Software
The Software section covers the applications, platforms and developer tools that run modern business and personal computing. We report on operating system and app releases, cloud and enterprise software, open-source projects and licensing disputes, and the growing role of AI coding assistants and agents in how software gets written. Our focus is on what a release or policy change means for the people who build with it and the people who depend on it, including pricing changes, deprecations, security implications and competitive moves among the largest platform vendors.
Microsoft’s May 2026 Patch Tuesday: 120 Flaws Fixed, First Zero-Day-Free Update in Nearly Two Years
Microsoft's May 2026 Patch Tuesday patches 120 vulnerabilities with no zero-days — the first clean month since June 2024. Here's what IT teams need to know and where to focus patching efforts.
Windows 11’s May 2026 Update Turns Your PC Into an Xbox — And That’s Just the Beginning
Microsoft has shipped its May 2026 Patch Tuesday update for Windows 11, and while cumulative security updates rarely generate excitement, KB5089549 is...
SAP Sapphire 2026: The Autonomous Enterprise Has Arrived — and It’s Running on Agentic AI
SAP unveiled its Autonomous Enterprise vision at Sapphire 2026, with Joule Studio, agent-to-agent integration with Microsoft 365 Copilot, and new partnerships with Anthropic and Nvidia redefining what ERP software can do.
Oracle Breaks With Quarterly Tradition: Monthly Security Patches Are Here — and AI Is Why
Oracle is replacing its decades-old quarterly patching cycle with monthly Critical Security Patch Updates — a direct response to AI-powered vulnerability discovery accelerating the threat landscape.
Adobe Reinvents the PDF: The New Productivity Agent That Turns Documents Into Living Experiences
Adobe unveiled its new productivity agent for Acrobat, marking one of the most significant updates to the platform since PDF was invented in 1993. The agent turns static documents into interactive, AI-powered experiences.
Microsoft’s “Windows K2” Project: The Ambitious Plan to Win Back Users Who Fell Out of Love With Windows 11
For years, critics and power users have lobbed the same complaints at Windows 11: it’s bloated, slow on modest hardware, cluttered with...
AI Agents Are the New Insider Threat — and 97% of Enterprises Know It
Enterprises spent the last decade training employees on phishing awareness, enforcing least-privilege access, and deploying zero-trust architecture to contain the insider threat....
Adobe Photoshop Finally Runs on Linux: A Watershed Moment for the Open-Source Desktop
For decades, the Linux desktop has been haunted by a single, stubborn ghost: professional creative software. No matter how polished the desktop...
How to Free Up Disk Space: 5 Hidden Windows Folders to Delete Now
Overview You bought a shiny new Windows PC with a 512 GB or even 1 TB solid-state drive. A year later, that...