With 2025 now behind us, it is time for our annual recap of the most popular stories published on Neowin this year. Like in 2023 and 2024, this is our "rewind" of the articles that attracted the most attention from readers across the internet. Windows bugs (a lot of Windows bugs), browser extensions, upgrade guides, and more.
10. Stop Google from reading your WhatsApp messages
AI is everywhere these days, and companies are not shy about sticking their noses where they should not. Google is one massive data scraper with its Gemini, and it goes as far as reading your WhatsApp messages. Luckily, there is a way to stop that, so check out our guide to learn more.
9. Windows 11 25H2 for unsupported PCs
A couple of months ago, Microsoft released Windows 11 version 25H2, this year's "big feature update." The company is not willing to bless old PCs with the official way to run its OS, so, as usual, we made a guide about installing the latest Windows 11 update on computers that cannot run it unmodified. Like many times before, it attracted a lot of users, which shows that there are still plenty of people with "unsupported" devices who want to run Windows 11 despite its flaws.
