Articles from July 9, 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published on July 9, 2026
Apple’s DMA Defeat Is a Win for Platform Choice – and Microsoft Could Be Next
Apple’s two-year legal fight to dodge the European Union’s Digital Markets Act crashed to a halt on Wednesday morning in Luxembourg. The General Court tossed out every appeal Apple had lodged,...
Mac App Store vs. Direct Download vs. iOS: The Best Way to Install Microsoft 365 on Apple Devices
Microsoft has quietly expanded how you get Word, Excel, and the rest of its productivity suite onto Apple hardware, and the choice now affects everything from automatic updates to which features...
Microsoft to Pull Plug on OWA Light for On-Premises Exchange, Targeting August 2026
Microsoft is formally retiring the lightweight version of Outlook on the Web for on-premises Exchange Server, with removal planned for a future update around August 2026. The company’s Exchange...
AMD’s Agentic AI Vision Means Your Windows PC Is About to Get Much Smarter—and More Demanding
Mark Papermaster, AMD’s chief technology officer, delivered a blunt message to enterprise leaders on July 8, 2026: agentic AI is forcing a fundamental rethink of how we build computing...
GMKtec’s EVO-X1 Pro: A Pocket-Sized Windows PC with Ryzen AI and OCuLink Lands July 14
On July 14, GMKtec will globally launch the EVO-X1 Pro, a compact Windows mini-PC that pairs AMD’s newest Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 processor with 64 GB of RAM and high-speed OCuLink expansion, following...
Januscape Vulnerability: Why Windows Admins Must Act on Latest KVM Guest Escape Bug
A critical vulnerability in the Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor, publicly disclosed on July 6, 2026, allows guest-to-host escape on both Intel and AMD systems. Tracked as...
Cloudflare Errors Unmask Bogus iPhone 18 Pro Max Rumor
Three Indonesian technology-news websites briefly flared to life this week with headlines proclaiming that Apple would launch the iPhone 18 Pro Max in September 2026. The only problem: the underlying...
Your iPhone 17 Pro Case Won’t Fit the iPhone 18 Pro If This 2mm Camera Rumor Proves True
A fresh supply-chain leak suggests the iPhone 18 Pro will sport a camera bump that’s 2 millimeters thicker than the current model, potentially shattering backward compatibility with cases designed...
Microsoft's Cloud and AI Muscle Lifts Nasdaq—What It Means for Your Windows Experience
Microsoft’s relentless push into cloud infrastructure and artificial intelligence isn’t just juicing its stock price—it’s reshaping the Windows ecosystem you use every day. The company’s...
HP's 2026 Fix Order Ends Random USB Troubleshooting on Windows 10 and 11
Windows users who have stared at the "USB device not recognized" pop-up know the frustration: the flash drive that worked yesterday, the printer that won't connect, the external drive full of...
New Guide Shares 10 ChatGPT Prompts That Automate the Grunt Work for Junior SOC Analysts
A practical guide published this week on TechRepublic lays out 10 ready-to-use ChatGPT prompts designed to help Level 1 security operations center analysts triage alerts, dissect phishing emails, and...
Sourcetable's AI Spreadsheet Scores Flawless 24; Copilot Trails at 19
Sourcetable, a San Francisco–based spreadsheet startup, claimed on July 8, 2026, that its AI-powered spreadsheet achieved a perfect score of 24 out of 24 on the company’s own Sourcetable...