Articles from July 20, 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published on July 20, 2026
NVIDIA's Earth-2 and DeepMind's GraphCast: The AI Weather Models That Could Change Your Windows Workloads
On July 15, an AOL analysis confirmed what many in the AI industry have been whispering: "world models" are no longer just a research curiosity. With NVIDIA's Earth-2 simulating local weather...
Microsoft 365 Copilot Now Offers a 30-Day Deferred Update Window — Here’s How to Use It Without Slowing Everything Down
Microsoft has quietly rolled out a new, audience-based release model for Microsoft 365 Copilot that gives administrators a 30-day buffer to prepare for major updates — but only if they use it with...
Microsoft Teams Forces External Meeting Bots to Seek Your Permission Before Joining
Microsoft has closed a long-standing blind spot in Teams meetings. The company is rolling out new admin controls that require manual approval for any external AI bot attempting to join a video...
Microsoft Teams Now Flags Unusual External Contacts—Here’s How to Use the Report
Microsoft has quietly added a behavioral report to the Teams admin center that promises to help IT staff spot when an outside domain suddenly starts reaching out to too many people inside the...
Microsoft to Retire Exchange Online EWS: Start Hunting for Your Hidden Dependencies Now
Microsoft has begun phasing out Exchange Web Services (EWS) in Exchange Online, and the clock is ticking for thousands of organizations that still rely on the legacy protocol to keep critical...
Windows App SDK 2.3.1 Lands with AI Video Upscaling, Smarter App Storage – What You Need to Know
Microsoft shipped Windows App SDK 2.3.1 on July 16, 2026, a stable update that bundles two consequential features first introduced in the June 2.2 release: real-time AI video upscaling and a...
Microsoft’s 2027 Roadmap Brings Archive Calendar Viewing to Outlook for Mac
Microsoft has confirmed a long-awaited improvement for Outlook users with archived mailboxes: the ability to view an Online Archive calendar directly inside the app. But there are two significant...
Marvel Tōkon Beta’s Surprising Hardware Hurdle: Windows 11 Only, 16GB RAM, and RTX 3070 Recommended
When the Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls open beta kicks off on July 24, PC players better be running Windows 11—and packing a punchy graphics card. Sony and Arc System Works have published the...
Apple Silently Collects Your Safari Searches — Unless You Flip This Switch
A privacy guide published by Tech Business News this week spotlights an iPhone setting that remains enabled by default even in iOS 26, allowing Apple to retain queries from Safari, Siri, and...
Purview PDF Screenshot Blocking Arrives in Edge: August 2026 Rollout and What to Do Now
Starting in early August 2026, Microsoft Edge will block screenshots of certain protected PDFs when users view them through the OneDrive or SharePoint web viewer. The change ties directly to existing...
Microsoft Sets August 2026 Deadline to Ditch Ubuntu 22.04 from Intune—Your Migration Starts Here
Microsoft has stopped the clock on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS for Intune-managed Linux devices. In a quiet documentation update on April 27, 2026, the company confirmed that support for the aging release will...
Gemini 3.5 Pro Is a No-Show, and Windows Developers Are Running Out of Patience
Google’s promised leap forward in AI coding has hit a wall. At Google I/O in May, CEO Sundar Pichai told the world that Gemini 3.5 Pro — the company’s next flagship model — would ship in...