Articles from July 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in July 2025
UK Regulator Moves to Designate AWS and Microsoft Azure with ‘Strategic Market Status’ in Cloud Antitrust Probe
The United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has escalated its scrutiny of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, recommending that both cloud giants be designated with...
Azure Revenue Reaches $75B as Google Cloud Spends $85B to Ride AI Wave
Microsoft’s Azure cloud business generated $75 billion in revenue over the past 12 months, a 34% year-over-year surge that helped propel the company to a $4 trillion market valuation for the first...
Breaking Free from Notepad: A Complete Guide to Opening CSV Files on Windows 11 Without the Headaches
Millions of Windows 11 users double-click a CSV file expecting a neat spreadsheet, only to face a wall of unformatted text in Notepad. The frustration is real—jumbled columns, garbled characters,...
AI-Fueled Earnings from Meta and Microsoft Propel Wall Street Rally, but Fed and Tariff Risks Loom
A torrent of better-than-expected earnings from tech titans Meta Platforms and Microsoft ignited a powerful rally on Wall Street Thursday, pushing the Nasdaq Composite up 1.3% and affirming that...
Microsoft Gives Windows 11's Blue Screen a Clean Look and Powers Up Automated Boot Repairs
Microsoft has quietly released what might be two of the most impactful reliability upgrades in years for Windows 11, bundling a redesigned unexpected restart screen and the long-awaited quick machine...
Why Enterprises Are Abandoning Legacy AD for Windows 11 Cloud-Native Management with Intune
Microsoft is steering enterprise IT toward a dramatic simplification: replace sprawling on-premises Active Directory domains and decades-old Group Policy Objects with cloud-native management,...
Windows 11 July 2025 Update: Hotpatching for Arm64, Autopatch Groups, Security Copilot, and UX boosts. Essential reading for IT admins.
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Microsoft Warns IT Leaders: Avoid MDMWinsOverGP During Windows 11 Cloud Migration
Microsoft’s official guidance for migrating to Windows 11 cloud-native management carries a stark technical warning: using the MDMWinsOverGP setting—which forces mobile device management policies...
Microsoft Delivers Hotpatching to Windows 11 Arm64, Tightens Security in July Update
Hotpatching—the ability to install critical security fixes without a reboot—is no longer just a server luxury. Microsoft's July 2025 feature drop extends the capability to Windows 11 on Arm64...
Microsoft Intune Guides Windows 11 Cloud-Native Migration: Key Steps and Pitfalls
Microsoft has published an in-depth roadmap for organizations moving from Windows 10 domain-joined and co-managed devices to a cloud-native Windows 11 environment managed entirely by Microsoft...
Microsoft's $368 Billion Cloud Backlog Exposes the Growing Pains of the AI Gold Rush
A $368 billion order backlog is the kind of number that would make any sales executive salivate. For Microsoft, it’s becoming a headache. The company’s inability to provision cloud and AI...
Chrome 138.0.7204.183 Fixes Critical CVE-2025-8292 Use-After-Free Flaw in Media Stream
Google has rolled out Chrome version 138.0.7204.183 to address a high-severity security flaw that could let attackers hijack systems through nothing more than a malicious webpage. Tracked as...