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Esri's VBScript Deprecation in ArcGIS: The September 2025 Cutoff and Your Migration Roadmap
Esri drew a line in the sand on September 2, 2025, officially deprecating VBScript across its entire ArcGIS platform effective immediately. The move forces GIS professionals to abandon an aging...
Microsoft PowerToys 0.95 to Deliver Automatic Light/Dark Theme Switching for Windows 11
Microsoft is finally plugging one of Windows 11’s most glaring personalization gaps, using its PowerToys utility suite to add scheduled automatic theme switching. The feature, teased alongside the...
Azure Hits $75B, but Microsoft's Valuation Hinges on AI Monetization
Microsoft closed out its fiscal year 2025 with a staggering $281.7 billion in revenue, a figure that cements its position as the undisputed heavyweight of the software industry. But a surface-level...
Microsoft Offers Free Copilot to Feds in $3B OneGov Deal—But Critics Cry Lock-In and Security Risks
The U.S. General Services Administration has struck a deal with Microsoft that makes Microsoft 365 Copilot free for eligible federal agencies for the first year—the latest in a string of...
Microsoft and Cloudflare Drop NLWeb: Websites Can Now Answer AI Queries Directly
Site owners can now turn their web pages into AI-friendly conversational endpoints with a single-click quick deploy, thanks to a new integration between Microsoft’s NLWeb standard and...
Microsoft Inks $3 Billion AI Deal with U.S. Government: Free Copilot, Azure Discounts, and the Risks Agencies Can't Ignore
Microsoft and the U.S. General Services Administration have finalized a landmark OneGov agreement that arms federal agencies with deeply discounted—and in some cases, free—access to the...
Microsoft and Phison Exonerate KB5063878 After SSD Failure Investigation
The breathless headlines warning that a Windows 11 cumulative update was bricking NVMe SSDs have been conclusively walked back. After more than 4,500 hours of testing and 2,200 test cycles,...
0.091 dB/km: Microsoft’s Hollow Core Fiber Breakthrough Rewrites the Rules of Optical Networking
Microsoft and the University of Southampton’s Optoelectronics Research Centre have shattered a decades-old attenuation barrier in fiber optics, revealing a hollow-core fiber design that posts a...
Microsoft's MAI-Voice-1 Generates 60 Seconds of Audio in Under One Second on a Single GPU
Microsoft’s new MAI‑Voice‑1 model can generate one minute of high‑fidelity audio in less than a second on a single GPU. The breakthrough, unveiled alongside the MAI‑1‑preview foundation...
Navatar Launches AI CRM That Pulls Deal Intelligence Directly Into Outlook and Slack
Navatar, a specialist in private-markets technology, has launched a next-generation, AI-powered CRM designed explicitly for M&A advisory firms. The platform embeds intelligence directly inside...
Windows 11 Insider Preview Adds Native Clipboard Sync for Android Keyboards via Link to Windows
Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Insider Dev build has quietly surfaced a feature that instantly syncs your PC’s clipboard to an Android phone—and it works with any keyboard, including Gboard and...
StatCounter: Windows 11 Surges to 47.8% of Desktops as Windows 10 End Nears
Windows 11 now runs on 47.8% of the world’s desktop Windows PCs, according to StatCounter’s June 2025 data, putting Microsoft’s latest operating system neck-and-neck with Windows 10 for the...