Articles from April 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in April 2026
With 20M Paid Seats, Copilot Moves Into Your Org’s Budget — and Your IT Crisis List
Microsoft 365 Copilot has passed the 20 million paid enterprise seat mark, CEO Satya Nadella confirmed during the company’s quarterly earnings call on April 29, 2026. Weekly usage now tracks at the...
Drag Windows Without the Title Bar: PowerToys 0.99 Lands With Game-Changing Ergonomics
Microsoft shipped back-to-back PowerToys releases on April 28 and 29, 2026, and one feature in version 0.99 will immediately change how you interact with every window on your desktop. Grab And Move...
Azure Soars 40%, AI Revenue Tops $37B — And the OpenAI Rules Just Changed
On April 29, 2026, Microsoft delivered a one-two punch that reshapes enterprise AI. Azure revenue jumped 40% year-over-year, and the company’s AI business crossed a $37 billion annual revenue run...
That 'No Fingerprint Sensor' Error on Windows 11 Is Almost Never the Whole Story
The message is blunt: “We couldn’t find a fingerprint sensor compatible with Windows Hello.” It appears in Windows 11 Settings, often right when you need to log in quickly. But the sensor...
Windows 11 Insider Builds Introduce Indefinite Update Pause, Point-in-Time Restore, and Xbox Mode
Microsoft is testing a raft of changes in the latest Windows 11 Insider builds that put users back in control of updates, introduce a modern system recovery tool, and turn any PC into a console-like...
Microsoft Starts Rolling Out AI Agent in Outlook to Manage Inbox, Calendar—EU Excluded
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Tata Realty Slashes Analytics Costs 30% with Microsoft Fabric, Charts Path to AI-Driven Real Estate
Tata Realty & Infrastructure Ltd. has migrated its enterprise analytics to Microsoft Fabric, reducing data processing time by 20 percent and annual analytics costs by 20 to 30 percent, according...
Microsoft-OpenAI Partnership Reset: Exclusivity Ends, But $250B Azure Commitment Persists
Microsoft and OpenAI have ripped up the playbook that defined the generative AI era. In April 2026, the two companies announced a sweeping revision to their partnership that ends Microsoft’s...
WU Now Delivers Windows Server 2025 Upgrades: Your Pre-Flight Checklist
Microsoft has quietly turned Windows Update into an in-place upgrade path for Windows Server 2025, giving IT administrators a new way to move Server 2019 and 2022 machines forward without mounting an...
Microsoft’s Genspark Deal Puts AI Agents Inside Office Apps—and Under IT Control
On April 29, 2026, Genspark and Microsoft unveiled a global strategic partnership that will embed Genspark’s AI agents directly into Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The agents—designed to generate...
Forgotten Scheduled Tasks Are Slowing Down Your Windows 11 PC—Here’s How to Speed Up Boot
A fresh wave of analysis has put Windows 11’s Task Scheduler under the microscope, and the findings confirm a quiet but persistent drag on boot times and background performance: years of...
XikeStor's USB-C 10GbE Adapter Works on Windows 11, But Your USB Port Matters
A new $99 USB-C network adapter from XikeStor can bring true 10-gigabit Ethernet to Windows 11 laptops and mini PCs—without opening the case. But after testing, the difference between "it works"...