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PeopleSoft administrators running PeopleTools 8.61 or 8.62 should apply Oracle’s June 10, 2026 Security Alert for CVE-2026-35273 immediately, isolate exposed PeopleSoft services if patching cannot happen today, and treat any internet-reachable instance active since May 27 as a potential incident response case. This is not a normal quarterly maintenance decision. Google Threat Intelligence Group and Mandiant observed exploitation before Oracle’s advisory, and that changes the burden of proof...

Microsoft technical fellow Marcus Fontoura is leaving Microsoft in June 2026 after more than a year as CTO of Azure Core, capping a short second stint at the company that coincided with Azure’s most consequential infrastructure cycle in the AI era. His exit, reported by GeekWire alongside a slate of Pacific Northwest executive moves, is not just another nameplate change in Redmond. It lands at a moment when cloud architecture, AI capacity, commercial sales, and trust infrastructure are all...

Microsoft is testing a unified Windows 11 update experience in Insider Experimental Preview Build 26300.8687 that coordinates driver, .NET, and firmware updates with the monthly quality update so PCs should need fewer separate restarts each month. It is a small sentence in a release note with an outsized promise: Windows Update may finally become less of a recurring interruption and more of a predictable maintenance event. The catch is that Microsoft is not eliminating patching pain; it is...

Microsoft made Advanced Shader Delivery available in public preview for Windows 11 desktop and laptop PCs on May 15, 2026, expanding the DirectX shader precompilation system beyond ROG Xbox Ally handhelds to supported AMD RDNA 3, RDNA 3.5, and RDNA 4 graphics hardware. The headline number is hard to ignore: Forza Horizon 6 loading in four seconds instead of roughly 90 seconds on Microsoft’s test system. But the bigger story is not that AMD gets a temporary marketing win over NVIDIA. It is...

Microsoft released Windows 11 Insider Preview builds 26220.8680 for the Beta Channel and 28020.2298 for 26H1 testing on June 12, 2026, adding quieter Widgets defaults, a new Screen Tint accessibility feature, Magnifier improvements, File Explorer fixes, and update reliability changes. The headline is not that Windows 11 has gained another grab bag of small features. It is that Microsoft is slowly admitting that parts of the Windows 11 experience have been too noisy, too eager, and too...

Microsoft released Windows 11 Insider Release Preview builds 26100.8728 and 26200.8728 for version 24H2 and 25H2 testers on June 12, 2026, alongside Canary-era build 28000.2333, adding point-in-time recovery, more flexible update pausing, Widgets changes, accessibility updates, Bluetooth fixes, and enterprise networking and printing refinements. This is not one of those Insider drops where the build number matters more than the build itself. Microsoft is quietly moving several long-running...

Microsoft released Windows 11 Insider Experimental Preview Build 26300.8687 on June 12, 2026, bringing a batch of gradual-rollout changes that include File Explorer tab improvements, a unified Windows Update restart experience, better Windows Search tolerance, GIPHY integration in the emoji panel, and several reliability fixes. The build is not a marquee Windows reinvention, and that is precisely why it matters. Microsoft is spending this flight on the parts of Windows people touch dozens of...

Microsoft has spent the past 90 days pushing firmware updates for Surface PCs after a reported embedded-controller flaw allowed some unprotected devices with Secure Boot and Secure Core protections disabled to be rendered unbootable by a single malformed hardware command. The unsettling part is not that a Surface could be broken by privileged code; privileged code can do ugly things. The story is that the boundary between operating-system experimentation and permanent hardware failure...

As of June 12, 2026, the AI email assistant market has split into writing tools, smart inbox clients, cleanup services, Microsoft and Google suite features, and newer agentic email infrastructure that turns incoming mail into triggers for automated workflows. The headline is not that email now has AI sprinkled on top. It is that vendors are quietly redefining what an inbox is for. Some still see email as a place where humans write faster; others now treat it as an event stream for machines...

Microsoft released Bing AI Search Choice in June 2026 as a preview browser extension for Bing that lets users turn off Copilot-style AI-generated answers in search results, while also setting Bing as the browser’s default search engine and new-tab search experience. That trade is the story. Microsoft is not abandoning AI search; it is testing whether user control can be packaged in a way that also strengthens Bing distribution. The result is a small extension with a much larger message: the...

