Microsoft’s April 2026 security update for Windows 11 has become the latest Patch Tuesday release to test the patience of users and administrators, with reports of boot loops, blue screens, BitLocker recovery prompts, and Remote Desktop display problems following installation. The update, KB5083769, applies to Windows 11 versions 24H2 and 25H2, and Microsoft has officially acknowledged at least two known issues tied to BitLocker policy configurations and Remote Desktop warning dialogs. The...
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Windows users have been trained for decades to treat a full drive as a crisis best solved by downloading yet another utility, but the more interesting answer has been sitting inside the operating system all along. Storage Sense, Microsoft’s built-in cleanup automation for Windows 10 and Windows 11, does many of the jobs that commercial “PC cleanup” apps advertise, without the scare tactics, subscription prompts, or one-click promises that often surround the category. The renewed attention...
Panathēnea 2026 is shaping up as more than another startup festival on the European calendar: it is becoming a test case for whether Athens can turn regional momentum into durable global relevance. Microsoft for Startups is using the May 27–29 gathering to court AI founders, investors, technical leaders, and students at a moment when capital, cloud infrastructure, and trusted networks are becoming inseparable. For startups, the message is direct: the right room still matters, especially when...
Microsoft’s latest guidance on agentic AI lands on a deceptively simple point: the organizations getting value from agents are not starting with agents at all. They are starting with business workflows, especially those already captured in Power Apps, CRM systems, service platforms, and other governed applications where roles, permissions, data boundaries, and accountability are already defined. That shift matters because it reframes the agent boom from a race to build clever demos into a...
OpenAI and Microsoft have rewritten the terms of one of the most important partnerships in modern technology, preserving a deep alliance while loosening the exclusivity that helped define the first wave of commercial generative AI. Under the amended agreement announced on April 27, 2026, Microsoft remains OpenAI’s primary cloud partner, and OpenAI products will still debut first on Azure when Azure can support the required capabilities. But the deal now gives OpenAI more freedom to offer...
Microsoft’s reported Windows K2 initiative lands at a moment when Windows 11 badly needs more than another feature pack. The plan, described as a broad internal push to improve performance, reliability, update behavior, gaming responsiveness, and user trust, suggests Redmond has finally heard the same complaint from consumers, gamers, developers, and IT admins: Windows needs to feel fast and dependable again. If Microsoft executes, 2026 could become the year Windows 11 stops being defined by...
Microsoft appears to be quietly preparing one of the smallest but most symbolically loaded visual updates in Windows 11: a replacement for the Windows 8-era dotted loading spinner that has greeted users during boot, login, restart, and other system transitions for more than a decade. The change was spotted in Windows 11 Insider Experimental Preview Build 26300.8289, where the hidden feature can reportedly be enabled with ViVeTool using feature ID 59728252. It is not yet enabled by default...
Microsoft’s GitHub is ending the era of Copilot’s AI buffet and moving all Copilot plans to usage-based billing on June 1, 2026, a shift that turns generative coding from a mostly predictable subscription into a metered compute service. The change replaces premium request units with GitHub AI Credits, a token-linked currency that better reflects how much work models actually perform. For developers, IT admins, and enterprises standardizing on AI coding tools, this is more than a pricing...
Macquarie Government’s appointment of Dr Chris Peiris as Microsoft Security and Azure Lead is more than a senior hire; it is a signal that Australia’s public-sector cloud market is entering a sharper, more security-conscious phase. The move places a veteran of Microsoft, AWS, Defence advisory work, academia, and national-security consulting at the centre of Macquarie Government’s push to grow Azure security, compliance, and resilient cloud services for federal and state agencies. It also...
Microsoft and OpenAI Loosen Their Landmark AI Alliance, Opening Door to AWS and Other Cloud Platforms
Microsoft and OpenAI have rewritten one of the most important business arrangements in the artificial intelligence industry, ending key parts of the exclusivity that once made Microsoft the central commercial gateway for OpenAI’s technology. The amended agreement keeps the two companies closely tied, but it gives OpenAI much wider freedom to offer its products through other cloud providers...
