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Open-source developer Jakub Okoński is preparing KDE KWin Wayland patches in June 2026 that reduce gaming latency in Plasma 6 by changing compositor timing behavior, after click-to-photon testing showed Windows 11 still leading Linux in the lowest-latency gaming scenarios. The interesting part is not that Windows remains ahead. The interesting part is that KDE’s gap is now small enough to be attacked in milliseconds rather than hand-waved away as a philosophical tax of the Linux desktop...

Microsoft is testing a hidden Windows 11 Settings page in Insider Build 26300.8553 that exposes installed local AI models, shows their technical details, and lets testers uninstall at least Microsoft’s Phi Silica model on supported Copilot+ PCs. The feature is small, unfinished, and not yet officially announced, but it cuts straight into one of the biggest tensions in Microsoft’s AI-era Windows strategy. If the operating system is going to become a delivery vehicle for local models, users...

David Fortin’s test of more than 100 Microsoft Copilot agents, summarized by Geeky Gadgets, identifies five workplace tools as the practical standouts: Researcher, Facilitator, a SharePoint-backed Knowledge Hub, Copilot in Excel, and Co-work for email management. The interesting part is not that Microsoft has built another shelf of AI assistants. It is that the useful ones look less like magic coworkers and more like narrow, permission-aware workflow machinery. That distinction matters for...

Microsoft Teams is scheduled to roll out Wi-Fi-based automatic work-location updates worldwide in June 2026, allowing organizations that enable the feature to show whether consenting users are checked into a specific office building or reserved desk. The feature is framed as a collaboration convenience, but it lands in a workplace already saturated with telemetry, return-to-office politics, and AI-assisted oversight. Microsoft has built in opt-in controls, working-hours limits, and...

Microsoft brought its global AI Tour to Bangkok on June 9, 2026, gathering Thai business leaders, public-sector officials, partners, and developers to promote what it calls Thailand’s “Frontier Transformation” through new AI partnerships, Build 2026 platform updates, and local customer case studies. The event was not merely another regional roadshow. It was Microsoft’s clearest attempt yet to turn Thailand from a fast-adopting AI market into a showcase for enterprise-scale AI deployment. The...

Microsoft will push Office 2019 for Mac into reduced functionality mode on July 13, 2026, because the certificate used to validate licenses expires that day and the unsupported 2019 suite will not receive the update that newer Office builds are getting. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote will still open and print files, but users will lose the ability to create, edit, or save documents. The technical explanation is certificate hygiene; the practical effect is that a paid perpetual...

Microsoft began cutting several thousand jobs in May 2025, with the company saying the reductions would affect less than 3 percent of its global workforce across regions, levels, and business units, including LinkedIn. The math matters: with Microsoft reporting 228,000 employees at the end of June 2024, “less than 3 percent” pointed to roughly 6,000 to 6,800 roles. The deeper story is not that Microsoft suddenly became weak. It is that one of the richest software companies on earth is making...

Microsoft temporarily disabled more than 70 open source GitHub repositories on June 5, 2026, after researchers found credential-stealing malware injected into Microsoft-owned projects used by Azure developers and AI coding tools including VS Code, Claude Code, and Gemini CLI. The incident is not just another poisoned package story; it is a warning that the new AI-assisted development stack has made simply opening code a security boundary. Microsoft says some repositories have been restored...

Microsoft is preparing Windows 11 to prefer its built-in IPP-based Windows Ready Print path for new eligible printer installations starting in July 2026, while still allowing users and administrators to fall back to traditional OEM driver workflows where needed. That is the plain-English version of a change buried beneath Start menu customization and taskbar polish in Experimental build 26300.8553. The larger story is that Microsoft is no longer treating printer drivers as a boring...

Atos Group and Microsoft announced on June 9, 2026, that Atos will deploy Microsoft 365 Copilot to all 56,000 employees in 54 countries, expanding a partnership built around Microsoft 365 E7, Agent 365, Work IQ, and secure enterprise AI services. The headline number is big, but the more important signal is architectural: Microsoft is trying to make AI adoption look less like a workplace experiment and more like an enterprise platform migration. Atos, in turn, is making itself both customer...

