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Microsoft is rolling out Windows 10 Build 19045.6388 (KB5066198) to the Release Preview Channel, delivering a targeted quality rollup for devices on Windows 10, version 22H2 that focuses on reliability, enterprise scenarios, and a handful of practical fixes rather than broad consumer-facing features. Background Windows 10’s servicing in the 22H2 stream continues to use a dual approach: the Release Preview Channel is reserved for near-final, stability-focused updates while other channels...

If your PC can’t run Windows 11, you’re not alone — and you still have a set of sensible, ranked options to stay secure, productive, and compliant after Windows 10 reaches end of support on October 14, 2025. Background: why this moment matters Microsoft will stop shipping regular security updates, feature updates and standard technical support for Windows 10 after October 14, 2025, which means devices that remain on Windows 10 will become steadily more exposed to newly discovered...

NTDEV’s new Nano11 Builder takes the Windows‑11 debloat movement from pragmatic trimming to experimental minimalism, producing bootable ISOs and installed images measured in single‑digit gigabytes by surgically removing inbox apps, servicing infrastructure, and even parts of the Windows component store. Background Windows debloaters have matured from post‑install cleanup scripts into full image‑rebuilding toolchains. The Tiny11 family—originally crafted to make Windows 11 usable on...

Today’s Windows Insider push is intentionally modest but contextually significant: Microsoft has released Windows 10, version 22H2 — Build 19045.6388 (KB5066198) to the Release Preview Channel, a cumulative update described by the Windows Insider Program Team as “a small set of general improvements and fixes” intended to improve the overall experience for customers and devices running Windows 10, version 22H2. This release lands as Windows 10 nears its official end-of-support deadline, and...

Microsoft’s enterprise Copilot strategy takes a clear step toward simplification and scale: starting in October, role‑based Copilots for Sales, Service, and Finance will be folded into the core Microsoft 365 Copilot experience and made broadly available through the new Copilot Agent Store — and Microsoft says customers with existing Microsoft 365 Copilot access will not pay an extra per‑seat charge for these role‑tuned features. Background / Overview Microsoft launched a family of Copilot...

Oracle’s latest quarter didn’t just surprise the market — it rewrote the playbook for what a legacy enterprise software company can become in an AI-first world. Background For two decades Oracle was best known as a database and enterprise-software stalwart slowly adapting to a cloud-first world. That transformation accelerated this year into something far more dramatic: Oracle has signed a string of huge infrastructure commitments and publicly revised a five‑year forecast that, if realized...

Microsoft's .NET 10 has taken a major step toward general availability with the release of its first release candidate and a go‑live license, bringing production‑grade support to developers and signalling that upgrading to the upcoming Long‑Term Support (LTS) platform is now a realistic option for many shops. The headline for most .NET customers is performance: runtime, JIT, collections, JSON, compression, and I/O improvements in .NET 10 together promise concrete CPU and latency reductions...

Microsoft today shipped a small but targeted cumulative update to Windows Insiders in the Release Preview Channel: Windows 11 Build 22631.5982 (KB5065790) for devices running Windows 11, version 23H2 (Build 22631). The release is a focused quality update that addresses several practical stability and localization issues — from sign-in hangs when using a SIM PIN to remote desktop display problems and printer-queue crashes — and is being rolled out through the Release Preview pipeline for...

Today’s Canary-channel flight is intentionally small but telling: Microsoft has released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27943 to the Canary Channel, a maintenance-focused update that fixes a handful of user-facing bugs and surfaces two high‑impact known issues — including install rollbacks with stop codes that can block the update entirely and an ARM64 regression that increases bugchecks on some devices. Background What the Canary Channel is and why it matters The Canary Channel is...

Microsoft’s decision to formally separate Teams from Office 365/Microsoft 365 marks the close of a high‑stakes regulatory chapter and creates a new competitive baseline for enterprise collaboration tools worldwide. The European Commission and Microsoft reached a negotiated package of commitments that will require Microsoft to sell versions of its productivity suites without Teams at a discount, offer Teams as a standalone product, improve interoperability with rival solutions, and enable...