Conagra Brands is turning Microsoft Copilot from an executive technology bet into an employee-led operating discipline, and the timing matters. Microsoft’s latest customer story, published April 27, 2026, frames the food giant’s AI program less as a top-down software rollout and more as a broad skills movement built around practical training, peer demonstrations, governance, and supply-chain use cases. For Windows and Microsoft 365 watchers, the Conagra example is a useful snapshot of where...
Microsoft and OpenAI have rewritten one of the most consequential partnerships in modern technology, loosening the exclusivity that helped define the generative AI boom while preserving a deep commercial relationship between the two companies. The amended agreement keeps Azure at the center of OpenAI’s infrastructure strategy, but it gives OpenAI far more freedom to sell products across competing cloud platforms. The move signals a new phase in which Microsoft and OpenAI remain partners...
Windows 11 appears to be gaining a new accessibility-focused display option called Screen Tint, a hidden Settings page that applies a soft color overlay across the desktop. The feature, seen in preview build 26300.8289 and tested by Windows Latest, expands beyond the familiar warm glow of Night Light with amber, rose, yellow, blue, green, gray, and custom tint options. Microsoft has not formally announced Screen Tint, and the current implementation reportedly flickers or fails to apply...
A small Windows 11 networking toggle has reopened a familiar question for anyone who bought a Wi-Fi 6E or Wi-Fi 7 router: are you actually using the hardware you paid for? A MakeUseOf hands-on report describes a laptop that kept connecting over 5GHz until the adapter’s Preferred Band setting was changed to favor 6GHz, immediately unlocking better wireless performance. The fix is simple, but the story behind it is bigger: modern Wi-Fi is now fast enough that Windows, router defaults, client...
A familiar Windows 11 storage debate is back in the spotlight after MakeUseOf highlighted a setting that can quietly hold back roughly 7GB or more of space on many PCs: Reserved Storage. For users with a spacious desktop SSD, that reserve may be invisible background plumbing; for anyone gaming, editing, or working on a 256GB or 512GB laptop, it can feel like the difference between installing one more app and deleting something useful. The key point is not that Windows is “stealing” storage...
Inside Accenture’s City-Scale Copilot Rollout
Deploying Microsoft 365 Copilot to 20,000 employees would qualify as a major enterprise technology project almost anywhere. At Accenture, it turned out to be the opening move.
The global professional services company is now rolling out Copilot across a workforce of roughly 743,000 people, a population comparable to the size of Denver. Microsoft describes it as the largest enterprise Copilot deployment to date, but the more important story may be...
Microsoft is testing one of the most consequential Windows Update changes since the Windows 10 era: Windows 11 users will be able to keep extending update pauses in 35-day blocks with no stated renewal limit, while the Power menu will always preserve plain Restart and Shut down choices even when updates are waiting. The new controls are rolling out first to Windows Insiders in the Dev and newly reworked Experimental channels, following more than 7,600 pieces of direct user feedback that...
Microsoft and OpenAI have rewritten one of the technology industry’s most important commercial relationships, turning a once tightly coupled alliance into a more flexible, less exclusive partnership. The new terms keep Azure at the center of OpenAI’s deployment strategy, but they also let OpenAI serve customers across other clouds and make Microsoft’s license to OpenAI technology non-exclusive through 2032. Just as important, Microsoft will no longer pay a revenue share to OpenAI, while...
Microsoft’s new Secure Boot 2023 certificate assessment in Microsoft Defender arrives at a critical moment for Windows administrators: the original Secure Boot certificates issued in 2011 begin expiring in June 2026, with the transition stretching into the months that follow. The new Defender recommendation gives security teams a fleet-wide view of which devices already trust the newer Windows UEFI CA 2023 certificate chain, which remain exposed, and which are not applicable because Secure...
Accenture’s decision to roll out Microsoft 365 Copilot to roughly 743,000 employees is more than a large software deployment; it is a stress test for the entire enterprise AI thesis. Microsoft is presenting the move as the largest enterprise Copilot deployment to date, while Accenture is positioning it as both an internal productivity engine and a practical proving ground for client transformation work. For Windows and Microsoft 365 administrators, the milestone signals that Copilot has...