Articles from 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in 2026
VSLive! 2026: The Practical Blueprint for Embedding AI Into Your .NET and SQL Stack
VSLive! @ Microsoft HQ 2026 opened this week in Redmond with a clear message: enterprise AI has moved from experimental labs into the engineering trenches, and for .NET and SQL Server teams, that...
Tredence Bets 200 Domain-Native Engineers Can Fix Enterprise AI’s Last-Mile Failure
Tredence, a data and AI services company with over 4,200 employees, is taking a radical step to solve one of enterprise AI’s most persistent problems. On July 27, 2026, it launched a Forward...
Microsoft 365’s Native Backup: What It Covers, What It Misses, and What to Do About It
Microsoft’s longtime mantra—“your data, your responsibility”—has gained a new tool. As of early 2025, Microsoft 365 Backup is generally available, promising restore speeds measured in hours...
Microsoft 365’s 30-Day Restore Won’t Save You from a 241-Day Breach — What You Need Instead
European businesses that treat Microsoft 365 and Azure’s built-in recovery features as a full backup strategy are operating with a dangerous blind spot, according to a new analysis from Kaseya. The...
Microsoft's New Edge Copilot Icon Is Real—But You Can't See It Yet
Microsoft is internally testing a refreshed Copilot icon for Edge, according to a newly discovered feature flag in the browser's Canary channel. The catch: the redesigned artwork is locked to...
Microsoft Admits Its Own Teams Can't Catch All AI Flaws, Funds 18 Labs Worldwide to Fill the Gaps
Microsoft is paying outside experts to break its AI because its own security engineers can’t find every failure on their own. On July 27, 2026, the company announced the External Red Team Alliance...
Press F7 in Command Prompt to Instantly See Your Command History—and Stop Hunting with Arrow Keys
The Command Prompt hides a productivity shortcut that most users never discover: press F7, and a numbered list of every recent command you've typed pops up right over your session. No more tapping...
20 Years Later: Why Intel’s Core 2 Duo Was a Turning Point for Windows PCs
Twenty years ago today, Intel launched the Core 2 Duo processor family, and it did something remarkable: it convinced the PC world that faster computers didn’t need higher gigahertz numbers. On...
Longsys Claims Its Smart SSDs Can Cut AI PC Memory Use by 40%—Here’s the Reality Check
Longsys will use Flash Memory Summit 2026 in Santa Clara, California, to pitch SSD technology that it says can slash the DRAM footprint of local AI workloads by nearly 40 percent. The storage maker...
Apple’s Star-Studded Pool Ad Isn’t a Lawsuit Risk—It’s a Blueprint for App Store Curation
Apple’s latest App Store commercial looks more like a pop-culture mashup than a software ad. The 30-second spot, part of the company’s “Open All Summer” campaign, turns the App Store icon...
Stop Reformatting Your USB Drives: Ventoy Makes One Stick Boot Everything
Ventoy is freeing Windows users from a tedious ritual: repeatedly reformatting USB drives just to switch operating systems. An open-source tool that turns any decent flash drive into a permanent...
Trackunit IrisX MCP Brings Live Fleet Data to ChatGPT, Claude, and Microsoft Copilot
Trackunit has quietly released a connector that changes how construction firms tap into their equipment data — by putting it inside the AI tools their teams already use. IrisX MCP (Model Context...