Articles from September 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in September 2025
8 Windows 11 Privacy Settings to Change Right Now: Stop Telemetry, Ad Tracking, and Location Sharing
Microsoft's Windows 11 ships with a host of cloud-connected features that, by default, share your location, app usage, and even an advertising ID with Microsoft and third-party apps. While these...
Microsoft’s AI-Powered Sustainability Tools Tackle CSRD, But Do They Pass the Audit Test?
European regulators have slashed mandatory sustainability disclosure datapoints in a sweeping ESRS simplification push, while technology vendors—led by Microsoft’s Cloud for Sustainability—are...
48-Hour Exchange Hybrid Free/Busy Blackout Hits Unprepared Tenants September 16
At 07:00 UTC on September 16, 2025, Microsoft will flip a switch that breaks free/busy lookups, MailTips, and profile picture sharing between on-premises Exchange and Exchange Online for any hybrid...
AI Is Rewriting the Rules of Real Estate Search—Agents Must Adapt or Disappear
A quiet but fundamental shift is underway in how home sellers choose their estate agent, and it has nothing to do with high-street presence, glossy brochures, or even portal listings. AI-powered...
Windows Backup’s New Local Transfer: Migrate Files Between PCs Without Cloud Storage—With Key Limits
Microsoft has quietly added a local PC‑to‑PC transfer mode to its Windows Backup app, giving Windows 10 and Windows 11 users a built‑in way to shuffle personal files and many settings from an...
Microsoft’s Copilot Labs Debuts Scripted Audio Mode with MAI-Voice-1 AI, Claiming 60-Second Speech in Under a Second
Microsoft has quietly added a Scripted mode to its experimental Copilot Audio Expressions sandbox, allowing the assistant to read written text aloud verbatim—no dramatic rephrasing, no...
Windows 10 Still Runs on 53% of PCs: Your Urgent Migration Roadmap Before October 14
More than half of the world’s PCs—53% to be precise—are still running Windows 10, a staggering statistic just weeks before Microsoft officially retires the operating system on October 14, 2025....
Windows App Consolidates Remote Desktop for Mac: 2025 Guide to Secure Cross-Platform Access
Microsoft's push to unify remote desktop access under a single application reached macOS in 2025 when the company began steering users toward the new Windows App instead of the venerable Microsoft...
Neo4j’s Infinigraph Breaks 100TB Graph Barrier: Property Sharding Unlocks HTAP at Scale
Neo4j has rolled out Infinigraph, a new distributed architecture that promises to shatter the 100-terabyte scalability ceiling that has long dogged its graph database. The secret weapon is...
Windows Backup app now transfers files and settings over local network in Windows 11 setup
Microsoft has quietly introduced a local PC-to-PC migration feature directly inside the Windows Backup app, letting users move files and personalization settings from an old computer to a new Windows...
How Azure DDoS Protection Absorbed a 3.47 Tbps Attack: Per-IP ML, Global Scrubbing, and What IT Teams Must Do Next
In late 2021, Microsoft's networks absorbed a massive 3.47 Tbps UDP reflection attack—among the largest ever recorded—on behalf of an Azure customer in Asia. This single incident, which also...
Microsoft 365 Copilot: $30/User Add-On, Metered Agents, and Enterprise Governance Playbook
Microsoft has officially positioned its Microsoft 365 Copilot as a procurement-grade product: a $30 per-user-per-month add-on (paid yearly) that embeds generative AI into Word, Excel, PowerPoint,...