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Microsoft’s June 23, 2026 optional Windows 11 preview update, KB5095093, includes a fix for runaway disk usage tied to CapabilityAccessManager.db-wal, a background database log used by the Capability Access Manager service to track app access to privacy-sensitive hardware and permissions. That dry changelog line lands after months of user reports describing tens, hundreds, and in one case reportedly more than 500 gigabytes of space consumed by a file most people had never heard of. The bug...

Microsoft’s Find my device feature in Windows 11 lets users locate and remotely lock a lost or stolen PC through the Settings app and Microsoft account device dashboard, provided the PC is signed in with a Microsoft account, connected to the internet, and allowed to use location services. The feature is simple enough to describe in a few clicks, but its real significance is larger than a map pin. It is another place where Windows 11 quietly trades the old PC model of local ownership for a...

Windows 11 includes a built-in predictive text feature for physical keyboards that can be enabled from Settings > Time & language > Typing, where Microsoft offers “Show text suggestions when typing on the physical keyboard” alongside related autocorrect options. The interesting part is not that Windows can guess the next word; phones have trained everyone to expect that. The interesting part is that Microsoft has quietly imported a mobile typing habit into the desktop, where it feels both...

As screen-first work consumes more of the day, Lenovo visual displays executive George Toh argued in a TechRadar Pro Perspectives essay that workplace monitors are becoming adaptive wellness tools, not just panels for showing pixels, with AI, brightness controls, color tuning, and eye-comfort features moving into the center of product design. That is the right argument at the right time, even if the industry’s language around “human-centric” technology still deserves a skeptical raised...

Microsoft named Logicalis a Microsoft Frontier Partner on July 1, 2026, recognizing the global technology services provider for enterprise AI work across Microsoft Copilot, data and AI, security, and cloud transformation as Microsoft begins its FY27 partner year. The designation is not just another badge in the partner-program trophy cabinet. It is Microsoft telling customers which firms it believes can move AI from demos and pilots into governed production. For WindowsForum readers, the...

Apple’s Hide My Email exposure, Anthropic’s restored Claude Fable 5 access, a DHS information-sharing breach, Microsoft Teams bot controls, and fresh Microsoft 365 password-spraying data all landed in the July 2, 2026 cybersecurity cycle as signs that identity, privacy, and AI trust boundaries are fraying at once. The common thread is not that every platform suddenly became unsafe. It is that the security promises users have been trained to rely on — masked email, meeting lobbies, cloud MFA...

Microsoft is expanding Teams Facilitator in Microsoft 365 Copilot so the AI agent can monitor live meetings, detect uncertainty, search for answers, post updates in chat, and help manage agendas, notes, timers, tasks, and recaps for licensed users. The feature is opt-in rather than a silent default, but that distinction only softens the privacy question; it does not erase it. Microsoft is trying to turn Teams from a conferencing app into an active participant in the meeting, and the...

Xero launched a Microsoft 365 integration on July 1, 2026, bringing live Xero financial data into Microsoft 365 Copilot so small businesses and accountants can query, model, draft, and present finance information inside Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Copilot Chat. The pitch is simple: stop exporting yesterday’s numbers into today’s spreadsheet. The larger bet is more consequential: Xero wants accounting data to become an ambient layer inside office work, not a destination users remember to...

Microsoft’s newest Windows 11 AI controls now let a determined user disable or hide much of the operating system’s visible AI surface area in minutes, including context-menu actions, Copilot app entry points, Recall snapshots, Click to Do, and app-level tools in Notepad, Edge, Office, Photos, and camera settings. That is not the same thing as removing AI from Windows. It is something more revealing: Microsoft has reached the point where its AI push is broad enough to require a scavenger hunt...

Microsoft’s 2026 Windows security story is no longer mainly about adding another Defender toggle or hiding another privacy switch; it is about renewing the trust chain beneath Windows 11 while tightening the consent model above it, as Secure Boot certificates from 2011 expire in June and October 2026. That makes “security” less a chapter in a Windows guide than a live operating condition. The practical consequence is blunt: supported, updated PCs should keep moving through the transition...

