worldwide unable to access their multiplayer worlds for hours, revealing critical vulnerabilities in...
Stranger Things DLC Brings Hawkins, Upside Down to Minecraft Bedrock for 1,340 Minecoins
Minecraft's blocky universe has officially collided with the eerie town of Hawkins, Indiana, as Mojang Studios and Netflix have launched the Stranger Things DLC for Minecraft Bedrock Edition. This...
Windows 11 Fast Startup: Complete Guide to Pros, Cons and Settings
Windows 11's Fast Startup feature represents Microsoft's ongoing effort to optimize the user experience by significantly reducing boot times, but this performance enhancement comes with important...
Minecraft Bedrock Preview Revives .mcaddon File Associations on Windows, Fixes Mouse Freeze When Tabbing Out
Mojang released Minecraft Bedrock Preview/Beta 1.21.120.23 this week, and while the build is light on new content, it packs a pair of fixes that Windows players have been clamoring for: .mcaddon file...
Why Microsoft Copilot Might Soon Use Anthropic’s Claude on AWS — and What It Means for You
Microsoft is preparing to break its exclusive reliance on OpenAI for the AI smarts that power Copilot, and its eye is on Anthropic’s Claude models. The twist? Those models run on Amazon’s cloud,...
Pay Only If It Works: Caylent’s AI-Powered Migration Service Shakes Up Cloud Moves
Caylent, an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner and recipient of the 2024 AWS Migration Consulting Partner of the Year award, this week launched Accelerate for Cloud Migration. The service combines...
Azure, AWS, Google September Previews Bet on Enterprise AI Security and Auditability
Cloud providers are drawing a line in the silicon: enterprise AI can no longer live on model performance alone. The September 2025 preview and documentation updates from Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web...
AWS Startups VP Jon Jones Exits, Exposing Cracks in Cloud Giant's AI Talent Defense
Amazon Web Services’ vice president of global startups and venture capital outreach, Jon Jones, has left the company, marking the latest high-level departure from the cloud leader amid an...
Microsoft Pays Anthropic to Add Claude Sonnet 4 as Copilot's Second AI Brain in Office 365
Microsoft is paying Anthropic to integrate its Claude AI models directly into Office 365 applications, marking the first time the productivity suite will officially route user prompts to a large...
Microsoft Taps Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4 to Power Copilot in Office 365, Breaking OpenAI Exclusivity
Microsoft is quietly engineering the most significant shift in its Office AI strategy since Copilot launched: the company is adding Anthropic's Claude models to the backend mix, specifically routing...
AWS Pours $7.5 Billion Into New Zealand Cloud Region as Q2 Revenue Hits $30.9B
Amazon Web Services reported $30.8 billion in revenue for the second quarter of 2025, an 18% year-over-year increase, while simultaneously announcing a NZ$7.5 billion commitment to build its first...
AWS's AI Dilemma: Why Scale Alone Can't Win the Cloud War
Amazon Web Services posted $30.9 billion in quarterly revenue and grew roughly 17 percent year over year—numbers that would crown almost any other technology business. Yet the same quarter revealed...