Atturra’s rise through Microsoft’s partner ranks has been rapid and highly visible, with multiple outlets reporting that the Australian integrator has secured a significant new recognition in the hybrid and private cloud space — a development that, if fully verified, would strengthen its...
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Microsoft’s position in the software industry is defined less by a single product than by a trio of connected businesses — Productivity & Business Processes, Intelligent Cloud, and More Personal Computing — and the recent Benzinga snapshot comparing Microsoft to an eclectic peer group makes that...
A California plaintiff’s emergency bid to stop Microsoft from switching off free Windows 10 security updates has turned a routine product lifecycle into a high‑stakes legal and policy contest — but the odds that a U.S. court will order Microsoft to permanently continue free support are long, and...
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Microsoft's public notice about Windows 10 support is no longer just a calendar reminder — it's a deadline with real consequences for security, compatibility, and the cost of staying on an aging platform.
Background: what the missing Primedia Plus article and Microsoft actually say
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CISA’s August 25 alert that it has added three new flaws to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog should be treated as a red alert for IT teams: two significant issues in Citrix Session Recording (CVE-2024-8068 and CVE-2024-8069) and a client-side Git link-following vulnerability...
Cyble’s latest weekly scan shows a dizzying pace of disclosures and exploitation: researchers tracked 908 new vulnerabilities in the last seven days and report that more than 188 of those already have publicly available proofs‑of‑concept (PoCs), tightening the window defenders have to respond...
Microsoft’s Copilot Agent ecosystem is facing a governance and enforcement crisis: multiple independent reports show that tenant-level policies intended to block agent availability are not being reliably enforced, Microsoft’s Copilot audit telemetry has contained reproducible blind spots, and...
CVPeople Tanzania’s recent IT Airport Supervisor recruitment notice doubles as a signal: Tanzania’s airports are deepening their commitment to on‑site technical teams to support biometric enrollment and immigration control systems, and the advertised role frames that expansion as both an...
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Urgent: What CVE-2025-55229 Means for Windows — A Deep Dive for Admins and Power Users
By WindowsForum.com Staff Reporter — August 21, 2025
Summary — quick take
Microsoft has published a vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-55229 that affects Windows certificate handling: an improper verification...
CISA’s addition of a single entry to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog this week — CVE-2025-43300, an out‑of‑bounds write in Apple’s Image I/O framework — sharpens the spotlight on a zero‑day that Apple says was exploited in highly targeted attacks and underscores how quickly...
Microsoft has postponed the rollout of the much‑anticipated Copilot feature that would let Microsoft 365 Copilot “see” and analyze what’s being shared on a Teams meeting screen — the Microsoft 365 Roadmap entry for the feature was updated to push the release into August 2026, and Microsoft says...
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A Southern California resident has filed suit in state court asking a judge to stop Microsoft from turning off routine, free security updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 — a legal gambit that reframes a routine product‑lifecycle milestone into a broad debate about forced obsolescence...
Satya Nadella’s internal memo bluntly reframes Microsoft’s next act: the century-old “software factory” that Bill Gates imagined has served its purpose, but in the era of generative AI it is no longer enough — Microsoft must become an “intelligence engine” powered by AI, security, and quality...
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Microsoft has confirmed what many household and small-business PC owners have been bracing for: the October 2025 Patch Tuesday release will be the last free monthly security update for mainstream Windows 10; after October 14, 2025, Windows 10 devices that are not enrolled in an Extended Security...
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Microsoft's late-summer move to soften the blow of Windows 10's end-of-support is a rare mix of relief and a reminder: the clock is still running. The company has rolled out a consumer-focused Extended Security Updates (ESU) program that gives many Windows 10 users a one-year security lifeline —...
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Microsoft’s deadline is now fixed: Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14, 2025, and with it comes a complex, staggered set of follow‑ups that will shape PC security, upgrade plans, and procurement decisions for consumers and enterprises alike. The headline is simple — the OS will...
CISA has formally added CVE-2025-54948 — a critical OS command injection in Trend Micro Apex One’s on‑premises Management Console — to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation and triggering accelerated remediation expectations for federal...
The Australian Taxation Office is preparing to pilot an enterprise-grade AI coding assistant for its roughly 800 core developers, a move that could reshape how government software is produced — from legacy COBOL modernization to automated test generation — while raising familiar questions about...
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Windows ships with dozens of features and background services designed to improve convenience — but those conveniences are also additional points of entry for attackers. A recent how‑to-style guide compiled a short list of commonly unnecessary capabilities that many users can safely disable to...
Microsoft’s decision to lock Windows 11 behind a strict hardware gate is about to create a mass of usable-but-unsupported PCs — and the fallout will be technical, financial, and environmental.
Background
When Microsoft first announced Windows 11, the company framed the new release as a leap...
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