Windows Movie Maker 6.0 drew fresh attention on June 30, 2026, after an X user uploaded a classic installer to the Internet Archive and said it worked on Windows 7, Windows 10, and Windows 11. The news is not that Microsoft has revived Movie Maker; it has not. The story is that Windows users keep reviving it anyway, because Microsoft never really replaced what Movie Maker represented. In an era when even basic creative tools increasingly arrive wrapped in accounts, cloud sync, subscriptions...

Microsoft named Logicalis a Microsoft Frontier Partner on July 1, 2026, recognizing the global technology services provider for enterprise AI work across Microsoft Copilot, data and AI, security, and cloud transformation as Microsoft begins its FY27 partner year with AI deployment at the center of its channel strategy. The badge is not just another partner-program trinket; it is Microsoft’s latest attempt to separate firms that can sell AI from firms that can operationalize it. For...

On July 1, 2026, Haleon announced a five-year collaboration with Microsoft to expand digital, data, cloud, security, identity, Copilot, and agentic AI capabilities across the consumer health company’s global operations. The deal is not just another enterprise Copilot rollout dressed up for the press-release circuit. It is a signal that Microsoft’s AI strategy is moving deeper into the operating core of regulated, brand-heavy, supply-chain-dependent companies. For WindowsForum readers, the...

BlackBerry released BlackBerry AtHoc Cloud 7.22 on June 30, 2026, adding direct Microsoft Entra ID synchronization, expanded Microsoft Teams-based crisis collaboration, alert response comments, and other operator-focused changes for enterprise and government critical event management customers. The announcement is not just a feature-drop for a niche SaaS product; it is BlackBerry trying to put AtHoc where modern incident response actually happens. For WindowsForum readers, the story is less...

Anthropic has reportedly told Microsoft it plans to build a Claude AI agent for Microsoft Teams, a move that would place one of Copilot’s most credible rivals directly inside Microsoft’s dominant workplace collaboration app. The integration has not been formally announced by either company, and there is no confirmed launch date. But if it arrives, it will mark a telling shift in the AI platform war: Teams is no longer just a place where Microsoft distributes Copilot, but a contested surface...

Meta Platforms is reportedly developing “Meta Compute,” a cloud infrastructure service that would sell AI computing capacity and hosted models to outside customers, according to a July 1 Bloomberg report, potentially putting the Facebook parent into direct competition with AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. The move is not confirmed, and Meta has not announced a launch date. But the report lands at exactly the moment when investors, customers, and rivals are trying to decide whether the...

Kyndryl announced on July 1, 2026, that it is expanding its sovereignty services with Microsoft, combining Kyndryl Sovereignty Solutioning with Microsoft Sovereign Cloud capabilities for governments and regulated industries that need tighter data residency, operational control, and hybrid deployment choices. The move is not merely another partner badge on an enterprise cloud press release. It is a sign that “sovereign cloud” is being pulled out of the policy deck and turned into a managed...

On June 30, 2026, Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich said Microsoft is accelerating its Quantum Safe Program to transition products and services to post-quantum cryptography by 2029, folding the work into the Secure Future Initiative as governments push high-risk systems toward quantum-resistant cryptography by 2030. The announcement is not a claim that a code-breaking quantum computer exists today. It is something more operationally important: Microsoft is treating quantum risk as a...

Valve’s June 2026 Steam Hardware and Software Survey shows Windows 11 passing 70 percent of surveyed Steam users, 1080p slipping toward 51 percent, 1440p-class displays gaining ground, and 16GB RAM reasserting itself as the most common gaming PC memory configuration. The headline is not that PC gaming suddenly changed direction. It is that the “average Steam PC” is being squeezed from two sides at once: software platforms are moving forward, while memory and storage economics are dragging...

Google’s official way to create a bootable ChromeOS Flex USB on Windows 11 or Windows 10 is to use the Chromebook Recovery Utility in Chrome, select Google ChromeOS Flex, choose an 8GB-or-larger USB drive, and let the tool download and write the installer. That is the simplest path because ChromeOS Flex is not installed from Windows like a normal app. It is booted from external media, tested on the target machine, and then installed in a way that can erase the internal drive. The real lesson...