Articles from July 9, 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published on July 9, 2026
Windows 11 Clipboard History Quietly Gains a Plain-Text Paste Option
{ "title": "Windows 11 Clipboard History Quietly Gains a Plain-Text Paste Option", "content": "Microsoft has quietly introduced a “Paste as Text” option to Windows 11’s clipboard history, a...
Nvidia’s Forward P/E Slips to 22.2x After Chip Meltdown—Why It’s Not a Value Stock
On July 8, as semiconductor shares tumbled across the board, a syndicated report from 24/7 Wall St. on AOL asked whether the sell-off had turned Nvidia into a value stock. With Nvidia’s forward...
Microsoft Fixes Outlook Copilot Crash — What You Need to Know and How to Update
Microsoft has released an update for Microsoft 365 that finally resolves a frustrating crash in Outlook triggered by the Copilot Compose feature. The bug, which could cause the email client to become...
Microsoft's Swiss AI Report: Focus on Two Processes, Not Awareness, for 65% Gains
On July 9, 2026, Microsoft dropped a deceptively simple instruction for enterprise IT and business leaders: stop launching AI awareness campaigns. The directive comes from the company’s Swiss AI...
Paul Thurrott's New Field Guide Spills the Secrets of Windows 11's Do Not Disturb Button
On July 8, 2026, veteran Windows author Paul Thurrott released a detailed attachment to his Windows 11 Field Guide that pulls back the curtain on the Do Not Disturb button sitting inside the...
Valve Ships Proton 11.0-1: EA Desktop Launcher and Steam Deck Bugs Finally Squashed
Valve completed the rollout of Proton 11.0-1 on Monday, delivering a stable Steam Play compatibility layer built on Wine 11.0 that resolves a clutch of persistent headaches for Linux and Steam Deck...
GStreamer 1.28.5 Fixes AMD Subtitle Glitch and Adds H.266 Acceleration for Windows Apps
GStreamer 1.28.5 patches two critical media playback bugs affecting Windows users—an AMD-specific subtitle flicker and HLS stream corruption—while introducing hardware-accelerated H.266/VVC...
Genshin Impact 7.0: Windows PC Minimum Now a GTX 1050, Older Android GPUs at Risk
HoYoverse has pulled back the curtain on what players need to run Genshin Impact Version 7.0, and the message is clear: it's time to retire that aging GPU. The upcoming Snezhnaya expansion brings a...
GlobalData's Ava Brings AI-Powered Research to Microsoft 365 Copilot
On July 8, 2026, GlobalData Plc announced that its AI research analyst, Ava, is being integrated directly into Microsoft 365 Copilot. Ava will appear as a Copilot extension, letting business users...
Google’s Android Bench Adopts Harbor Framework, Claude 3.5 Sonnet Tops AI Coding Leaderboard
Google has overhauled its Android Bench, the popular evaluation suite for AI coding assistants that specialize in Android app development. The benchmark now runs on the standardized Harbor framework,...
Google’s New Play Store Rules Let Android System Services Use Cellular Data Even While Idle
Google quietly updated the Play Store’s Terms of Service last week, inserting a clause that will allow Android system services to use cellular data even when your phone is sitting idle. The change...
Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 Outlasts Pixel Watch 4 with Military-Grade Toughness
Samsung’s newly detailed Galaxy Watch 8 has just claimed a meaningful durability advantage over Google’s Pixel Watch 4. According to early specifications now circulating, the Galaxy Watch 8...