Articles from May 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in May 2026
Microsoft EVP Yusuf Mehdi Steps Down After Architecting Agentic Windows, Unified Copilot Push
Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft’s longtime consumer chief and executive vice president, is planning to leave the company at the end of the 2026–2027 fiscal year. But his exit isn’t a sudden...
Windows 11 Performance Switches: How GPU Scheduling, Network Offloads, and DirectStorage Shift Workloads Away from the CPU
Windows 11 quietly packs a trio of hardware offload technologies that can shift heavy workloads from the CPU to dedicated processors, but unlocking their full potential often requires more than a...
Windows Marketing Chief Departs After 35 Years as Copilot Reliability Faces Make-or-Break Test
Yusuf Mehdi, the executive who steered Microsoft’s consumer brand for more than three decades, from the launch of Windows 95 to the AI-charged Copilot era, is leaving the company. The departure,...
Create a God Mode folder in Windows 11 2026 using one CLSID for 200+ admin shortcuts
Windows 11 still has a hidden gem that power users swear by: God Mode. Despite the operating system's push toward the modern Settings app, the classic Control Panel remains accessible, and God Mode...
Copilot gains browser autonomy in Edge for Business limited preview starting May 20, 2026, with Purview-governed workflows.
Microsoft flipped the switch on agentic browsing inside Edge for Business, dropping a limited preview on May 20, 2026 that turns Copilot from a chatty sidekick into an autonomous digital assistant....
GitHub’s January 2026 outages, repo theft, and AI risk spike spark mass exodus to GitLab and self-hosted.
GitHub rang in 2026 with three major outages in January alone, leaving millions of developers unable to push code, access pull requests, or trigger CI/CD pipelines for a combined 14 hours of...
Xbox Mode for Windows 11 Arrives: Controller Gaming Goes Mainstream, But Is It Bloat?
Microsoft began pushing Xbox mode to Windows 11 PCs on April 30, 2026, bringing a full-screen, controller-first gaming interface to desktops, laptops, and tablets. The update, previously exclusive to...
GitHub Copilot Battles Outages and Rivals as Microsoft's AI Coding Empire Shows Cracks
GitHub Copilot is grappling with a series of major service disruptions and an exodus of key leaders, according to a CNBC report published on May 22, 2026. The revelations cast a shadow over...
Azure gets Kore.ai multi-agent AI with strict governance and audit controls
Kore.ai introduced the Artemis edition of its Agent Platform on May 21, 2026, marking a significant leap in enterprise AI orchestration. The launch, initially available on Microsoft Azure, delivers a...
PowerToys Idle Close Mode Cuts RAM Use on Windows 11
Microsoft PowerToys is developing an idle memory-saving feature that could reduce background RAM consumption on Windows 11 machines, according to a community pull request on GitHub. The upcoming...
Surface for Business 2026: $1,499 Starting Price Sparks Enterprise ROI Debate
Microsoft's latest Surface for Business lineup, unveiled on May 19, 2026, redefines the enterprise PC landscape—but not without sticker shock and a side of confusion. The new devices, dissected in...
Microsoft Maia 200 Deal With Anthropic Could Halve Azure AI Token Costs
Microsoft is in talks to supply Anthropic with its custom Maia 200 AI accelerators, a move that could dramatically cut the cost of running large-scale AI models on Azure while challenging NVIDIA’s...