Articles from 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in 2025
Microsoft's Trust Reckoning: 9,000 Jobs Cut, Return-to-Office Mandate Fuels Internal Outcry
Microsoft’s stunning $76.4 billion quarter should have been a time of celebration. Instead, the company finds itself grappling with a deepening trust crisis after slashing roughly 9,000 jobs in...
Millions of PCs Face Patch Cutoff as Windows 11 22H2, 23H2 Support Nears End
Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 11 version 22H2 Enterprise, Education, and IoT Enterprise editions will stop receiving security updates on October 14, 2025, while version 23H2 Home and Pro...
Microsoft Silently Added a Phone Panel to Windows 11 Start Menu: What You Need to Know
Microsoft has pushed a quiet, unannounced update that fundamentally changes how Windows 11 users interact with their phones. A new Phone Link panel now lives inside the Start menu, surfacing...
New Era’s Copilot Adoption Playbook: Turning AI Disillusionment into Measurable ROI
Microsoft 365 Copilot arrived with a premium $30 per-user-per-month price tag and promises to revolutionize knowledge work, but for many enterprises, the road from pilot to productivity has been...
Data-Safe AI in Ukraine: How 10 Tools Including Microsoft Copilot Are Reshaping CX
Ukrainian customer service teams are racing to adopt AI in 2025, but a detailed community-backed analysis warns that the real work begins after the vendor demos: piloting tools against actual ticket...
How Microsoft's 300M Windows 10 Milestone Masked Windows 7's 2016 Dominance
On May 5, 2016, Microsoft proudly declared that Windows 10 was running on over 300 million active devices—a staggering figure that underscored the platform’s rapid uptake following a...
Bath Council Deploys Microsoft Copilot to Summarize 5,500 Stadium Comments, Sparking Transparency Fears
Bath and North East Somerset Council has deployed Microsoft Copilot to read and summarize over 5,500 public comments on the proposed Bath Rugby stadium, embedding the AI-generated analysis directly...
AMD Driver Installs Still Risky: Why You Must Pause Windows Update and Skip Factory Reset
A potentially devastating bug in AMD’s graphics driver installer can render Windows unbootable when the Factory Reset option is checked during a simultaneous Windows Update, AMD has confirmed. The...
Microsoft Plants a Bing Speed Test Shortcut in the Taskbar and Teases AI Oversight in New Insider Builds
A quiet update this week to Windows 11 Insider Preview builds plants a one-click internet speed test directly into the taskbar network flyout, but it’s not the native diagnostic tool power users...
AMD Delivers Official Fixes for Persistent Radeon Driver Install Error 1603
AMD has finally published a comprehensive knowledge base article addressing the notorious Error 1603 that plagues Radeon graphics and chipset driver installations on Windows 10 and 11. The guide,...
New Era Technology Delivers SAP S/4HANA, WalkMe, and Microsoft Copilot Blueprint for Gulf ERP Modernization
New Era Technology is positioning a tightly integrated stack of SAP S/4HANA, WalkMe, and Microsoft Copilot as the operational blueprint for Middle East enterprises racing to modernize legacy ERP...
What a Fictional AI Government Meltdown Teaches Windows IT Pros About Agentic Automation
A cabinet decision to replace frontline public servants with AI agents rapidly spirals into a procurement and governance disaster in a deliberately fictional exercise staged by IPAA ACT. The...