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Microsoft announced the Xbox Series X25 Limited Edition and Xbox Wireless Controller X25 Special Edition on June 7, 2026, ahead of Xbox’s November 15 twenty-fifth anniversary, bringing a translucent green 1TB Series X bundle and matching controller to select markets this November. The machine is not a new console generation, and Microsoft is not pretending otherwise. It is a nostalgia device with a very specific job: make Xbox feel like a hardware brand again at a moment when much of...

Windows 11’s Widgets panel remained conspicuously absent from Microsoft Build 2026, even as Microsoft used the June developer conference to promote native Windows apps, AI agents, and new developer hardware for the next phase of Windows. That omission matters because Widgets is not a hidden prototype; it is a default, taskbar-adjacent surface shipped to hundreds of millions of PCs. Microsoft has spent years trying to make Windows feel modern again, yet one of its most visible consumer...

At Computex Taipei 2026, held June 2–5 in Taiwan, How-To Geek’s standout picks centered on NVIDIA’s RTX Spark Arm platform, Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra, Intel Arc G3 handheld chips, Dell’s cheaper XPS 13, revived AMD X3D CPUs, and early Wi-Fi 8 routers. The common thread was not novelty for novelty’s sake. It was the industry’s search for a new PC bargain: more local AI, more efficient silicon, more repairable premium machines, and faster networking, preferably without asking buyers to...

Patch CVE-2026-41089 first on any domain controller that is reachable from outside the tightly controlled server networks you trust: internet-facing paths, partner routes, broad VPN pools, lab networks, DMZ routes, contractor networks, unmanaged client networks, or legacy firewall exceptions. Next patch branch-office and low-redundancy domain controllers where a bad reboot or failed update could strand users. Then complete the remaining domain controllers in the forest during the same...

Windows 11 users should start help from taskbar search, support.microsoft.com/windows, or Settings via the Get Help link, then choose Get Help for guided fixes, Quick Assist for trusted remote help, troubleshooters for common repairs, community forums for pattern-matching, or direct support when self-service fails. That is the practical answer, but it is also the larger shift: Windows help is no longer a single destination. It is a routing problem. The fastest fix now depends less on knowing...

Enterprises planning a near-term Windows 11 refresh should standardize most purchases on Windows 11 24H2 or 25H2 hardware, while treating Windows 11 26H1 devices as selective pilots for specialized workloads because Microsoft explicitly positions 26H1 as hardware evaluation territory, not the default deployment branch. The practical decision is not “newer is better.” It is whether your organization wants the ordinary annual Windows servicing conveyor belt, or a narrower platform branch with...

Microsoft is moving Microsoft Defender for Endpoint EDR sensor updates to Microsoft Update starting with Windows 10 devices in late May 2026, separating those packages from monthly Windows cumulative updates and delivering them through the recurring KB5005292 servicing channel once prerequisites are met. That is a plumbing change, but in endpoint security, plumbing is policy. Microsoft is acknowledging that detection-and-response code cannot comfortably live on the same calendar as...

Microsoft’s Teams roadmap item for “Interactive Agents for Teams Meetings and Calls” is scheduled to begin rollout in September 2026, bringing agents into Teams meetings and 1-on-1 calls with group and private interactions, while session memory is currently limited to agents built on Copilot. The practical move for IT is not to wait for a shiny demo; it is to start deciding which meetings should allow agents, what those agents may remember inside a session, and how users will distinguish...

Microsoft expanded Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat into Teams chats, channels, calling, and meetings on April 7, 2026, and its roadmap now points to an August 2026 rollout for Copilot analyzing desktop screen-shared meeting content when recording is enabled. The practical answer for Teams users is simple: Copilot is moving from a chat assistant you invoke in one place to a memory layer that follows work across the places Teams users actually collaborate. For IT, the calendar matters less than the...

Microsoft is testing a Windows 11 setting that lets users turn off Bing-powered web results in Start and Search, with the option reportedly shown at a Windows Insider event in San Francisco in early June 2026. The change is small in interface terms but large in symbolic weight: Microsoft is admitting, at least tacitly, that desktop search should not behave like an advertising funnel by default. For Windows users who have spent years fighting web suggestions with Registry edits, Group Policy...

