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Microsoft has quietly begun a platform-level refresh of the cryptographic anchors that protect Windows’ pre‑boot environment, delivering new Secure Boot certificates through Windows Update and coordinated OEM firmware work to head off a calendar‑driven failure when Microsoft’s original UEFI...

Microsoft’s marketing teams have quietly elevated Copilot from a helpful assistant to the face of Windows 11 productivity — placing Copilot at the top of a promotional list of built‑in Windows tools and claiming it as the go‑to app for thinking, planning and getting stuff done on the desktop...

Microsoft appears to be turning Notepad into something closer to a lightweight Markdown notebook: Windows Latest reports that Microsoft is testing image support in the Windows 11 Notepad app, with the feature integrated into the app’s existing Markdown/formatting experience, and — importantly —...

Microsoft’s cloud and AI engines — the same infrastructure the company says it polices through terms of service — are now the focus of a renewed debate over corporate responsibility after leaked documents showed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) dramatically expanded its Azure...

Parallels Desktop 26 arrived as a deliberately pragmatic update: compatibility-first, enterprise-ready, and positioned to keep Mac-first organizations running Windows workloads without interruption. Parallels’ latest release cycle formalizes year‑based versioning to match Apple’s macOS naming...

Microsoft’s latest Teams mobile update doesn’t hide its intentions: a new “Links in Teams” setting will prompt mobile users to pick a browser when they open non‑Office and PDF links — and the experience is designed to steer people toward Microsoft Edge, complete with single sign‑on, Copilot...

Microsoft is quietly putting a one‑click internet speed check where most Windows users already look for connectivity, adding a “Perform speed test” / “Test internet speed” control to the Taskbar network menu and Wi‑Fi quick settings in recent Windows 11 preview builds. Background Windows has...

On February 18, 2026 a fresh wave of user reports and forum threads asked the blunt, familiar question: Is Microsoft Copilot down? The short, evidence‑based answer for most users is: not globally — but yes, intermittent and regionally scoped problems were reported on that date, and the incident...

Windows 11’s newest Release Preview — appearing as builds 26100.7918 and 26200.7918 — pivots away from headline AI experiments and instead delivers a collection of pragmatic, troubleshooting‑first updates: a one‑click network speed test from the taskbar, native Sysmon for improved endpoint...

A senior former Microsoft engineering leader has publicly admitted he “fought hard” to keep the long‑standing ability to place the Windows taskbar on the left or right of the screen — a customization that Windows users have taken for granted since the 1990s but which Microsoft removed in Windows...

Microsoft’s Security Update Guide lists CVE-2026-2323 because the flaw originates in the Chromium open‑source project and Microsoft Edge (Chromium‑based) ships Chromium code inside its binaries; the SUG entry simply tells Edge users and administrators whether the downstream Edge builds have...

AI browsers promise to compress research, shopping and complex workflows into a single conversational surface — but they also expand the web’s attack surface, upend traffic economics, and demand far more cautious deployment than traditional browsers ever did. rview The web has spent three...

Microsoft has quietly added a first‑party command‑line client for the Microsoft Store to Windows 11: a built‑in Store CLI surfaced as the store command that lets you browse, search, install and update Store content from the terminal without opening the GUI. This is a small change on the surface...

Microsoft’s decision to ship a split Windows 11 release this spring — a platform-only build labeled Windows 11, version 26H1 that will appear exclusively on new Arm-based PCs powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 series — marks a meaningful pivot in how Microsoft supports new silicon and how the...

Microsoft's push to make Microsoft 365 Copilot measurably smarter and more actionable is moving from stagecraft to mass rollout, and the impact will be felt across how organizations create, manage, and govern work. Over the last several months Microsoft has layered new capabilities — agent...

Microsoft’s February 10, 2026 cumulative updates for Windows 11 quietly carried more than routine security fixes — they continued a staged rollout that will refresh the operating system’s Secure Boot certificate chain ahead of a looming expiry window that begins in June 2026. What looks like a...

Microsoft has issued a blunt, time‑bound warning: several long‑lived Secure Boot certificates provisioned around 2011 will begin to expire in mid‑2026, and devices that do not transition to Microsoft’s replacement certificate family risk losing the ability to receive security fixes and trust...

Microsoft’s long-neglected desktop has, shockingly to some and unsurprisingly to others, begun to show signs of life: the company that many argued had turned Windows into a legacy cash cow amid an AI-and-cloud renaissance is now publicly re-prioritizing the platform, reorganizing leadership, and...

Microsoft has warned that several long‑lived Secure Boot certificate authorities that Windows and many OEM firmwares depend on will begin to expire in June 2026 (with a final boot‑signing PCA following in October 2026), and Microsoft — together with major OEMs — is actively rolling a replacement...

IT administrators now have practical, fleet-scale ways to check whether Windows devices are carrying the updated Secure Boot certificate chain and whether they’re ready to accept the upcoming Secure Boot updates — a crucial capability as Microsoft and OEMs rotate the platform’s cryptographic...