Articles from 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in 2025
Windhawk: The Modular Toolkit That Restores Missing Windows 11 UI Features
Windows 11 enthusiasts frustrated by Microsoft’s removal of long‑standing customization options have found a powerful ally in Windhawk, an open‑source mod manager that restores these...
Xbox Controllers on Windows 11 Gain Task View With a Long Press in New Preview Build
A new Windows 11 preview build is giving Xbox controllers a long-press shortcut to Task View, addressing a key gap in gamepad navigation as Microsoft gears up for a wave of handheld gaming PCs. Build...
How Microsoft’s Windows Update Orchestration Will Finally Make the Store Useful After a Decade of Failure
After more than a decade of misfires, Microsoft is quietly solving the biggest problems that made the Microsoft Store irrelevant — with a new Windows Update integration that can handle third-party...
WVU Orders Immediate Network Removal of All Windows 10 PCs by Oct. 1, 2025
West Virginia University will forcibly disconnect every managed computer still running Windows 10 from its campus network on October 1, 2025—a strict enforcement move that arrives two weeks before...
Windows 11 KB5065426 Outage: Duplicate SIDs, Legacy SMBv1 Blamed for Network Share Failures
Microsoft’s September 2025 Patch Tuesday cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2 landed on September 9, and within hours IT forums lit up with reports of broken file and printer sharing. KB5065426...
Windows 11's Smart App Control Gets Outsmarted: Researchers Uncover Multiple Bypass Techniques
Security researchers have documented real-world attacks that slip past Windows 11’s Smart App Control, exposing cracks in Microsoft’s cloud-powered application gatekeeper. The findings, published...
Surface Hub v1 Faces Hard October 14 Deadline as Microsoft Blocks ESU for Windows 10 Team
In a stark advisory that has sent IT and AV teams scrambling, Microsoft has confirmed that Surface Hub v1 devices running Windows 10 Team edition will lose all support and Teams functionality on...
Microsoft to Automatically Install Copilot App on All Windows 365 PCs in October, EEA Excluded
Microsoft will begin automatically installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on Windows devices running the M365 desktop apps starting early October 2025, a move that thrusts the company’s AI...
Countdown to Windows 10 EOL: Your 30-Day Migration Plan to Avoid Security Gaps
With fewer than 30 days remaining until Microsoft terminates all security updates for Windows 10, the window for orderly migration is slamming shut. October 14, 2025 marks the hard cutoff when the...
Windows 11 Upgrade Stuck? Four Systematic Fixes That Actually Work
When a Windows 11 feature update refuses to complete, the spinning percentage and cryptic error codes can turn a routine upgrade into a forensic challenge. Yet Microsoft’s own tools and a...
Hidden Windows 11 Feature Unlocks Native Keyboard Backlight and Repeat Controls from Settings
Microsoft's latest Windows 11 Insider preview builds are surfacing a long-awaited quality-of-life upgrade: native keyboard backlight and repeat controls are moving from the dusty corners of Control...