Articles from December 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in December 2025
Windows 11 BitLocker Hardware Acceleration: Offloading Encryption to Silicon for Better Performance
Microsoft has quietly reworked BitLocker encryption in Windows 11 to leverage hardware acceleration capabilities, fundamentally changing how full-disk encryption operates on modern PCs. This...
Windows 10's 10-Year Reign: How Microsoft's 'Last OS' Strategy Redefined Enterprise Computing
When Microsoft announced Windows 10 in 2015, the company made a bold declaration: this would be "the last version of Windows." What seemed like marketing hyperbole at the time became a decade-long...
ReFS on Windows 11: Complete Guide to Dev Drive, Integrity Features & Practical Use
Microsoft's Resilient File System (ReFS) represents a significant evolution in Windows storage technology, offering advanced data integrity features, scalability, and performance optimizations that...
Build 26220.7523 Kills Redundant File Indexing for Smoother Search in Windows 11
Microsoft's latest Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7523 brings a significant but under-the-hood improvement that could dramatically enhance the daily user experience: a fix for duplicate...
RDOS AI Policy: How Microsoft Copilot Pilot Shapes Municipal AI Governance Framework
The Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen (RDOS) in British Columbia is transitioning from experimental pilot to formal policy framework, establishing one of Canada's first comprehensive...
Linux Kernel Adds Per-Cgroup zswap Writeback for Fine-Grained Memory Control in Containers
The Linux kernel is receiving a significant enhancement to its memory management capabilities with the introduction of per-cgroup writeback for the zswap compressed swap subsystem. This subtle but...
Lock Screen Widgets Let You Customize Windows 11’s Glanceable Info Hub
Microsoft has quietly transformed the Windows 11 lock screen from a decorative afterthought into a genuinely useful glance surface. With the introduction of lock screen widgets, users can now pin,...
AI as Critical Infrastructure in 2025: Governance, Agentic Systems, and Windows Integration
The year 2025 has fundamentally transformed how artificial intelligence integrates with global infrastructure, moving beyond experimental applications to become foundational technology that powers...
Alaska Airlines Login Outage: How Rate Limits and Identity Provider Dependencies Crippled Customer Access
Alaska Airlines customers were locked out of their accounts on Tuesday morning after the carrier's website and mobile app returned a rate-limit error when users tried to sign in, leaving many unable...
AI's 2026 Inflection Point: Microsoft Leads Enterprise AI Monetization Race
Wall Street's most bullish technology analyst has identified 2026 as the critical inflection point for artificial intelligence monetization, with Microsoft emerging as a central player in a strategic...
Windows Storage Guide: How to Reclaim Gigabytes of Disk Space Safely
Windows systems have a notorious tendency to accumulate gigabytes of storage space without users noticing—a silent consumption that can leave even modern SSDs struggling for breathing room. This...
Microsoft's 2025 AI Agent OS: Windows Transforms into Autonomous Agent Platform
Microsoft's 2025 initiative to embed autonomous AI agents directly into Windows represents the company's most significant platform evolution since the introduction of the Internet Explorer browser in...