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Windows on Arm Takes Center Stage in Best Buy’s Back-to-School Picks with Surface Pro
In its 2026 back-to-school shopping guide published July 20, Best Buy is steering students toward the Microsoft Surface Pro Copilot+ PC, positioning the 12-inch Snapdragon tablet as a premier study...
Microsoft Copilot Now Lets You Buy Etsy Products Without Leaving the Chat. Here's How It Works.
Microsoft Copilot can now serve as a direct checkout lane for handmade and vintage goods on Etsy, turning the AI assistant into a storefront for the first time. It’s part of a wave of “agentic...
PS5 Flight Simulator Players Can Now Upgrade to Rudder Pedals via Thrustmaster’s Hidden Port
Thrustmaster’s newest flight stick for PlayStation 5—the T.Flight HOTAS 5 Microsoft Flight Simulator Edition—ships with a feature that most buyers overlook: an RJ12 expansion port that opens...
NVIDIA Agent Toolkit Brings Local AI to DGX Station—But Windows Users Are on the Outside Looking In
NVIDIA has officially launched its Agent Toolkit, a software stack that lets DGX Station owners run powerful local AI agents, but the announcement has a catch: the entire setup runs exclusively on...
Windows Server 2022 Mainstream Support Ends October 2026: Your Move, IT
Microsoft will pull mainstream support for Windows Server 2022 on October 13, 2026. After that date, the server OS stops receiving feature updates; only critical security fixes remain until extended...
Azure Functions 1.x and Legacy Log API Sunset in 2026: Here's Your Migration Roadmap
Microsoft has set September 14, 2026, as the end-of-support date for both Azure Functions version 1.x and the older HTTP Data Collector API that feeds logs into Azure Monitor. That gives teams two...
The Witcher 3’s Next Update Requires Windows 11 and an SSD—Here’s How to Prepare
CD Projekt Red is raising the hardware floor for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. With the game’s next update, the 2015 role-playing classic will officially require Windows 11, an SSD, and a DirectX 12...
Firefox vs. Twitch: Why You’re Seeing Errors 3000, 7005, and 2000 — and How to Solve Them
Twitch viewers on Firefox are repeatedly bumping into playback errors 3000, 7005, and 2000, and the fixes are rarely obvious. The culprit often isn’t the stream itself but Firefox’s privacy...
Grok Add-in Brings AI Editing to Excel, Word, and PowerPoint — Here’s What IT Needs to Do Before Installing
xAI slipped a Grok add-in into the Microsoft Marketplace in mid-June 2026, putting its AI assistant directly inside Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. The add-in can read whatever you select, make changes...
Microsoft Shifts Power Apps Analytics to Fabric with New ‘Link Data' Hub, Retires Azure Synapse Name
Power Apps users who export Dataverse data for analytics are waking up to a renamed navigation entry and a clear strategic signal: Microsoft Fabric is now the default destination. Starting with a...
Why Microsoft Is Forcing a 72-Hour Patch Deadline on Windows PCs—and What IT Must Do Now
For years, enterprise IT teams treated Windows quality updates as something to schedule when convenient—roll them out in waves, test for weeks, maybe delay a month. That era is officially over....
iOS 27 Public Beta Is Here—But If You Use Microsoft Apps on iPhone, Wait
Apple dropped the iOS 27 public beta into the hands of eager testers this week, but the release comes with a blunt warning that reads more like a terms-of-service footnote: this software is not ready...