Articles from July 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in July 2026
Microsoft 365’s 30-Day Restore Won’t Save You from a 241-Day Breach — What You Need Instead
European businesses that treat Microsoft 365 and Azure’s built-in recovery features as a full backup strategy are operating with a dangerous blind spot, according to a new analysis from Kaseya. The...
Microsoft's New Edge Copilot Icon Is Real—But You Can't See It Yet
Microsoft is internally testing a refreshed Copilot icon for Edge, according to a newly discovered feature flag in the browser's Canary channel. The catch: the redesigned artwork is locked to...
Microsoft Admits Its Own Teams Can't Catch All AI Flaws, Funds 18 Labs Worldwide to Fill the Gaps
Microsoft is paying outside experts to break its AI because its own security engineers can’t find every failure on their own. On July 27, 2026, the company announced the External Red Team Alliance...
Press F7 in Command Prompt to Instantly See Your Command History—and Stop Hunting with Arrow Keys
The Command Prompt hides a productivity shortcut that most users never discover: press F7, and a numbered list of every recent command you've typed pops up right over your session. No more tapping...
20 Years Later: Why Intel’s Core 2 Duo Was a Turning Point for Windows PCs
Twenty years ago today, Intel launched the Core 2 Duo processor family, and it did something remarkable: it convinced the PC world that faster computers didn’t need higher gigahertz numbers. On...
Longsys Claims Its Smart SSDs Can Cut AI PC Memory Use by 40%—Here’s the Reality Check
Longsys will use Flash Memory Summit 2026 in Santa Clara, California, to pitch SSD technology that it says can slash the DRAM footprint of local AI workloads by nearly 40 percent. The storage maker...
Apple’s Star-Studded Pool Ad Isn’t a Lawsuit Risk—It’s a Blueprint for App Store Curation
Apple’s latest App Store commercial looks more like a pop-culture mashup than a software ad. The 30-second spot, part of the company’s “Open All Summer” campaign, turns the App Store icon...
Stop Reformatting Your USB Drives: Ventoy Makes One Stick Boot Everything
Ventoy is freeing Windows users from a tedious ritual: repeatedly reformatting USB drives just to switch operating systems. An open-source tool that turns any decent flash drive into a permanent...
Trackunit IrisX MCP Brings Live Fleet Data to ChatGPT, Claude, and Microsoft Copilot
Trackunit has quietly released a connector that changes how construction firms tap into their equipment data — by putting it inside the AI tools their teams already use. IrisX MCP (Model Context...
ALIANDO's One-Year Mark Shows a New Blueprint for Enterprise Microsoft: Copilot, Security, and Cloud Cost United
ALIANDO, the Microsoft partner born from the merger of Henson Group and myCloudDoor, today marks one year of operations with a model that tightly couples cloud cost optimization, security governance,...
Microsoft’s AEW Masterclass Lays Out AI Adoption Path for African Energy Companies
Microsoft will host a masterclass on AI and data adoption for energy companies at the African Energy Week conference in Cape Town on October 12, 2026, aiming to cut through the hype and deliver a...
Microsoft’s autonomous security agents enter public preview August 3 — what they can actually do
On August 3, Microsoft will open public preview of Project Perception, a platform designed to let AI agents see, reason about, and automatically respond to threats across your entire digital...