Articles from April 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in April 2026
Azure AI Boosts Chest X-Ray Screening Accuracy by 20% in Thai Hospitals
Eight state hospitals across Thailand are now using an AI system built on Microsoft Azure to screen chest X-rays for lung diseases, helping radiologists catch more cases of tuberculosis, lung cancer,...
Windows 11 Insider Program Redesign Makes Channel Switching Easier as New Builds Land
Microsoft dropped two new Windows 11 Insider Preview builds into the Beta and Dev Channels this week, each carrying a distinct purpose. Beta build 26220.8271 tightens reliability and performance,...
Valve’s Proton 11 Beta Sneaks Steam onto ARM Devices—and a Nintendo Switch
Valve quietly dropped a beta version of Proton, its compatibility layer for running Windows games on Linux, that for the first time supports ARM64 devices. The April 16, 2026 release of Proton...
Microsoft 365 Copilot’s New ‘Think Deeper’ Mode: What It Is, When to Use It, and How It Changes Your Workday
On March 6, 2026, Microsoft began rolling out GPT-5.4 Thinking to Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio. The new model is a deliberate push toward deeper reasoning for complex work—combining...
Microsoft’s Secure Boot Reset: What Windows Users Need to Know Before the June 2026 Deadline
Microsoft has confirmed that it will retire the original Secure Boot certificates issued in 2011, with replacement 2023 certificates rolling out via Windows Update beginning in April 2026. The...
How to Make ChatGPT Recommend Your Business: A Practical Guide to Answer Engine Optimization
AI Search Engineers dropped a new optimization framework this week, promising to help businesses get recommended by ChatGPT. The timing is no accident: OpenAI recently confirmed that ChatGPT Search...
Microsoft's Latest Release Preview Ends File Explorer’s ‘Downloads’ Folder View Roulette
Microsoft shipped a Release Preview update this week that finally puts to rest one of Windows 11’s longest-running papercuts: File Explorer’s habit of forgetting your folder view settings...
Drug Discovery's False Choice: Why Top Labs Are Now Blending Two Rival Screening Methods
For two decades, the drug discovery industry has been locked in a methodological standoff. On one side, proponents of target-based screening—a precise, reductionist approach that tests compounds...
The New Playbook for Getting Your Business Cited by ChatGPT and Copilot
AI Search Engineers, a digital agency founded specifically for the age of generative AI, has launched what it calls Answer Engine Optimization—a framework designed to help businesses show up...
Microsoft’s Copilot and Azure AI Land Massive Stellantis Deal—What It Means for Your IT Strategy
Stellantis and Microsoft have inked a five-year collaboration that will see more than 100 AI initiatives co-developed across the automaker’s operations, from vehicle cybersecurity to factory floors...
ASUS V400 AiO Lands Snapdragon X on the Desktop for $650
ASUS has released the V400 AiO, a $649.99 all-in-one desktop that packs Qualcomm's Snapdragon X chip—marking the first time the Arm-based platform has landed in a stationary Copilot+ PC. The move...
North Carolina's $85M Azure Cloud Move: What IT Pros Can Learn from the DMV's COBOL Overhaul
North Carolina’s Division of Motor Vehicles has selected Kyndryl for an $84.8 million modernization contract that will migrate five COBOL-based systems from the early 1990s to NCMAX, a unified...