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Microsoft has published a non‑security preview update for Windows 11, version 23H2 — KB5064080 — delivered as an optional Release Preview package that bundles a set of targeted reliability fixes, a servicing‑stack refresh, and an enterprise‑facing capability that Microsoft calls Windows Backup for Organizations. ethe Release Preview Channel to stage near‑final cumulative updates before they go broadly to production. These preview releases are intended to surface last‑mile regressions and...

Microsoft has pushed a targeted Release Preview update identified as KB5064080 into the Windows 11 servicing stream, delivering incremental reliability fixes across File Explorer, storage (ReFS), networking (SMB over QUIC), input/IME handling, device‑management policy enforcement and more — and it surfaces Windows Backup for Organizations as a new enterprise‑facing capability to watch. Background / Overview Windows 11 servicing continues to use parallel build families — the 22621 family...

Microsoft has published KB5065813 — an out‑of‑box experience (OOBE) update for Windows 11, versions 22H2 and 23H2 — on August 26, 2025, delivering two tightly related outcomes: first, a platform change that enables Windows quality updates to be taken during OOBE for eligible managed devices; and second, an emergency servicing patchset that addresses reset/recovery failures introduced by the August 2025 cumulative rollups. The KB brings a combined Servicing Stack Update (SSU) + Latest...

Microsoft has quietly released a first‑party, agentless VM Conversion extension for Windows Admin Center that converts VMware vCenter/ESXi virtual machines into Hyper‑V VMs on Windows Server — a move that promises a low‑friction on‑premises path away from VMware while surfacing important operational, licensing, and security tradeoffs administrators must plan for now. Background: why this matters now Virtual machine conversion and migration has long been one of the more painful tasks in...

Microsoft Azure and NVIDIA have quietly become the engine room for a new wave of scientific discovery — and three startups in the Catalyst series show how GPU-accelerated cloud infrastructure is being used to translate raw data into concrete outcomes in medicine, biology, and digital reproduction of the physical world. These companies — Pangaea Data, Basecamp Research, and Global Objects — each illustrate a different axis of innovation: clinical AI that finds missed patients in electronic...

Microsoft is rolling the ability to install Windows quality updates during the Out‑Of‑Box Experience (OOBE) into enterprise provisioning flows, making it possible for eligible Entra‑joined and Entra hybrid‑joined Windows 11 devices to arrive at first sign‑in already patched — but only when administrators meet specific prerequisites and accept some operational trade‑offs. Background Microsoft has been evolving the Windows setup experience for years, trying to close the “day‑one patching” gap...

Flyoobe 1.5 marks a deliberate shift: what began as a compact Windows 11 installer‑bypass has matured into a unified toolkit that combines upgrade mechanics with a full Out‑Of‑Box Experience (OOBE) customization suite, making clean installs, repairs, and first‑boot personalization easier for technicians and enthusiasts alike. Background / Overview Flyby11—the lightweight utility originally designed to circumvent Windows 11’s hardware gates—has been rebranded and expanded into Flyoobe, a...

If you rely on Windows Task Scheduler but secretly wish it had a friendlier interface, richer triggers, or workflow-style automation, here are four solid alternatives that can replace or augment Task Scheduler for everyday and power-user automation needs. Background / Overview Windows Task Scheduler is the long-established automation engine built into Windows that launches programs, scripts, or actions based on time‑ or event‑based triggers. It exposes a full set of trigger and action APIs...

Windows 11 quietly preserves the long-standing “God Mode” trick — a simple, hidden folder that consolidates hundreds of Windows configuration panels, admin utilities, and legacy Control Panel applets into a single, searchable view — making it a fast, power-user shortcut for anyone who regularly tweaks system settings or manages multiple machines. Background God Mode is not a secret new feature added to Windows 11; it’s a decades-old quirk of the Windows shell that maps a special Class ID...

LinkedIn’s pivot to paying creators is already reshaping the B2B advertising playbook—and the move could be one of the clearest strategic accelerants for Microsoft’s ad and cloud ecosystem this decade. The thesis is simple: by turning professional content into a monetizable, creator-driven feed and coupling that inventory with Microsoft’s AI and LinkedIn’s verified professional data, Microsoft has a unique path to higher-quality advertising outcomes, stronger platform stickiness, and durable...

