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Microsoft’s AI-Fueled Double-Digit Growth Goal: What It Means for Your PC, Software, and Cloud Bills
In late January 2025, Microsoft told investors it expects the current fiscal year to deliver another round of double-digit revenue and operating-income growth—a more confident stance than the...
Azure Revenue Surges 39% to $75B Run-Rate as Microsoft Bets $30B+ on AI Infrastructure
Microsoft closed its fiscal year 2025 with a thunderclap: $76.4 billion in quarterly revenue, an 18% year-over-year leap, driven almost entirely by an AI-fueled cloud strategy. Azure’s annualized...
AI Agents Get Corporate IDs: Inside Microsoft and Workday’s Landmark Integration
Enterprise AI agents are about to get their own set of corporate credentials. Microsoft and Workday have quietly stitched together a system that assigns verified, directory-backed identities to...
No-Reboot Fix: Microsoft KB5066360 Hotpatch Resolves Hyper-V PSDirect Security Hole
Microsoft has released KB5066360, a hotpatch that corrects a critical handshake regression in PowerShell Direct without requiring a system restart. The update, which lands on eligible Windows Server...
Windows 10 and 11’s Crucial System Restore Is Often Disabled — Here’s How to Enable It in Under a Minute
Windows 10 and 11 ship with a powerful rollback feature that can undo system-wrecking changes in minutes—but Microsoft often leaves it switched off. System Restore, officially called System...
Windows Mobile Plans App Will Vanish in 2026 as Microsoft Hands eSIM Sales to Carriers
Microsoft has set a hard retirement date for its built-in Mobile Plans app: February 27, 2026. After that, the small storefront that lets cellular‑capable Windows laptops and tablets buy data plans...
Visionet's PEAK Matrix Star Performer Status Rewrites the Rules for Mid-Tier Microsoft Partners
Visionet’s leap into the Star Performer circle of Everest Group’s Microsoft Business Applications Services PEAK Matrix for 2025 isn’t just a badge on a press release. It’s a measurable...
TierPoint’s Microsoft Private Cloud Badge: What It Means for Your Azure Local Strategy
TierPoint’s newly minted Microsoft Solutions Partner designation for Private Cloud is more than a badge—it’s a structural signal that Microsoft’s hybrid cloud play is maturing, and that large...
Silent Copilot Push: Microsoft’s 365 AI App Auto-Installs on Windows, But You Can Block It
Microsoft plans to quietly push the Microsoft 365 Copilot app onto Windows devices starting in the fall of 2025—a move that will affect millions of business and consumer machines, but one that...
First Tokenised Fundraise Completed on LSEG’s Azure-Powered Digital Markets Platform
The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has officially launched its Digital Markets Infrastructure (DMI), a blockchain-powered platform built on Microsoft Azure, and it has already facilitated its...
Windows 10’s October 2025 Deadline Is Firm: Here Are the Only 5 Ways to Stay Secure
Windows 10 will receive its final free security patches on October 14, 2025. When that date passes, any PC still running the operating system without a paid extension or a workaround will be...
Microsoft's Trust Reckoning: 9,000 Jobs Cut, Return-to-Office Mandate Fuels Internal Outcry
Microsoft’s stunning $76.4 billion quarter should have been a time of celebration. Instead, the company finds itself grappling with a deepening trust crisis after slashing roughly 9,000 jobs in...