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Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Insider Preview update, rolled out as KB5065782 to Dev and Beta channel testers on September 12, 2025, repurposes the SCOOBE (Second‑Chance Out‑of‑Box Experience) flow to display a full‑screen Microsoft 365 “needs attention” renewal prompt that occupies the display...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Insider builds are shipping a new, full-screen renewal prompt aimed at lapsed Microsoft 365 subscriptions — an eye-catching SCOOBE (Second‑Chance Out‑of‑Box Experience) screen that insiders and early reports describe as a full‑screen nag to renew rather than a...

Microsoft has quietly expanded the Second Chance Out‑of‑Box Experience (SCOOBE) in Windows 11 Insider builds so it can surface a full‑screen reminder when a Microsoft 365 subscription “needs attention” — for example, when a renewal payment fails — and that reminder can appear before the desktop...

Microsoft’s latest Insider builds repurpose the SCOOBE (Second‑Chance Out‑of‑Box Experience) screen into a full‑screen, blocking renewal prompt that reminds users a Microsoft 365 subscription “needs attention” — a test that has reignited debates about whether Windows should be used as a sales...

Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to sue Meta is true — but not for the reason most people will assume: the plaintiff is Mark S. Zuckerberg, a veteran bankruptcy lawyer in Indianapolis whose legal complaint accuses Meta of repeatedly disabling his Facebook accounts, accepting advertising payments while...

Microsoft’s move to meter Copilot Studio and AI agents by “messages” changes the calculus for automation: it makes on-demand, low-commitment experimentation easy, but it also requires careful billing-policy setup in Power Platform and Azure to avoid surprise costs and service disruptions...

Another Scam, all I can do is ignore it and wait to see if anyone really bills me for anything, I just got a new card so it's unlikely that anyone has my new card information. Here it is... Hi, Thanks For Payment! We are Renewing it for You=!! Order @65XZXX645700 PRODUCT DESCRIPTION...

In this episode Symon interviews Robert Reynolds (Principal Program Manager Lead) and Walter Oliver (Senior Program Manager) on the Windows Azure Pack (WAP) team, to discuss how WAP can be extended to 3rd party systems. The Windows Azure pack is a collection of Microsoft Azure technologies that...

Hi all new to this forum and i had to do fresh install of win 8 but had lost the email . For some reason i did not have the email anymore, I was directed to this site https://www.mswos.com/ but i needed an order no that was on the email that i did not have so i went on to windows store site and...

I'm setting up a semi public computer, but we want to limit it to a group of about 50 people. Can I give them each a standard account, username and password? Or is that too many users? I'd like to be able to log them separately so that they can be billed according to the time used. Any ideas...

I work for a software company that uses several DOS programs and we sell an alarm monitoring program that is dos based and uses the pc speaker to produce sound. Whenever we use any of the dos programs, ie: the database. the dos mail program, a billing program, etc, any sound generated by the...

I used PC Tools Registry Mechanics a few years ago and they slipped in an automatic renewal feature that nobody noticed unti they got billed. Webroot bought PC Tools a while ago and appar incorporated the same it's apparently hidden in their Terms of Use and you have to opt out manually. I just...

I have two .edu email accounts, but when I placed the 2nd order through the student program (741) I realized I was still logged into the same email address. So, now I have bought two Windows 7 on the same email account, whereas it says you are only allowed to have one per .edu email address...

So yea as a studenti ordered windows 7 for 40$, and received 1 key, not 2, but i got charged twice 40$ on my credit card... Would any1 be kind enough and give me the link for where i will fin help about this? (sorry for my english, this isn't my native language)