Articles from February 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in February 2026
Microsoft's 2026 Secure Boot Renewal: Windows 10 ESU Devices Risk Boot Failures
Microsoft and the PC industry have quietly opened a narrow but critical window to prevent a pre‑OS security gap this year: Windows will start rolling replacement Secure Boot certificates into device f
Microsoft Phases Out Legacy Printer Drivers: Complete Migration Guide for Windows 11 Users
Microsoft has formally begun the multi‑year process of phasing out Microsoft‑distributed updates for legacy V3 and V4 printer drivers on Windows 11 — a change that rewrites how older printers will be
AI Memory Poisoning Threat: How Prefilled Prompts Manipulate Windows Copilot & Your Data
Microsoft’s security team is warning that a new, low-cost marketing tactic is quietly weaponizing AI convenience: companies are embedding hidden instructions in “Summarize with AI” and share-with-AI b
CEI's AI-Literate English 101 Pilot with Copilot: A 2026 Education Revolution
The College of Eastern Idaho will pilot an updated English 101 that explicitly teaches generative AI literacy—how these tools work, when and how to use them, how to evaluate their output for accuracy
AI in Social Work: Windows Tools for Ethical Practice & Data Governance
Most social workers now describe their early experience of artificial intelligence as a practical relief rather than a dystopian threat: a Community Care poll reported that the majority of practitione
GitHub's 2026 Outage: A Critical Lesson in Cloud Reliability for Windows Developers
GitHub’s platform suffered a multi-service disruption on 9–10 February 2026 that left Actions queues stalled, pull‑request pages slow or erroring, notifications delayed by up to an hour, and parts of
Self-Hosting Linux Appliances: Digital Sovereignty for Windows Users
Europe’s move to reclaim digital control has a quiet, practical counterpart in the hobbyist and small‑business IT communities: a crop of polished, ready‑to‑run Linux server appliances that let individ
Hyperscalers' $650B AI Bet Redesigns Data Centers as Factories for Cloud and Windows Copilot
Big Tech is treating 2026 like a construction season for a new industrial economy: together, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon and Meta are committing roughly US$650 billion toward AI-related capital expend
PowerToys 0.97.2 Update: Fixing Command Palette & CursorWrap Issues
Microsoft has quietly shipped PowerToys v0.97.2 — a small but important stability-and-polish update that addresses a raft of regressions introduced during the broader 0.97 cycle, notably fixing Comman
Windows 11 Printer Driver Changes: V3/V4 End & IPP Migration Guide
Microsoft’s January change to Windows Update means older “V3” and “V4” printer drivers will no longer be published automatically to Windows 11’s update channel, and that shift is already visible in th
Windows 11 Emergency Restart: The Hidden Ctrl+Alt+Del Force Reboot Method
Windows 11 contains a deliberately obscure, high‑privilege fallback for when the desktop locks up: a built‑in Emergency Restart accessible from the Secure Attention Sequence that force‑reboots the mac
Hytale Early Access Shifts Industry Norm with Four-Tier PC Specs for Players and Streamers
Hytale’s Early Access launch finally landed with the kind of meticulous hardware guidance few modern sandbox games bother to publish: instead of a single “minimum/recommended” table, Hypixel Studios r