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Microsoft has made Windows 11’s annual refresh—version 25H2—available as official ISO media to Windows Insiders in the Release Preview channel, completing the packaging that IT teams, OEMs and advanced users need for clean installs and image-based testing even as the bulk rollout continues to be...

Microsoft’s refreshed Windows Backup now offers a built‑in, local PC‑to‑PC migration path that makes moving your personal files and many settings from an old Windows PC to a new Windows 11 machine far less painful than past upgrades — but it is not a silver bullet, and there are important...

Microsoft’s refreshed Windows Backup now includes a built‑in, local PC‑to‑PC migration path that can move your files and many personalization settings across the local network during Windows 11 setup — making the leap to a new machine faster and less dependent on external services or paid...

Microsoft has quietly published official ISO images for Windows 11, version 25H2 to the Windows Insider Preview downloads area, completing a key piece of release scaffolding for IT teams, OEMs, and enthusiasts even as most devices receive the feature update as a lightweight enablement package...

Microsoft has quietly published official Windows 11, version 25H2 ISO images to the Windows Insider Preview downloads area for Release Preview Insiders, completing a key piece of release scaffolding even as the update continues to be distributed to most PCs as a lightweight enablement package...

Microsoft quietly pulled back the promised ISO images for Windows 11, version 25H2 this week, updating its Release Preview announcement to say the ISOs are “delayed and coming soon” even as the update itself lands in the Release Preview channel as an enablement-package style release...

The tiny11builder project has received a significant refresh: the PowerShell-based builder now supports Windows 11 version 25H2 builds, adds explicit removal of Copilot and the new Outlook for Windows client, switches to more efficient recovery compression for smaller ISOs, and introduces...

Microsoft pushed the September 2025 Patch Tuesday rollup to Windows 11 today, a cumulative release that—according to community reporting—carries the usual mix of security fixes, quality improvements and targeted Copilot reliability updates, but also surfaces a handful of user-facing regressions...

Flyoobe’s newest update continues the project’s rapid evolution from a niche requirements-bypass utility into a full-featured Out‑Of‑Box Experience (OOBE) toolkit — and the 1.10 line promises a clearer, more polished workflow for disabling AI surfaces, adding community-driven PowerShell...

Windows 11’s setup still nudges you toward a Microsoft account — but a handful of reliably tested workarounds let you get a classic, offline local account instead, and the choice you make affects everything from BitLocker recovery to OneDrive sync and feature availability. Background Microsoft...

Flyoobe’s latest shift from a narrow bypass utility into a full Out‑of‑Box Experience (OOBE) suite crystallizes a broader community trend: taking back control of Windows 11 installation and first‑boot behavior while accepting the trade‑offs that come with running unsupported configurations. The...

Flyoobe’s newest release lands with an unapologetic promise: install Windows 11 on machines Microsoft won’t officially support, and do it while stripping out unwanted AI surfaces like Copilot right from the Out‑of‑Box Experience (OOBE). Background / Overview Flyoobe evolved from a small...

Flyoobe’s latest update crystallizes a tension that has been building across the Windows ecosystem: community-driven control versus vendor-enforced defaults, now amplified by the arrival of integrated AI features in Windows 11 and strict hardware gates that leave many functioning PCs on the...

Flyoobe 1.7 arrives as a decisive answer for users who want a lean, no‑AI Windows 11 from first boot: the update introduces an OOBE page that hunts down and disables Copilot and related AI integrations during setup, ships expanded debloat presets (including GitHub‑loadable profiles), improves...

Flyoobe’s latest update widens the tool’s ambitions from a niche installer bypass into a full-blown Out‑Of‑Box Experience (OOBE) surgeon’s kit: starting with version 1.7 (hotfixed to 1.7.284), the popular Flyby11 / Flyoobe project now ships an OOBE page that searches for and disables Copilot and...

Windows Autopilot rollouts are stalling in a new, surprising place: immediately after end users accept the Terms of Use (TOU) during OOBE, devices freeze with a non‑descriptive error and the provisioning flow never resumes — a breaking issue first highlighted in community reporting and...

Microsoft has quietly put a new tool on the 2026 roadmap that promises to change how IT teams manage quality updates for Windows on corporate PCs: Windows Quality Update management policies in Microsoft Intune will let administrators approve and roll out individual quality updates — including...

Microsoft is rolling out a string of changes to how Windows 11 handles update downloads and installations for managed office PCs — moving from a largely opaque, user-driven experience toward a more controllable, policy-driven model that lets IT teams decide when devices should download and...

Microsoft’s latest round-up of terse but important tech items — the kind of “what you need to know today” briefing that often gets missed between longer features — points to a clear theme: Windows and the ecosystem around it are maturing toward faster updates, smaller downloads, and more...

Microsoft’s next Windows 11 annual update, version 25H2, is not a headline-grabbing reinvention of the desktop — it’s a deliberate, operationally focused release that prioritizes stability, manageability, and measured AI integration over bold new consumer-facing flourishes. This update arrives...