Articles from September 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in September 2025
Microsoft Ships SSMS 22 Preview 1 with Unified Settings, Theming, and AI-Driven IntelliSense
Microsoft dropped a long-awaited update to its flagship database management tool this week, unveiling SSMS 22 Preview 1 with a raft of user interface enhancements and deep hooks into the upcoming SQL...
Microsoft Pays Anthropic to Add Claude Sonnet 4 as Copilot's Second AI Brain in Office 365
Microsoft is paying Anthropic to integrate its Claude AI models directly into Office 365 applications, marking the first time the productivity suite will officially route user prompts to a large...
Microsoft Shuts Employee Forums and Mandates 3-Day Office Week in AI Blitz
Microsoft has executed a sweeping reset of workplace policies, shutting down open employee forums, tightening campus security, and imposing a mandatory three-day weekly office attendance for staff...
Windows 11 September Update Packs 4GB of AI Models You May Never Use
Microsoft's September 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2 (KB5065426, build 26100.6584) landed with a mix of visible UI refinements, long‑awaited fixes, and a fresh wave of hardware‑gated...
Windows 95's Missing HLT Instruction: How Microsoft Avoided a Bricking Catastrophe
When veteran Windows developer Raymond Chen recently recalled Windows 95’s development, one story stood out: the team intentionally left out a single x86 instruction that could have saved precious...
Unicode 17.0 Drops Apple Core Emoji, Adds Nearly 5,000 Characters Across Four New Scripts
The Unicode Consortium locked down Unicode 17.0 on September 9, 2025, expanding the character repertoire by 4,802 code points and issuing Emoji 17.0 with a last-minute edit that pulled the...
Satya Nadella’s 5 Copilot Prompts Turn Microsoft 365 into an AI Leadership Engine
Microsoft’s quiet integration of GPT‑5 into its Copilot family on August 7, 2025, was not just a routine model bump — it was the engineering unlock that turned a handful of brief, repeatable...
PowerToys Run's Plugin Ecosystem Makes It a True Start Menu Replacement — Here's How
For millions of Windows users, the Start menu is a daily hurdle — sluggish, unpredictable, and increasingly biased toward web results that bury local files. But a growing community of power users...
Microsoft Clamps Down on Internal Dissent, Mandates 3-Day Office Return by February 2026
Microsoft has launched a sweeping overhaul of its internal communications and workplace policies, simultaneously shutting down an open forum for employee–leadership dialogue, tightening campus...
The Contiguity Trap: Why Windows 10/11 Can't Extend C: Drive and How to Fix It
A full C: drive is every Windows user’s nightmare—updates fail, performance tanks, and the storage bar glows red. You open Disk Management, spot unallocated space on the same disk, and...
Microsoft Officially Deprecates EdgeHTML Web Components, Signaling Final Shift to Chromium-Based WebView2
Microsoft has formally added a clutch of EdgeHTML-era web integration features to its official Windows deprecated list, drawing a line under the legacy engine that once powered the original Microsoft...
Microsoft’s September Patches Quietly Resolve August’s MSI/UAC and NDI Streaming Regressions
Windows administrators and content creators who battled two disruptive regressions throughout August can finally breathe easier: Microsoft’s September 9, 2025 Patch Tuesday updates, led by...