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Microsoft pushed an emergency, cumulative out-of-band update for Windows 11 version 23H2—KB5078132 (OS Build 22631.6495)—on January 24, 2026 to repair file‑access regressions and Outlook reliability problems introduced by the January 13, 2026 security rollup; the patch bundles prior January...

Microsoft has pushed a second emergency out‑of‑band Windows update in January to undo a string of regressions introduced by its Patch Tuesday rollup — and this one should be on your radar if you use cloud‑backed storage, Outlook PST files, or manage fleets of Windows 11 PCs. The out‑of‑band...

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...

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's first cumulative Windows 11 update of 2026 — delivered as KB5074109 on January 13 — has left a broad trail of disruption: critical security fixes were installed, but several high-impact regressions followed, forcing Microsoft into rapid damage control with out‑of‑band patches and...

Microsoft has pushed a second out-of-band Windows update in January 2026 to fix a critical bug that caused Outlook and other applications to crash or hang when they opened or saved files stored in cloud-backed locations such as OneDrive and Dropbox, compounding a rocky start to the year for...

Microsoft has issued an emergency Windows 11 cumulative update on January 24, 2026 (KB5078127) that restores stability for Outlook and other applications affected by the January 13 security update, addressing crashes and unresponsiveness when opening or saving files stored in cloud-backed...

Microsoft’s emergency response to a rough January Patch Tuesday landed a second out‑of‑band cumulative update on January 24, 2026 — a targeted fix that aims to stop a wave of productivity breakages sparked by the January 13 security rollup, most notably Outlook hangs and crashes when user PST...

Microsoft's emergency fixes for January's Patch Tuesday patch have not closed the loop: a second round of out‑of‑band updates rolled out on January 24, 2026 — KB5078127 for Windows 11 25H2/24H2 and KB5078132 for Windows 11 23H2 — after users and IT administrators reported new and lingering...

Microsoft's unusual instruction to remove a Windows cumulative security update has placed administrators and everyday users in a difficult, high-stakes choice: accept the immediate return of core functionality or keep a patch that protects against security threats. Microsoft identified 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...

Backblaze’s recent quarters make a simple, high‑stakes claim: double down on B2 Cloud Storage growth to offset slower momentum in legacy backup, and use improving margins to bridge the firm to positive free cash flow. The evidence is unambiguous — B2 is accelerating and management is pushing...

Google Cloud Storage quietly does the heavy lifting for countless businesses and projects — and if your stack is built on data, it deserves to be treated as infrastructure, not an afterthought. Background / Overview Google Cloud Storage (GCS) is Google’s managed object storage service for...

Photographers are entering a quiet but profound storage revolution: the comfortable ritual of buying bigger RAID arrays and adding another NAS bay is no longer the only sensible path for professional asset management. High-resolution RAWs, multi-gigabyte PSBs, and longer, higher-frame-rate video...

Microsoft’s newest Windows 11 prompt — a yellow “Action advised — back up your PC” banner that appears in the Start menu and Settings — is rolling out broadly and is being used to steer users toward OneDrive-based backups, a move that is useful for guiding novices but has reignited long-running...

Google’s New Year promotion has cut the headline price of Google One’s premium tiers — including the company’s flagship AI-backed subscription — in half for new annual subscribers, a move that lowers the cost of the 2 TB AI Pro bundle and the standard 2 TB Premium plan for the first year and...

The quickest way to effectively hand someone your OneDrive files is to put those files inside a single parent folder, share that parent folder with the other account, and have the recipient use OneDrive’s web "Copy to" (or File Explorer / sync client) to copy the content into their own OneDrive...

Windows libraries are one of those quietly powerful Windows features that too many people assume are obsolete—hidden by default in some Windows 11 builds—yet when configured deliberately they can turn scattered folders, network shares, and cloud sync locations into a single, searchable workspace...

Microsoft’s recent push to remake Azure Storage into the backbone for exabyte-scale AI and modern enterprise workloads rewrites several long‑standing assumptions about cloud storage — from how training data is fed to GPUs to how mission‑critical databases are protected and migrated. The...