Articles from 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in 2025
FlyOOBE Turns Unsupported PCs into Lean, Customized Windows 11 Machines
An open-source tool called FlyOOBE is rewriting the rules of Windows 11 deployment by enabling installations on hardware Microsoft deems incompatible—and stripping out unwanted apps from the...
Visual Studio 2026 Insiders Weaves GitHub Copilot Into Every Corner of the IDE
Microsoft has unleashed the first Insiders build of Visual Studio 2026, abandoning the long-standing Preview Channel in favor of a monthly Insiders cadence that tightens the feedback loop between...
Microsoft's $17.4B Nebius Bet to Relieve Azure's East US GPU Crunch
Microsoft has quietly struck a deal worth up to $19.4 billion with Dutch AI infrastructure specialist Nebius Group to secure large-scale GPU capacity in the United States, aiming to relieve the...
Microsoft Imposes Three-Day Office Mandate and Speech Curbs to Fuel AI Race
Microsoft will require thousands of employees who live near its offices to work on-site at least three days a week, a mandate that unfolds alongside newly tightened controls on internal speech. The...
80 Fixes in September 2025 Patch Tuesday: SMB Audit Tool, NTFS RCE, and NTLM EoP Patched
Microsoft’s September 2025 Patch Tuesday landed with 80 security fixes, including a novel SMB hardening advisory that provides audit capabilities rather than a traditional vulnerability patch,...
Microsoft’s September Updates Patch Critical NTFS and NTLM Vulnerabilities as Talos Releases Detection Rules
Microsoft’s September 2025 Patch Tuesday landed with 86 security fixes spanning Windows, Office, and a broad set of core services, accompanied by a fresh set of Snort intrusion detection rules from...
Gen AI Now Powers Over One-Third of NZ Retail Investment Decisions, But Risks Lurk
More than one in three New Zealand retail investors are now using generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot to guide their investment decisions, according to new survey data from...
Viral 'Free Windows & Photoshop' Guide Misleads—Here Are the Legal, Low-Cost Routes That Actually Work
That viral NewsBreak piece promising legal ways to "get Windows & Photoshop for free" hit a nerve. With software subscriptions eating into creator budgets, the click-ready promise of zero-cost...
Microsoft Ends the Road for EdgeHTML: WebView2 and Chromium PWAs Are the Future
Microsoft has quietly updated its official list of deprecated Windows features, signaling the final curtain for a suite of web components tied to the discontinued EdgeHTML engine. The move, which...
Microsoft Cracks Down on Internal Speech, Terminates Protesters in RTO Mandate Rollout
Microsoft has fired employees who participated in a campus sit-in and will now require most workers to be in the office three days a week, marking a dramatic shift in workplace culture as the company...
WSUS on Windows Server 2025 Loses Legacy Binaries, ESU Patching for 2012/2012 R2 Halted
Administrators relying on Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) on Windows Server 2025 to deliver Extended Security Updates (ESU) to ancient Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 machines got an unwelcome...