Articles from June 17, 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published on June 17, 2026
Perigus Energy Deploys Cegal’s Cetegra GIS on Azure to Unify European Onshore Renewables
Perigus Energy has selected Cegal’s cloud-native Cetegra platform, running on Microsoft Azure, to underpin a multi-country geographic information system (GIS) for its expanding portfolio of onshore...
Windows 11 Backup Isn't a Backup: The Migration Tool That Leaves Your Data at Risk
Windows 11 ships with a feature boldly labeled “Backup,” but anyone who assumes it protects their entire PC against hardware failure or ransomware is in for a rude awakening. Microsoft designed...
Europe’s AI Future Hinges on Electricity: Microsoft Calls for 'Fusion of Compute and Power' Overhaul
Europe’s push to become a global AI powerhouse is colliding with a fundamental bottleneck: electricity. On June 17, 2026, Microsoft’s EU Policy blog published a TechTalk with Ann Mettler,...
Nvidia's Jensen Huang: Agentic AI Will Expand, Not Erase, Software Platforms
Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, took the stage at Computex 2026 in Taipei to deliver a message that many in the software industry had been waiting to hear: agentic AI will not spell doom for traditional...
Microsoft Slashes the Reboot Tax with Windows 11 Insider Build 26300.8687’s Unified Update Experience
Microsoft dropped a long-overdue bomb on the Windows Insider Program’s Experimental channel on June 12, 2026, with the release of Build 26300.8687. This preview, part of the Windows 11 K2 quality...
EPC Group Launches Microsoft Cloud Orchestrator Practice to Simplify Azure Analytics and Governance
On June 17, 2026, Houston-based EPC Group declared a significant expansion of its enterprise cloud services with the launch of a dedicated Microsoft Cloud Orchestrator Practice. The announcement,...
Microsoft Unleashes Copilot Cowork: Agentic AI Delegation Redefines Workplace Automation
Microsoft has officially made Copilot Cowork generally available to organizations worldwide as of June 16, 2026. The launch brings an end to a three-month Frontier preview and transforms the...
Can Microsoft 365 Copilot Really Reclaim 10 Hours a Week? A Reality Check on Its AI Promises
Microsoft’s bold claim that its Microsoft 365 Copilot can save users up to 10 hours per week has sparked both excitement and skepticism across the enterprise world. Integrated directly into Word,...
Why Windows 11 Keeps the Screen Saver—and What That Reveals About Its Wobbly Idle Experience
It’s 2025, and Windows 11 still ships with a feature that feels like a dusty artifact from the Compaq era: the screen saver. Tucked away behind the Lock screen personalization settings, it leads to...
SURF Launches Nextcloud Pilot to Break Free from Microsoft 365 in 2026
SURF, the Dutch cooperative for education and research, is taking a bold step toward open-source independence by launching a pilot of its Nextcloud-based SURF Works platform in July 2026. The limited...
Raymond Chen: Windows x86 Emulator Once Fixed a 256KB Unrolled Loop in Real-Time
Twenty years ago, the engineers building Microsoft’s x86 emulation layer stumbled onto a head‑scratcher: a user‑mode application contained a single function whose machine code ballooned to a...
Xbox Continues to Ignore Native VPN Support in 2026, But These Router Workarounds Deliver
Microsoft’s Xbox consoles have never shipped with native VPN support, and 2026 doesn’t change that reality. No matter which generation you own—Series X, Series S, or even an aging One—you...