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Outlook Mobile now includes a simple but useful option to hide meetings you’ve declined, giving mobile calendars the same declutter control that New Outlook and Outlook on the web already offer. Background For years Outlook users have juggled two competing calendar goals: keep a clean, readable...

Microsoft’s January servicing cycle for Windows 11 turned turbulent this month after the Patch Tuesday rollup released on January 13 (KB5074109) triggered a chain of regressions that left everyday apps — from classic Outlook to cloud‑backed editors — hanging or failing. Microsoft pushed two...

In a rare bit of good news for people who still want their Windows desktop to act like a local desktop, OneDrive’s Folder Backup (Known Folder Move) on Windows 11 has quietly gained a better undo flow — in some builds you can now stop folder backup and have OneDrive move your files back to the...

Microsoft pushed an emergency out‑of‑band update late last week to repair a regression introduced by its January security rollup that left Outlook and other programs unable to open or save files stored in cloud‑backed folders such as OneDrive and Dropbox. The fix — delivered as KB5078127 for...

Microsoft rushed a second emergency out‑of‑band Windows 11 update in late January to fix a regression that left Outlook and other apps freezing, hanging, or losing mail items when they accessed files stored in cloud‑synced folders such as OneDrive and Dropbox. Background In Microsoft’s normal...

A routine January Patch Tuesday update left a significant slice of Windows users temporarily unable to rely on core productivity workflows after the January 13, 2026 cumulative update (KB5074109) introduced regressions that broke parts of classic Outlook and disrupted remote access for some...

Microsoft's first cumulative Windows 11 update of 2026 — delivered as KB5074109 on January 13 — has left a broad trail of disruption: critical security fixes were installed, but several high-impact regressions followed, forcing Microsoft into rapid damage control with out‑of‑band patches and...

Microsoft’s second emergency update in two weeks is a blunt reminder that even mature platforms can stumble when complex subsystems collide — and for many Outlook users the fallout was immediate, painful, and productivity‑crippling. On January 24, 2026 Microsoft pushed a cumulative out‑of‑band...

Microsoft’s January cumulative update for Windows—published as KB5074109 on January 13, 2026—has put many users and IT teams in an untenable position: accept a security patch that breaks the classic (Win32) Outlook client for a subset of users, or remove critical protections that close more than...

Microsoft’s emergency response to a rough January Patch Tuesday landed a second out‑of‑band cumulative update on January 24, 2026 — a targeted fix that aims to stop a wave of productivity breakages sparked by the January 13 security rollup, most notably Outlook hangs and crashes when user PST...

Microsoft pushed a secoand emergency Windows update in seven days on JJanuary 24, deploying KB5078127 (and its 23H2 sibling KB5078132) to stop a fresh wave of productivity‑crippling failures that began with January’s Patch Tuesday rollup. The new out‑of‑band packages target a cluster of file‑I/O...

Microsoft released an out‑of‑band cumulative update for Windows 11, version 23H2—KB5078132 (OS Build 22631.6495)—on January 24, 2026 to address a set of post‑Patch‑Tuesday regressions and to roll together prior January fixes into a single package for affected systems. The package is explicitly...

Microsoft has told affected users to remove the Windows 11 January 2026 cumulative update (KB5074109) after widespread reports that the patch is causing serious stability and application failures — most notably rendering Classic Outlook profiles using POP accounts or local PST files unusable...

Millions of Windows gamers woke up to worse frame rates and unexplained stutters after January’s cumulative, and the fastest way back to smooth play is methodical: confirm the cause, update or reinstall the GPU driver cleanly, and only use Windows rollback as a last‑resort temporary step while...

Microsoft’s January cumulative update for Windows — shipped as part of Patch Tuesday — aimed to harden the platform against a broad set of vulnerabilities, but for a non‑trivial subset of users it introduced disruptive regressions that broke critical workflows: classic Outlook (Win32) could hang...

Microsoft has confirmed a fresh wave of regressions tied to the January Patch Day security updates: some applications may stop responding or report errors when opening or saving files stored in cloud-synced locations such as OneDrive or Dropbox, Outlook Classic profiles that store PSTs on...

Microsoft has told affected Windows 11 users to roll back the January 13, 2026 cumulative update — KB5074109 — after a string of post‑patch regressions left some desktops unstable, broke parts of the classic Outlook workflow for POP accounts, and forced Microsoft to ship emergency out‑of‑band...

Windows 11 users are again facing a fresh wave of patch-related breakage: a January 13, 2026 cumulative update (KB5074109) introduced a regression that can make apps unresponsive or fail when opening or saving files on cloud‑backed storage such as OneDrive and Dropbox — and the fallout has...

Microsoft's cloud productivity stack experienced a disruption on January 21, 2026, with Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams reporting widespread problems early in the U.S. workday and recovery messages appearing within a few hours as Microsoft traced the impact to a third‑party networking...

Microsoft’s January servicing wave has produced a messy and consequential regression: a cumulativetive update released on January 13, 2026 (KB5074109) introduced a file-access problem that can leave apps — most notably classic Microsoft Outlook when its PST files live in OneDrive or other...