Articles from 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in 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...
Update Your Radeon Drivers Now: AMD Fixes Blender Crashes and FSR 4.1 Hiccups on RX 7000 GPUs
AMD has dropped a new graphics driver that finally squashes long-running stability headaches for Radeon RX 7000 owners who use Blender, Cinema 4D, or FSR 4.1 upscaling. The Adrenalin 26.7.1 release,...
CISA’s 2026 SBOM Refresh: The New Federal Baseline and What IT Teams Must Do Now
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, in concert with the NSA, FBI, and international partners, released the 2026 Minimum Elements for a Software Bill of Materials on July 29, 2026....
Google Messages Kills QR Code Pairing for Web: Windows Users Must Now Sign In
Google has formally ended QR-code pairing for the web version of Google Messages in the United States, pushing all new connections to require a Google Account sign-in. The change, confirmed in...
Windows 11 KB5101684: Start Menu Glitches Vanish, Search Gets Smarter, Intune Headaches Cured
Microsoft’s optional July update for Windows 11, KB5101684, landed on July 28, smoothing over Start menu and taskbar reliability gremlins while quietly patching a critical flaw that blocked...
Intel's Panther Lake Xe3 Graphics Will Dynamically Throttle Display Bandwidth in Linux 7.3
Intel has submitted a batch of graphics driver patches for the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel, and among the updates is a power-management refinement aimed directly at extending battery life on laptops...