Articles from July 29, 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published on July 29, 2026
Dell VEP4600: Old Edge Appliance Still Delivers for Network Services, But Not Heavy VMs
A new review by ServeTheHome proves that a 2018-era Dell edge appliance can still hold its own in branch-office networking—but don't expect it to run a cluster of Windows Server VMs. The Dell...
Kratos Phishing Kit: How Two Image Files Betray Microsoft 365 Attacks
In late July 2026, cybersecurity researchers at ANY.RUN uncovered a surprisingly simple way to spot one of the most persistent phishing operations targeting Microsoft 365 users. The Kratos...
Why Disney Is Ditching GitHub Copilot and What It Means for Windows Developers
Disney has notified its U.S. technology employees that it will remove GitHub Copilot from the list of approved AI coding tools later this summer, according to an internal message seen by Business...
AMD Adrenalin 26.7.1: Gears of War E-Day Beta Ready, But Windows 10 Smart Access Memory May Disable
AMD released Adrenalin Edition 26.7.1 on July 28, bringing launch-day driver support for next week’s Gears of War: E‑Day Open Beta and official compatibility for the new Radeon RX 9050 graphics...
HP Reveals 30 Percent of Its PCs Remain on Windows 10: Your Upgrade and Security Action Plan
HP has put a number on the Windows 10 migration gap: 30 percent of its PC installed base still runs the older operating system, HP CFO Karen Parkhill told investors during the company’s May 2026...
Hands-On: Collabora Office Edits Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Files on Android Without a Cloud Account
MakeUseOf put Collabora Office—a free, open-source Android suite built on the LibreOffice engine—through its paces with real-world Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files. The results, published in...
A $341,000 Bonus Gap Is Driving Samsung’s Engineers Straight to Rival SK Hynix
Samsung’s semiconductor engineers are defecting to rival SK Hynix in large numbers, lured by a bonus gap that can exceed $300,000 per employee. The exodus, reported today by MIT Technology Review,...
After 144 Days, Microsoft Still Can't Fully Fix Copilot Vulnerability That Lets Hidden Text Manipulate Reports
A vulnerability in Microsoft 365 Copilot in Word, disclosed Tuesday after 144 days of private coordination, lets attackers hide instructions inside documents using invisible white text. Those...
Teams Chat Purge on Hold: Johns Hopkins Bows to User Pressure, Rethinks Policy
Johns Hopkins University is backing away from a controversial plan to automatically delete Microsoft Teams chats after a surge of community pushback, leaving its previously announced retention policy...
Microsoft Gives Windows Native Linux Containers and Unix Commands — What Developers Need to Know
Microsoft today released public previews of two features that fundamentally change how developers can work with Linux on Windows: WSL Containers and Coreutils for Windows. The updates mean you can...
Ditch Ctrl+Alt+Del: This Overlooked Windows 11 Shortcut Gets You Straight to Task Manager
Microsoft’s legacy three-finger salute, Ctrl+Alt+Del, has been a reflex for millions of Windows users when an app freezes or the system crawls. But as confirmed in a new Windows Central roundup...
Endstate Brings Settings Backup to 357 Windows Apps After a Clean Install
A freshly reset Windows 11 PC used to mean losing every custom preference, plugin, and theme you’ve painstakingly configured. A new open-source utility called Endstate changes that—capable of...