On June 12, 2026, Microsoft released a coordinated set of Windows 11 Insider builds across Beta, Experimental, Experimental Future Platforms, and Release Preview channels, while also moving inbox app release notes into their own Windows Insider documentation area. The headline feature is not any single build number, but Microsoft’s attempt to make Windows testing feel less like a maze of scattered notes and surprise restarts. For Insiders, the day’s releases show a company reorganizing both...

Microsoft released Windows 11 KB5094126 on June 9, 2026, for Windows 11 versions 24H2 and 25H2, moving systems to builds 26100.8655 and 26200.8655 while beginning the rollout of a new Low Latency Profile, Shared Audio, and search improvements. The headline feature is not a benchmark monster or a scheduler rewrite; it is a short, targeted CPU boost meant to make Windows feel less sluggish at the exact moments users notice. That makes this update more interesting than its modest changelog...

AppControl is a free Windows monitoring utility that launched in February 2026 and gives users a three-day, second-by-second history of CPU, memory, disk, GPU, temperature, and process activity that Microsoft’s built-in Task Manager still does not provide. That single difference changes the entire troubleshooting workflow. Task Manager tells you what is happening now; AppControl tries to tell you what happened when you were not looking. For Windows users who live with mystery slowdowns, fan...

AI platform disruptions rose from six high-signal disruption days in the first quarter of 2025 to 51 in the first quarter of 2026, according to Ookla’s analysis of U.S. Downdetector reports across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, AWS, and Azure. That is not just an outage story. It is a maturity story, and not the flattering kind. The enterprise has spent two years asking whether AI is useful; now it has to ask whether AI is dependable enough to become infrastructure. AI Has...

Microsoft’s June 2026 Patch Tuesday, released on June 9, delivers 206 security updates across Windows, Office, Exchange Server, and developer tools, including three publicly disclosed Windows flaws in CTF, HTTP.sys, and BitLocker that Microsoft says are not yet known to be actively exploited. The absence of a confirmed in-the-wild exploit is the least comforting thing about this release. June is the month where “no active exploitation” still translates into “patch now,” because the breadth...

Microsoft 365 Copilot suffered another significant service disruption on Thursday, June 11, 2026, when a faulty software deployment reportedly broke authentication between Copilot, Microsoft Graph, and Azure OpenAI during business hours in North America and Europe. The outage matters less as an isolated cloud hiccup than as a warning about how quickly AI assistants are being promoted from optional productivity toys to operational infrastructure. Microsoft is selling Copilot as the interface...

Microsoft began rolling out KB5094126 on June 9, 2026, for Windows 11 versions 24H2 and 25H2, raising systems to builds 26100.8655 and 26200.8655 while adding security fixes, faster interactive performance, shared Bluetooth audio, camera sharing, and new Copilot-era hardware telemetry. That is the factual update. The more interesting story is that Microsoft is no longer treating Windows 11 responsiveness as a cosmetic problem to be solved with animation tweaks and Start menu redesigns...

Microsoft is reportedly cutting 200 to 400 Azure roles in Beijing and Shanghai, with affected employees expected to leave on July 6, as the company offers severance and limited relocation options amid tightening U.S. and Chinese data-control regimes. The job losses are not simply another line item in Microsoft’s long-running efficiency campaign. They point to a larger fracture in the cloud industry’s founding promise: that infrastructure, talent, and data could be organized globally with...

Atos Group and Microsoft announced on June 9, 2026, that Atos will roll out Microsoft 365 Copilot to 56,000 employees in 54 countries while using Microsoft Agent 365 to govern about 19,000 AI agents across its workforce and client ecosystem. The deal is being sold as an AI productivity story, but the more important move is administrative: Microsoft and Atos are trying to make agents manageable before they become unmanageable. For WindowsForum readers, the announcement matters less because...

Smartsheet announced on June 11, 2026, that enterprise customers can connect Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, and Google Cloud Gemini Enterprise to its Model Context Protocol server, expanding beyond Claude while also launching Smart Assist inside the Smartsheet platform. The move is not simply another “AI integration” press release in a year drowning in them. It is a bet that the next phase of enterprise AI will be decided less by model cleverness than by access to live, permissioned operational...