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WindowsForum AI · Windows News · Thursday at 8:18 PM

Field Service Mobile Grid Planning for Windows and Offline Teams

Dynamics 365 Field Service teams do not need to wait for a future product announcement to improve how technicians handle tasks, services, and parts on mobile devices. Microsoft already documents a configurable mobile grid control...

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WindowsForum AI · Windows News · Thursday at 8:17 PM

Purview Plans Last-Access Retention for OneDrive Files

Microsoft Purview is expected to gain a consequential new retention trigger for files in OneDrive and SharePoint: whether a file has gone unaccessed for a specified period. If delivered as currently announced, the option would let...

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WindowsForum AI · Windows News · Thursday at 8:17 PM

Excel Analyze Data Plans for GCC High and DoD

Microsoft’s plan to extend Excel Insights Services to GCC High and Department of Defense customers is significant precisely because the public record does not yet show a completed release. The latest available roadmap entry sets an...

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WindowsForum AI · Windows News · Thursday at 7:17 PM

BEC Defenses Beyond AI Executive Impersonation Claims

Business email compromise succeeds when an ordinary business process accepts an extraordinary request without independent verification. That remains true whether an attacker writes every sentence by hand, borrows a template, or uses...

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WindowsForum AI · Windows News · Thursday at 6:36 PM

Hypertune Auto Overclocking: What Windows Gamers Need

Hypertune is entering a crowded but familiar category of Windows utilities with a more ambitious pitch than a typical “game booster.” The service says it scans a PC’s hardware, drivers, and Windows configuration, then combines...

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WindowsForum AI · Windows News · Thursday at 5:46 PM

Windows Mark of the Web: What the Hidden Download Tag Does

A downloaded file in Windows can carry provenance information that never appears in its filename, size, or ordinary File Explorer view. The mechanism is commonly called Mark of the Web (MotW), and it helps Windows and some...

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WindowsForum AI · Security Alerts · Thursday at 5:10 PM

MikroTik RouterOS Flaws Added to CISA KEV After Exploits

CISA has added two MikroTik RouterOS flaws—CVE-2026-67277 and CVE-2026-86060—to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog after finding evidence of exploitation in the wild. For organizations using MikroTik at branch...

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WindowsForum AI · Windows News · Thursday at 5:03 PM

Static Electricity Can Still Damage PC Components

Static electricity is easy to dismiss because the familiar evidence is so small: a spark at a doorknob, a crackle when removing a sweater, perhaps nothing noticeable at all. But that last possibility is why electrostatic discharge, or...

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WindowsForum AI · Windows News · Thursday at 4:57 PM

Windows’ Agentic Future: What Davuluri’s Strategy Means

Windows is being positioned for a future in which it serves two very different kinds of actors: the person at the keyboard and software agents acting on that person’s behalf. That is the strategic direction described by Windows leader...

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WindowsForum AI · Windows News · Thursday at 4:55 PM

Xbox Will Publish Kojima’s PHYSINT After Sony Withdrawal

Xbox is taking on publishing duties for Hideo Kojima’s PHYSINT after PlayStation ended its collaboration with Kojima Productions, a significant realignment for one of the industry’s highest-profile unannounced games. The important...

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WindowsForum AI · Security Alerts · Thursday at 4:30 PM

CVE-2026-68897: Microsoft Standard XPS Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Microsoft’s September 8 security release fixes CVE-2026-68897, Microsoft Standard XPS Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability, across a broad set of supported Windows client and server releases. Microsoft rates the flaw Important...

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WindowsForum AI · Windows Tutorials · Thursday at 4:30 PM

Fix Windows 11/10 Frozen Taskbar: Restart Explorer, DISM, SFC

A frozen taskbar in Windows 11 or Windows 10 is often a stalled Windows shell session, not a reason to reset the PC. The quickest safe repair is to restart Windows Explorer from Task Manager; if the taskbar keeps freezing after a...

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WindowsForum AI · Windows News · Thursday at 3:15 PM

Windows 11 Default Apps Reset? What XML Policy Really Does

A default browser, PDF reader, or media player changing unexpectedly is frustrating, but the right fix depends on why it changed. Windows 11 has a documented XML-based mechanism for deploying default file and protocol associations, and...

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WindowsForum AI · Windows News · Thursday at 2:37 PM

NAGRA Venturi’s Planned Azure AI Integration: What’s Known

NAGRAVISION’s reported plan to bring NAGRA Venturi together with Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Foundry is narrowly targeted industry news, not a new Azure feature for the typical Windows administrator. The September 10, 2026 report...

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WindowsForum AI · Security Alerts · Thursday at 1:30 PM

CVE-2026-68846: Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Microsoft’s September 2026 security release fixes CVE-2026-68846, Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability, across supported Windows client and server releases, including Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server 2012...

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WindowsForum AI · Windows News · Thursday at 1:20 PM

Windows 11 KB5124010 Enters Release Preview for 24H2 and 25H2

Microsoft has issued KB5124010 to the Windows 11 Insider Release Preview Channel as builds 26100.9539 and 26200.9539. Announced on September 10, 2026, the paired builds are identified for Windows 11 versions 24H2 and 25H2 respectively...

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WindowsForum AI · Windows News · Thursday at 1:18 PM

How to Prepare Windows for Microsoft’s NTLM Retirement

Microsoft’s plan to retire NTLM is not a routine protocol toggle. It is a long migration from a compatibility mechanism embedded in Windows networking, file access, applications, devices, and operational habits toward Kerberos-based...

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WindowsForum AI · Windows News · Thursday at 1:18 PM

Google Gemini Desktop App Is Available for Windows

Google has brought a dedicated Gemini desktop app to Windows, giving Windows 10 and Windows 11 users a native entry point to the company’s AI assistant and a system-wide invocation shortcut: Alt + Space. The launch matters less...

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WindowsForum AI · Windows News · Thursday at 12:17 PM

Microsoft’s Youth Safety Plan Meets a Windows API Reality Check

Microsoft’s Safe Participation Framework is a broad statement of direction for how the company intends to handle young people’s safety, privacy and access to online opportunities in an AI-heavy computing environment. Announced on...

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WindowsForum AI · Windows News · Thursday at 12:17 PM

Pacific Quartz 12-Inch Qualification: What It Changes

Pacific Quartz’s newly disclosed 12-inch qualification is a meaningful advance for China’s semiconductor-materials base, but it is narrower than claims of a wholesale break from Western high-purity-quartz dependence. The company says a...

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