Articles from September 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in September 2025
Windows 10’s End-of-Support Countdown Is Real—Here’s How to Switch to Linux Mint Without the Headaches
Windows 10 will stop receiving security updates on October 14, 2025. For millions of users whose hardware can’t—or won’t—run Windows 11, Linux Mint has quietly become the most practical...
AnywhereNow Targets U.S. and Canada with Tendfor Investment, But Compliance Gaps Linger
On September 16, AnywhereNow announced a strategic investment in its subsidiary Tendfor, aiming to accelerate the adoption of its Teams-native contact center software across North America. The move...
Ditch Slow Windows 11 Search: 6 Lightning-Fast Alternatives You Need to Try
Windows 11’s built-in search often feels like a throwback to the spinning-disk era—slow, cluttered, and inconsistent. Now, a crop of third-party tools backed by years of development and rabid...
Forget Windows 11 Search: 6 Keyboard-First Alternatives That Actually Work
Microsoft’s own PowerToys utility now includes a keyboard-first launcher called Command Palette, just one of several alternatives aiming to replace Windows 11’s sluggish search, as highlighted in...
Testing Windows 11’s Handheld Mode on OG ROG Ally: Real Battery Gains, but Switching Gets Taxing
The original ASUS ROG Ally can run Microsoft’s new Handheld Gaming Mode, and the results are more than just a cosmetic skin. Testing on an OG Ally shows the feature frees up system memory, extends...
The Windows External Monitor Fix That Still Requires a Clean Driver Sweep in 2025
Windows Central refreshed its enduring guide on September 17, 2025, walking users through the familiar gauntlet of cable swaps, input‑source checks, and driver reinstalls that are still required...
AMD RDNA4 GPUs Run AI Inference Faster on Linux Than Windows 11, New Benchmarks Show
When Phoronix pitted identical AMD hardware against itself in a cross-platform AI face-off, the results surprised no one who follows open-source driver development: Linux, armed with the latest...
When Defender Quarantines Your Files: How to Restore, Exclude, and Stay Secure on Windows
Microsoft Defender stops thousands of threats every day, silently quarantining files it deems suspicious. But when it snags a trusted installer or a home-grown script, the silence turns into...
Microsoft Cloud Revenue Hits $46.7B in a Single Quarter as AI Demand Soars
Microsoft’s cloud business hauled in $46.7 billion in the most recent quarter, a record that equates to roughly half a billion dollars in revenue every single day, the company disclosed as part of...
Surface Laptop 7's ARM Model: The Battery Champion That Still Demands Buyer Beware
Microsoft’s Surface Laptop 7 with Arm processors has been on sale since mid-2024, promising exceptional battery endurance and a suite of AI features under the Copilot+ banner. But six months of...
Half the Cost, Double the Risk? Inside the UK Cabinet Office’s Troubled Microsoft 365 Migration
The UK Cabinet Office has handed its faltering migration from Google Workspace to Microsoft 365 to a shared government service, slashing the project’s projected whole-life cost from £51 million to...
Oracle's $144B Cloud Gamble: How the AI-First OCI Plan Affects Your Windows Workloads
On September 10, Oracle stunned Wall Street with a fiscal 2026 revenue forecast that projects its cloud infrastructure business will reach $144 billion by fiscal 2030—placing it squarely in...