Catch up with the latest Microsoft stories in this week’s news recap. Windows 11 is now more popular than Windows 10, massive layoffs, tone-deaf communications, and more.
This week’s news recap is here. Windows 11 is finally more popular than Windows 10, Microsoft fires a lot of workers and closes studios, tone-deaf communications from execs (speak to Copilot if you were fired), a single Windows 11 preview build, and more.
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Here, we talk about everything happening around Microsoft’s latest operating system in the Stable channel and preview builds: new features, removed features, controversies, bugs, interesting findings, and more. And, of course, you may find a word or two about older versions.
This month marks an important milestone for Windows 11: the four-year-old operating system is finally more popular than Windows 10. StatCounter reports that the OS took over its predecessor worldwide. Windows 11 is also doing pretty well among gamers, and in June 2025, it reached a new all-time high of nearly 60%.
This week, users noticed that Microsoft was quietly installing a Windows update on systems that are running out of support. However, after the news, Microsoft posted an update to the story. The company also clarified that Windows did not lose 400 million users, as was speculated by some outlets. Coincidentally, this number matches 400 million Windows 10 PCs that cannot run Windows 11. Public Interest Research Group slammed Microsoft for lackluster support for these devices and said that one year of free security updates is not enough.
The list of known bugs in Windows 11 version 24H2 has been expanded with new details about some of the upcoming 24H2 features triggering Windows Firewall.
To finish this week’s Windows section, check out this blog post describing how a 13-year-old kid helped Microsoft improve its product security. Also, check out this cool concept, which fuses the looks of Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows XP, Windows 10, and Windows 11 into one big and odd soup.
Here is what Microsoft released for Windows Insiders this week:
While this week was pretty slim in terms of new builds, enthusiasts discovered some cool stuff in the latest releases. Windows 11’s lock screen battery indicator is finally getting a redesign. While you can enable it right now, Microsoft confirmed that the indicator is not ready for public testing just yet.
This section covers software, firmware, and other notable updates (released and coming soon) delivering new features, security fixes, improvements, patches, and more from Microsoft and third parties.
June is now behind us, and as usual, Microsoft published recaps of new features for its productivity apps, such as Teams, Excel, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and more. Other Office updates include dynamic DPI support in OneNote, which allows the app to adjust itself on the fly when you move it across monitors with different DPIs.
