Microsoft has quietly folded a longtime defender's toolkit into the core of Windows 11: Sysmon (System Monitor) is now available as a built‑in, optional Windows feature in Insider Preview builds, and Build 28020.1611 (KB5077221) also brings a small but practical OneDrive sharing polish and a...
OneDrive’s Folder Backup (Known Folder Move) is quietly one of the most consequential “default” behaviors in Windows 11: when it’s activated without clear consent it can commingle local and cloud copies, consume paid OneDrive storage, and change where your files actually live — often without you...
Microsoft’s OneDrive has quietly flipped a switch on how teams find and act on the documents that drive everyday decisions: as of February 3, 2026, Agents in OneDrive are generally available for commercial customers, enabling Copilot-powered assistants that can reason across a bounded set of...
Microsoft has quietly moved a new Copilot surface into the place most work actually lives: your OneDrive. What started as a set of preview concepts has reached general availability for commercial tenants — OneDrive now supports AI “agents” saved as .agent files that can reason across up to 20...
Microsoft has quietly moved a major piece of its Copilot strategy from preview into production: AI agents in OneDrive are now generally available for commercial tenants, letting you save a focused AI assistant as a .agent file that reasons over a curated set of documents, keeps project history...
Microsoft has begun rolling out Agents in OneDrive, a feature that turns selected files and folders into a focused, shareable Copilot-powered assistant — saved as a .agent file — and positions OneDrive as a place not just for storage, but for context-aware, project-centric AI assistance...
Microsoft has quietly pushed a minor—but informative—update to the Canary Channel today: Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 28020.1546 (KB 5074176), a small servicing flight that fixes a specific app interaction with cloud‑backed files and includes a cosmetic desktop watermark anomaly that...
Windows 11 users who rely on OneDrive have been seeing a familiar — and infuriating — pattern: right‑click on a file and the OneDrive context menu is missing or painfully slow to appear. The problem is real, recurring, and solvable by a mix of fast, safe steps (restart Explorer, reset OneDrive)...
Microsoft shipped an urgent, out‑of‑band Windows 11 update after its January Patch Tuesday rollup introduced a regression that left Outlook and other apps unable to reliably open or save files stored in cloud‑synced folders such as OneDrive — a problem that, for some users, rendered Outlook...
Microsoft pushed out another out-of-band emergency update late this month to undo a painful regression that broke file I/O for cloud-backed locations — a bug that left Outlook hung, emails duplicated or missing, and administrators scrambling for fixes.
Overview
The sequence began with...
Microsoft pushed an emergency, out‑of‑band Windows 11 update on January 24, 2026 to fix a serious compatibility regression that could cause Microsoft Outlook and other applications to hang or crash when opening or saving files stored inside cloud‑synced folders such as OneDrive — a problem that...
Microsoft pushed an unexpected emergency fix this month after January’s Patch Tuesday updates left a significant portion of Windows 11 users unable to reliably open, save or sync files stored in cloud‑backed folders — most visibly rendering classic Outlook profiles that keep PSTs inside OneDrive...
Microsoft has acknowledged a set of serious regressions after the Windows 11 January 2026 cumulative update (KB5074109), including a small but alarming set of machines that fail to boot with a Black Screen of Death showing the Stop Code UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME. In response, Microsoft issued an...
Microsoft’s second emergency update in two weeks is a blunt reminder that even mature platforms can stumble when complex subsystems collide — and for many Outlook users the fallout was immediate, painful, and productivity‑crippling. On January 24, 2026 Microsoft pushed a cumulative out‑of‑band...
Microsoft has pushed a second out-of-band Windows update in January 2026 to fix a critical bug that caused Outlook and other applications to crash or hang when they opened or saved files stored in cloud-backed locations such as OneDrive and Dropbox, compounding a rocky start to the year for...
Microsoft's first cumulative Windows 11 update of 2026 — delivered as KB5074109 on January 13 — has left a broad trail of disruption: critical security fixes were installed, but several high-impact regressions followed, forcing Microsoft into rapid damage control with out‑of‑band patches and...
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Microsoft released an out‑of‑band cumulative update for Windows 11, version 23H2—KB5078132 (OS Build 22631.6495)—on January 24, 2026 to address a set of post‑Patch‑Tuesday regressions and to roll together prior January fixes into a single package for affected systems. The package is explicitly...
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A routine Patch Tuesday release on January 13, 2026 has left a significant portion of classic Outlook users scrambling: the Windows 11 cumulative update KB5074109 and a separate Outlook Current Channel build have each introduced regressions that render parts of the traditional Outlook experience...
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Microsoft has warned that the January 13, 2026 cumulative security update for Windows — published as KB5074109 — can leave the classic (Win32) Outlook client unusable for many users, particularly those using POP profiles or storing .pst data files in cloud‑synced folders such as OneDrive; the...
Windows Weekly’s latest episode, “Second Generation Bonobos,” landed as a dense, opinionated briefing that stitched together three near-term shifts in Microsoft’s approach: rapid-fire emergency remediation for update regressions, quieter but meaningful changes to forced OneDrive folder backup...