Articles from 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in 2025
Securing Agentic AI Browsers: Mitigations for CometJacking and Prompt Injections
Perplexity’s Comet and the cascade of disclosures this year have exposed a stark truth: agentic AI browsers that act on user behalf dramatically expand th
Clean Windows Desktop: 4 Practical Tweaks for Calm, Productive UI
Windows can look cleaner than macOS — sometimes far cleaner — with a handful of deliberate visual decisions and a small set of community tools that tidy the interface without breaking productivity or
Fluent Search: The Keyboard‑First Windows Local Search Launcher
When the Pocket‑lint writer described Fluent Search as the “second brain” that finally found years of scattered files on a battered laptop, the praise was easy to understand — Fluent Search is a compa
Four Underrated Windows 11 Shortcuts That Boost Productivity
Windows 11 quietly delivers a handful of underrated keyboard shortcuts that repay practice with blunt, everyday productivity wins — four in particular deserve more attention: Win + D to show or hide t
Upgrade Windows 10 to Windows 11 on an Unsupported PC: Two Safe Methods
If your perfectly serviceable Windows 10 PC now shows as “incompatible” for Windows 11, you can still — in most cases — move it to Windows 11 today without buying new hardware, but you must choose the
Upgrade Windows 10 to Windows 11 on Incompatible PCs: Registry and Rufus Bypass
Most PCs sold in the last decade can be moved to Windows 11 even if Windows Update says they’re “incompatible,” and there are two practical, widely used methods for doing it: a simple registry overrid
Windows 11: Fix the basics or risk losing users to Linux
Windows 11’s biggest problem right now isn’t that it lacks ambition — it’s that Microsoft’s ambition is outpacing its delivery, and that mismatch is driving stubborn Windows 10 holdouts and an unexpec
UK AI Chatbots Face Real-World Reliability Gaps in Consumer Advice
A consumer-focused round of tests in the UK has found that popular AI chatbots routinely give inconsistent, and sometimes risky, advice on everyday topics such as taxes, travel refunds, consumer right
Windows 11 Agentic AI Preview: New Risks and Security Governance
Microsoft’s own documentation for Windows 11 now contains an unusually blunt security caveat: the new experimental “agentic” AI features that let the OS act on your behalf are powerful, but they also
AI Renaming on Windows 2025: AI Renamer vs File Renamer AI vs Advanced Renamer
AI-powered file renaming has quietly become one of those small, delightfully practical uses of artificial intelligence that actually saves time instead of creating more meetings about AI strategy; a f
Windows 11 Task Manager Duplication Bug KB5067036: Fixes and Workarounds
Windows 11 users saw a surprising regression in late‑October 2025: closing Task Manager with the window’s Close (X) button could leave the underlying taskmgr.exe process running and, on repeated use,
OpenAI’s Finances Under Scrutiny: Commitments, Debt, and Path to Sustainable AI
OpenAI’s financial picture has moved from industry curiosity to macroeconomic question mark: a company with ambitions to r