Articles from May 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in May 2026
Unsealed Filings Show Microsoft’s 2017 Azure Compute Deal That Fueled OpenAI Cloud Power
Microsoft executives in 2017 privately weighed offering OpenAI hundreds of millions of dollars in Azure compute credits while questioning the startup’s demands and the risks of fueling an...
007 First Light Requires RTX 5080 for 4K Ultra with DLSS 4.5
IO Interactive has dropped the full PC system requirements for 007 First Light, the studio's debut James Bond title, ahead of its May 27, 2026 launch. The specs confirm that native 4K with ray...
HP Z6 G5 A Linux Review: 96-Core AMD Threadripper PRO + RTX Pro Blackwell
HP’s Z6 G5 A desktop workstation lands with a thunderous upgrade — AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9000 series processors and NVIDIA’s RTX PRO Blackwell GPUs — and the Linux powerhouse has...
Windows 11 DoH Falls Back to Plain DNS by Default—Here’s How to Lock It Down
Reports circulating in enthusiast communities have reignited a debate: does Windows 11 silently revert to unencrypted DNS when its encrypted DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) fails? The answer isn't a simple yes...
Microsoft Graph Mailbox Import/Export APIs Now GA, Replacing EWS
Microsoft has declared general availability for its Mailbox Import and Export APIs in Microsoft Graph, a milestone that hands Exchange Online developers a production-hardened replacement for the...
Microsoft 365 Copilot Flex Routing: EU Data Control for AI Inferencing
Microsoft has quietly flipped the switch on one of the most significant data control mechanisms ever offered to European Union customers. Effective April 2026, Flex Routing for Microsoft 365 Copilot...
Microsoft Azure CTO Confirms Win32 API Is a 'First-Class Citizen' in Windows 11
Mark Russinovich, Microsoft’s Azure CTO and one of the original architects of Windows NT, made it official: Win32 isn’t going anywhere. In a Microsoft Dev Docs video posted May 6, 2026,...
Microsoft Azure CTO Confirms Win32 API Is Windows 11’s Indispensable Foundation
Mark Russinovich, the CTO of Microsoft Azure and a figure synonymous with the inner workings of Windows, made a statement on May 6, 2026 that confirms what developers and IT professionals have long...
Microsoft Store Drops $99 Developer Fee, Mandates Entra ID for Faster Free Accounts
Microsoft has eliminated the $99 registration fee for company developer accounts in the Microsoft Store, effective immediately across supported onboarding flows. The shift comes alongside mandatory...
Windows 11 GenAILocalFoundationalModelSettings Policy: Block AI Model Downloads in Chrome & Edge
Microsoft has quietly rolled out a new Chromium-based policy that gives Windows 11 administrators fine-grained control over local generative AI model downloads in Chrome and Edge. Dubbed...
Windows 10 Desktop on UK Bus Board Exposes Public IT’s End-of-Life Risks
A photograph captured by a reader of The Register has exposed a glaring failure in public infrastructure IT: the main passenger information display at a Northampton bus station was stuck showing a...
Microsoft Azure AI Stack Powers Red Bull Basement for Student Startup Founders
Microsoft’s Azure AI stack will once again underpin the Red Bull Basement program in 2026, giving thousands of first-time student founders direct access to the same tools that enterprises use to...