Articles from July 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in July 2026
Malaysia’s 454 New Chip Designers Are a Quiet Win for Windows on Arm’s Future
Malaysia just added 454 freshly trained integrated-circuit designers to the global semiconductor workforce. They graduated July 28 from nine cohorts of the Advanced Semiconductor Academy Malaysia,...
Your Alternate DNS Isn't a Backup: Why Windows 11 Ignores It When Your Primary Blocks a Site
You set Quad9 as your primary DNS to block malware. For safety, you added Google DNS as the alternate. It feels right—if one fails, the other steps in. But on Windows 11, that alternate server is...
Pandora’s Hidden Reset Button on Windows 11 Fixes Playback Failures Fast
Pandora’s Windows 11 desktop app has a little-known reset feature that can quickly cure playback hiccups without reinstalling the entire application. The trick, highlighted in a new troubleshooting...
reFX Rippler Physical Modeling Synth Hits Windows with $99 Intro Price
Music software developer reFX launched Rippler on July 30, a new synthesizer plugin for Windows that uses physical modeling to recreate the sound of acoustic instruments and blends them with classic...
Cisco Abandons Azure Local Bundles After Microsoft Kills ‘Validated Nodes’
Cisco will stop selling its Azure Local bundles on October 24, 2026, shutting down a short-lived path for organizations that wanted to run Microsoft’s on-premises hyperconverged platform on Cisco...
CTERA’s MCP Server Puts Microsoft 365 Copilot Inside Your Legacy File Infrastructure — And IT Needs to Act Now
Microsoft 365 Copilot just gained the ability to query files sitting outside the Microsoft cloud — on edge servers, network-attached storage, and multi-cloud repositories — without organizations...
Samsung’s New AI Glasses Blend In Too Well—Here’s How to Prepare Your Workplace
At a London event on July 22, Samsung pulled back the curtain on its first Android XR smart glasses. They run Gemini AI, carry a built-in camera, and claim up to nine hours of battery life. But the...
Apple Closes 220+ Security Flaws: A Wake-Up Call for Mixed-Device Windows Shops
On July 27, Apple issued one of its largest single-day security update rollouts, fixing more than 220 vulnerabilities across its operating systems. The macOS Tahoe 26.6 update alone addresses 155...
AIDA64 v8.35 Quietly Adds Recognition for AMD Zen 6 and Intel’s Rugged Panther Lake-R
On July 28, 2026, FinalWire shipped AIDA64 version 8.35, and the changelog included a handful of entries that hardware enthusiasts immediately zeroed in on: improved detection for AMD’s Zen 6...
NVIDIA RTX Spark Windows PCs to Arrive Fall 2026 with RTX 5070-Class Graphics
NVIDIA and Microsoft have confirmed that the first Windows on Arm laptops and desktops powered by the new RTX Spark platform will hit shelves this fall — putting a firm 2026 date on hardware that...
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS adds six-month QEMU/libvirt HWE stack, easing confidential computing for mixed environments
Canonical has quietly changed how its server LTS releases handle virtualization, opening a door for Windows workloads to run on Ubuntu hosts with faster feature updates. As of late July 2026, Ubuntu...
Cooler Master’s $120 V8 Ace 3DHP Punches Above Its Weight Class, Matching Dual-Tower Coolers
Cooler Master has released the V8 Ace 3DHP, a single-tower air cooler that, according to reviews published July 29 by PC Gamer and earlier this month by Tom’s Hardware, delivers thermal performance...