Articles from September 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in September 2025
Microsoft Sneaks Bing Visual Search Into Edge Canary’s Desktop Bar—Camera Icon Triggers Image Lookups
A small camera icon has materialized inside Edge Canary’s floating desktop search bar on Windows 11, and it opens a direct pipeline to Bing Visual Search without ever launching a full browser...
Firefox 143 Update Turns Favorite Sites into Windows Taskbar Apps, Adds Copilot
Mozilla has shipped Firefox 143 with a feature Windows users have requested for years: the ability to pin any website to the taskbar as a standalone web app. The update—rolling out now through the...
Law Firms Face Ethical and Regulatory Friction in Scaling AI Beyond Pilots
Despite a rush of experimentation with generative AI tools, the legal industry finds itself stuck between impressive pilot programs and elusive full-scale production. Recent surveys and telemetry...
Microsoft Kicks Off Live Rollout of 2023 Secure Boot Certificates—Time to Act Before the 2026 Cutoff
Microsoft has begun pushing new Secure Boot certificates to Windows devices, a critical transition that will permanently retire trust in 2011-era signing keys and prevent older bootloaders from...
Bing’s New Scoreboard Ad Declares Edge the Winner Over Chrome, Obscuring Google’s Links on Windows 11
Microsoft has rolled out a new Bing search ad that presents a "scoreboard" comparison between Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome, designating Edge the winner with blue checkmarks and burying Chrome's...
Sony Deploys Enterprise LLM to 50,000 Staff While Reining In Generative AI in Games
Sony has quietly opened the taps on one of the most ambitious internal AI rollouts in the entertainment industry, with more than 50,000 employees across 210 teams now actively using a centrally...
Xbox App Becomes Universal Launcher on Windows 11—Steam, Epic, GOG Games Now in One Place
The Xbox app on Windows 11 is no longer just a glorified Game Pass launcher. In a move that reshapes the PC gaming landscape, Microsoft has reimagined the app as an aggregated hub capable of...
Microsoft Copilot Chat Gains Content-Aware Side Pane Across Word, Excel, More—Now for All 365 Users
Microsoft is deploying a content-aware Copilot Chat panel directly inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote to all Microsoft 365 subscribers, not just those on paid Copilot licenses. The...
Two-Thirds of UK Students Use AI for Studies, and 23% Have Cheated, Survey Shows
A sweeping new YouGov survey of 1,027 UK undergraduates reveals that artificial intelligence has become a mainstream study tool, but its misuse is alarmingly widespread. Two-thirds of students now...
Microsoft Copilot Readies Dedicated Search Mode with Enhanced Citations, On-Device Shopping, and Google Drive Access
Microsoft’s AI assistant Copilot is expanding well beyond casual conversation, and test-build evidence now reveals a trio of major upgrades in the pipeline: a dedicated Search Mode that puts...
Azure, AWS, Google September Previews Bet on Enterprise AI Security and Auditability
Cloud providers are drawing a line in the silicon: enterprise AI can no longer live on model performance alone. The September 2025 preview and documentation updates from Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web...
Windows 10's End-of-Life Pushes Users to Ubuntu, Exposing 4 Critical Missing Features
When Microsoft ends support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, millions of users will face a choice: upgrade to Windows 11 or flee to Linux. For those choosing Ubuntu, the transition reveals four...