Articles from 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in 2026
Xbox’s New Boss Asha Sharma Puts Hardware First: How the Strategy Shift Affects Your Gaming
On the heels of Halo’s PlayStation debut, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma is steering Microsoft’s gaming division back to its roots, promising that “the return of Xbox starts with console.” The pivot...
Samsung HBM4E Samples Hit Customers as Record Profit Signals Looming Memory Crunch for Enterprise Windows
Samsung Electronics just posted a second-quarter operating profit of 89.5 trillion won (about $58.56 billion), beating analyst expectations and more than doubling the company’s entire 2025 annual...
Microsoft's Copilot Dashboard Will Soon Send Pulse Surveys to the Employees You're Already Tracking
Microsoft is preparing to close the loop between Copilot usage data and employee feedback. A new feature on the Microsoft 365 roadmap (ID 568072) will let change leaders fire off a Viva Pulse survey...
Viva Engage to Get Custom Branding: Microsoft Set to Unify Look Across Desktop and Mobile in August
Microsoft’s Viva Engage is about to look a lot more like your company’s own internal communications hub rather than a generic Microsoft service. In August 2026, the platform is slated to gain...
Microsoft Retires Viva Connections Legacy States, Moves Multi-Home Admin to SharePoint
Microsoft is retiring the draft-and-enabled workflow for Viva Connections and moving management of multi-home site configurations from the Microsoft 365 admin center to the SharePoint admin center,...
The 11 Unplayable .raw Files in Windows Are Xbox UI Sounds—Here's How to Access Them
{ "title": "The 11 Unplayable .raw Files in Windows Are Xbox UI Sounds—Here's How to Access Them", "content": "Neowin reported on July 29, 2026, that the cache of .raw audio files Windows users...
Asus ROG Strix Scar 18 (2026): Cooler RTX 5090, Sharper 4K, Heftier Price
Quiet, 18-inch gaming laptops don’t really exist—unless you’re willing to trade away top-tier performance. That’s the bet Asus is making with its freshly redesigned 2026 ROG Strix Scar 18,...
You Can Now Turn an RTX 2080 Ti Into a 22GB VRAM Beast—But the Shop Doing It Is on Pause
A Dubai-based repair shop has demonstrated that it can transform NVIDIA’s aging RTX 2080 Ti into a 22GB VRAM workhorse—twice the card’s original 11GB framebuffer. The modification, which...
Lenovo's Next Budget All-in-One Could Bring Six New Colors and Qi Charging to Windows 11 Desktops
Exclusive renders obtained by Windows Latest show that Lenovo is preparing a new IdeaCentre all-in-one PC with six color finishes, including four muted pastel options, and a design that hints at the...
Microsoft’s Unified Copilot App Is Coming This Year: Chat, Code, and Agents in One Place
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella confirmed during a July 29 earnings call that the company is building a unified Copilot “super app” — a single interface combining its AI chat, coding assistant, and...
The YellowKey BitLocker Bypass Is Fixed—Here’s How to Make Sure Your PC Is Secure
Microsoft quietly fixed a critical BitLocker encryption bypass vulnerability—tracked as CVE-2026-45585 and nicknamed YellowKey—in its June 2026 Patch Tuesday updates. The patch closes a...
Microsoft's $41B Bet Pays Off: Copilot Hits 30M Paid Seats, Azure Tops $100B
Microsoft CFO Amy Hood told employees in a July 29 memo that the company’s massive AI investments are beginning to pay off, revealing that Microsoft 365 Copilot now has over 30 million paid seats...