Articles from June 20, 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published on June 20, 2026
Leaked 100-Day Xbox Reset: Microsoft's Radical Plan to Decouple Gaming from Hardware
A bombshell report from June 2026 has revealed Microsoft’s internal “Xbox Reset,” a 100-day strategic sprint designed to stabilize the gaming division as hardware sales slump and component...
How to Diagnose Your Gaming Bottleneck: A Practical Guide to Resolution Scaling, Frame Time, and PresentMon
It’s the question that haunts every PC gamer’s build: “Is my CPU bottlenecking my GPU?” You’ll find endless forum threads, bottleneck calculator websites, and heated arguments on Reddit....
Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Killed in Cessna 421 Crash at Age 69
On June 19, 2026, Claude Guillemot, one of the five brothers who transformed a small French software company into the global video game powerhouse Ubisoft, died when his twin-engine Cessna 421...
Microsoft Splits Windows 11 Paint Into Cloud AI with Credits and Local NPU Power for Copilot+
Windows 11 Paint has evolved from a nostalgic doodling canvas into a sophisticated image editor that now thinks in two completely different ways depending on your hardware. The latest updates deliver...
Windows 11 25H2 turns Notepad into a modern editor with Markdown live preview, tabs, and Copilot AI
Microsoft’s venerable Notepad application is undergoing its most radical transformation yet, graduating from a dead-simple plain-text editor into a surprisingly capable productivity tool. The...
Microsoft Turbocharges Windows 11 Start Menu and Explorer with New Low Latency Profile in KB5094126
Microsoft dropped a cumulative update on June 9, 2026, that might just be the most impactful under-the-hood tweak Windows 11 has received in years. KB5094126, rolling out to both Windows 11 24H2 and...
xAI Unleashes Grok Add-ins for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in Direct Challenge to Microsoft Copilot
In January 2026, xAI shipped Grok add-ins for Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, embedding Elon Musk’s AI directly into the world’s most popular productivity suite. The launch positions Grok...
Meredith Whittaker Warns Windows Users: AI Chatbots Aren't Friends—They're a Privacy Trojan Horse
Meredith Whittaker, president of the encrypted messaging app Signal, delivered a blunt wake-up call to Windows users during a June 15, 2026 Bloomberg interview: the AI chatbots and autonomous agents...
Image-Line’s FL Studio Mobile UWP App Brings Professional Music Production to Windows 10 Devices
FL Studio Mobile has landed on the Microsoft Store as a full-fledged Universal Windows Platform (UWP) application, bringing Image-Line’s acclaimed music production environment to Windows 10 PCs,...
WordArt’s Quiet Comeback: Why Microsoft Office Still Supports the Retro Text Tool
Open Microsoft Word, click the Insert tab, and there it is: WordArt. The feature that once defined 1990s desktop publishing still sits quietly among the modern tools of Office, a ghost of PowerPoint...
Microsoft Office for Mac, iPhone, and iPad Requires Critical License Certificate Update by July 2026 to Avoid Lockout
Microsoft has set a countdown clock for users of its Office apps on Apple platforms: install a licensing-certificate update before July 13, 2026, or risk losing access to core productivity tools. The...
How an AI Coding Assistant Uncovered 143GB of Hidden Bloat Windows Storage Sense Missed
A MakeUseOf writer recently discovered that Windows’ built-in cleanup tool had left 143 gigabytes of unnecessary files languishing on a nearly full C: drive—until Anthropic’s Claude Code...