Articles from 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in 2026
Agentic identity, data governance gaps tackled in BlueVoyant's E7 security bundle
BlueVoyant, a cybersecurity company deeply embedded in the Microsoft security ecosystem, announced on July 28 a new readiness bundle designed exclusively for Microsoft 365 E7. The package bundles...
Windows 11’s on-device AI gets a faster upgrade: Aion Instruct arrives November 24
Microsoft will start phasing out the Phi Silica model that powers Windows 11’s on-device AI features this fall, replacing it with a smaller, faster model called Aion Instruct. The transition,...
Microsoft's New Cyber AI Slashes Costs by 50% While Topping Benchmarks—What IT Teams Need to Know
Microsoft dropped a surprise into the cybersecurity AI race on July 27, 2026, announcing a system that doesn't just compete on benchmark accuracy but aims to solve the field's mounting cost problem....
Google Launches Gemini 4 Pre-Training, Confronts Coding Gap That Stalled 3.5 Pro
Google has started pre-training Gemini 4, a model it calls its most ambitious yet, even as the company’s current flagship, Gemini 3.5 Pro, remains stuck in limited testing due to stubborn coding...
Anthropic’s Book-Shredding Gambit: What ‘Project Panama’ Means for AI Data Rules and Your IT Strategy
In early 2024, Anthropic launched a secret initiative code-named Project Panama—an audacious industrial pipeline to buy used books by the thousand, shear off their spines with hydraulic cutters,...
Stadt Rosenheim’s Microsoft 365 Migration: A Blueprint for Public-Sector Cloud Governance
When the city of Rosenheim decided to overhaul its fragmented IT systems, it wasn’t just another cloud migration. With 95 percent Microsoft 365 adoption across city departments, two subsidiaries,...
Forgotten SharePoint Sites Reappear with New Microsoft 365 Archive Search
Microsoft has begun rolling out a feature that brings archived SharePoint and OneDrive content directly into users’ search results, eliminating the guesswork that often surrounds dormant...
Microsoft Cancels Purview Power Automate Workflow in GCC High and DoD Clouds
Microsoft has scrapped a long-planned feature that would have let government cloud customers automate compliance tasks directly from Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance. The Microsoft 365...
Microsoft Purview Admins Can Now Send a DLP Warning Without an Email—Here’s Why That Matters
Microsoft is giving compliance teams a long-awaited dial: as of this month, administrators can turn on policy tips in SharePoint and OneDrive without triggering automatic email notifications—or the...
Copilot in Word Adds Inline Citations to Help You Fact-Check AI Drafts
In August 2025, Microsoft quietly added a feature to Copilot in Word that could change how you trust AI-generated text: when you ask Copilot to draft content based on specific files, emails, or...
OneDrive Shared Folder Links Now Route to People View
Microsoft is changing how shared OneDrive folder links behave when clicked from a Teams chat, email, or other Microsoft 365 surfaces. Instead of treating the folder as an isolated destination,...
Microsoft Schedules AI Meeting Recaps for DoD Cloud Teams by October 2026
Microsoft is targeting October 2026 to bring AI-powered meeting recaps to the Department of Defense’s Microsoft Teams environment, a long-anticipated move that will introduce auto-generated meeting...