Articles from September 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in September 2025
Visual Studio 2026 Debuts Agentic Copilot Superpowers—and New Attack Vectors
Microsoft fired its boldest shot yet in the AI-first IDE war, launching Visual Studio 2026 (version 18.0) through a new Insiders Channel that replaces the long-standing Preview program. The release...
Microsoft Mandates 3-Day Office Return, Silences Internal Forums in AI Pivot
Microsoft has drawn a hard line in the sand, ending its era of hybrid flexibility with a phased three-day-a-week office mandate, a crackdown on internal employee speech, and heightened campus...
Windows 10’s KB5065429 Update Opens the Consumer ESU Enrollment Door as End of Support Nears
Microsoft has pushed out KB5065429, the September 2025 cumulative update for Windows 10 22H2, and it arrives as more than just a standard security rollup — it’s the key that unlocks the consumer...
Windows 11’s Screenshot Overhaul: How New Defaults and Snipping Tool Features Change the Game
Microsoft quietly pushed a major shift in Windows 11 that changes what happens when you press one of the keyboard’s oldest keys: Print Screen. No longer does it just dump a copy of your screen to...
Microsoft's Three-Day RTO and Speech Clampdown: Inside the AI-First Reset
Microsoft has begun enforcing a three-day-a-week office requirement for thousands of employees within commuting distance of its Redmond headquarters, the initial phase of a global mandate that will...
Edge Dev Breaks Efficiency Mode Free from Windows 11’s Energy Saver
Microsoft has slipped a new toggle into the latest Edge Dev builds that severs the automatic link between the browser’s Efficiency mode and Windows 11’s system-wide Energy Saver, giving users...
How EY's Simon Brown Is Rewiring HR for AI That Doubles Every Six Months
Agentic AI capabilities are doubling in potency every six months, and HR leaders who treat this as just another tech upgrade will soon find their organizations left behind. That’s the stark warning...
ANZ’s Restructuring Hits Technology Hard: 3,500 Job Cuts and Contractor Reviews Underway
ANZ Banking Group has announced a sweeping restructuring that will see roughly 3,500 permanent positions cut and about 1,000 contractor engagements either ended or placed under review, with the...
Microsoft Taps Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4 to Power Copilot in Office 365, Breaking OpenAI Exclusivity
Microsoft is quietly engineering the most significant shift in its Office AI strategy since Copilot launched: the company is adding Anthropic's Claude models to the backend mix, specifically routing...
SAP NetWeaver 10.0-Rated Exploits Eclipse Microsoft's Patch Tuesday as Enterprises Race to Patch
September’s Patch Tuesday delivered a predictable mix of Windows security updates and the usual Office headaches, but for enterprise security teams, the real fire alarm is ringing over SAP...
Microsoft Shuts Down Open Forums, Requires 3-Day Office Presence for AI Drive
Microsoft is imposing sweeping changes to its workplace culture, shutting down company-wide open forums like the Senior Leader Connection on Viva Engage and requiring most employees near an office to...
How Korea Telecom Turned File Chaos into an AI-Powered Knowledge Layer Using Microsoft 365 Copilot
Korea Telecom (KT) saved thousands of work hours annually by weaving Microsoft 365 Copilot into its document sprawl, turning scattered files into a searchable, summarizable knowledge base without...