Automation
The latest Automation coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Windows 95's $30M Debut: How the Start Button Redefined Computing
Microsoft raked in $30 million from Windows 95 sales in a single day on August 24, 1995, triggering a consumer frenzy that saw 1.63 million copies move through retail channels in just 11 days. That...
ChatGPT Enterprise Dominates 2025 Enterprise AI Chatbot Market as Google Makes Gemini Free for Workspace
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise has captured 82% of the global chatbot market share in 2025, maintaining its grip on the enterprise AI sector even after Google shook up the landscape by including its...
Musk's Macrohard Trademark Reveals Full Blueprint to Replace Microsoft's Software Empire with AI Agents
On August 1, 2025, a U.S. trademark application for 'Macrohard' filed by Elon Musk's xAI hit the public record, laying bare a stunningly ambitious plan to build an AI software company that would...
Zoom's $733M Enterprise Revenue Masks Looming AI Challenge: A Windows IT Pro's Roadmap
Zoom's latest quarter revealed $1.22 billion in total revenue, with enterprise revenue climbing 7% year-over-year to roughly $733 million—now 60% of the company's top line. But beneath the surface,...
CISA Unveils SBOM Draft Requiring Hashes, Licenses, and Build Context—Public Comment Opens
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a draft update to its Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) minimum elements on August 22, 2025, immediately opening a public comment...
Flyoobe 1.3 Brings Default Browser Selection to Windows 11 OOBE on Unsupported PCs
Flyoobe 1.3 now lets users pick a default browser right inside Windows 11's Out-of-Box Experience—even on hardware Microsoft deems incompatible. The feature eliminates the post-install scramble to...
Why Excel Power Users Are Ditching Manual CSV Cleanup for Power Query’s Locale-Aware Transformations
A single weekend spent wrestling with cross‑vendor CSV files can crush anyone’s data analysis ambitions. One WindowsForum user learned that the hard way—and came out the other side with a...
Control Panel's Last Stand? Windows 11 27928 Relocates Clocks, NTP, and Regional Formats to Settings
Microsoft's slow-motion demolition of the classic Control Panel took another quiet step forward this week. Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27928, released to the Canary Channel on August 20, 2025,...
NFL Arms 2,500 Surface Copilot+ PCs for AI Sideline Revolution
The National Football League has quietly but decisively armed all 32 clubs with over 2,500 Microsoft Surface Copilot+ PCs, embedding generative AI assistants directly into the Sideline Viewing System...
The 5 Free Apps Every Windows Pro Installs First for Instant Productivity
A fresh Windows install is a blank slate, but it’s rarely productivity-ready out of the box. The built-in search is sluggish on large drives, the default browser lacks cross-device sync for...
Microsoft Slashes onmicrosoft.com Outbound Email to 100 Recipients Daily to Fight Spam
Starting October 15, 2025, Microsoft will begin enforcing a hard cap of 100 external email recipients per 24 hours for all tenants sending from the default onmicrosoft.com domain. The move, announced...
Mitsubishi Electric Confirms Unpatched DoS Flaw in MELSEC iQ-F PLCs, Recommends Network Hardening
Mitsubishi Electric has disclosed a remotely exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability in the embedded web server of its MELSEC iQ-F series programmable logic controllers, tracked under an internal...