Ookla’s new Downdetector-based analysis says high-signal disruption days across major AI platforms rose from 6 in Q1 2025 to 51 in Q1 2026, using 3.72 million U.S. user reports collected between January 1, 2025, and April 16, 2026. That is not merely an outage statistic; it is a map of how quickly AI has moved from novelty tab to production dependency. The uncomfortable lesson is that AI reliability is now a Windows, cloud, identity, networking, and operations story as much as it is a model...

Microsoft released PowerToys 0.100.0 on June 10, 2026, for Windows 10 and Windows 11, cutting the x64 installer from roughly 376MB in version 0.99.1 to about 272MB while adding major Command Palette, Shortcut Guide, Dock, Power Display, and reliability improvements. The headline is not that PowerToys has reached a psychologically satisfying version number. It is that Microsoft’s most beloved Windows side project is starting to look less like a drawer of clever utilities and more like a...

Microsoft announced on October 5, 2017 that Microsoft Edge would come to iOS and Android as preview apps, with iPhone testing through Apple’s TestFlight program immediately and Android testing to follow, giving Windows 10 users a way to sync browsing across phones and PCs. The move was less about winning the browser war overnight than admitting where the war had moved. Microsoft could no longer pretend that Windows alone was the center of personal computing. Edge on mobile was the company’s...

Euro-Office reached its first stable release on June 9, 2026, as a publicly developed AGPL-licensed fork of ONLYOFFICE backed by European cloud and collaboration vendors including Nextcloud, IONOS, Proton, XWiki, OpenProject, Open-Xchange, Tuta, Soverin, Abilian, BTactic, Eurostack, and Office.eu. The software’s arrival is not simply another entry in the long and bruising history of Microsoft Office alternatives. It is Europe’s clearest attempt yet to turn the office suite from a procurement...

In 2026, managers evaluating AI tools are choosing among general assistants, Microsoft and Google productivity copilots, meeting transcribers, project-management agents, analytics copilots, recruiting platforms, HR systems, and automation tools, with prices ranging from free tiers to enterprise contracts that can exceed tens of thousands of dollars a year. The harder question is not which tool is “best,” but which layer of management work should be automated first. The emerging stack is less...

Bluefish444 has released IngeSTore 2.0 for Windows 11, a multichannel recording package for professional live production and archival workflows that expands capture to eight channels and adds support for KRONOS cards, ST 2110, HDMI, SDI, and NDI inputs. The announcement is not a consumer Windows story, but it is a useful marker of where Windows 11 now sits in the production stack. Broadcast ingest, once treated as a fixed-function appliance problem, is increasingly a software-defined...

Google’s Gemini CLI consumer migration deadline is June 18, 2026, when free Google accounts, Google AI Pro subscribers, and Google AI Ultra subscribers lose the old terminal tool’s hosted response path and are pushed to Antigravity CLI on Windows 11 and other platforms. The old command may remain on disk, but for most individual users it becomes a museum piece rather than a working assistant. That makes this less a cosmetic rename than a forced cutover from a community-shaped Node.js tool to...

Microsoft released Windows 11 26H1 Build 28000.2269 as KB5095051 and Windows 11 23H2 Build 22631.7219 as KB5093998 on June 9, 2026, delivering June Patch Tuesday security fixes, Secure Boot servicing work, BitLocker reliability changes, File Explorer search fixes, AI component updates, and servicing stack improvements. The headline is not that Windows 11 gained a shiny new feature. It is that Microsoft is using a routine Patch Tuesday to harden the plumbing under two very different parts of...

Western Computer and Microsoft will host “Navigate Forward: Business Central & The AI Advantage” on Wednesday, June 17, 2026, at Microsoft’s Downers Grove, Illinois office for manufacturing, distribution, finance, operations, and IT leaders evaluating Dynamics 365 Business Central and AI-driven ERP modernization. The event is a partner roadshow, but the timing says more than the venue does. Microsoft’s mid-market ERP story is no longer just about replacing Dynamics NAV with a cloud product...

Atos Group and Microsoft announced on June 9, 2026, that Atos will deploy Microsoft 365 Copilot to 56,000 employees in 54 countries while standardizing on Microsoft 365 E7, Agent 365, Copilot Studio, and Microsoft Foundry for secure agentic AI. The deal is not just another Copilot rollout dressed up as transformation theater. It is a test of whether the next wave of enterprise AI can be governed like infrastructure rather than indulged like a lab experiment. For WindowsForum readers, the...