Analog hobbies are booming as AI burnout hits Gen Z hardest — and the Windows PC could be the unexpected winner | Windows

I grew up in an analog world. Smartphones were at least a decade away. Laptops were bricks of hardware with tiny, low-res screens and enormous hard drives. The first PC…

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Linus Torvalds just joined Microsoft’s AI-code club, defending its use in the Linux kernel | Windows

Linus Torvalds now defends AI in the Linux kernel, as Windows 11 is getting improvements due to AI You might’ve read the “news” of how Linus Torvalds told Linux kernel…

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I didn’t expect the biggest new Xbox Game Pass title this past week to be a game about bowling | Windows

Xbox Game Pass dropped a healthy selection of day-one releases this past week, some of which have been getting plenty of praise. But the one folks have been playing the…

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Efekta appoints former Microsoft Tech Chief Matt Fisher | Windows

SOFIAH NICHOLE SALIVIO News Editor Efekta Education has appointed Matt Fisher as Chief Technology Officer, adding a former Microsoft and Amazon technology leader to its senior team. Fisher joins the…

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Unpacking Microsoft’s 70 TB SAP Private Cloud Migration | Windows

Microsoft has completed a six-month migration of a mission-critical 70 TB SAP ECC billing system to SAP S/4HANA private cloud, offering a rare look at how one of the world’s…

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Microsoft Rolls Out Controversial Employee Tracking Feature That Tells Your Boss When You’re in Office | Windows

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Microsoft ERP Implementation Partners Roundup: Which Is Best For Your Business? | Windows

Choosing the right Microsoft enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation partner determines whether a business modernises smoothly or faces costly delays and system failures. Companies evaluating Microsoft ERP implementation partners need…

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A developer just got Nvidia’s RTX 4060 running on Windows 11 ARM, and the results are barely playable | Windows

Until now, Windows on ARM PCs have not supported Nvidia’s desktop GPUs, largely because the company had not released a public Windows ARM64 driver. Nvidia now has an ARM64 driver…

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Summer exams can be brutal, but this Intel Core Ultra 7 laptop with 16GB will help you survive them with A+ grades — and at a 38% discount to boot | Windows

Best Buy’s Back to School is still ongoing and providing healthy discounts on our favorite laptops we’ve personally tested and confirmed will help you smash your exams and homework with…

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Microsoft and Meta are teaming up to offer Xbox Game Pass with the Quest VR Horizon+ subscription — Xbox VR controller improvements coming too | Windows

There’s not many active Meta Quest users out there these days, but the Facebook firm isn’t going quietly into the night it seems. The so-called “Metaverse” might’ve amounted to a…

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ISG Report Evaluates 36 Microsoft AI Providers | Windows

Key Terms data sovereignty regulatory Data sovereignty is the principle that digital information is subject to the laws and control of the…

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CWA Says Microsoft Gutted Game Unions Without Negotiating | Windows

By Braden Campbell ( July 20, 2026, 2:49 PM EDT) — The Communications Workers of America has accused Microsoft of including more than 400 unionized video game studio employees in…

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eMazzanti Technologies and Kyvoo Partner to Deliver AI Governance and Control for Mid-Market Microsoft Environments | Windows

Alliance gives mid-market organizations a governed, auditable path from AI experimentation to AI production — deployed inside their own Microsoft Azure tenant HOBOKEN, N.J., July 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — eMazzanti Technologies,…

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Meet Dusseldorf, Microsoft’s open-source out-of-band security platform | Windows

Out-of-band vulnerabilities surface when an application quietly reaches out to an external system during an attack, and capturing that traffic calls for infrastructure that many researchers assemble on their own….

