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Microsoft has shipped a pair of new Windows 11 Insider pre-release updates today — a Release Preview channel cumulative (KB5077241) that covers both 24H2 and 25H2 builds, and a Beta channel enablement package (KB5077223) for 25H2 — and the notes reveal a mix of small but practical polish...

As 2025 draws to a close, Windows 11 shed much of its “first-year polish” and introduced a string of practical, user-driven enhancements—ranging from subtle UI polish to genuinely new platform services designed to reduce downtime and improve security. What began as a year of monthly cumulative...

Microsoft’s Ignite 2025 keynote didn’t just promise incremental Windows 11 improvements — it delivered a coordinated resiliency playbook that rethinks how broken PCs get fixed, how recovery environments connect to the cloud, and how IT teams can treat large-scale failures as manageable incidents...

Microsoft’s Ignite stage introduced a pivotal change to Windows 11 recovery: Microsoft announced two new, cloud‑aware recovery actions — Point‑in‑Time Restore (PITR) and Cloud Rebuild — that extend pre‑boot recovery, remote remediation and fleet orchestration through Intune, Autopatch and WinRE...

Windows 11 just got a meaningful security refresh — and a built-in “lifeline” that can try to repair a PC that refuses to boot without you having to wrestle with USB recovery sticks or reimaging the machine. Background Over the last two years Microsoft has been pushing Windows 11 toward a...

Microsoft is rolling out a suite of recovery features for Windows 11 that aim to shorten downtime, simplify remote remediation, and give IT teams — and users — more reliable escape hatches when updates, drivers, or configuration changes render a device unusable. Background / Overview Microsoft...

Microsoft's push to make Windows 11 self-healing and faster to recover from large-scale failures entered a new phase at Ignite this year, with the company adding what it calls Point‑in‑time restore (PITR) and Cloud rebuild to a growing suite of recovery tools under the Windows Resiliency...

Microsoft is rolling out a quieter but genuinely useful update to Windows 11’s recovery and security tooling that promises to shave hours off routine troubleshooting: the Quick Machine Recovery (QMR) flow has been streamlined to run a single, more decisive scan during boot-time recoveries, and...

Microsoft’s latest Insider update for Windows 11, delivered as Build 26220.7070 (KB5070300) to the Dev and Beta channels, quietly undoes one of the most frustrating constraints of Smart App Control while also polishing the system’s recovery path and a handful of desktop conveniences. The change...

Microsoft has shipped Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7070 (packaged as KB5070300) to the Dev and Beta channels, an incremental but meaningful update that tightens recovery workflows, refines the Widgets user interface, and removes a handful of practical friction points for testers and IT...

Microsoft is rolling out Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7070 (KB5070300) to both the Dev and Beta Channels, continuing the enablement-package approach to 25H2 previews and widening the set of staged features and reliability fixes available to Insiders. This flight preserves the temporary...

The Louvre’s security humiliation—reports that a surveillance server could be accessed with the password “LOUVRE”—has turned a sensational daytime robbery of the Galerie d’Apollon into a wider institutional reckoning over museum cybersecurity, procurement failures and the real-world consequences...

Quick Machine Recovery is a cloud-backed Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) feature that can automatically search Windows Update for targeted remediations when a Windows 11 device repeatedly fails to boot, apply fixes from the cloud, and reboot the PC to restore functionality — a best-effort...

Microsoft has published KB5054156 — a tiny enablement package (eKB) that flips on Windows 11, version 25H2 for devices already running the fully patched 24H2 servicing baseline, turning a months‑worth of staged feature binaries into an active release with minimal downtime and a single restart in...

Windows Weekly’s latest episode arrives like a two‑ton reminder that tech transitions rarely happen on a polite schedule: “Coding Makes Me Cry” (Episode 950) drills into the real-world fallout of Windows 10’s imminent end-of‑support, Microsoft’s evolving recovery and Copilot features, and the...

The Automatic Repair screen that reads “Your PC did not start correctly” is not a dramatic flourish — it’s Windows telling you that the boot process failed one of its early checks and the system has moved you into the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) so you can try to fix it. The advice from...

Computeractive’s “Problems solved” column from the 10 September 2025 issue distils a familiar mix of household tech triage and hard-bitten workshop experience: practical fixes for everyday Windows upgrades, a clear-eyed primer on Microsoft’s new cloud-assisted recovery tool, and an...

Microsoft has quietly opened the gates: Windows 11 version 25H2 is now available to testers in the Windows Insider Release Preview channel as a small, fast enablement package that flips features already staged in the 24H2 servicing branch — which means you can install the 2025 annual update on...

Windows 11’s 25H2 annual update arrives as a deliberate whisper rather than a shout: delivered as a tiny enablement package that flips on functionality Microsoft shipped earlier in monthly updates, 25H2 brings modest visible changes, a couple of legacy removals, and a clear operational message —...

Microsoft has pushed Windows 11, version 25H2 into the Release Preview channel as a deliberately small, operational update—an enablement package that flips features already staged in 24H2—prioritizing stability, manageability, and a clean-up of legacy tooling rather than a splashy set of...