Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday delivers a surgical corrective: the cumulative updates released on September 9, 2025 refine the User Account Control (UAC) behavior introduced in August and restore expected installer and streaming behavior while preserving the security hardening that closed...
Microsoft has acknowledged a compatibility regression introduced by the August 12, 2025 cumulative Windows updates that can cause unexpected User Account Control (UAC) elevation prompts and MSI Error 1730 failures for non‑administrator users when applications trigger Windows Installer (MSI)...
Microsoft’s August cumulative update chain, notably KB5063878, introduced a hardening to Windows Installer that has forced a rethink of how User Account Control (UAC) and MSI "self‑repair" flows behave — and that hardening, while closing a real security gap (tracked as CVE‑2025‑50173), has also...
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Microsoft Edge’s latest Canary build contains an eye-catching — and quietly aggressive — internal experiment: a pop-up that nudges users who habitually use Google Chrome to pin Microsoft Edge to the Windows 11 taskbar when they close the browser. The code names and feature flags discovered in...