Articles from April 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in April 2026
CVE-2026-34978: CUPS RSS Path Traversal Corrupts Job Cache – What Windows Users Must Know
A newly disclosed vulnerability in OpenPrinting CUPS, tracked as CVE-2026-34978, lets remote attackers corrupt the critical job.cache file by injecting a malicious RSS notification URI. Published in...
Project K2 Aims to Transform Windows 11 into a Console-Like SteamOS for Gamers
Microsoft is working on an internal project codenamed 'K2' that aims to bring SteamOS-like polish and gaming efficiency to Windows 11, according to a report from Windows Central. The initiative...
Incus Image Cache Poisoning Bug Fixed in Version 6.23.0
Incus versions prior to 6.23.0 contain a medium-severity vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-33542, disclosed in late March 2026. The flaw stems from a missing combined fingerprint verification when...
Microsoft 365 Copilot Surpasses 20M Paid Seats, AI Now Core to Office Workflows
Microsoft announced on April 29, 2026, that Microsoft 365 Copilot has surpassed 20 million paid enterprise seats, marking a defining moment in the company’s push to embed AI directly into the daily...
Exchange Online to Block TLS 1.0/1.1 for POP and IMAP by July 2026
Microsoft has set July 2026 as the final cutoff for Exchange Online POP3 and IMAP4 clients that still negotiate Transport Layer Security (TLS) versions 1.0 or 1.1. After that date, every connection...
OpenAI Breaks Free from Azure Exclusivity: Multi-Cloud Deal with AWS Reshapes the Agent Era
On April 27, 2026, Microsoft and OpenAI tore up the most consequential cloud exclusivity deal in AI history. In a joint statement, the companies announced a landmark amendment to their partnership:...
Windows Server 2025 Now Available as Optional Windows Update for 2019/2022
Microsoft has opened a new, streamlined path to Windows Server 2025: an in-place upgrade delivered through Windows Update. For the first time, administrators can transition eligible Windows Server...
Microsoft CEO: Windows 11 Will Use Less RAM and Have Quieter Updates
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella acknowledged a trust deficit with Windows users on April 29, 2026, during the company’s fiscal Q3 earnings call, saying the company is doing “foundational work” to...
Microsoft’s Azure Local Now Scales Sovereign Clouds to Thousands of Servers—No Internet Required
Microsoft has just made its most aggressive play yet for the sovereign cloud market. On April 27, 2026, the company announced that Azure Local can now scale to thousands of servers inside a single...
Microsoft 365 Copilot now has 20M paid enterprise seats – and it’s no longer optional
Microsoft dropped a number this week that resets the conversation about AI at work: Microsoft 365 Copilot has passed 20 million paid enterprise seats. CEO Satya Nadella shared the figure on the...
Nadella’s ‘Win Back Fans’ Pledge: What Windows and Xbox Users Need to Know
During Microsoft’s fiscal third-quarter earnings call on April 29, 2026, CEO Satya Nadella made an unusual admission: the company is doing “foundational work” to win back fans across Windows,...
Azure Hits 40% Growth, But the AI Cloud Race Forces a Strategy Reset for IT
Microsoft reported its fiscal third-quarter 2026 earnings on April 29, revealing that Azure and other cloud services revenue jumped 40% compared to the same period last year. That growth figure,...