Articles from January 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in January 2026
Google Cuts AOSP Releases to Twice Yearly: Impact on Android Openness & Windows Integration
Google's decision to cut public Android source code drops from four times a year to just two — published only in Q2 and Q4 starting in 2026 — is a small procedural change on paper and a seismic one fo
PowerToys Command Palette: Windows 11's Ultimate Keyboard-First Launcher
The Command Palette in PowerToys arrives on Windows 11 as a compact, keyboard-first command center that behaves like macOS’s Spotlight or Alfred but is built for Windows power users and developers. It
Elon Musk vs OpenAI Trial Set for 2026: Windows AI Future Hangs in Balance
A federal judge has made clear that Elon Musk’s long-running legal attack on OpenAI will reach a jury, setting the stage for a high-stakes courtroom clash over whether the ChatGPT maker betrayed its f
Musk vs OpenAI Trial: How Microsoft's AI Partnership Faces Legal Scrutiny
A federal judge in Oakland has signalled that Elon Musk’s long‑running lawsuit challenging OpenAI’s evolution from a nonprofit research lab int
Grok AI Controversy Forces Reckoning on Safety, Moderation & Windows Integration
The recent Grok AI controversy has forced a sharp reckoning over the limits of generative image-editing, the responsibilities of AI platform operators, and the urgent need for stronger content moderat
Outlook S/MIME and OME Bug: How Microsoft's Fix Impacts Email Security
A recent update to the classic Outlook desktop client triggered a high-impact interoperability bug that interrupted the handling of S/MIME-sig
Microsoft Reverses Exchange Online Recipient Cap After Customer Backlash
Microsoft quietly backed away from a planned per‑mailbox external recipient cap for Exchange Online after sustained customer pushback, saying the proposed Mailbox External Recipient Rate Limit (often
GeForce 7025 on Windows 10: Legacy Driver Challenges & Modern Solutions
NVIDIA’s long‑serving GeForce 7025 (often packaged as “GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a” on motherboards) is showing the familiar, messy end‑of‑life pattern: drivers exist, community workarounds persist, an
CVE-2025-38634: Critical Linux Kernel Flaw Exposes Azure Linux, Microsoft's Response Analyzed
Microsoft’s advisory that the Azure Linux (CBL‑Mariner/Azure Linux) distribution is the only Microsoft‑identified product containing the impacted Linux kernel component is accurate as a current, publi
CVE-2025-38502: Azure Linux BPF Vulnerability Exposes Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure
Microsoft’s public attestation that Azure Linux includes the vulnerable Linux BPF component behind CVE‑2025‑38502 is accurate — but it is not a blanket assurance that Azure Linux is the only Microsoft
Azure Linux Attestation and CVE-2025-38624: Implications for Microsoft Artifacts
Microsoft’s short answer is technically correct but potentially misleading: Azure Linux is the only Microsoft product the company has publicly attested to include the vulnerable pnv_php kernel code as
CVE-2025-38635: Azure Linux Patch for DaVinci Clock Driver
A null-pointer robustness fix in the Linux kernel’s DaVinci clock driver — tracked as CVE‑2025‑38635 — has been published and patched upstream; Microsoft’s public advisory confirms Azure Linux as a co