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LG admits its monitor app installs bloatware via Windows Update, and Microsoft is letting it happen | Windows

Microsoft lets LG install adware through Windows Update without asking. I was two clicks away from buying an LG ultrawide monitor a few weeks ago. Fortunately, I didn’t, and after…

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AMD’s Ryzen 7 7700X3D looks like a steal at $279, but you’ll still end up paying more for less power — what gives? | Windows

I was away from my desk dealing with disastrous flooding for the past two weeks, and during that time, a lot happened in the world of AMD processors. The Ryzen…

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Samsung’s new GAIA PC chip challenges Microsoft’s Copilot+ program — and why I can only see that as a positive for the AI PC industry | Windows

NVIDIA’s bombshell RTX Spark announcement at Computex 2026 gave us a glimpse at new competition for Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm silicon in Windows PCs, and now Samsung is reportedly getting…

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Windows 11’s biggest updates may need multiple reboots, but that’s normal, don’t force shutdown | Windows

When you install one of the monthly updates, particularly a Patch Tuesday release on the second Tuesday of the month, you expect no more than one reboot. But it looks…

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OneDrive will block screenshots of sensitive PDFs, but only in Microsoft Edge (of course) | Windows

OneDrive is rolling out a new feature that prevents anyone from capturing screenshots of PDFs labeled “sensitive,” but the catch is that it only works in Microsoft Edge. It also…

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Lobbying Update: $90,000 of MICROSOFT CORPORATION lobbying was just disclosed | Windows

$90,000 of MICROSOFT CORPORATION lobbying was just disclosed, from Q2 of 2026, in a new Lobbying Disclosure Act filing. This included lobbying on issues like: “Issues related to artificial intelligence;…

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Windows 11’s big 2026 update is almost here, and these 10 things you need to know before upgrading could save you time and frustration | Windows

Microsoft is expected to roll out the 2026 Update for Windows 11 (version 26H2) later this year, marking the fifth feature update for the desktop version of the operating system….

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Microsoft’s own mistakes are pushing users toward Linux faster than anyone expected | Windows

Desktop Linux has seen a massive surge in popularity in the past few years alone, which, ironically enough, is in no small part thanks to Microsoft. The recent string of…

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Microsoft confirms WSUS service degradation impacting all versions of Windows | Windows

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Microsoft confirms a WSUS service issue causing slow syncs and timeouts across…

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Microsoft to force enable Copilot in Outlook Classic, even though it wants you on New Outlook | Windows

Microsoft has largely stopped adding new features to Outlook Classic, and most recent updates have been around bug fixes. But does that mean it won’t force Outlook Classic holdouts to…

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Windows 11’s slowest feature is about to get dramatic speed improvements, and its File Explorer’s This PC search | Windows

File Explorer’s search is next in line for the performance work Microsoft has been putting into Windows Search. Marcus Ash, who leads Design and Research for Windows and Devices at…

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Microsoft admits it can’t fix Windows 11 Secure Boot problems, and older PCs are hit hardest | Windows

Microsoft held an OEM Secure Boot Office Hours event on July 15, bringing engineers from Microsoft together with representatives from Acer, Asus, Cisco, Clevo, Dell, Fsas/Fujitsu, Honor, HP, Lenovo, LG,…

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Microsoft is replacing Outlook’s Meeting Insights with Copilot | Windows

Microsoft has confirmed that it is retiring Outlook’s Meeting Insights feature and replacing it with Microsoft 365 Copilot in early September 2026. The move is quite interesting, as not many…

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Windows 11 KB5121767 released to fix shutdowns, overheating, but you don’t need it unless you own these PCs | Windows

Microsoft just dropped Windows 11 KB5121767, an emergency update that replaces the July 2026 cumulative update on PCs affected by unexpected shutdowns, poor performance, overheating, and battery drain. This update…

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5 Excel settings I changed too late | Windows

I spent years fighting Excel’s default behavior before realizing many of its biggest annoyances could be fixed in minutes. These buried settings changed the way I work and let me…

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Microsoft warns of surge in ACR Stealer attacks on customers | Windows

Microsoft has observed a surge in attacks using the ACR Stealer malware to steal browser-stored passwords, authentication tokens, and sensitive documents from its enterprise customers. Between late April and mid-June,…

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