Articles from 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in 2026
Microsoft Teams Down? July 23 Spike Explained: How to Check Your Service
{ "title": "Microsoft Teams Down? July 23 Spike Explained: How to Check Your Service", "content": "On Thursday, July 23, 2026, Microsoft Teams users reported a flurry of app problems, with outage...
Pastor's Pulmonary Embolism Lawsuit Tests AI’s Medical Advice Boundaries
A Florida pastor has sued OpenAI, alleging that ChatGPT dangerously delayed his treatment for bilateral pulmonary embolisms by repeatedly dismissing his symptoms as non-urgent and using religiously...
Microsoft and Databricks' 2030s AI Pact: Making Copilots Understand Your Business
Microsoft and Databricks cemented a partnership extension on July 23, 2026, that will keep the two companies tethered into the 2030s. The deal promises to reshape how enterprises connect governed...
Russia's LAUNDRY BEAR Hackers Steal 90 Days of Email with One-Preview Zimbra Exploit
A Russian state-backed hacking group is actively exploiting a Zimbra webmail vulnerability that needs nothing more than a user opening a malicious email — no click, no download — to begin...
Microsoft to Retire Outlook Meeting Insights; Non-Copilot Users Left Without Meeting Prep
In a move that sharpens the line between AI-licensed and standard users, Microsoft will retire the Outlook Meeting Insights feature in September 2026. The replacement—a more powerful, AI-generated...
Your AI Code Reviewer Could Be Leaking Your Secrets—Here’s How to Stop It
Microsoft’s official Azure DevOps Model Context Protocol server—the link that lets AI coding assistants read your pull requests, wikis, and pipelines—has a dangerous blind spot. Security...
The 570-Fix Patch Tuesday Is the New Normal: What AI-Powered Vulnerability Discovery Means for Windows Patching
Microsoft shipped a record 570 security fixes in its July 2026 Patch Tuesday release, more than quadruple the 137 patches from a year earlier. The surge comes directly from MDASH—a new multi-model...
Microsoft’s Legal Team Adopts Harvey AI—What It Means for Your Copilot Strategy
On July 23, 2026, Microsoft’s own legal department—a 2,000-person unit known as Corporate, External, and Legal Affairs (CELA)—announced it will begin using Harvey, a specialized legal AI...
Microsoft Now Blocks Emails Designed to Hijack Your AI Assistant
Microsoft has started blocking a new class of email threat: messages engineered not to trick people, but to manipulate the AI assistants that read, summarize, and act on their behalf. The company...
How to Get a Free 5% Performance Boost (and 50% Battery Savings) in Windows 11
A simple toggle in Windows 11 can yield a 5 percent performance boost or extend battery life by 50 percent—and most users never touch it. Meanwhile, two other buried settings can silently strangle...
GitHub Copilot’s Desktop App Now Lets Free-Plan Users Supervise AI Coding Agents on Windows
GitHub shipped a technical preview of the Copilot desktop app last week, and in a surprise twist, the download is already lighting up for users on free plans—not just paid subscribers. The app,...
Google Packs Gemini AI into Docs, Gmail, and Sheets in Direct Challenge to Microsoft Office
Google this week rolled out a major expansion of AI features across its Workspace suite, embedding Gemini models directly into Google Docs, Gmail, Sheets, and Slides. The updates — which include...