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Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday started 2026 with a jolt: a January 13 cumulative rollup intended to close security holes instead produced a cascade of regressions that forced Microsoft into an unusually busy sequence of emergency, out‑of‑band (OOB) updates — and left administrators asking whether...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Windows 11 users are again facing a fresh wave of patch-related breakage: a January 13, 2026 cumulative update (KB5074109) introduced a regression that can make apps unresponsive or fail when opening or saving files on cloud‑backed storage such as OneDrive and Dropbox — and the fallout has...

This month’s Patch Tuesday rollout for Windows 11 introduced a pair of disruptive regressions — systems that restart instead of shutting down, and Remote Desktop and Cloud PC sign in failures — forcing Microsoft to issue emergency out‑of‑band (OOB) fixes to stop the bleeding and restore business...

Microsoft’s January update cycle took an unexpected detour this week when a Patch Tuesday release introduced a narrowly scoped but disruptive regression that left some Windows 11 systems unable to shut down or enter hibernation, forcing Microsoft to ship emergency out‑of‑band (OOB) updates on...

Microsoft has issued emergency, out‑of‑band updates to repair at least two disruptive regressions introduced by its January 13, 2026 Patch Tuesday rollup: a configuration‑specific shutdown/hibernation failure that could cause some Windows 11 devices with System Guard Secure Launch enabled to...

Microsoft has pushed emergency, out‑of‑band updates to Windows 11 after January’s scheduled security rollup triggered multiple high‑impact regressions — most notably a configuration‑dependent shutdown/hibernate failure on devices using System Guard Secure Launch and widespread Remote Desktop...