Articles from September 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in September 2025
Forced to Switch to New Outlook? A Practical Guide to What’s Changed and What to Do
Microsoft formally pulled the plug on the classic Windows Mail and Calendar apps at the end of 2024, and by February 2025 many Windows 10 and 11 users found the new Outlook silently installed as...
Your iPhone Copilot App Will Stop Editing Office Docs on September 15 – Here’s What You Must Do
Microsoft will disable all editing capabilities for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files inside its Microsoft 365 Copilot app for iPhone on September 15, 2025, forcing users to switch to the standalone...
Notepad Goes Offline: On-Device AI Arrives for Copilot+ PCs, No Subscription Needed
Microsoft just did something unexpected with its oldest app: Notepad can now reason like a modern AI, entirely on your device. Starting with a preview for Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev...
House Reverses Copilot Ban, Pilots 6,000-Seat Rollout With Unverified Safeguards
The U.S. House of Representatives will begin giving thousands of staffers access to Microsoft Copilot this fall, reversing a 2024 prohibition that blocked the AI tool over data leakage fears. Speaker...
Pay Only If It Works: Caylent’s AI-Powered Migration Service Shakes Up Cloud Moves
Caylent, an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner and recipient of the 2024 AWS Migration Consulting Partner of the Year award, this week launched Accelerate for Cloud Migration. The service combines...
Windows 10's Sunset Fails to Spark US PC Sales Surge as Consumers Balk at AI PC Prices
The much-anticipated end-of-support deadline for Windows 10 is arriving October 14, 2025, but the typical consumer PC shopping frenzy that normally accompanies such milestones is missing. New data...
Windows 365 Boot Gets Self-Service Troubleshooting and Cross-Region DR—Here’s What IT Needs to Know
Microsoft has begun rolling out a significant update to Windows 365 Boot, the feature that lets users sign directly into a Cloud PC when they start a physical Windows 11 device. The refresh, detailed...
Windows 10’s October Death Sends Companies Scrambling for New PCs—Even as Overall Shipments Slip
U.S. PC shipments slid 1.4% year over year in the second quarter of 2025 to about 18.6 million units, according to new data from Canalys. But beneath that small decline, a powerful force is reshaping...
Microsoft Paint Adds Photoshop-Like Project Files So You Never Lose Your Layers
Microsoft is testing a new project file format in Paint that saves your layers, letting you reopen compositions exactly as you left them—a shift that makes the free Windows 11 app behave more like...
Microsoft Delays Click to Do Table Detection, But Delivers Critical Fixes for Windows Update, DRM, and More
On September 17, Microsoft released cumulative update KB5065789 to Windows 11 Insiders in the Release Preview channel. The small package delivers urgently needed fixes for the 0x80070002 Windows...
Winux Mimics Windows 11 but Inherits a Legacy of Security Failures
A Linux distribution that promises to look and feel like Windows 11 has been quietly making the rounds, but behind the slick screenshots and polished demo reels lies a history of security breaches...
Microsoft's Quincy Water Reuse Utility Shows How Data Centers Can Survive the Drought Era
Microsoft and the City of Quincy, Washington, have built a dedicated water reuse utility that treats and recycles millions of gallons of cooling water for the tech giant’s data center campus—a...