Articles from 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in 2025
8 Million AI Chats Exposed: How Privacy Extensions Betrayed User Trust
A shocking investigation has revealed that a family of popular browser extensions, marketed as privacy tools and free VPNs, secretly intercepted and exfiltrated entire conversations from AI chat...
AI Note Taking 2025: How Windows Apps Are Creating Personal Knowledge Systems
The landscape of digital note-taking has undergone a seismic shift in 2025, moving from simple text capture to sophisticated personal knowledge management systems powered by artificial intelligence....
LG webOS Copilot Tile Sparks Privacy & Ownership Debate: Windows AI Forced on TVs
LG smart TV owners are waking up to an unexpected guest on their home screens: Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant, delivered via a recent webOS firmware update as a persistent, often unremovable tile....
Microsoft Sets November 2024 as First Phase for Active Directory RC4-to-AES Migration
Microsoft's decision to phase out the RC4 cipher from Active Directory authentication marks a decisive response to decades of risky backward compatibility—but it also forces a hard reckoning for...
Windows Bluetooth Troubleshooting Guide: Fix Common Issues & LE Audio Reality Check
Bluetooth has evolved from a niche wireless technology to an essential component of modern Windows computing, connecting everything from productivity peripherals to entertainment devices. When...
Windows Subsystem for Linux: 7 Practical Reasons Why WSL 2 Works for Developers
Windows Subsystem for Linux has evolved from an engineering experiment into a mature development platform that fundamentally changes how developers work across operating systems. What began as a...
Windows 11 File Explorer Preloading: Speed Boost or Resource Hog?
Microsoft has quietly introduced a significant performance experiment in Windows 11 Insider previews that fundamentally changes how File Explorer launches. The new feature preloads File Explorer...
Microsoft Clipboard Copilot: AI-Powered Copy-Paste Revolution Coming to Windows
Microsoft is poised to transform one of computing's most fundamental operations—copy and paste—by infusing artificial intelligence directly into the Windows Clipboard. According to recent reports...
Hogwarts Legacy Rowland Oakes Quest: Complete Walkthrough & Map Puzzle Guide
The Rowland Oakes quest in Hogwarts Legacy presents players with one of the game's most engaging and slightly perplexing side adventures, blending exploration, puzzle-solving, and narrative depth in...
Windows Debloating Guide 2024: How to Safely Remove Preinstalled Apps for Performance & Privacy
Windows 11 and Windows 10 come packed with dozens of preinstalled applications that Microsoft believes users will find useful, but many experienced users view these apps as unnecessary bloatware that...
Windows 11 25H2 Upgrade Push: Microsoft's Nudges vs. User Choice Debate
Microsoft's Windows 11 25H2 update rollout has reignited the debate about user autonomy versus Microsoft's upgrade strategy. While the company maintains it's not forcing Windows 11 on users, mounting...
Windows 11 Smart App Control Now Toggleable: Microsoft Fixes Major Usability Issue in Preview Builds
Microsoft has quietly addressed one of the most significant usability complaints about Windows 11's Smart App Control security feature by making it toggleable in preview builds, marking a substantial...