Articles from 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in 2026
Syskit Governance Tools Land at Exponant to Tame Microsoft 365 Sprawl
Exponant has begun offering Syskit Point—a governance platform for Microsoft 365—to its customers, aiming to give organizations a single pane of glass for managing the sprawl of Teams,...
Your Windows 11 Clipboard Is Saving More Than You Think—Here’s How to Take Control
Pressing Windows key+V on a Windows 11 PC reveals a tidy pane of recently copied snippets—up to 25 of them, ready to paste. But that convenience comes with a privacy trade-off many users overlook:...
Your OS Choice Can Make or Break Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 Performance — Here’s the Proof
A compact AMD mini PC running four different operating systems—straight out of the box—has delivered one of the clearest demonstrations yet that your software stack can change how a modern...
Perplexity's Windows AI Agent Edits Your Files Locally: What to Know Before You Install
Perplexity today released Personal Computer for Windows, bringing its AI agent from Mac to the world's most widely used desktop operating system. The software can now browse, edit, and organize your...
Alphabet's AI Cash Burn Puts Microsoft's Spending Under the Microscope
Alphabet's revelation that it burned through $5.9 billion in cash last quarter while ramping up AI infrastructure spending sent a clear signal to Wall Street: the blank check for Big Tech's AI...
Azure Marketplace Gets a COVID-Era Safety Suite: What IT Teams Can Learn from Beabloo’s Interaction Care Rollout
Retail technology specialist Beabloo has made its Interaction Care solution available worldwide through the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, giving businesses a ready-to-deploy package that combines...
Pidilite Slashes Provisioning Time 30% in Cloud Exit: 5 Lessons for Windows IT Teams
Pidilite Industries, the Indian consumer and industrial products giant, has completed a sweeping IT modernization that moves its non-ERP workloads out of traditional data centers and into a managed...
HP's Support Tool Is Now a Trojan Horse for Bing Promotions on Windows 11
If you own an HP laptop and have been interrupted by a pop-up begging you to switch to Bing, you're not alone—and the “don't show me this again” button is apparently lying to you. A report...
Windows 11 Mouse Problems? The Fix Isn't a Download—Here’s What Actually Works
If your Windows 11 mouse is skipping, disconnecting, or ignoring its side buttons, your first instinct might be to hunt down a new driver. But in 2026, that’s almost never the right move....
NVIDIA RTX Spark Prototype Leaves Performance on the Table—Here's What It Means for Buyers
An early engineering sample of Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra, powered by NVIDIA’s RTX Spark platform, has surfaced in the hands of a TechPowerUp forum user, and the takeaway is stark: the...
New Essay: Microsoft Monoculture Risks a Single Bug Crippling All Federal Agencies
A single vulnerability in a widely used Microsoft application could hand adversaries the keys to every federal agency’s identity systems at once, according to a stark new analysis published July 27...
Windows 11 Insider Builds Test Cloud Recovery and Movable Taskbar — What It Means for Your PC
Microsoft is giving Windows 11 testers a peek at features that could reshape daily PC use — and fix some of the operating system’s most stubborn pain points. In recent Insider builds, the company...