Articles from 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in 2025
Bing’s New Scoreboard Ad Declares Edge the Winner Over Chrome, Obscuring Google’s Links on Windows 11
Microsoft has rolled out a new Bing search ad that presents a "scoreboard" comparison between Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome, designating Edge the winner with blue checkmarks and burying Chrome's...
Sony Deploys Enterprise LLM to 50,000 Staff While Reining In Generative AI in Games
Sony has quietly opened the taps on one of the most ambitious internal AI rollouts in the entertainment industry, with more than 50,000 employees across 210 teams now actively using a centrally...
Xbox App Becomes Universal Launcher on Windows 11—Steam, Epic, GOG Games Now in One Place
The Xbox app on Windows 11 is no longer just a glorified Game Pass launcher. In a move that reshapes the PC gaming landscape, Microsoft has reimagined the app as an aggregated hub capable of...
Microsoft Copilot Chat Gains Content-Aware Side Pane Across Word, Excel, More—Now for All 365 Users
Microsoft is deploying a content-aware Copilot Chat panel directly inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote to all Microsoft 365 subscribers, not just those on paid Copilot licenses. The...
Two-Thirds of UK Students Use AI for Studies, and 23% Have Cheated, Survey Shows
A sweeping new YouGov survey of 1,027 UK undergraduates reveals that artificial intelligence has become a mainstream study tool, but its misuse is alarmingly widespread. Two-thirds of students now...
Microsoft Copilot Readies Dedicated Search Mode with Enhanced Citations, On-Device Shopping, and Google Drive Access
Microsoft’s AI assistant Copilot is expanding well beyond casual conversation, and test-build evidence now reveals a trio of major upgrades in the pipeline: a dedicated Search Mode that puts...
Azure, AWS, Google September Previews Bet on Enterprise AI Security and Auditability
Cloud providers are drawing a line in the silicon: enterprise AI can no longer live on model performance alone. The September 2025 preview and documentation updates from Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web...
Windows 10's End-of-Life Pushes Users to Ubuntu, Exposing 4 Critical Missing Features
When Microsoft ends support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, millions of users will face a choice: upgrade to Windows 11 or flee to Linux. For those choosing Ubuntu, the transition reveals four...
Windows 11 KB5065426 Triggers Install Failures and SMB Sharing Outages — Here’s How to Fix Them
Microsoft’s latest cumulative update for Windows 11, KB5065426, should have been a routine Patch Tuesday instalment. Instead, it’s triggering a wave of installation failures, delivering cryptic...
WMIC Axed in Windows 11 25H2: A Complete Migration Roadmap for IT Pros
Microsoft is yanking the rug out from under a decades-old administrative staple: the Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC) utility is vanishing from default images in Windows 11...
Firefox 143 Sneaks Microsoft Copilot into the Sidebar While Tightening Privacy and Adding Pinned Apps
Firefox 143 has arrived, and it marks the first time Mozilla has woven Microsoft’s Copilot directly into its browser interface. The update places an AI chat sidebar at users’ fingertips, allowing...
Inside Westpac’s Copilot Studio Rollout: From Scam Detection to Enterprise AI Governance
Westpac has deployed Microsoft Copilot Studio across its organisation, enabling cross-functional teams to build and scale generative AI agents that tackle real-world banking challenges—from...