Articles from 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in 2026
Windows Admin Center Virtualization Mode Preview: Faster Hyper-V Onboarding
Microsoft is pushing Windows Admin Center further into virtualization with a new Virtualization Mode preview, and the timing is telling. After the original preview exposed the shape of the product, th
Microsoft £2.1B UK Windows Server Pricing Lawsuit: Azure vs AWS
Microsoft is facing a potentially watershed legal challenge in the UK as a £2.1 billion collective action over Windows Server pricing moves toward trial, with the core allegation being that the compan
Agentic Factory: Accenture, Avanade and Microsoft Aim to Cut Manufacturing Downtime
Accenture, Avanade and Microsoft are making a familiar industrial promise sound newly urgent: if factories can sense trouble earlier, reason over live data faster, and trigger better responses without
Windows 11 Security: Microsoft Says Defender Is Enough for Most Users
Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 security guidance settles a question that has lingered for years: for many users, Microsoft Defender Antivirus is enough. In a new Microsoft article, the company says Win
Microsoft Teams and Copilot in AEC: From Faster Meetings to Better Decisions
Microsoft’s latest customer story about Kimley-Horn is more than a feel-good AI success case; it is a compact signal of where enterprise work in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction sector
Detect Fake Remote IT Workers: Correlate Identity and SaaS Hiring Telemetry
The rise of fraudulent remote IT workers is forcing security teams to rethink a problem that used to sit mostly with HR: how do you tell a legitimate applicant from an infiltrator before you hand over
Windows 11 KB5083769 Speed Test: Taskbar One-Click Check (Ookla via Bing)
Microsoft’s April 2026 Patch Tuesday update for Windows 11, KB5083769, is more than a routine security rollup for 25H2 and 24H2 users. It is also the point where Microsoft’s long-teased taskbar speed
Why Task Manager CPU Meter Isn’t Live: Interval-Based, Modern CPU Changes Explained
Windows Task Manager’s CPU meter has always been less of a live feed than a short-term memory test, and that distinction matters more on modern PCs than it did on the beige-box machines of the 1990s.
Microsoft Copilot Frontier Suite Brings Agentic AI to Hong Kong Enterprises
Microsoft is taking another big step in its enterprise AI strategy, and Hong Kong is one of the first markets to feel the impact. At the Microsoft AI Tour in Hong Kong on April 22, 2026, the company f
Google Cloud Bets on AI Agents—TPUs, Security, and Gemini Enterprise vs AWS & Azure
Google Cloud is making a blunt bet: the next phase of enterprise AI will not be about chat windows, but about agents that complete multi-step work across apps, data stores, and security tools. That sh
Windows 11 Taskbar Speed Test Explained: Ookla, Bing, and the “Mac-like” Mockup
Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 speed-test integration is not a secret peek at “Windows vNext” so much as a familiar case of a product team using the wrong visual mockup at the wrong moment. The feature
Windows 11 24H2: File Explorer Natively Opens ZIP, RAR, 7z, TAR—No Extra App
When you open a ZIP file in Windows 11, the “wrong app” may actually be the one you’ve been using all along. Microsoft has steadily expanded File Explorer’s archive handling, and on Windows 11 version