Articles from 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in 2025
Windows 11 Canary Build 27943 Repairs Storage, HDR, but Rollback Errors and Arm64 Crashes Mar Deployment
Microsoft dropped Canary build 27943 today, and while it patches several everyday annoyances—hung storage scans, duplicate taskbar previews, and flaky HDR—two showstopping regressions demand...
Windows 11 Adds a Speed Test Button to Network Flyout, But It’s a Bing Web Shortcut
Microsoft is quietly testing a one-click internet speed test shortcut in Windows 11, placed directly inside the network flyout and taskbar context menu. The feature, unearthed by sharp-eyed Insiders...
Oracle’s $144 Billion OCI Target: Realistic Path or Cloud Overreach?
Oracle has suddenly rewritten the cloud infrastructure playbook. In its fiscal Q1 2026 earnings, the company unveiled a staggering $455 billion in remaining performance obligations—a 359% jump year...
Dying Light: The Beast Launches Early on September 18 as Pre-Orders Surpass 1 Million
Techland surprised fans by moving the release of Dying Light: The Beast forward by 24 hours, from September 19 to September 18, 2025, after the game racked up more than one million pre-orders across...
Windows 11's Dynamic Lighting Relies on HID LampArray Standard to Unify Fragmented RGB Peripherals
After years of rumors and half-starts, Windows 11 is finally gaining a system‑level RGB control panel that doesn’t require a separate app for every keyboard, mouse, or case light. Microsoft calls...
Chrome Canary Tests Hover-Prefetch and Render Boost for Snappier Browsing
Google has begun experimenting with a new performance optimization in Chrome Canary that triggers page prefetching when a user hovers over bookmarks or the New Tab button, coupled with a temporary...
Windows 11’s New Speed Test Button Opens Bing’s Web Tool, Not a Native Diagnostic
Microsoft is quietly slipping a network speed test button into Windows 11’s system tray, but it won’t run a local diagnostic. Instead, a single click fires up your browser and loads Bing’s...
5 Windows 11 PCs to Buy Before Windows 10 Support Ends on October 14
{ "title": "5 Windows 11 PCs to Buy Before Windows 10 Support Ends on October 14", "content": "Windows 10's official support sunset is now a matter of weeks away. On October 14, 2025, Microsoft...
OpenAI Ditches Azure-Only Mandate as Stargate Brings $100 Billion Multi-Cloud AI Race
OpenAI will no longer be forced to run all its AI workloads on Microsoft Azure, as the two companies signed a non-binding agreement that replaces blanket exclusivity with a right of first refusal and...
Microsoft Account Hacks Bypass 2FA: The Datacenter IP Mystery Explained
A growing number of Microsoft account holders are discovering successful sign-ins from IP addresses inside Microsoft's own network—despite having two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled and...
Outlook Notifications Stopped? Blame January Windows Updates, Fix with KB5052093 and This Complete Workflow
A wave of silent Outlook alerts struck Windows 11 and 10 users in early 2025 after a string of cumulative updates left notifications disabled, delayed, or completely missing. For many, the culprit...
Laid Off by Microsoft? Try Using ChatGPT to Cope, Xbox Exec Posted — Then Deleted It
A senior Xbox Game Studios producer published—and swiftly deleted—a LinkedIn post urging colleagues laid off by Microsoft to use generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Copilot to manage not just...