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Windows Update’s default behavior — download, install, repeat — is a convenience for many but a data bill nightmare for others, and a simple registry tweak that’s circulated in tech blogs and forums can extend Windows’ “Pause updates” well beyond the default limit so updates stop chewing through limited bandwidth when you’re on a hotspot or capped connection. Background Windows provides several built‑in controls to limit when and how updates download: the Pause updates control in Settings...

Microsoft’s latest preview-quality release for Windows 11 has backfired for a sizable number of users: the optional KB5044384 update, issued to address and polish aspects of Windows 11 24H2, introduced a Task Manager display bug that misreports process counts and, in some installs, coincided with installation failures and system slowdowns — a reminder that even “preview” fixes can ripple into real-world friction for consumers and enterprises. Background Microsoft released KB5044384 as an...

Microsoft’s latest optional preview for Windows 11, KB5067036, has delivered a visible Start menu refresh and other small improvements — and, for a subset of users, a nagging regression that leaves Task Manager processes alive after you click the window Close (X) button, spawning multiple resident taskmgr.exe instances that quietly consume RAM and CPU until explicitly killed. Background Windows servicing windows often include optional, non‑security “preview” cumulative updates that blend...

Capcom’s Steam page quietly confirmed what many suspected: Resident Evil Requiem’s PC requirements are surprisingly modest for a modern AAA title, but there’s an uncompromising caveat — Windows 11 (64-bit) is mandatory. The store listing publishes a practical minimum and recommended hardware envelope that will let a broad swath of current gaming PCs run the game, while the OS gate effectively excludes unsupported Windows 10 machines unless owners upgrade or enroll in short-term extended...

Microsoft's timing could not have been worse: as Windows 10 reached its end-of-support horizon, the company's most familiar consumer upgrade utility — the Media Creation Tool — began failing for many Windows 10 users, closing silently without error and leaving upgrade and recovery workflows stranded. Microsoft has since pushed a remediation: the Media Creation Tool was updated on October 28, 2025 and a preview cumulative update (KB5067036) addresses the related Arm64 compatibility regression...

Samsung’s mobile browser has returned to Windows as a deliberately staged beta, bringing bookmarks, open tabs, and Galaxy AI-powered browsing tools to PCs — but the rollout is limited, some features are still staged, and careful verification is essential before you install it on primary machines. Background Samsung Internet has been a staple browser on Galaxy phones for more than a decade, known for a privacy-forward design, extension support, and tight integration with Samsung services. The...

Microsoft’s latest push to make AI a first-class tool for everyday business users landed this week with the addition of App Builder and Workflows agents inside Microsoft 365 Copilot — features that promise to let employees create working apps and automate cross‑app processes “in minutes” using plain language inside the Copilot chat experience. Delivered as part of the Copilot “Frontier” preview, these new agents pair a lightweight Copilot Studio authoring surface with Microsoft 365 data and...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud experienced a high‑visibility global outage beginning on October 29, 2025 that briefly knocked important consumer and enterprise services offline — including Microsoft 365, Xbox Live, Minecraft authentication and a number of high‑profile customer sites — after an inadvertent configuration change in the Azure Front Door (AFD) edge fabric introduced DNS and routing failures; Microsoft deployed a rollback and said the AFD service was operating above 98% availability as...

Microsoft is doubling down on the physical work of AI—ramping GPU capacity, signing multi‑billion dollar infrastructure deals, and building “AI‑first” datacenters—because analysts now expect that Azure’s revenue growth will re‑accelerate as those investments come online. Background Microsoft’s recent quarters have shown a clear pattern: explosive demand for AI‑driven workloads is outpacing available GPU‑dense capacity, prompting heavy capital expenditures, third‑party capacity deals, and...

The internet flickered and, for millions of users and hundreds of thousands of downstream services, it briefly went dark — first with a major AWS incident in mid‑October and then with a widespread Microsoft Azure outage on October 29 that was traced to a misapplied configuration change in Azure Front Door. Background The modern public internet increasingly runs on a small number of massive cloud platforms known as hyperscalers. Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud...

