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Microsoft has finally admitted what we have been reporting for almost a year: Windows 11 PC sales were largely driven by Windows 10’s end of life, not AI PCs. On…

This is the day that we’ve been waiting for. We finally have official confirmation from Microsoft that they are making Windows 11 fast and responsive for PCs with 8GB RAM….

In this article Since early May 2026, Microsoft Threat Intelligence has observed Storm-2945, a sub-cluster of Midnight Blizzard, conducting widespread but targeted traffic manipulation attacks involving hospitality sector networks served…

For those of us who grew up watching Microsoft DOS on X86 PCs transform into the Windows Server platform along with applications, databases, and middleware, the modern Microsoft – a…

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Alphabet-owned cybersecurity company Wiz said on Thursday it had found a sweeping flaw that could have compromised Microsoft and thousands of its cloud customers. Wiz said in a post on…

I’ve covered over 100 apps during my time at Windows Central. From powerful video editors to tiny utilities that change a hyper-specific part of Windows 11, there are a massive…

LG got caught showing ads for McAfee to people who dared to plug in a monitor. An investigation by Gamers Nexus revealed that plugging in certain LG monitors triggered Windows…

Asha Sharma, CEO of Xbox at Microsoft, speaks at the Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco on June 4, 2026. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Microsoft’s new…

NEW YORK (AP) — A monster day for Microsoft’s stock following signals that its big spending on AI is translating into profits led a powerful rebound on Wall Street Thursday,…

Russia-affiliated cyber espionage group Laundry Bear (aka Void Blizzard, aka TA488) is exploiting CVE-2026-42897, a cross-site scripting vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange, to target US and European government entities and a…

Instead of juggling separate apps for documents, cloud storage, email, and security, Microsoft 365 keeps everything under one roof. You get premium versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote,…

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority has opened a fresh investigation into Microsoft, this time over how the company is marketing its Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscription plans. A…

Microsoft says it’s going to make the Copilot button more noticeable by adding it to the ribbon menu in Outlook Classic. Until now, only New Outlook integrated Copilot everywhere, while…

Microsoft says that their plan is to convert more Windows UI elements to WinUI3, while confirming that the new File Explorer Properties dialog was rebuilt from scratch in WinUI, and…

MCP C# SDK v2.0 also implements a small set of HTTP headers that the 2026-07-28 MCP revision standardizes. A tools/call now includes Mcp-Method: tools/call and Mcp-Name: get_order_status alongside the JSON-RPC…

By Henrique Santiago ( July 29, 2026, 20:24 GMT | Insight) — Norway-based web browser company company Opera stepped up its offensive against Microsoft’s alleged dominance in Brazil through Edge,…

DALLAS, July 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Quisitive, a global technology consulting firm and Microsoft Frontier Partner, today announced that six of its consultants have been recognized as Microsoft Most Valuable…

TL;DR: Get Microsoft Office Home & Business for Mac 2021 for a one-time $42.97 through Aug. 9 (reg. $219) and enjoy Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and OneNote for years….

The year is 2026, and I’m still amazed when I find a new entry in my Start menu’s All apps list for an app I don’t remember installing. This time,…

Microsoft has confirmed that it’s not stepping back from the forced rollout of New Outlook in March 2027 and is now making it easier for Outlook Classic holdouts to switch….

Windows Latest has obtained exclusive images of Lenovo’s upcoming IdeaCentre AIO desktop, and for the first time, it comes in real colors, not like the usual black or grey Windows…

First look at the Lenovo Yoga 9n 2-in-1, the world’s first NVIDIA RTX Spark convertible laptop The NVIDIA RTX Spark took the industry by storm when Jensen Huang unveiled the…

In April 2026, Microsoft said it would add Copilot directly to Outlook’s search menu and invade your regular search results with AI-generated suggestions. The feature began rolling out in June…

HP Support Assistant is running a paid Bing campaign on Windows 11 PCs, and Microsoft isn’t intervening this time. All HP PCs come pre-installed with an app called HP Support…

A month ago, we reported that new Outlook took up to 10 seconds to open an email from a Windows 11 notification, which is absurd for a popular email client….

Microsoft (MSFT +1.15%), under Satya Nadella, is leaning hard into artificial intelligence. It isn’t alone; companies like Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), Meta (NASDAQ: META), and Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) are also doing…

By Adam Lidgett ( July 28, 2026, 4:54 PM EDT) — The Federal Circuit has turned down Microsoft’s request that it revisit a panel’s decision that reopened the damages amount…

Summary created by Smart Answers AI In summary: Microsoft is testing Windows Update improvements in Insider preview builds 26100.8968 and 26200.8968 following recent update outages. PCWorld reports these enhancements focus…