Articles from 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in 2025
ThinkCentre M90s Gen6 Deal Proves Prebuilt PCs Beat DIY DDR5
Lenovo’s recent Black Friday pricing makes a blunt, useful point: sometimes buying a fully built PC is now cheaper than buying the same parts separately. TechRadar’s deal roundup highlights a Lenovo T
Reduce Windows NVMe Background Writes by Tuning Pagefile Hibernation Indexing
Windows will happily turn fast NVMe performance into long-term wear if you let it — and a handful of conservative, reversible tweaks to memory management, hibernation, indexing, and restore-point beha
PowerDisplay: Per Monitor Brightness and Color Control in PowerToys
Microsoft's PowerToys team is preparing a practical new utility called PowerDisplay that promises to solve one of the most persistent pain points for power users: controlling external monitor settings
CSUEB Switches from Google to Microsoft 365 Copilot: What to Expect
California State University, East Bay has quietly begun a campuswide switch from Google Workspace to Microsoft 365
WINS Removal: Windows Server 2025 Ends NetBIOS Name Service, Plan DNS Migration
Microsoft has quietly fixed a date for the end of an era: Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) — the NetBIOS name-to-IP mapping service first shipped in the mid‑1990s — will not be included in Windows
Why Windows UI Has Old Labels: The Orphan String Problem in Localization
Changing a few words in Windows is rarely just a copyedit; it’s a coordinated choreography that forces Microsoft to lock down text long before engineers finish locking down code — and that scheduling
Google Drops EU Antitrust Complaint as DMA Probes Cloud Market
Google’s abrupt decision to withdraw its formal antitrust complaint against Microsoft in the European Union is the clearest signal yet that the dispute over cloud competition has shifted from company-
ClickFix Windows Update Lure: Steganography and In-Memory Infostealers
A high-fidelity fake Windows 11 update screen has been weaponized in a new ClickFix campaign to trick victims into executing commands that load in-mem
Morning Windows Automation with a PowerShell Startup Script and Winget Updates
I turned a seven‑click, half‑minute morning ritual into a single, double‑clickable action by building a small PowerShell startup scri
Windows 11 File Explorer Preloading: Faster Launches in Insider Preview
Microsoft has quietly begun testing a background “preload” for File Explorer in Windows 11 that keeps a lightweight portion of the appl
Agentic AI Leaks in M&A Talks: Lessons from Vembu Incident
Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu’s offhand social post about a startup’s bizarre email exchange — a pitch that spilled a rival bidder’s price, then an immediate follow-up apology sent by a “browser AI agent
Google Withdraws EU Complaint as EU DMA Probes Cloud Market
Google’s decision to withdraw its formal EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft’s cloud licensing practices on the same week the European Commission opened a wide-ranging probe into the cloud market