Microsoft’s deputy CISO for Identity lays out a clear warning: autonomous agents are moving from experiments to production, and without new identity, access, data, and runtime controls they will create risks that are fundamentally different from those posed by traditional users and service accounts. Background / Overview Autonomous agents — software entities able to reason, call tools, and take actions toward goals with minimal human intervention — are no longer a niche research idea. Over...

Logitech’s next-generation MX Master 4 has leaked in near-complete form, and the early picture points to a measured, productivity-first evolution rather than a wholesale reinvention of the MX Master line — with haptic feedback, a new Actions Ring control, and a refined exterior leading the changes. Background The MX Master family has been the benchmark for ergonomic, productivity-oriented mice for most of the last decade. The MX Master 3 arrived in 2019 and the 3S refined clicks and sensor...

Parallels Desktop 26 arrives as a pragmatic, compatibility‑first update that explicitly prepares Mac users and IT teams for Apple’s macOS 26 “Tahoe” host changes and Microsoft’s Windows 11 25H2 guest cycle while tightening enterprise controls and addressing several long‑standing virtualization friction points. Background / Overview Parallels has shifted its major release numbering to a year‑based model, aligning product cadence with Apple’s new OS naming approach. That renumbering — now...

Microsoft has quietly begun testing a Handoff-like “resume on PC” experience in Windows 11 Insider Preview builds that lets you start playback in Spotify on your Android phone and pick it up on your PC with a single click — a small but meaningful step toward the kind of cross-device continuity Apple users have enjoyed for years. Background Apple’s Continuity and Handoff features have long been benchmark conveniences: start an activity on one device and continue it on another with minimal...

Microsoft’s August cumulative update for Windows 11 (KB5063878) has been linked by multiple independent testers and SSD vendors to a troubling storage regression: under sustained, large write workloads some SSDs temporarily vanish from the operating system — and in a subset of reports files written during the event were truncated or corrupted. Background / Overview Microsoft released KB5063878 as the August 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 (24H2) to deliver security and quality fixes...

Want Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl to look its absolute best? Enabling HDR can dramatically improve contrast, color depth, and highlight detail — but on Windows this feature is a chain-of-trust that requires the OS, GPU driver, monitor, cable, and the game itself to agree. This step‑by‑step guide walks you through every check, toggle, and calibration you need to enable HDR for Stalker 2, plus practical troubleshooting and safe tuning tips so you get cinematic visuals without the common...

Microsoft’s August cumulative update for Windows 11 has introduced a painful wrinkle for broadcasters and multi‑PC streamers: NDI‑based feeds using the protocol’s default Reliable UDP (RUDP) transport began exhibiting severe stuttering, dropped frames, and choppy audio/video, forcing producers to apply a temporary transport‑mode workaround while Microsoft investigates a permanent fix. Background The August 12, 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 (KB5063878, OS Build 26100.4946) — part of...

Microsoft’s August feature wave for Excel is one of those rare months where small, practical fixes land alongside bold, platform-level moves — and together they point to a clearer roadmap: Excel is becoming more connected, more AI-aware, and less tolerant of legacy quirks that have long frustrated global teams. The updates span the desktop, web, and Mac clients and include long-requested capabilities such as PivotTable auto-refresh, a Unicode-correct set of text functions under a new...

Microsoft’s warning that “the Windows are wide open for bad actors” is not hyperbole—October 14, 2025 is a hard deadline for Windows 10 support, and the downstream effects for healthcare providers, regulated institutions, and any organization running large fleets of legacy applications are immediate, expensive, and operationally brutal. The Security Magazine analysis that landed this warning lays out exactly how the timing, legacy-dependency, and procurement rhythms of hospitals and clinics...

The clock is ticking: on October 14, 2025, Microsoft will stop issuing regular security updates and technical support for Windows 10, and millions of PCs — from hand-me-down laptops to office rigs — will be exposed unless their owners act now. Microsoft has published an official Extended Security Updates (ESU) programme that can buy eligible Windows 10 devices one extra year of critical and important security patches through October 13, 2026, but the company’s enrolment mechanism has been...