Microsoft’s cloud backbone briefly buckled on October 29 when a misapplied configuration change in Azure Front Door (AFD) triggered a cascading outage that left Azure, Microsoft 365, Xbox services and thousands of customer sites intermittently unavailable before engineers rolled back the faulty change and restored global routing. Background Microsoft Azure is one of the world’s three hyperscale public clouds and uses Azure Front Door as its global Layer‑7 edge and application‑delivery...

SAS is now offering a turnkey, managed version of its Viya analytics platform on Microsoft Azure — SAS Viya Essentials — a packaged deployment aimed at getting organizations up and running with analytics and AI faster, with predefined architectures, managed operations, and a guaranteed uptime SLA. Background / Overview SAS Viya Essentials is presented as a standardized, managed instance of the SAS Viya platform running entirely on Microsoft Azure and operated under SAS Managed Cloud...

Microsoft's cloud backbone entered emergency recovery mode after a pervasive outage centered on Azure Front Door (AFD) disrupted Microsoft’s own services and thousands of customer endpoints worldwide, forcing engineers to roll back to a “last known good” configuration, freeze further AFD changes, and reintroduce traffic in carefully staged waves while residual authentication and routing errors persisted. Background / Overview Azure Front Door is Microsoft’s global, Layer‑7 edge and...

AMD’s latest Radeon Software: Adrenalin Edition 25.10.2 arrives as a consequential, mixed‑bag update — shipping day‑one game tuning for Battlefield 6 and Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, introducing forward‑looking GPU features such as initial Work Graphs support for RX 9000 series and expanded Vulkan extensions, while quietly signaling a shift in platform baseline by publishing a Windows 11 (21H2+) compatibility listing that omits Windows 10. Background AMD’s Adrenalin driver stream...

A weird regression in a recent Windows 11 preview update is leaving behind “ghost” Task Manager processes every time users close the app with the window Close (X) button, so that each reopen spawns another running taskmgr.exe instance — a behaviour confirmed by community testing and reproduced across multiple systems. Background The issue is tied to an optional, non‑security preview update released on October 28, 2025 — identified as KB5067036, shipping OS builds 26200.7019 and 26100.7019...

Windows 11 users installing the optional October preview update (KB5067036) have reported a baffling Task Manager bug that leaves the app running after it’s closed, spawning duplicate taskmgr.exe processes that can quietly eat memory and CPU and make a PC feel sluggish. Background / Overview KB5067036 is an optional, non‑security preview cumulative update published for Windows 11 in late October 2025 that ships fixes and a handful of visible feature updates — notably a redesigned Start menu...

Microsoft has set a hard servicing cutoff: Windows 11 version 23H2 (Home and Pro) will stop receiving monthly security and quality updates on November 11, 2025, and any consumer PC still on that build after the date will be running an unsupported release unless upgraded. Background / Overview Windows 11 moved to a versioned, annual feature-update cadence years ago. Each named release (for example, 21H2, 22H2, 23H2, 24H2, 25H2) carries its own published servicing window, and that window...

Microsoft’s published GPO approach for rolling out Secure Boot certificate updates gives domain administrators a single, auditable toggle to opt fleets into the OS‑driven Secure Boot key rollout — but it also bundles irreversible firmware changes, telemetry trade‑offs, and a strong dependency on OEM firmware readiness that must be planned, tested, and coordinated before mass deployment. Background Microsoft is replacing the aging Secure Boot certificate chain that has protected the Windows...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot update arms knowledge workers with two conversational, no-code builders — App Builder and Workflows — that let licensed enterprise employees describe an app or an automation in plain English and get a working application, dashboard, or multi‑step flow inside Microsoft 365 minutes later. Background / Overview Microsoft’s push to turn Copilot from an advisory assistant into an agentic platform has been steady and deliberate. Over the past year the company has rolled...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform suffered a high‑visibility, multi‑hour outage on October 29, 2025 after an inadvertent configuration change to Azure Front Door (AFD)—the company’s global edge and application‑delivery fabric—knocked Microsoft‑hosted and customer‑fronted services offline, forcing engineers into an emergency rollback and traffic rebalancing that restored most services only after several hours of mitigation and extended monitoring. Background / Overview Azure Front Door (AFD)...