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Microsoft is making one of the most consequential Windows Insider Program reforms in years, and it does more than tidy up a confusing menu. The company is collapsing the old four-track structure into a simpler two-channel model, while also promising that users will eventually be able to move in...

Microsoft’s Windows release health dashboard is showing something unusual: for the newest Windows 11 track, no active known issues are currently listed. That sounds like a clean bill of health, and in a narrow sense it is exactly what Microsoft is saying on the record. But it is not the same...

Microsoft has done something small on the surface but important in practice: it is giving Windows users a clearer heads-up about the Secure Boot certificate transition that has been looming since the company first warned about it in 2024. The new Windows Security indicators are meant to tell...

Microsoft is preparing a meaningful reset of how Windows 11 delivers new features, and that matters because the current system has long blurred the line between a “released” update and an actually available feature. The company is reportedly looking at ways to give users more control over...

IT administrators now have practical, fleet-scale ways to check whether Windows devices are carrying the updated Secure Boot certificate chain and whether they’re ready to accept the upcoming Secure Boot updates — a crucial capability as Microsoft and OEMs rotate the platform’s cryptographic...

Microsoft has confirmed that a recent Windows Update rollout produced an alarming but ultimately incorrect “end of support” banner in Settings that led some Windows 10 users — including those enrolled in Extended Security Updates (ESU) and customers running LTSC/IoT SKUs — to believe their PCs...