Articles from May 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in May 2026
Microsoft Teams Efficiency Mode cuts startup 50%, memory 25% on low-end PCs
Microsoft Teams is finally confronting its bloated reputation head-on. On April 15, 2026, the Redmond company officially unveiled Efficiency Mode—a new intelligent performance behavior for the...
Microsoft Plans Single Copilot Super App to Unify Fragmented AI Tools
Microsoft is taking a bold step toward unifying its sprawling suite of AI assistants with a single "super app," according to recent reports. The tech giant is reportedly developing a one-stop Copilot...
OpenAI Codex on Windows 11 Now Lets You Control Your PC from ChatGPT Mobile
OpenAI announced on May 29, 2026 that Windows 11 users of the Codex app can now remotely enable and manage computer use sessions directly from the ChatGPT mobile app on iOS and Android. The update,...
CISA Flags Palo Alto GlobalProtect Auth Bypass CVE-2026-0257 as Actively Exploited: Patch by June 19
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a critical Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS GlobalProtect authentication bypass vulnerability—tracked as CVE-2026-0257—to its...
Rocky Linux 10.2 Ships May 29 with Kernel 6.12 and Post-Quantum Crypto
Rocky Linux 10.2 officially hit general availability on May 29, 2026, marking the project's latest milestone as a community-driven rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The release tracks RHEL 10.2...
NVIDIA and Microsoft Tease 'New Era of PC' Ahead of Computex, Arm N1X Chip Rumors Intensify
Microsoft and NVIDIA synchronized their social media feeds on May 29, 2026, with an identical, cryptic message: "a new era of PC." The joint tease, posted simultaneously on X (formerly Twitter),...
Windows 11 May 2026 Update Overhauls Taskbar, Start & File Explorer
Microsoft has begun rolling out a significant quality update for Windows 11, with Insider builds packing a slate of long-awaited improvements to taskbar customization, Start menu personalization,...
Microsoft Kills Windows 12 Hype Ahead of Build 2026, Teases AI Hardware in Taipei
Microsoft has officially closed the door on Windows 12 speculation—at least for its Build 2026 conference. In a statement issued May 29, the company confirmed that next week’s developer gathering...
Windows 11 Build 26300.8553: Modular Start Menu, New Privacy Dashboard, Smarter Search
Microsoft has pushed Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26300.8553 to the Experimental Channel, delivering a highly anticipated modular Start menu, beefed-up privacy tools, and a smarter search...
Microsoft Copilot mobile app outage sparks enterprise reliability concerns
Microsoft Copilot suffered a significant service disruption on Friday, May 29, 2026, as a flood of user complaints overwhelmed Downdetector. By 8:58 a.m. Pacific time, more than 2,600 reports had...
Copilot Outage May 29 Exposes AI Reliability Gap in Microsoft 365
Microsoft’s Copilot AI services stumbled on Friday, May 29, 2026, leaving countless users locked out of the assistant across Windows, Microsoft 365 apps, and the web. Consumer news outlets quickly...
May 29 Azure Power Fault Cripples Microsoft Copilot, Exposing AI Reliability Gaps
Microsoft's Copilot services suffered widespread disruption on May 29, 2026, after a power event at a West US 2 Azure datacenter triggered a regional service degradation. Users across both consumer...