Articles from May 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in May 2026
RiskFootprint Integrates Microsoft Copilot to Automate Climate Risk Report Summaries for Real Estate
RiskFootprint, a provider of property-level climate and hazard risk analytics, has launched a new Microsoft Copilot-assisted workflow designed to transform detailed parcel-level reports into concise,...
UNC Health Unifies Analytics on Microsoft Fabric for Compliant AI
UNC Health, one of the largest health systems in the United States, has migrated its enterprise analytics workloads to Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft's all-in-one software-as-a-service data platform....
Prompt Injection in Copilot Cowork Lets Attackers Steal M365 Files Without Approval
A critical vulnerability in Microsoft's Copilot Cowork agent can be exploited to exfiltrate sensitive Microsoft 365 files, security researchers warned on May 26, 2026. PromptArmor disclosed that by...
Phone Link for iPhone on Windows 11: No Group Chats or Media in iMessage
Microsoft’s Phone Link app finally delivers the most requested feature: iPhone messaging from a Windows 11 desktop. After years of Android exclusivity, users with iOS 14 or later can now pair their...
Microsoft Build 2026: AI, Native Apps, and Security Redefine Windows
Microsoft Build 2026 kicks off June 2–3 at San Francisco’s Fort Mason Center, blending an in-person experience with a global online audience. CEO Satya Nadella will open the conference, setting...
Microsoft’s Windows 11 AI Roadmap: Taskbar Copilot, Agents, and Click to Do Excel Integration Target Mid-2026 Launch
Microsoft’s newly published Windows 11 AI e-book confirms that three cornerstone features—a persistent Ask Copilot button on the taskbar, taskbar-based AI agents, and a table-to-Excel conversion...
CVE-2026-48172 Under Active Attack: CISA Orders cPanel/LiteSpeed Patch by June 16
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a critical LiteSpeed cPanel plugin privilege-escalation flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-48172, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities...
AI-powered Frontier now generates Excel spreadsheets inside Copilot Notebooks by May 2026
Microsoft confirmed today that its Copilot Notebooks will expand into Excel, Teams, Outlook, and OneNote starting in May 2026, turning the AI-powered workspace into a cross-app hub for data analysis,...
Update Microsoft Defender to 1.1.26040.8 to Fix CVE-2026-45584 RCE Flaw
Microsoft dropped a critical security update on May 19, 2026, for the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine—the silent workhorse behind Windows Defender and several other Microsoft security products....
ABB B&R Controller Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Crash Critical Systems
CISA has republished an advisory from ABB on May 26, 2026, shining a spotlight on CVE-2025-3450—a vulnerability that allows an unauthenticated network attacker to trigger denial-of-service...
Microsoft Patches CVE-2026-41091: Defender Engine EoP Fixed in v1.1.26040.8
Microsoft patched a high-severity elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in its Malware Protection Engine on May 20, 2026. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-41091, could allow an attacker to gain...
CISA Warns ABB AC500 V2 PLC Flaw Leaks Data via Modbus TCP
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has amplified a critical advisory for industrial control systems, republishing ABB’s security notice for CVE-2025-7745 on May 26,...