Articles from September 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in September 2025
Beyond Git: How Perforce, Fossil, and Cloud Platforms Are Redefining Source Control in 2025
As software teams scale to thousands of developers and terabytes of binary assets, the choice of source code management (SCM) tool in 2025 is no longer a trivial decision — it's a strategic...
Microsoft Windows 10 Maps: How Touch-First UI, Offline Maps, and HERE Integration Aims to Rival Mobile Competitors
Microsoft has completely rebuilt the Windows 10 Maps experience for touch, folding Bing’s rich local search and HERE’s battle-tested navigation into a single Universal Windows Platform app that...
Archived but Not Forgotten: The Story of Microsoft’s Facebook SDK for Windows 10 and HoloLens
The GitHub repository for Microsoft’s official Windows SDK for Facebook now sits in archived, read-only state—a silent monument to an ambitious 2015 push to make Universal Windows apps more...
Windows 11 Canary Build 27943 Repairs Storage, HDR, but Rollback Errors and Arm64 Crashes Mar Deployment
Microsoft dropped Canary build 27943 today, and while it patches several everyday annoyances—hung storage scans, duplicate taskbar previews, and flaky HDR—two showstopping regressions demand...
Windows 11 Adds a Speed Test Button to Network Flyout, But It’s a Bing Web Shortcut
Microsoft is quietly testing a one-click internet speed test shortcut in Windows 11, placed directly inside the network flyout and taskbar context menu. The feature, unearthed by sharp-eyed Insiders...
Oracle’s $144 Billion OCI Target: Realistic Path or Cloud Overreach?
Oracle has suddenly rewritten the cloud infrastructure playbook. In its fiscal Q1 2026 earnings, the company unveiled a staggering $455 billion in remaining performance obligations—a 359% jump year...
Dying Light: The Beast Launches Early on September 18 as Pre-Orders Surpass 1 Million
Techland surprised fans by moving the release of Dying Light: The Beast forward by 24 hours, from September 19 to September 18, 2025, after the game racked up more than one million pre-orders across...
Windows 11's Dynamic Lighting Relies on HID LampArray Standard to Unify Fragmented RGB Peripherals
After years of rumors and half-starts, Windows 11 is finally gaining a system‑level RGB control panel that doesn’t require a separate app for every keyboard, mouse, or case light. Microsoft calls...
Chrome Canary Tests Hover-Prefetch and Render Boost for Snappier Browsing
Google has begun experimenting with a new performance optimization in Chrome Canary that triggers page prefetching when a user hovers over bookmarks or the New Tab button, coupled with a temporary...
Windows 11’s New Speed Test Button Opens Bing’s Web Tool, Not a Native Diagnostic
Microsoft is quietly slipping a network speed test button into Windows 11’s system tray, but it won’t run a local diagnostic. Instead, a single click fires up your browser and loads Bing’s...
5 Windows 11 PCs to Buy Before Windows 10 Support Ends on October 14
{ "title": "5 Windows 11 PCs to Buy Before Windows 10 Support Ends on October 14", "content": "Windows 10's official support sunset is now a matter of weeks away. On October 14, 2025, Microsoft...
OpenAI Ditches Azure-Only Mandate as Stargate Brings $100 Billion Multi-Cloud AI Race
OpenAI will no longer be forced to run all its AI workloads on Microsoft Azure, as the two companies signed a non-binding agreement that replaces blanket exclusivity with a right of first refusal and...