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Microsoft’s January servicing cycle for Windows 11 turned turbulent this month after the Patch Tuesday rollup released on January 13 (KB5074109) triggered a chain of regressions that left everyday apps — from classic Outlook to cloud‑backed editors — hanging or failing. Microsoft pushed two...

Microsoft’s January update roll-out has already cost IT teams a sleepless weekend and forced two emergency fixes inside a single fortnight — a chaotic start to Windows 11 patching in 2026 that raises fresh questions about testing, packaging, and communication for Microsoft’s flagship desktop OS...

Microsoft’s January servicing cycle for Windows 11 rolled from a routine security update into a multi-stage remediation sprint after the January 13 Patch Tuesday release triggered a string of regressions that left everyday apps — from Notepad to classic Outlook — failing or becoming unresponsive...

Outlook crashing on Windows 11 after January’s Patch Tuesday left inboxes frozen, mailboxes mismatched, and IT teams scrambling — and Microsoft’s emergency out-of-band update finally appears to have stopped the worst of it. The fix targets a flaw introduced by the January 13, 2026 security...

Microsoft pushed an emergency out‑of‑band update late last week to repair a regression introduced by its January security rollup that left Outlook and other programs unable to open or save files stored in cloud‑backed folders such as OneDrive and Dropbox. The fix — delivered as KB5078127 for...

Microsoft rushed a second out-of-band emergency patch in late January after its January Patch Tuesday rollout introduced a regression that left Outlook and other apps unable to reliably open or save files stored in cloud-synced locations such as OneDrive and Dropbox — the fix, published as...

Microsoft pushed a second unscheduled, out‑of‑band Windows 11 cumulative update in late January to stop a wave of Outlook crashes and application freezes that began after the platform’s January Patch Tuesday release — a fast, corrective response that restores cloud‑file I/O behavior for many...

In a rare bit of good news for people who still want their Windows desktop to act like a local desktop, OneDrive’s Folder Backup (Known Folder Move) on Windows 11 has quietly gained a better undo flow — in some builds you can now stop folder backup and have OneDrive move your files back to the...

A routine January Patch Tuesday rollup (KB5074109) accidentally left parts of Microsoft’s classic Outlook experience unstable for a measurable number of users, triggering freezes, lingering OUTLOOK.EXE processes, lost Sent Items and a rapid sequence of follow‑up fixes and mitigations from...

Microsoft’s emergency out‑of‑band update KB5078127 is a targeted, cumulative patch for Windows 11 that consolidates the mid‑January fixes and corrects a high‑impact file I/O regression that left Outlook and other apps hanging when they tried to open or save files in cloud‑synced folders such as...

Microsoft released an out‑of‑band cumulative update for Windows 11, version 23H2—KB5078132 (OS Build 22631.6495)—on January 24, 2026 to address a set of post‑Patch‑Tuesday regressions and to roll together prior January fixes into a single package for affected systems. The package is explicitly...