Articles from 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in 2025
Barry Schwartz 22 Years of SE Roundtable: AI Mode, Core Updates and Publisher Pressure
Today’s anniversary post from Search Engine Roundtable is both a personal milestone and a forensic snapshot of a search industry in rapid, fracturing motion: Barry Schwartz marks 22 years of daily rep
Cash Incentives Accelerate Enterprise AI Adoption: Roadmap and Risks
Bosses are turning to bonus pools, spot cash awards and small prize schemes because paying workers to try sanctioned AI tools is a fast, measurable way to break behavioural inertia, curb risky shadow‑
Microsoft 2025 Ugly Sweater Drop Celebrates 50 Years of Tech Nostalgia
Microsoft’s holiday merch has leaned into nostalgia for years, but the 2025 drop is the most explicit throwback yet: three new “ugly” sweaters — the icon-packed Artifact sweater, a Zune-brown variant,
Nuvei and Azure AI: Scaling Global Payments Beyond 10k TPS
Nuvei’s announcement that it will run core payment processing on Microsoft Azure and use Azure AI to optimize transactions marks a major inflection point in payments infrastructure: the company says t
Windows 11 Agent Workspace: Risks of Experimental AI Agents
Microsoft’s own documentation and Insider notes make an unusually blunt admission: Windows 11 now includes an opt‑in set of experimental agentic features that let AI agents act on a user’s behalf—open
Windows 11 KB5070311 Preview Expands Full Screen Experience to More Handhelds
Microsoft’s latest preview cumulative, KB5070311 (OS builds 26200.7309 and 26100.7309), delivers a focused set of feature updates and user-experience polish for Windows 11—with the headline being a wi
Cash Incentives to Drive Generative AI Adoption in the Workplace
Bosses across industries are quietly turning to a familiar management lever—cash—to get wary employees to use generative AI, rolling out bonus pools, spot cash awards, and small prize schemes tied to
AI in Xbox Game Pass: Microsoft Survey Hints at New Features
Microsoft is quietly surveying Xbox users about bolting AI straight into Xbox Game Pass — and the options it floated tell you a lot about where Microsoft thinks gaming services should go next: in‑game
Is Windows Becoming an AI Agentic OS? Risks and Governance
Microsoft’s recent pronouncement that “Windows is evolving into an agentic OS” landed like a hand-grenade in the user community: what was meant as a headline for an AI-first roadmap instead reignited
Hytale PC System Requirements Revealed for Early Access
Hypixel has published the first official PC performance and system requirements for Hytale as the studio gears up for Early Access, laying out clear minimum, recommended, and creator-grade hardware ta
Turn Off Web Results in Windows 11 Search with Group Policy or Registry
If you prefer a clean, local-only search experience on Windows 11, you can remove the Bing-powered web results that appear in the Taskbar Search and Start menu — but Microsoft doesn’t expose a single
Windows 10 Still Dominant as Windows 11 Adoption Slows, ESU Bridges Gap
Windows 10 remains the operating system on roughly a billion active PCs worldwide even after Microsoft formally ended mainstream support, a stubborn reality underscored by Dell’s recent investor comme