Articles from January 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in January 2026
AI ROI Reality Check: Microsoft's Capex vs. Meta's Revenue in 2025 Earnings
The first major earnings reports of 2025 delivered a stark lesson in artificial intelligence economics, creating a clear market divide between companies showing immediate AI-driven revenue and those...
Microsoft Entra ID Conditional Access Changes: What IT Admins Need to Know About All Resources Enforcement
Microsoft's upcoming enforcement changes for Conditional Access policies in Entra ID represent a significant shift in how identity security will be implemented across organizations, with the tech...
Windows 10 End of Life: Complete Guide to ESU, Defender Updates & Security Best Practices
The official end of support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, marks a critical inflection point for millions of users and organizations worldwide. While Microsoft's Extended Security Updates (ESU)...
Sysinternals toolkit exposes threats Task Manager misses
When something on a Windows PC feels off—a persistent CPU spike, a process that keeps reappearing after removal, or a program quietly making outbound connections—Task Manager often leaves you...
Windows 11 Momentum Stalls as Windows 10 Rebounds: Enterprise Resistance & Update Issues
Microsoft's carefully orchestrated transition from Windows 10 to Windows 11 has encountered unexpected turbulence, with recent data revealing a surprising reversal in adoption trends. After briefly...
How to Disable Web Search in Windows Start Menu for Instant Performance
The Windows Start Menu has evolved into a powerful tool that blends local system searches with web results, but this integration comes at a cost—performance. Many users report significant slowdowns...
Microsoft's Windows 11 Reliability Pivot: Fixing the Basics After Patch Chaos
Microsoft's engineering pivot to "fix the basics" is no longer rhetoric—it's a response to a year of mounting user frustration, high-impact update regressions, and a visible erosion of trust in the...
Windows 11 Build 26220: WinUI Dialogs & WebP Wallpapers Transform User Experience
Microsoft's latest Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220 represents another significant step in the operating system's ongoing visual modernization journey, introducing WinUI-based dialogs for...
Windows UAC Security Boundary Breached: 9 Bypasses Challenge Microsoft's Elevation Protection
Microsoft's ambitious effort to transform User Account Control (UAC) into a genuine security boundary faced immediate challenges when Google Project Zero researcher James Forshaw documented nine...
Zoom vs Microsoft Teams in 2026: AI Integration & Workflow Battle Decoded
The collaboration software landscape has evolved dramatically since the pandemic-driven surge, and as we approach 2026, the competition between Zoom and Microsoft Teams has shifted from basic video...
Microsoft Maia 200 AI Chip: 3nm Innovation Redefining Azure AI Infrastructure
Microsoft's strategic entry into the custom silicon arena has reached a new milestone with the Maia 200, a purpose-built 3nm AI inference chip designed specifically to handle the massive...
Amutable Startup: Poettering's Linux Determinism Vision Challenges Windows Security
The departure of Lennart Poettering from Microsoft and his subsequent co-founding of Berlin-based startup Amutable represents more than just another career move in the tech industry—it signals a...