Articles from May 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in May 2026
ExxonMobil Slashes Cloud Costs with AWS OLA, Sets New Benchmark for Enterprise Savings
ExxonMobil achieved one of the largest cloud cost reductions in AWS history by subjecting its sprawling infrastructure to an Amazon Optimization and Licensing Assessment (OLA). The energy giant,...
NTT DATA Acquires WinWire, Adding 1,000 Azure AI Engineers for Agentic AI
NTT DATA has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Santa Clara-based WinWire Technologies, a move that will inject over 1,000 Azure-certified engineers and AI specialists into the global IT...
Windows 11 Update KB5089549 Fails with 0x800f0922 Due to Low EFI Partition Space
Microsoft has confirmed that the Windows 11 security update KB5089549, released for versions 24H2 and 25H2, fails during installation on devices with critically low space on the EFI System Partition...
Disable Windows 11 Ads, Web Search, Telemetry, and Cloud Nags: A Complete Settings Guide
Windows 11 ships with an array of default settings designed more to push Microsoft's ecosystem than to respect user autonomy. Pop-up ads for Microsoft 365 appear in the Start menu, local file...
Malta Gives Every Resident Free AI Course, One-Year ChatGPT or Copilot Pro
Malta just fired a bold shot in the global battle to democratize artificial intelligence. On May 16, 2026, the Mediterranean island nation launched a nationwide AI literacy programme that hands every...
KB5089549 for Windows 11 Adds SecureBoot Folder to Automate UEFI Key Migration
Microsoft’s May 12, 2026 cumulative update for Windows 11, KB5089549, delivers a new and highly specific addition to the operating system: a C:\Windows\SecureBoot folder packed with PowerShell...
Windows 11 2026 Update Finally Lets You Reassign the Copilot Key
Microsoft has confirmed that a Windows 11 update arriving later in 2026 will allow users to remap the dedicated Copilot key on newer PCs. The key, which began appearing on keyboards in early 2024,...
NTT DATA Acquires WinWire to Supercharge Autonomous AI on Azure
NTT DATA announced on May 18, 2026, that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire WinWire, a Santa Clara-based IT services company specializing in agentic AI, Azure AI, and data engineering....
Gallup: 68% of Americans Now Oppose AI Data Centers in Their Local Communities
Roughly seven in ten Americans oppose construction of AI data centers in their local communities, according to a May 2026 Gallup survey, exposing a widening fault line between Microsoft’s breakneck...
Microsoft Phases Out Claude Code, Pushes Teams to GitHub Copilot CLI by 2026
Microsoft will wind down most internal Claude Code licenses across its Experiences + Devices division by June 30, 2026, and is already steering developers toward GitHub Copilot CLI as the replacement...
MiniPlasma PoC Questions Windows 11 KB5089549 Fix for CVE-2020-17103 EoP Vulnerability
A newly released proof-of-concept (PoC) dubbed MiniPlasma is resurrecting concerns over a four-year-old local privilege escalation bug in Microsoft's Cloud Files Mini Filter Driver. The PoC,...
Microsoft cancels 2 GW in AI data center plans, pivots on power and efficiency
Microsoft has quietly walked away from more than 2 gigawatts of planned data center capacity across the United States and Europe, according to an analysis by TD Cowen. The pullback, which unfolded...