Articles from 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in 2025
Solitaire’s Secret Mission: How Windows 3.0’s Card Game and Clever UI Conquered the PC World
Microsoft’s Windows 3.0, released on May 22, 1990, sold 4 million copies in its first year—but its most enduring legacy might be a simple card game that taught the world to drag and drop. The...
nano11 Script Shrinks Windows 11 Install to 2.8 GB, Sacrificing Updates and Security
A new community script can compress a standard Windows 11 installation into a footprint of just 2.8 GB on disk, but the radical pruning required leaves the operating system unfit for anything beyond...
Windows 10 End of Support: 60% of Corporate Devices Still Unready as October Deadline Hits
October 14, 2025, marks the definitive end of free security updates, feature patches, and technical support for Windows 10—but with barely months to go, up to 60% of corporate devices and 53% of...
OneNote for Windows 10 Turns Read-Only October 14, 2025 – Migrate Now or Lose Edit and Sync Capabilities
Microsoft is pulling the plug on its Universal Windows Platform (UWP) OneNote app on October 14, 2025. After that date, OneNote for Windows 10 will become read-only, cutting off all editing,...
OpenAI's 'Critterz' Bets GPT-5 and Sora Can Deliver a Cannes-Worthy Animated Feature on a $30M Budget
A radically compressed production schedule, a skeleton crew, and a $30 million budget—that’s what OpenAI and its partners are betting on to turn a 2023 AI-generated short into the first...
Microsoft Sets October 6 Deadline to Block Outlook Lite Installs, Forcing 10M Users onto Heavier App
Microsoft will slam the door on new installations of its lightweight Outlook Lite Android app on October 6, 2025, a move that forces millions of users in emerging markets and on older phones toward...
Visual Studio 2026 Preview Lands with Agent Mode, BYOM, and Fluent Design
Microsoft has released the first public preview of Visual Studio 2026 through a new Insiders channel, delivering the IDE’s most substantial AI overhaul yet with autonomous coding agents,...
Ubuntu 25.10 ‘Questing Quokka’ Swaps GNU for Rust Coreutils, Walks Back Wayland-Only GNOME 49
Canonical has frozen the user interface for Ubuntu 25.10, codenamed “Questing Quokka,” locking in a release that will ship with a Rust-based sudo, a freshly compiled Rust coreutils set that...
Google’s Free Data Transfer Play Shakes Up EU Cloud Market Ahead of Data Act
Google Cloud has scrapped data transfer fees for customers running workloads in parallel across multiple cloud platforms in the European Union and the United Kingdom, a decision that immediately...
No Cash, Just ID: Microsoft Opens Store to All Individual Developers Free of Charge
Microsoft has just erased the $19 registration fee for solo developers publishing to the Microsoft Store, replacing the old credit card requirement with a government ID and selfie-based identity...
Baylor Family Weekend’s Hidden Digital Divide—and the Tech Fixes That Could Bridge It
When Baylor University’s Family Weekend kicked off on September 12, 2025, with a sold-out Lauren Daigle concert at the Paul and Alejandra Foster Pavilion, the campus hummed with food trucks, vendor...
Nutanix Named Leader in 2025 Gartner MQ for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure—But What Does It Mean for IT Teams?
Nutanix has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure, marking its third appearance and second consecutive leadership position in the report. The...