Articles from July 28, 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published on July 28, 2026
Alphabet's AI Cash Burn Puts Microsoft's Spending Under the Microscope
Alphabet's revelation that it burned through $5.9 billion in cash last quarter while ramping up AI infrastructure spending sent a clear signal to Wall Street: the blank check for Big Tech's AI...
Azure Marketplace Gets a COVID-Era Safety Suite: What IT Teams Can Learn from Beabloo’s Interaction Care Rollout
Retail technology specialist Beabloo has made its Interaction Care solution available worldwide through the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, giving businesses a ready-to-deploy package that combines...
Pidilite Slashes Provisioning Time 30% in Cloud Exit: 5 Lessons for Windows IT Teams
Pidilite Industries, the Indian consumer and industrial products giant, has completed a sweeping IT modernization that moves its non-ERP workloads out of traditional data centers and into a managed...
HP's Support Tool Is Now a Trojan Horse for Bing Promotions on Windows 11
If you own an HP laptop and have been interrupted by a pop-up begging you to switch to Bing, you're not alone—and the “don't show me this again” button is apparently lying to you. A report...
Windows 11 Mouse Problems? The Fix Isn't a Download—Here’s What Actually Works
If your Windows 11 mouse is skipping, disconnecting, or ignoring its side buttons, your first instinct might be to hunt down a new driver. But in 2026, that’s almost never the right move....
NVIDIA RTX Spark Prototype Leaves Performance on the Table—Here's What It Means for Buyers
An early engineering sample of Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra, powered by NVIDIA’s RTX Spark platform, has surfaced in the hands of a TechPowerUp forum user, and the takeaway is stark: the...
New Essay: Microsoft Monoculture Risks a Single Bug Crippling All Federal Agencies
A single vulnerability in a widely used Microsoft application could hand adversaries the keys to every federal agency’s identity systems at once, according to a stark new analysis published July 27...
Windows 11 Insider Builds Test Cloud Recovery and Movable Taskbar — What It Means for Your PC
Microsoft is giving Windows 11 testers a peek at features that could reshape daily PC use — and fix some of the operating system’s most stubborn pain points. In recent Insider builds, the company...
Microsoft Copilot Is Spreading Through NZ Government—Here’s the Lesson for Every Business
Microsoft Copilot has quietly become the go‑to AI assistant across New Zealand’s public sector, not through open competition but by piggybacking on existing Microsoft 365 contracts. Documents...
The Fake csrss.exe Hiding in Plain Sight: How Operation STANDOFF Is Compromising Windows PCs
Security researchers have exposed a sprawling malware campaign that plants a counterfeit version of a critical Windows system process to slip past antivirus defenses, steal credentials, mine...
LG Monitor App Delivered McAfee Pop-Ups Without Consent—Microsoft Just Changed That
Windows users who recently connected an LG monitor to their PC were greeted not by a control panel for their new display, but by a full-screen pop-up advertising a McAfee antivirus trial. The...
WezTerm Takes On Windows Terminal with Cross-Platform Lua Config and Native Multiplexing
When a developer with years of muscle memory built around Windows Terminal decides to switch terminals and writes a public declaration that they won’t be switching back, it’s worth paying...