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It’s still possible in 2026 to download an official, unmodified Windows 10 ISO directly from Microsoft — and doing so safely matters more than ever now that Windows 10 has reached its formal end of support. This article explains the official direct‑download path, the simple browser workaround...

Microsoft’s December patch cycle and holiday merch drop made for an oddly mixed week: Windows 11 version 25H2 widened its rollout to more eligible devices even as the December preview (KB5070311) introduced a jarring dark‑mode regression in File Explorer; Microsoft’s Prism emulator for Windows...

Microsoft’s official Media Creation Tool—long the easiest way for home users and small IT teams to produce a Windows installer USB or ISO—began closing without warning on many Windows 10 hosts right at the worst possible moment, and Microsoft has confirmed the regression while pointing users to...

Just when millions of Windows 10 users were racing the calendar to move to a supported OS, Microsoft’s most convenient single‑click upgrade tool for Windows 11 began failing on the very machines that needed it most — and that failure has forced users and small IT teams into manual, more...

Microsoft’s migration toolkit stumbled at the worst possible moment: an update to the Windows 11 Media Creation Tool (MCT) published in late September — identified in community and vendor reporting as version 26100.6584 — can refuse to run on machines still running Windows 10, closing...

Microsoft’s official Windows 11 Media Creation Tool (MCT) is failing to run on many Windows 10 systems — a regression Microsoft has acknowledged — and the timing couldn’t be worse: the problem arrived in late September in MCT build 26100.6584, immediately before Windows 10’s public...

Microsoft’s official tools for moving millions of PCs off Windows 10 and onto Windows 11 stumbled at the worst possible time: an updated Windows 11 Media Creation Tool released in late September can close immediately or fail to run on certain Windows 10 hosts, leaving users scrambling for...

Microsoft’s 2025 Windows 11 feature update — version 25H2 — arrives as a careful, operationally minded release rather than a headline-grabbing rework: it’s an enablement package that flips on features already staged in the 24H2 servicing stream, removes a few long‑deprecated tools, and resets...

Microsoft’s near-final Windows 11 25H2 build has quietly begun to appear as official ISO media on Microsoft’s delivery infrastructure, with Release Preview ISOs now discoverable by enthusiasts and the enablement-package (eKB) path — KB5054156 — confirmed as the primary in-place upgrade for...

NTDEV’s latest builder shrinks a full Windows 11 ISO down to a reported 2.29 GB by surgically removing nearly everything most users expect from a modern desktop OS — from Xbox and Solitaire to Windows Update and Windows Defender — producing an extremely compact, intentionally unserviceable image...

Microsoft has quietly posted official Windows 11 ISO images for Insiders, giving testers, OEMs, and IT teams the first gated chance to perform clean installs and full out‑of‑box experience (OOBE) validation for the upcoming Windows 11 feature update — the 25H2 Release Preview build family (Build...

Microsoft has pushed Windows 11 Build 22631.5982 (KB5065790) to Insiders in the Release Preview Channel, delivering a broad set of reliability fixes and quality updates aimed at version 23H2 users and administrators. Background Windows Insider channels exist to stage changes before they reach...

Microsoft pushed a busy week of changes across Windows 11 and the broader Windows ecosystem: September’s Patch Tuesday landed with a handful of quality fixes and a long-requested calendar clock return, Microsoft released ISOs for Windows 11 version 25H2 to Insiders, the SSD “bricking” saga...

More than half of the world’s personal computers remain on Windows 10 even as Microsoft’s official support deadline looms, creating a wide and growing security gap that affects consumers, small businesses, and enterprise networks alike. New telemetry shared publicly via cybersecurity vendor...

Microsoft’s clock on Windows 10 is ticking, and for many users the practical question is no longer “should I upgrade?” but “how do I upgrade safely and with the least friction?” Background Microsoft has set a hard stop on mainstream security updates for Windows 10: the platform reaches...

Microsoft’s decision to retire Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 has forced a reckoning for millions of aging PCs—and a surprising cottage-industry of community tooling has stepped forward to offer a practical, if imperfect, bridge: Tiny11 Builder, a PowerShell-driven project that creates...

Tiny11 is the latest reminder that the Windows upgrade debate has moved far beyond marketing slogans: while Microsoft insists many older PCs are unsupported for Windows 11, independent projects like NTDEV’s Tiny11 are actively proving the opposite — and forcing a much more uncomfortable...

Microsoft has quietly completed the last public validation step for Windows 11 version 25H2 by publishing official ISO installation media to Windows Insiders in the Release Preview channel, a move that puts clean-install and imaging workflows back into IT teams’ hands ahead of a likely October...

Nano11’s demo-sized ISO and sub‑3GB installed footprints are headline‑grabbing — but they’re the result of deliberate surgical removals and heavy compression that trade serviceability, security, and general compatibility for raw minimalism. Background / Overview Windows 11’s default footprint...

NTDEV’s tiny11 project spawned a new contender: Nano11 — a community-made script that strips Windows 11 to the bone and, in one recent demonstration, produced an ISO file reported at just 2.28 GB and an installed system that was reduced to roughly 3.25 GB after aggressive compression and...