Articles from April 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in April 2026
Microsoft Kills Surface Hub Line, Ends Production of 50- and 85-Inch Displays
Microsoft has quietly ended production of its Surface Hub 3 collaboration displays, according to a report from Windows Central. The company has also scrapped plans for a Surface Hub 4, effectively...
Microsoft's Copilot Pivot and Apple's MacBook Neo: How Your Computing Experience Is Being Reshaped
Microsoft is tearing up the single-AI rulebook. Its Copilot assistant is no longer married to one language model: the company has quietly begun routing user requests through multiple AI...
Azure AI Agents Slash Factory Engineering Time by 50% in Schneider Partnership
Schneider Electric's newest manufacturing system, co-developed with Microsoft and demonstrated at Hannover Messe 2026, doesn't just suggest fixes—it orchestrates them. Engineers using the combined...
Chow Tai Fook Deploys Microsoft-Built AI Agents to 24,000 Staff: What It Means for Enterprise Tech
Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group, a 97-year-old luxury brand, has quietly embedded more than 400 custom AI agents into its daily operations — reaching 24,000 employees, from frontline sales to...
Azure AI Boosts Chest X-Ray Screening Accuracy by 20% in Thai Hospitals
Eight state hospitals across Thailand are now using an AI system built on Microsoft Azure to screen chest X-rays for lung diseases, helping radiologists catch more cases of tuberculosis, lung cancer,...
Windows 11 Insider Program Redesign Makes Channel Switching Easier as New Builds Land
Microsoft dropped two new Windows 11 Insider Preview builds into the Beta and Dev Channels this week, each carrying a distinct purpose. Beta build 26220.8271 tightens reliability and performance,...
Valve’s Proton 11 Beta Sneaks Steam onto ARM Devices—and a Nintendo Switch
Valve quietly dropped a beta version of Proton, its compatibility layer for running Windows games on Linux, that for the first time supports ARM64 devices. The April 16, 2026 release of Proton...
Microsoft 365 Copilot’s New ‘Think Deeper’ Mode: What It Is, When to Use It, and How It Changes Your Workday
On March 6, 2026, Microsoft began rolling out GPT-5.4 Thinking to Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio. The new model is a deliberate push toward deeper reasoning for complex work—combining...
Microsoft’s Secure Boot Reset: What Windows Users Need to Know Before the June 2026 Deadline
Microsoft has confirmed that it will retire the original Secure Boot certificates issued in 2011, with replacement 2023 certificates rolling out via Windows Update beginning in April 2026. The...
Microsoft's Latest Release Preview Ends File Explorer’s ‘Downloads’ Folder View Roulette
Microsoft shipped a Release Preview update this week that finally puts to rest one of Windows 11’s longest-running papercuts: File Explorer’s habit of forgetting your folder view settings...
Microsoft’s Copilot and Azure AI Land Massive Stellantis Deal—What It Means for Your IT Strategy
Stellantis and Microsoft have inked a five-year collaboration that will see more than 100 AI initiatives co-developed across the automaker’s operations, from vehicle cybersecurity to factory floors...
ASUS V400 AiO Lands Snapdragon X on the Desktop for $650
ASUS has released the V400 AiO, a $649.99 all-in-one desktop that packs Qualcomm's Snapdragon X chip—marking the first time the Arm-based platform has landed in a stationary Copilot+ PC. The move...