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A federal jury’s conviction and a subsequent 22‑month prison sentence for a Florida software reseller has thrown a spotlight on a long‑running and under‑reported weakness in the Windows and Office supply chain: genuine Microsoft Certificate of Authenticity (COA) labels, when separated from their...

Microsoft’s February preview update for Windows 11, KB5077241, quietly bundles a short list of practical, low-risk improvements alongside one platform-level change that deserves special attention from enterprise defenders: a taskbar‑accessible internet speed test and native System Monitor...

In a short but pointed Cloud Wars conversation, Stoneridge Software CEO Eric Newell laid out a simple executive premise: organizations must move beyond AI experimentation and build the operational, security, and governance muscle needed to make Microsoft 365 Copilot (and the broader...

Microsoft was forced into a rare series of out‑of‑band emergency patches after January’s security rollup triggered system crashes, boot failures, and application regressions that left both home users and enterprises scrambling for fixes and workarounds. Background What happened, in plain terms...