Microsoft’s recurring Windows Office Hours returns on Thursday, September 18, 2025, offering IT teams a focused, chat-based hour to get engineer-led answers on Windows 11 adoption, Zero Trust, update orchestration, and cloud/hybrid device strategies. The one-hour session is scheduled for 8:00–9:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time and will be hosted entirely in the Tech Community Comments thread — there is no webinar or video stream. Overview Windows Office Hours is a live Q&A format aimed squarely...

Tech platforms and AI labs are operating on two different rulebooks: the same companies that ban automated scraping of their services in their terms of service are also building the next generation of generative models on training pipelines that — evidence shows — lean heavily on content harvested at scale from the public web, including copyrighted music, videos, and other creator work. The contradiction is the headline: industry players insist on permission and written consent for anyone...

Ralph Lauren has put a chatbot in the business of taste: Ask Ralph, an in‑app stylist built with Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI, is now rolling out to U.S. app users and promising shoppable, head‑to‑toe looks that translate decades of archive imagery into instant styling advice. The launch is a clear pivot from catalog and campaign storytelling to conversational commerce, and it raises the questions every WindowsForum reader—IT leaders, product builders, and technologists—should be asking: what...

Microsoft has pushed a significant upgrade to Microsoft Sentinel’s User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA), embedding AI-driven behavioral detection, broader cross‑cloud data ingestion, and dynamic baselining that together aim to surface subtle account compromise and insider risk while reducing investigation noise for SOC teams. Background Microsoft Sentinel launched UEBA to help security teams move beyond static, rule‑based detection by building behavioral baselines for users, hosts...

Valve has quietly but meaningfully reshaped the Steam client with a sweeping UI and accessibility refresh that brings long-requested controls — UI scaling, high-contrast mode, reduced motion, and a dedicated customization tab for game artwork — to the desktop and SteamOS users, and the result is one of the clearest signs yet that Valve is treating Steam as a living platform rather than a static storefront. Overview Valve's recent Steam client update introduces several accessibility and...

Microsoft has made Windows 11’s annual refresh—version 25H2—available as official ISO media to Windows Insiders in the Release Preview channel, completing the packaging that IT teams, OEMs and advanced users need for clean installs and image-based testing even as the bulk rollout continues to be handled as a lightweight enablement package (eKB). Background / Overview Windows 11, version 25H2 is being delivered this cycle under Microsoft’s continued shared servicing approach: most feature...

A stripped-down, community-built version of Windows 11 has pushed the limits of what the OS can be when every nonessential component is removed: tiny installation media, dramatic runtime compression, and the deliberate sacrifice of serviceability and security to reach an astonishingly small storage footprint. The engineering behind these “diet” builds—most notably the Tiny11 family and its more radical relatives—shows that the modern Windows desktop is largely a collection of optional...

XL Converter arrives as a quietly powerful, free and open-source image utility that brings modern compression formats and advanced JPEG tech to Windows and Linux users—making it a smart tool for anyone who needs to shrink, transcode, or batch-process large photo libraries without sacrificing fidelity. Background / Overview XL Converter is a cross-platform GUI application focused on "next‑gen" image formats and efficient JPEG workflows. The app packages support for JPEG XL (.jxl) and AVIF...

Oracle’s VirtualBox 7.2.2 arrives as a targeted maintenance update that—according to reporting from third‑party outlets—addresses several painful pain points introduced with the 7.2 line: virtual machines failing to start on Windows-on‑ARM hosts, the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) not functioning in some guest configurations, multiple GUI crashes and freezes, USB‑over‑IP passthrough issues, and a string of platform‑specific regressions on macOS and Linux. The release is described as a...

One month before Windows 10 reaches its official end-of-support date, the migration map unexpectedly shifted: public telemetry shows Windows 10 reclaiming share versus Windows 11, a reversal that complicates Microsoft’s timeline and raises urgent security and deployment questions for consumers and IT teams alike. Background Windows 10’s free mainstream support from Microsoft ends on October 14, 2025. After that date consumer editions will no longer receive regular security updates unless an...