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WhyNotWin11’s latest updates sharpen its hardware checks and recover some of the nuance that users and technicians have wanted since Windows 11 first introduced a stricter compatibility baseline. Background / Overview WhyNotWin11 is an open-source, portable compatibility scanner that enumerates...

Adobe’s September Reader update has left a wake of frustrated users and busy IT desks: the Continuous-track build 25.001.20744 (published late September) introduced a printing regression on Windows that causes PDF output to be truncated, squeezed into the top-left of the sheet, or printed as...

Microsoft is preparing to automatically install three new Microsoft 365 “companion” apps — People, Files, and Calendar — onto Windows 11 devices that already have Microsoft 365 desktop apps, and those apps will be configured to launch at device startup unless administrators or users change...

Microsoft began the staged global rollout of Windows 11, version 25H2, on September 30, 2025 — a deliberately light, operational update delivered primarily as a small enablement package for devices already on 24H2, with full ISO media and administrative templates published for imaging teams and...

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 has quietly closed the gap on a late “Week D” preview for Windows 11, version 24H2: cumulative update KB5065789 is now published as a preview package and raises the 24H2 build to 26100.6725, bringing a broad set of AI-first refinements, accessibility upgrades, tooling tweaks and...

Windows 11 ships with a lot of useful functionality — and a lot of defaults that many users find noisy, intrusive, or simply unnecessary. A recent community write-up that recommends three Group Policy tweaks — turning off Microsoft Defender, disabling toast notifications, and preventing OneDrive...

Microsoft’s decision to let organizations stream single Windows applications from the cloud — instead of entire Cloud PC sessions — marks a pragmatic pivot in how enterprises will adopt Windows 365 for day-to-day workforces and frontline roles. The new Windows 365 Cloud Apps feature, now in...

Microsoft has quietly turned a gentle nudge into a full-court press: the company is actively moving Windows users away from Mail & Calendar and the classic Outlook client toward the modern, web-powered new Outlook for Windows, and it’s doing so with scheduled automatic rollouts, built-in opt-out...

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 is rolling the Microsoft 365 Copilot app onto Windows 11 devices that already have the Microsoft 365 desktop apps installed, pushing a background, non‑disruptive installation that will place a new Microsoft 365 Copilot entry in Start menus across eligible systems beginning in Fall 2025...

Microsoft will begin installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot app automatically on Windows devices that already have the Microsoft 365 desktop apps, a background rollout that starts this fall and is expected to reach completion by mid‑November — but it won’t happen for devices in the European...

Windows 11’s next annual feature update has arrived more like a service patch than a showpiece: version 25H2 is an enablement package on top of the 24H2 servicing branch, it ships with no new headline consumer features at launch, and its most concrete changes are removals and manageability...

Windows 11’s September Patch Tuesday cumulative, KB5065426 (OS Build 26100.6584), has been linked to widespread file- and print-sharing failures on some machines, with multiple community threads and Microsoft Q&A posts reporting disabled sharing settings, networks switching from Private to...

Microsoft’s Secure Boot update FAQ makes clear that a coordinated, multi-step transition is now live: Windows will roll new 2023 signing certificates into UEFI variables and update the Windows boot manager to preserve Secure Boot protection ahead of the 2011 CA expirations, but the rollout...

Microsoft has marked a months‑old audio compatibility problem that blocked a subset of devices from receiving the Windows 11, version 24H2 feature update as resolved, after a vendor driver was published via Windows Update and the compatibility safeguard (safeguard ID 54283088) was removed for...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Insider preview builds quietly add a one‑click internet speed‑test shortcut to the taskbar network flyout — but the shortcut simply opens Bing’s web‑based speed test rather than running a native, offline measurement — and the same builds also include a subtle but...

Microsoft will begin automatically installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on many Windows devices this fall, but the rollout is neither universal nor unstoppable — administrators and privacy-conscious users have documented methods to block installation and disable the feature, and Microsoft...

Microsoft’s continued migration of legacy Control Panel features into the modern Settings app has taken another step forward: recent Windows 11 Insider preview builds contain hidden, in-progress pages that surface longstanding keyboard controls and a redesigned haptic touchpad panel inside...

Microsoft’s latest Canary‑channel flight tightens the long-running migration of legacy Control Panel features into the modern Settings app, moving several time, date, language and regional controls into Settings in Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27928 and reinforcing the message that Microsoft...