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Every business has one. Most businesses couldn't tell you what it does. And a surprising number of businesses have one that hasn't been looked at since it was installed four years ago by someone who has since left the company. Let's fix the first problem. The other two we can talk about afterwards. The One-Sentence Answer A firewall monitors the traffic coming in and out of your network and blocks anything that looks like it shouldn't be there. That's it. Everything else is d

Some of it useful. Some of it very much not. So it's quietly refreshing to see the latest Windows 11 updates focused on something far less exciting — and far more welcome. Making Windows actually work better. No fanfare. Just fixes. Here's what's coming. Your internet is slow. Now you can prove it in seconds. A built-in network speed test is coming to the taskbar. No browser, no googling "internet speed test", no arguing about whether it's the WiFi or the laptop. One click, s

Not roughly. Actually. Most business owners would struggle to answer that with confidence — and that's not a criticism, it's just how things tend to go. You add a bit of cloud software here, a new platform there, and before long your data is scattered across systems that don't really talk to each other, some of which nobody's looked at properly in years. Everything seems fine. The team logs in. Emails get sent. Files get shared. But underneath that, questions build up. Who ca

Microsoft says Copilot is the number one productivity app on Windows 11. Ahead of File Explorer. Ahead of the Snipping Tool. Here's why that ranking tells you more about Microsoft's strategy than your actual working day.