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Microsoft is rolling out its 2025 Windows 11 Start menu redesign to version 24H2 and 25H2 users as of July 2026, bringing a single scrollable layout, category-based app browsing, and more control over the long-criticized Recommended area. The change is not the grand restoration of Windows 10-era...

Microsoft Copilot Cowork is Microsoft’s new agentic Microsoft 365 capability, broadly available in June 2026, that lets business users delegate multi-step work across Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint while retaining review and approval checkpoints. The important word is...

Microsoft has awarded Logicalis global Frontier Partner status and a Microsoft Copilot specialisation on July 1, 2026, recognising the service provider’s Microsoft cloud, AI, security, data, and Copilot deployment capabilities for enterprise customers. The announcement is less interesting as a...

Microsoft said on July 1, 2026, that New Outlook for Windows has gained broader .PST support, including improved search and import behavior, while still requiring Classic Outlook to be installed in the background for local data-file access. That is the kind of sentence Microsoft wants to sound...

On June 28, 2026, Paul Thurrott surfaced a Windows 11 Field Guide entry showing Xbox Mode settings that let supported PCs boot into a controller-first Xbox interface instead of the traditional desktop. The screenshot is small news, but the implication is not: Microsoft is turning the Windows...

Microsoft has placed Planner custom templates, Roadmap ID 512431, in development for General Availability in July 2026 across desktop, Mac, and web for worldwide standard Microsoft 365 tenants, with the roadmap item created on November 18, 2025 and updated on June 29, 2026. That sounds like a...

Microsoft is adding Interpreter agent support to Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android in August 2026 for Teams Rooms Pro-licensed devices across Worldwide, GCC, GCC High, and DoD clouds, extending real-time meeting translation from personal Teams clients and Windows-based rooms into Android meeting...

Admins and power users testing Windows 11 Insider Beta build 26220.8680 should generally keep Widgets enabled for pilots and flexible user groups, keep Microsoft’s quieter defaults in place, and disable Widgets only on tightly managed, shared, classroom, kiosk-adjacent, or distraction-sensitive...

Windows 11’s help-and-recovery story in mid-2026 is no longer a collection of dusty Control Panel wizards: Microsoft has pushed users toward Quick Assist, Get Help, Settings-based troubleshooters, Windows Recovery Environment, and Quick Machine Recovery as the practical support stack for broken...

Microsoft is rolling out a Microsoft Teams pre-join audio test in June 2026 that lets users record and play back a short microphone sample from the meeting join screen before entering a call, with worldwide commercial tenants expected to receive it by late June and government clouds after that...

Microsoft confirmed on June 23, 2026, that Windows 11 version 26H2 will ship as an enablement-package update for eligible PCs already on versions 24H2 or 25H2, while June’s optional KB5095093 preview update begins delivering several user-facing changes ahead of July’s broader rollout. That...

Microsoft has made Point-in-time restore generally available for Windows 11 Home, Pro, and Enterprise devices in June 2026, though many users will only see it after installing the optional Week D preview update or waiting for the July Patch Tuesday rollout. That makes the announcement both...

Microsoft is resuming automatic installation of the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on eligible Windows devices with commercial Microsoft 365 desktop apps between mid-June and mid-July 2026, unless administrators opt out through the Microsoft 365 Apps admin center. The move is not a Windows Update in...

Microsoft is again automatically installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on eligible Windows PCs running commercial Microsoft 365 desktop apps between mid-June and mid-July 2026, while excluding European Economic Area tenants and giving administrators an opt-out in the Microsoft 365 Apps admin...

Windows 11 still splits keyboard, mouse, and touchpad configuration across the modern Settings app, legacy Control Panel dialogs, and vendor utilities, leaving users in 2026 with an input system that mostly works automatically but remains oddly fragmented. The practical story is not that Windows...

Microsoft released optional Windows 11 preview updates KB5095093 and KB5095091 on June 23, 2026, bringing Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2 to builds 26100.8737 and 26200.8737, while Windows 11 26H1 moves to build 28000.2340. These are not emergency security patches, but they are more than routine...

Microsoft has made point-in-time restore generally available for Windows 11 version 24H2 and later, adding a built-in recovery feature for Home, Pro, and Enterprise PCs that can roll a device back to a locally stored earlier state from Windows Recovery Environment in minutes. The pitch is...

Microsoft’s June 23, 2026 preview update KB5095091 for Windows 11 version 26H1, OS Build 28000.2340, acknowledges that Windows updates released on or after June 9 can prevent some third-party applications from launching Microsoft Office apps or opening Office documents through OLE automation...

Microsoft has confirmed in June 2026 that Windows 11 version 26H2 will ship later this year as a small enablement package, continuing the low-drama servicing model used for Windows 11 25H2 rather than delivering a large annual platform upgrade. That sounds like a letdown only if you still expect...

Microsoft announced on June 19, 2026, that Windows 11 version 26H2 is now available to Windows Insiders in the Experimental channel, with broader availability expected in the second half of 2026 for eligible Windows 11 devices. The headline is not that another Windows version number has appeared...