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Nature has published a peer-reviewed challenge to the evidence behind Microsoft's Majorana 1 quantum claims, putting more than a year of scientific skepticism into the formal record.

Microsoft shipped Windows 11 build 29617.1000 to the Experimental (Future Platforms) channel last Thursday, pairing a structural change to how Windows handles monthly updates with a new display accessibility tool called Screen tint. Both changes share the same logic: reduce the friction of using Windows day to day, one at the servicing layer, one at the display layer.

Microsoft announced a broad Copilot in Excel update on June 25, adding finance-focused skills, federated data connectors, and workbook change-tracking features for Microsoft 365 Copilot customers. The release targets FP&A analysts, corporate finance teams, and investment professionals who use Excel for forecasting, reporting, valuation, and close-related work.

Microsoft has extended the free Windows 10 Extended Security Updates program by a full year, pushing the consumer deadline from October 2026 to October 12, 2027. No press release, no blog post just a quietly updated support page. BleepingComputer confirmed the change yesterday, with The Verge following this morning.

Windows 10 end of support security became a live problem on October 14, 2025, when Microsoft stopped delivering security patches, quality updates, and technical support to standard Windows 10 users. Machines that haven't migrated since then receive no fixes for newly discovered vulnerabilities, and that exposure compounds with every month that passes.

Smart App Control can now be turned on or off directly from Windows Security settings, without reinstalling Windows. That wasn't true until the April 2026 cumulative update (KB5083769) changed it. Before that update, disabling SAC was permanent: the only way back was a full reset or clean install.

Microsoft has shipped Outlook for Mac version 16.110, bringing a full Liquid Glass visual overhaul and native PST file import to the app. Both changes are live now through the Mac App Store. This Microsoft Outlook for Mac update marks two significant shifts at once: the app finally looks like it belongs on macOS, and it can now directly import email archives that previously required workarounds to access on Mac.

Microsoft pushed Windows 11 Insider Preview build 28120.2315 to Experimental (26H1) channel testers last Thursday, carrying two documented fixes: a Live Captions style responsiveness improvement and a reliability update to the inbox HD Audio driver. The release lands two weeks after Microsoft restructured its 26H1 pre-release program, and the contrast between what Experimental and Beta testers received this cycle tells you something about how the new structure is working.

This guide walks through how to run a ChatGPT PC health check using only the system telemetry Windows already exposes to IT support. No personal files, documents, or passwords involved. Two paths, depending on how deep you need to go.

If you've ever walked away from your desk and wondered whether your PC is still unlocked, your phone can help — but the best method depends on the phone you use.

Copilot in Microsoft Edge can turn a web page, or a stack of open tabs, into a generated audio podcast. This guide walks through exactly how to do that: what you need before starting, how to write a prompt that produces useful output, and where the feature's limits are.

Right-click a file in Windows 11, click "Compress to ZIP file," and instead of an archive appearing, you get an "open with" prompt asking you to pick an app. That's the problem this guide fixes and if compress to ZIP file not working on Windows 11 is your situation, you'll find the fix here whether the command is misbehaving, disappeared after a recent update, or never worked on your current installation.

Microsoft's most revealing Microsoft Android hardware decision of the past decade had nothing to do with Windows. By choosing Android as the operating system for its dual-screen productivity device, Microsoft was making an explicit admission about what had killed Windows Phone and betting it could do something different this time. The bet worked technically. It failed commercially. And the gap between those two outcomes traces almost entirely to a single unresolved question: what, exactly, was...

Does updating to Windows 11 25H2 remove scripts? Based on available evidence, no. That answer is grounded in how the update is engineered, not just an absence of complaints. What the upgrade doesn't guarantee is that those scripts will behave identically afterward.

Microsoft announced the Surface Laptop Ultra a few days ago, and while the device won't reach stores until later this year, its default wallpaper is already out. Someone extracted the high-resolution asset from pre-release materials, and Neowin is hosting both it and an unofficial light variant. To download the Surface Laptop Ultra wallpaper and apply it to your Windows 11 desktop, the whole process takes under a minute.

On May 18, 2026, an attacker used a poisoned third-party VS Code extension to compromise a GitHub employee device and pull internal repositories. This GitHub security breach suddenly exposed Microsoft's most prominent developer platform. It happened at precisely the wrong moment. GitHub is no longer just a code host. Microsoft is in the middle of remaking it into the control layer for AI-driven software development, and this GitHub Microsoft survival analysis examines whether that...

Microsoft has made two distinct bets on how Office work should start and progress. The first: users should generate documents, spreadsheets, and presentations from a chat interface before they ever open an app. The second: once inside Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, Copilot should edit files directly rather than queue up suggestions for a person to apply. Both are now live, moving Copilot from a sidebar assistant toward both file creation in chat and direct editing inside apps. Access is broad, but...

