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PowerToys may get a feature to add low memory mode for supported utilities Microsoft PowerToys is an indispensable toolkit for Windows 11 power users, with everything from advanced window management…

When I wrote this piece on May 20, 2016, the idea that Android apps running inside Chrome could become a real threat to Microsoft felt like an early warning shot…

Key Takeaways: Microsoft adds new AI monitoring and investigation capabilities to Purview. The new account recovery features aim to reduce social engineering risks. Windows 365 for Agents introduces a more…

Yusuf Mehdi says his final year at Microsoft will focus on bringing the company’s agentic Windows vision to life After an impressive 35-year tenure that spanned the early days of…

Welcome back to the Windows Central Podcast! In this special drop episode, Daniel Rubino and Zak Bowden dive deep into Microsoft’s massive new wave of Surface devices announced this week….

Microsoft introduced Microsoft Discovery, an enterprise platform designed to support AI-native biotech research workflows, featuring agentic automation, graph-based knowledge systems and high-performance computing infrastructure. The platform was built for regulated…

Microsoft and Xbox have a handful of different first-party titles coming out of their Xbox Game Studios publishing label in 2026, ranging from Halo Studios’ Halo: Campaign Evolved remake to…

How many of you have experienced odd taskbar freezes or a blank desktop when you turn on your PC? Microsoft says a known Windows 11 issue causes the taskbar to…

It’s been an interesting month to be an indie game fan. There’s no shortage of new releases to keep us busy, and social media has been abuzz with discussion over…

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Microsoft has acknowledged that the new floating Copilot button in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint was getting in the way of users’ workflows, and is rolling out a fix that lets…

Microsoft and Xbox’s new open-world arcade racer from Playground Games, Forza Horizon 6, was widely expected to be one of 2026’s biggest and most successful games in the leadup to…

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. –  Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical College students are receiving statewide honors. According to a release, 12 students placed in the 2026 Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Kentucky…

Microsoft is preparing to break ground near St. Joe Farms, south of Granger, Indiana, in St. Joseph County, where it will construct a new data center to meet surging demand…

WASHINGTON, May 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — CoreView, the leading SaaS platform for Microsoft 365 Tenant Resilience, announced that it is now officially a GovRAMP Premier Member, reinforcing its commitment to helping…

Microsoft just announced a new batch of Surface devices. They’re all business PCs with Intel’s new Core Ultra Series 3 chips inside (the Snapdragon X2 Surface hardware is still on…

Redmond, Washington, mid-January 2026. The weather, cold and gray. It’s the kind of morning the snooze button was built for. But the team of engineers camped out in Building 92…

On Windows 11, Microsoft has confirmed that the May 2026 Security Update is failing to install on some devices, resulting in error code 0x800f0922. The issue affects systems running versions…

1 of 2 | Delegates inspect a model of Thailand’s second frigate warship developed by South Korean shipbuilder Hanwha Ocean at the Defense and Security 2025 exhibition in Nonthaburi, on…

As part of the Windows Insider Program, Microsoft released several preview builds of Windows 11 in early May 2026. Although these releases didn’t introduce many new experiences, the company dedicated…

OSes Red Hat’s free distro loses a desktop, but makes an important new friend Microsoft has announced a new, Fedora-based Linux distro for Azure VMs, while Fedora has consigned the…

If you’re using Microsoft’s Teams app on Apple’s Mac devices, specifically those running macOS versions 14 (Sonoma), 15 (Sequoia), and 26 (Tahoe) under the hood, then there’s a chance you…

Microsoft is rolling out a slate of new advertising updates aimed at simplifying campaign management and improving AI-powered optimization across its ad platform. What’s new. Microsoft introduced a new Import…

Last month, Microsoft quietly shipped a subtle new feature that most people won’t even know about unless they have compatible hardware, and that’s an entirely new haptic feedback system that’s…

Microsoft says it has disrupted a malware-signing-as-a-service (MSaaS) operation that abused the company’s Artifact Signing service to generate fraudulent code-signing certificates used by ransomware gangs and other cybercriminals. According to…

Windows 11’s Search experience isn’t horrible, but it’s far from perfect, and it’s largely because it tries to be the “everything” feature. Windows Search not only surfaces your files and…

NTT Data’s North American headquarters in Plano [Photo: David Seeley] Global digital business and IT services company NTT DATA has agreed to acquire WinWire, a Microsoft partner that specializes in Agentic…

Organizations are moving quickly to bring Microsoft 365 Copilot into daily work, but adoption alone does not create measurable value. Info-Tech Research Group’s newly released blueprint, Drive Business Value With…

‘We are adding 1,000-plus engineers focused on one of the big players in AI, which is Microsoft. This gives us acceleration in the business. And they are also playing in…