Articles from May 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in May 2026
May 2026 Outlook Update Automaps Hidden Calendars, Adds Team View Grid
Microsoft will deliver a significant wave of updates to its Outlook email and calendar clients in May 2026, focusing on calendar parity, team collaboration views, and AI-driven insights through...
Enable Windows Sandbox in Windows 11 Pro for Disposable Safe Testing
Microsoft packs a powerful security utility into Windows 11 Pro that many users overlook. Windows Sandbox creates a pristine, disposable virtual machine at the click of a button, letting you test...
Secondhand Homelab Forces Hardware Diagnosis and OS Config That No NAS Can Teach
A recent argument from How-To Geek writer Sydney Butler has reignited a long-standing debate among tech enthusiasts: should your first home server be a polished off-the-shelf NAS, or a...
KT Defends Windows Server Attacks in NATO Locked Shields 2026 Telecom Drill
KT Corporation, South Korea’s largest telecommunications provider, has confirmed its participation in the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE) Locked Shields 2026 exercise,...
KT and Hungary Expose Windows Server Weak Spots in NATO’s Locked Shields 2026
KT, one of South Korea’s premier telecommunications operators, revealed on May 10, 2026, that it had joined forces with Hungarian experts in NATO’s Locked Shields 2026 cyber defence exercise. The...
Kenya Blocks Microsoft-G42 $1B Data Center Over 1,000MW Grid Drain Risk
Kenya has abruptly suspended a planned $1 billion geothermal-powered cloud data center by Microsoft and Abu Dhabi-based AI firm G42, after President William Ruto warned the facility’s electricity...
Windows 11 Hidden Latency Mode Slashes Input Lag, Xbox Quietly Kills Copilot App
Windows 11 testers stumbled onto a hidden performance switch this week that slashes input lag in games and desktop animations, sources confirmed, while Microsoft quietly removed its Copilot AI from...
Seattle Mayor Authorizes Microsoft Copilot Chat, Bans All Unapproved AI Tools
Seattle city employees can now use Microsoft Copilot Chat for their daily work, ending months of uncertainty about which AI tools were sanctioned in the municipal government. Mayor Katie Wilson’s...
Dirty Frag Linux Flaw Grants Root: Microsoft Patches WSL Kernel
Microsoft issued an urgent security advisory on May 8, 2026, confirming limited active exploitation of a Linux local privilege escalation vulnerability tracked as Dirty Frag. The attack chain...
Khadas Mind 2 BIOS Flash Triggers Two-Hour BitLocker Recovery Ordeal on May 10
A routine BIOS update on the Khadas Mind 2 mini PC turned into a two-hour troubleshooting nightmare on May 10, 2026, when Windows 11’s BitLocker drive encryption demanded a recovery key, locking...
Microsoft and OpenAI Amend Partnership: Azure Gets First Access to New Models Through 2032
Microsoft and OpenAI have rewritten the rules of their landmark partnership, extending an agreement that keeps Azure as the exclusive proving ground for the next six years of AI breakthroughs. The...
Why Windows 11 Still Ships 34-Year-Old Character Map for Enterprise Users
Character Map, the stubby little utility Microsoft introduced in 1992 as part of Windows 3.1, is still bundled with every copy of Windows 11. Even in May 2026, two years after the last major OS...