Articles from February 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in February 2026
Microsoft’s default-on Copilot toggle links usage data across Office, Edge & Bing — here’s how to opt out.
Microsoft has quietly introduced a significant new privacy setting within its Copilot AI assistant that's raising eyebrows among privacy-conscious users. A recently discovered toggle, often enabled...
Structured Data for AI: How Windows Sites Can Dominate AI Answers & Citations
The digital landscape is undergoing a seismic shift, moving beyond traditional search engine results pages (SERPs) to AI-powered answers and conversational interfaces. For Windows enthusiasts,...
Microsoft unifies AI security into a single console for data, models, and agents
Microsoft's vision of a single, unified security platform as the solution to AI's rapidly expanding attack surface has transitioned from strategic rhetoric to concrete product reality. What began as...
Thurrott's AI Content Policy & Microsoft's Licensing Shift: What Windows Users Need to Know
Thurrott.com's recent reinforcement of its content policy—a concise, legally precise paragraph explicitly prohibiting bots and commercial re-users from scraping its content—represents more than...
AI Training Data Crisis: Publishers Block Web Scraping, Threatening AI Development
The quiet but significant shift happening across the digital publishing landscape represents a fundamental challenge to how artificial intelligence systems are trained and developed. When Paul...
SSD Mandate: Why Playground Games' Japan Racer Requires Solid-State Drives
The gaming landscape is undergoing a fundamental shift in storage requirements, with Playground Games' upcoming Japan-set open-world racer becoming the latest title to mandate an SSD for installation...
Windows 11 Insider Builds Add Shared Audio Sliders & Batch File Security
Microsoft's latest Windows 11 Insider Preview builds are threading a practical line between convenience and control, introducing two significant features that address long-standing user requests...
Orange Pi Neo Delayed: Memory & SSD Costs Disrupt Handheld PC Market
The handheld PC market, once a niche corner of the tech world, has exploded into a fierce battleground. From the Steam Deck's pioneering success to a flurry of Windows-based competitors like the ASUS...
OpenAI-Microsoft Pact Strengthens as Amazon Expands Multi-Cloud AI Strategy
The strategic partnership between OpenAI and Microsoft, solidified in a February joint statement, represents more than just a public relations exercise—it's a fundamental legal and commercial reset...
NEXCOM APPC C21-01 brings Intel Meteor Lake AI to rugged 21.5-inch factory HMI
The industrial automation landscape is undergoing a profound transformation, driven by the convergence of edge computing, artificial intelligence, and robust human-machine interfaces (HMIs). At the...
Microsoft Copilot's Cross-App Data Sharing: Privacy Concerns & How to Disable It
Microsoft has quietly enabled a new default-on privacy setting for its Copilot AI assistant that allows it to access and utilize product usage signals from across the Microsoft ecosystem, raising...
One-Click Speed Test Lands in Windows 11 Taskbar with Canary Build 28020.1673
Microsoft has released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 28020.1673 to the Canary Channel, introducing a convenient one-click network speed test directly from the system tray and adding native support...