Articles from May 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in May 2025
Microsoft 365’s Hidden Gem: How Excel’s AI Snaps Screenshots into Editable Spreadsheets
Microsoft 365 subscribers have quietly gained a superpower that transforms one of the most soul-crushing office chores—manual data entry—into a task that takes mere seconds. Excel’s “Get Data...
Windows 11’s Smart App Control Blocks Untrusted Apps Proactively — Here’s What You Need to Know
When Microsoft rolled out the Windows 11 2022 Update (version 22H2), it quietly shipped one of the most aggressive consumer security features in years: Smart App Control. Unlike traditional antivirus...
Dell's Snapdragon X Elite Latitude 7455 Delivers Windows 11 Pro Power, But Linux Users Should Wait
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Microsoft Windows 11 Classic Apps Get AI Powers—If You Have the Right Hardware and Subscriptions
Microsoft’s decades-old desktop companions—Paint, Notepad, and the Snipping Tool—are being reborn as generative AI powerhouses. Starting this week, Windows Insiders on Canary and Dev channels...
SteamOS Shatters Windows 11 on Lenovo Legion Go S: Up to 2x Battery Life and Smoother Framerates Expose Microsoft's Handheld Weakness
Dave2D's latest benchmarks don't just compare two operating systems—they expose a fundamental flaw in Windows 11's handheld design. On the identically specced Lenovo Legion Go S, SteamOS delivered...
Oracle's $40B Texas Superchip Gamble Redraws the AI Infrastructure Map
Oracle just dropped a $40 billion bomb on the Texas landscape—and it is not an oil well. The enterprise software giant is building a colossal data center campus stacked with 400,000 Nvidia...
Microsoft to Charge $30 for One Extra Year of Windows 10 Home Security Updates
{ "title": "Microsoft to Charge $30 for One Extra Year of Windows 10 Home Security Updates", "content": "Microsoft confirmed that home users clinging to Windows 10 after its October 14, 2025...
Windows 11's Smart App Control: How It Blocks Unknown Threats—and Why a Reinstall May Be the Price You Pay
Windows 11 draws a hard line with Smart App Control: unknown executables are guilty until proven innocent. This cloud‑powered, machine‑learning‑driven feature stops untrusted code before it...
Inside the Microsoft-TAFE NSW Datacentre Academy: Training Thousands for Australia’s $26 Billion Cloud Boom
When Veni Pankajakshan stepped into TAFE NSW Meadowbank’s simulated data centre lab for the first time, she had never installed a server or troubleshot a network switch. The former community...