Articles from July 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in July 2026
Classic Outlook to Get a New, Consistent Copilot Entry Point This August
Microsoft is planning a notable interface update for classic Outlook for Windows: a new, persistent Copilot entry point that sits above the email workspace, designed to make AI assistance more...
Silent GPU Builds No More: NVIDIA’s IProgressMonitor Brings Live Progress and Cancel to TensorRT
NVIDIA has released a detailed tutorial and working sample code for IProgressMonitor, an often-overlooked TensorRT interface that gives developers real-time progress tracking and cooperative...
AMD’s GPU Comeback: How ROCm 7.2 and AV1 B-Frames Are Rewriting the Rules for Creators and AI Users
AMD has begun closing the two gaps that historically sent every non-gaming GPU buyer straight to Nvidia: the software stack for local AI and the quality of hardware video encoding. The company’s...
The Keyboard That Won’t Type: 7 Checks to Try on Windows Before You Buy a Replacement
One unresponsive key, a cascade of wrong symbols, or a wireless keyboard that drops connection right when you’re on deadline—these failures make a PC feel useless. Yet in many cases, the problem...
Love and Deepspace gets an official PC emulator recommendation: MuMuPlayer with Vulkan
If you’ve been itching to play the mobile sensation Love and Deepspace on a larger Windows screen, the developer’s latest guidance finally offers an official path—but it’s not the native PC...
Full-Screen Fakeout: The Browser Scam Posing as a Windows Update—and the One Shortcut That Kills It
A new wave of malicious browser pages is trapping Windows users inside realistic, full-screen impersonations of Windows Update. The July 2026 surge, first documented by Technobezz, exploits the one...
Microsoft Edge's Read Aloud Is the Best Windows Text-to-Speech Tool You're Not Using
Microsoft Edge's built-in Read Aloud feature has quietly become one of the most capable text-to-speech tools on Windows, letting you turn almost any webpage, PDF, or selected text into a clear,...
Ditch the Minimalist Desktop: How Controlled Clutter on Windows Can Speed Up Your Workflow
Most productivity advice insists your Windows desktop should be pristine: a bare background, a slim taskbar, and every file filed away the second it lands. But a growing number of users are finding...
CISA Sounds Active Exploit Alarm for SharePoint, Check Point — Immediate Patching Required
On July 22, 2026, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added two critical security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, a step that signals active,...
Block’s Buzz Lands on Windows: The Collaboration App That Treats AI Agents as Co-Workers
On July 22, 2026, Block—the technology company led by Jack Dorsey—released the first desktop client of Buzz, an open-source collaboration platform that breaks with every major workplace chat app...
Why Your Microphone Won’t Work on Windows, iPhone, or Android (and How Every Layer of Permission Blocks It)
Microphone problems rarely start with a broken device. Instead, a silent microphone today is almost always the result of permissions scattered across hardware, the operating system, individual apps,...
Chrome's 'DNS address could not be found' error on Windows finally has a complete fix — here's what to do
For millions of Windows users, the sight of Chrome’s “DNS address could not be found” message is a familiar frustration. It means that at that moment, your browser can’t translate a website...