Articles from April 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in April 2026
Microsoft Loses OpenAI Exclusive, but Your Copilot Isn't Going Anywhere—Here's Why
Microsoft no longer has an exclusive lock on OpenAI's crown jewels. On the final day of a landmark renegotiation, the two companies tore up their single-cloud arrangement, handing OpenAI the freedom...
The Blood of Dawnwalker Needs an RTX 5090 for Native 4K — Here’s Why That Matters Less Than You Think
{ "title": "The Blood of Dawnwalker Needs an RTX 5090 for Native 4K — Here’s Why That Matters Less Than You Think", "content": "Rebel Wolves has revealed the PC requirements for its upcoming...
Microsoft’s K2 Project: Inside the Plan to Make Windows 11 Feel Fast and Quiet Again
Microsoft has quietly mobilized a company-wide initiative to fix the sluggishness, clutter, and update chaos that have dogged Windows 11 since its 2021 launch, according to internal documents viewed...
Microsoft K2: The Secret Plan to Make Windows 11 Faster, Smoother, and Finally Ad-Free
Microsoft has quietly assembled an internal initiative called Windows K2, a multi-year effort to address the most persistent complaints about Windows 11. The project, first reported by PCWorld and...
NSA's GRASSMARLIN ICS Tool Is End-of-Life—and Now Has an Unpatchable XXE Vulnerability
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has published an advisory for CVE-2026-6807, an XML external entity (XXE) vulnerability in the NSA’s GRASSMARLIN network mapping tool. With...
GitHub Copilot’s Shift to AI Credits on June 1: What Developers Need to Know
Microsoft has set a hard date for the largest repricing of GitHub Copilot since the AI assistant first appeared: on June 1, 2026, the service will abandon its premium request model in favor of...
Microsoft’s Azure Local Can Now Scale to Thousands of Servers in a Single Sovereign Environment
Microsoft has knocked down one of the biggest barriers holding Azure Local back from large-scale private cloud deployments. The company now says the platform can scale to thousands of servers inside...
PowerToys 0.99 Adds Monitor Tweaks and Alt-Drag Window Moves, but a Crash Looms
{ "title": "PowerToys 0.99 Adds Monitor Tweaks and Alt-Drag Window Moves, but a Crash Looms", "content": "Microsoft has released PowerToys 0.99, a feature-packed update that introduces two...
Accenture’s Copilot Rollout Hits 89% Monthly Use: What 743,000 Workers Learned in 3 Years
Accenture is deploying Microsoft 365 Copilot to all 743,000 employees across 120 countries, Microsoft’s largest enterprise AI deal to date. The global consultancy revealed the milestone after a...
Microsoft’s 90-Day AI Guide: Start With Your Tasks, Not the Tools
Microsoft wants to flip the script on AI anxiety. A new 90-day fluency guide published on the company’s Signal platform argues that workers don’t need to master every feature or model before they...
Microsoft Rolls Out Speech-to-Speech AI That Can Interrupt You Back—Here’s What It Changes for Contact Centers
Microsoft has launched real-time voice agents for Copilot Studio in Dynamics 365 Contact Center, bringing interruptible, speech-to-speech AI to customer phone calls—but only in North America for...
No More Hand-Crafted KQL: Microsoft Sentinel UEBA Now Detects AWS Anomalies Automatically
Microsoft on April 28 equipped its Sentinel SIEM with an expanded behavioral analytics engine that ingests AWS CloudTrail, GCP, and Okta logs—enriching them with machine-made baselines so defenders...