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Microsoft today launched the Surface Laptop for Business with two features new to the Surface lineup: an integrated privacy screen on select 13.8-inch configurations, and an OS-level haptic touchpad tied to Windows 11 interactions. The Surface Laptop for Business privacy screen is the more immediately useful of the two. Neither feature is an AI story, and both carry a price that Windows Central described as "outrageously expensive."

Microsoft launched its Xbox Player Voice feedback portal this week, and the top results came in fast. Within hours, the most-upvoted requests pointed in one direction: bring back console exclusives, expand backward compatibility, and drop the subscription requirement for online multiplayer. The Verge and IGN both covered the Xbox Player Voice feedback results today.

The May 2026 Patch Tuesday update is failing to install on a subset of Windows 11 machines, stalling mid-reboot at roughly 35–36% completion and rolling back with error code 0x800f0922. Microsoft says the issue occurs on devices with limited free space on the EFI System Partition, especially when the ESP has 10 MB or less available; The Register covered Microsoft's disclosure on May 18, 2026. Both Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2 are affected.

Brazil's Anatel regulator published images of what appears to be Microsoft's unannounced successor to the Xbox Elite Series 2 controller, hours after a separate Xbox Cloud Gaming controller surfaced through the same channel. Brazilian outlet Tecnoblog spotted the filings first. The images show a refined design with two new scroll wheels, a pairing button that toggles between local and cloud modes, and a removable battery smaller than the one in the Elite 2.

Microsoft is adding a Windows 11 automatic driver rollback feature that can replace a bad driver update without any action from the user or the hardware vendor. Called Cloud-Initiated Driver Recovery, it works through the existing Windows Update pipeline and is currently being tested with hardware partners, with broad rollout targeted for September 2026 (The Verge, today; Digital Trends, today).

Windows 11 gives you three built-in ways to find your IP address, and none of them will show you what you might actually need. That's not a bug it's a distinction worth understanding before you start clicking around. The methods built into the OS return the local (private) address your router assigns to your device. The public address, which belongs to the router itself and is what the outside internet sees, lives somewhere else entirely. This guide covers how to find IP address on Windows 11...

Microsoft this week pushed a significant update to Edge: the Microsoft Edge Copilot tabs update gives Copilot permission to read every tab you have open and pull answers from across all of them at once. Ask it to compare five product pages, surface a spec from an article you opened an hour ago, or condense a stack of research tabs it draws from your full open set without requiring you to paste or switch. That puts it in a different category than a sidebar chatbot waiting to be addressed.

Microsoft today announced a Windows Update automatic driver rollback feature that can replace a faulty driver installed through Windows Update on affected devices without any action from the user or the hardware vendor. The feature, called Cloud-Initiated Driver Recovery, is currently in testing with hardware partners and is scheduled for a gradual rollout in September, The Verge reported today. It applies only to drivers delivered through Windows Update a scope boundary that defines both what...

Xbox Mobile Store Not Dead: Why It Still Hasn't Launched

Why the Discord Xbox Game Pass partnership speculation makes strategic sense

Discord launched Nitro Rewards today, and the headline feature is free access to the base tier of Xbox Game Pass bundled into the existing $9.99/month Nitro subscription. The Discord Nitro Xbox Game Pass bundle covers more than 50 PC and Xbox games and 10 hours of monthly cloud streaming, TechCrunch reported at launch. For Nitro subscribers who don't already pay for Game Pass, that's a genuine addition. It's also a deliberately constrained one.

Windows 11 April 2026 Update BitLocker Recovery: KB5083769 Bug Explained

Windows 11 Dev Build Secure Boot Monitoring Lands in All Insider Channels

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced Tuesday that Microsoft is ending Xbox Copilot AI on mobile and halting all console development of the assistant, confirmed the same day by an Xbox spokesperson to PC Gamer. The mobile version is being wound down; console development has stopped entirely. No replacement product has been announced.

PowerShell 7.6 New Features, Breaking Changes, and Upgrade Guide

Xbox hardware revenue fell 25% in Microsoft's fiscal year 2025 on lower console sales volume, the second consecutive annual decline after a 13% drop the prior year, according to the Microsoft Annual Report 2025. Those figures, published last October, cover Microsoft's fiscal year ending June 2025. The back-to-back declines point to something more persistent than a single rough year, though whether that reflects a hardware cycle trough or a structural shift is a question the filings leave open....

Google has updated Quick Share for Windows with a visual overhaul that brings the desktop app's interface in line with the Android version. The redesign is cosmetic. The underlying transfer functionality is unchanged.

Microsoft chose an AI executive with no gaming experience to run Xbox. The internal heir apparent, Sarah Bond, who had spent years rising to Xbox president and COO, was passed over and left the company. That decision captures something larger than a single succession call: it is the clearest illustration of what Microsoft's wave of executive departures is actually building. Across gaming, Office, Windows, developer tools, and GitHub, the company has moved consistently since January toward the...