NHS England said on June 8, 2026, that it will give Microsoft 365 Copilot access to 505,000 clinicians and support staff across England by October 2026, after a 30,000-person trial across 90 NHS organisations reported average administrative savings of 43 minutes per worker per day. The announcement is not merely another “AI in healthcare” pilot dressed up for a press cycle; it is the moment generative AI moves from the innovation lab into the bureaucratic bloodstream of one of the world’s...

Gizmodo’s June 2026 “Best VPN for OnlyFans” guide names NordVPN, ExpressVPN, Private Internet Access, Proton VPN, and Surfshark as its top choices for accessing OnlyFans from restricted regions or privacy-sensitive networks. The more important story is not which subscription wins a speed test, but how quickly VPN marketing has moved into the gray zone created by age-verification laws. OnlyFans is now sitting at the collision point between privacy, adult-content regulation, payments...

Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis has listed PC requirements ahead of its February 12, 2027 launch, calling for Windows 10 or 11, 16GB of RAM, 80GB of storage, and a minimum GPU tier starting at GeForce GTX 1070, GeForce RTX 2060 Super, or Radeon RX 5700. That makes Lara Croft’s return less a nostalgia trip for aging PCs than a reminder that “remake” no longer means lightweight. The surprise is not that a modern Unreal Engine 5 adventure wants modern hardware; it is that the floor has moved...

Microsoft began testing movable Windows 11 taskbars in May 2026 through its Windows Insider Experimental channel, letting testers place the taskbar on the bottom, top, left, or right edge of the screen from the Taskbar behaviors section in Settings. The change is small enough to fit inside a single dropdown, but large enough to reopen one of Windows 11’s longest-running arguments. After nearly five years of telling users, implicitly or explicitly, that the bottom taskbar was the future...

Microsoft is preparing to let Windows 11 users turn off Bing-powered web results from Windows Search, with the change reportedly shown at a Windows Insider event in San Francisco on June 2, 2026, after years of forcing Start and taskbar searches to mix local files, apps, settings, and web suggestions. The toggle is not just a small Settings convenience. It is a concession that Windows Search has been carrying too much of Microsoft’s web strategy on its back. For users and administrators, the...

NHS England said on June 8, 2026, that it will give Microsoft 365 Copilot access to 505,000 clinicians and support staff across England by October 2026, following a large trial that reported average administrative savings of 43 minutes per user per day. The deal is being sold as a productivity intervention in a health service where time is the scarcest resource. It is also a major test of whether generative AI can move from boardroom demo to public-sector infrastructure without collapsing...

NHS England said on June 8, 2026, that it will give Microsoft 365 Copilot access to 505,000 clinicians and support staff across England, following a 30,000-worker trial that reported average administrative savings of 43 minutes per user per day. The deal is not merely another AI licensing win for Microsoft; it is a test of whether generative AI can survive contact with the least forgiving productivity environment in the public sector. If the numbers hold, the NHS gets a rare lever against...

Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich said on Sunday, June 7, 2026, that he had “vibe coded” an open-source LinkedIn Post Formatter, a GitHub Pages utility for composing LinkedIn posts with bold, italic, bullets, emojis, character counts, and desktop and mobile previews. The joke writes itself because Microsoft owns LinkedIn, yet one of Microsoft’s most technically respected executives still had to build a side tool to make its post editor feel less hostile. But the more interesting story is...

Microsoft filed a proposed Ratepayer Protection Tariff with Nevada utility regulators in May 2026, asking the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada to create a framework that makes large AI data center customers pay for grid infrastructure built primarily to serve them. The filing is not just another utility docket; it is Microsoft trying to turn a political promise into a regulated cost-allocation machine. If Nevada accepts the idea, the tariff could become a template for how states handle...

Microsoft is rolling out Confidential Live Migration for Azure confidential virtual machines, enabling protected VM moves between Azure hosts without a full restart while preserving attestation, encrypted transfer, and isolation guarantees during platform maintenance and infrastructure upgrades. The feature matters because confidential computing has always asked customers to trade some operational flexibility for stronger protection of data in use. Microsoft’s bet is that security-sensitive...