Articles from April 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in April 2026
Accenture’s Copilot Rollout to 743,000 Staff Reports 97% Speed Gains—Here’s What Your Organization Can Learn
Accenture, the global professional services firm, is now deploying Microsoft 365 Copilot to its entire workforce of roughly 743,000 employees—a population comparable to Denver, Colorado. Early...
Microsoft-OpenAI Partnership Gets a Major Overhaul: What Users and IT Leaders Need to Know
Microsoft and OpenAI have rewritten the rules of one of tech’s most important alliances, ending OpenAI’s Azure-only cloud mandate and restructuring the financial ties that once bound them. In an...
Microsoft 365 Copilot's Biggest Test Yet: 743,000 Accenture Users Signal Enterprise AI Shift
Accenture has granted 743,000 employees access to Microsoft 365 Copilot, making it the largest known deployment of the AI assistant to date. The rollout—which started with a few hundred users and...
Microsoft Swaps Windows 8’s Loading Animation for a Modern Look in Latest Insider Build
Microsoft has quietly slipped a long-overdue visual refresh into its latest Windows 11 Insider Experimental build, replacing the aging Windows 8-era loading spinner that appears during sign-ins,...
Microsoft Quietly Tests Taskbar Relocation and Modern Run Dialog in Latest Windows 11 Build
Microsoft shipped Windows 11 build 26300.8289 to Experimental Channel Insiders this week, and the release notes focused on Windows Update improvements, Insider channel restructuring, and minor...
Microsoft Sets July Deadline to Ditch Legacy TLS for POP and IMAP on Exchange Online
On April 27, 2026, Microsoft announced that starting in July 2026, Exchange Online will begin blocking connections that use TLS 1.0 or TLS 1.1 for POP3 and IMAP4 access—including the special legacy...
Windows 11 is testing screen tints for migraines, photophobia, and eye comfort
Microsoft is quietly building a set of screen tint overlays for Windows 11 designed to go far beyond the amber hue of Night Light. The feature, still hidden in recent Insider builds, includes presets...
OpenAI Breaks Azure Exclusivity: How the New Microsoft Partnership Affects Your AI Plans
Microsoft and OpenAI have quietly rewritten their foundational cloud agreement, giving OpenAI the freedom to serve its AI models on any cloud provider — AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle, and others —...
Your ChatGPT and Copilot Won’t Change Overnight, but the Microsoft-OpenAI Reset Shifts Cloud Power
Microsoft and OpenAI have formally ended their exclusive cloud relationship, as the two companies amended their partnership in late April 2026 to let OpenAI serve its models and services on any cloud...
Microsoft’s Azure Local Now Supports Sovereign Clouds with Thousands of Servers
Microsoft, on April 27, 2026, announced that its Azure Local infrastructure can now scale to thousands of servers within a single sovereign private cloud. The expansion targets governments,...
Say Goodbye to Orange: Windows 11’s Leaked Screen Tint Offers a Full Palette for Eye Comfort
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Microsoft's Real-Time Voice AI Hits Contact Centers: No More Scripted Menus
Microsoft's Copilot Studio now powers voice agents that can listen, reason, and respond in real time on customer service calls, ditching the rigid scripts of old phone trees. The capability,...