Articles from September 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in September 2025
Arm Linux and Secure Boot: What Works, What Doesn’t, and How to Fix It
Arm-powered devices now run everything from hobbyist projects to cloud servers — and many of them need the kind of firmware-level protection that Secure Boot provides. But unlike the x86 PC world,...
How the House Reversed Its Copilot Ban: A Blueprint for Secure AI in Government
The U.S. House of Representatives has lifted its year-old prohibition on Microsoft Copilot and will begin deploying the generative AI tool to members and staff under strict data-protection terms,...
Microsoft 365 Copilot Gets Finance, Sales, and Service Assistants – Here’s What Changes in October
Microsoft will start embedding specialized AI assistants directly into the Office apps that finance, sales, and service teams already use all day. In October 2025, the company plans to release...
What RiverMeadow’s Azure Local Support Means for Your VMware Migration Plans
RiverMeadow this week expanded its Workload Mobility Platform to support Microsoft Azure Local, giving enterprises a new automated pathway off VMware and onto Microsoft’s Azure-managed on-premises...
Apple Mac Shipments Leap 15.5% as Businesses Weigh Windows 10 Deadline and AI Needs
Apple’s Mac business in the United States grew 15.5 percent year-over-year in the second quarter, according to Canalys data analyzed by Computerworld — a surge that made it the fastest-growing PC...
Firefox 143 Adds Microsoft Copilot and Windows Web Apps—Here’s How They Work
Mozilla shipped Firefox 143 to the stable channel this week, bringing two long-awaited capabilities to the open-source browser: a Microsoft Copilot option inside its AI sidebar, and a Labs experiment...
Nintendo Wants Mods Banned From Patent Evidence—And the Fallout Could Be Huge
Nintendo has asked a Tokyo court to exclude community-created mods from the pool of evidence that can challenge its patents, a move legal experts are calling an unprecedented threat to a foundational...
Windows 10’s End-of-Support Countdown Is Real—Here’s How to Switch to Linux Mint Without the Headaches
Windows 10 will stop receiving security updates on October 14, 2025. For millions of users whose hardware can’t—or won’t—run Windows 11, Linux Mint has quietly become the most practical...
AnywhereNow Targets U.S. and Canada with Tendfor Investment, But Compliance Gaps Linger
On September 16, AnywhereNow announced a strategic investment in its subsidiary Tendfor, aiming to accelerate the adoption of its Teams-native contact center software across North America. The move...
Ditch Slow Windows 11 Search: 6 Lightning-Fast Alternatives You Need to Try
Windows 11’s built-in search often feels like a throwback to the spinning-disk era—slow, cluttered, and inconsistent. Now, a crop of third-party tools backed by years of development and rabid...
Forget Windows 11 Search: 6 Keyboard-First Alternatives That Actually Work
Microsoft’s own PowerToys utility now includes a keyboard-first launcher called Command Palette, just one of several alternatives aiming to replace Windows 11’s sluggish search, as highlighted in...
Testing Windows 11’s Handheld Mode on OG ROG Ally: Real Battery Gains, but Switching Gets Taxing
The original ASUS ROG Ally can run Microsoft’s new Handheld Gaming Mode, and the results are more than just a cosmetic skin. Testing on an OG Ally shows the feature frees up system memory, extends...