Articles from July 18, 2026
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Microsoft's Project Online Is Shutting Down September 30: A Migration Roadmap for Every Team
Microsoft will permanently pull the plug on Project Online on September 30, 2026. The cloud project management platform, which for years served as the backbone for portfolio and project management in...
PowerShell 7.4 LTS Countdown: Why Bypassing 7.5 Is the Only Smart Move
Microsoft has marked November 10, 2026, as the support finish line for PowerShell 7.4 LTS—and, in a scheduling twist that will shape every migration plan, the non-LTS 7.5 release reaches end of...
Microsoft 365 File Formats Under Fire: How to Choose Between DOCX, ODF, and PDF/A
The Document Foundation, the non-profit behind LibreOffice, lobbed a fresh criticism at Microsoft on July 17, 2026, accusing the company of using its Office Open XML formats as a strategic tool to...
DXVK 3.0.2 Ships New Hang Debugger to Pinpoint Vulkan Crashes, Plus Fixes for Five Titles
DXVK 3.0.2 arrived on July 17, and the standout feature this time isn’t a game fix—it’s a new diagnostic tool that helps users and developers get to the bottom of one of Vulkan’s most...
Valve Rolls Out Steam Deck-Like Quick Menu for SteamVR — Here's How to Get It
On July 17, Valve released SteamVR beta 2.17.4, and it comes with a feature VR users have wanted for years: a quick-access dashboard that puts critical settings and Steam features right inside the...
Nvidia’s HBM4 Deal With SK hynix Will Reshape Windows AI — Here’s How
SK hynix has locked down roughly 70% of Nvidia’s initial HBM4 memory orders for the upcoming Vera Rubin AI platform, according to South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency. The allocation gives SK hynix a...
United Airlines Outage: Why a Broken Check-In System Paralyzed Hub Airports on a Busy Saturday
United Airlines passengers faced chaos Saturday morning as a widespread systems outage brought check-in, boarding, and baggage handling to a standstill at major airports. The disruption began around...
Your Azure Blob Storage Bills Could Spike if You Miss This October 2026 Deadline
Microsoft will automatically migrate any remaining legacy Blob Storage accounts to the newer general-purpose v2 (GPv2) format after October 13, 2026. The company warns that customers who let the...
Azure Virtual Desktop Classic Retires September 2026: What You Must Do Now
Microsoft has confirmed that Azure Virtual Desktop (classic) will reach end of life on September 30, 2026, after which it will no longer be supported. Organizations still running the older platform...
Microsoft postpones Azure Synapse firewall retirement to 2027 — but the clock is ticking
A deadline that sent shivers through Azure Synapse administrators has quietly been rolled back. Microsoft is now giving teams until June 1, 2027, to stop relying on a long-standing firewall bypass...
Nvidia's First Arm64 GPU Driver for Windows 11 Lands, Paving Way for RTX Spark PCs
Nvidia has quietly released the first native Arm64 GPU driver for Windows 11, version 616.00, according to a report by Windows Latest. The driver is currently aimed at Microsoft’s Surface RTX Dev...
RTX Spark Is NVIDIA’s Boldest PC Bet Yet—Here’s Why You Might Want to Hold Off
On May 31, 2026, NVIDIA announced RTX Spark, a new platform that pairs a custom 20-core Arm processor with up to 6,144 Blackwell RTX CUDA cores and 128GB of unified memory. ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo,...