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Microsoft’s April Patch Tuesday landed like a thunderclap: a single update cycle that patched well over a hundred security flaws across Windows, SQL Server, Azure, Office and related products, and left many users re-evaluating whether the monthly Windows maintenance cadence is worth the risk —...

Microsoft issued emergency updates in mid‑December after a Patch Tuesday cumulative update broke Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) on a swath of Windows 10 and Windows Server builds, leaving enterprise IIS sites and MSMQ‑dependent applications unable to create message files and producing...

Microsoft’s December Patch Tuesday rolled out an important servicing update for Windows 11 — and quietly, the company has updated the Media Creation Tool so it now pulls the same December 2025 image used for the Patch Tuesday build, making it considerably easier to build a USB installer that...

c-ares, the widely used asynchronous DNS resolver library, has a newly published Use‑After‑Free vulnerability tracked as CVE‑2025‑62408 that affects versions 1.32.3 through 1.34.5 and has been fixed in 1.34.6; the fault occurs when connection state is cleaned up after an error and can lead to...

Microsoft’s December cumulative for Windows 11, rolled out as KB5072033, packs more than routine security fixes — it delivers a broad set of UI unifications, productivity refinements, virtualization consolidation, and targeted stability work that many AMD‑GPU users have been testing as a...

Microsoft pushed a high-priority December 9, 2025 Patch Tuesday that closes several dangerous holes — including a PowerShell command-injection flaw that now forces a confirmation prompt, a Windows Cloud Files Mini Filter Driver bug actively used for local privilege escalation, and a...

Microsoft's December cumulative rollups for Windows 11 landed on Patch Tuesday with a familiar mix of security fixes, quality improvements and a notable behavioral hardening in PowerShell — but the coverage and community reaction make clear administrators and power users need to treat these...

Microsoft has pushed a late‑year security shift that changes the calculus for millions of Windows 10 users: an urgent Patch Tuesday plus a servicing-path correction mean that if you are still on Windows 10 you need to act now — and the choices you make this week could determine whether your PC...

Microsoft’s December Patch Tuesday brings an unusually dense, user-facing bundle to Windows 11 — roughly 16 distinct UI refinements, Copilot integrations, and hardware‑gated AI features that arrive as a mix of broadly available quality-of-life polish and staged, Copilot+‑only experiences enabled...

Microsoft has published a new high‑severity local Elevation‑of‑Privilege advisory: CVE‑2025‑62464, a buffer over‑read in the Windows Projected File System (ProjFS) that can allow an authorized local attacker to escalate to higher privileges on affected hosts. Public trackers assign a CVSS v3.1...

Microsoft’s December 9 Patch Tuesday closed out the year with another kernel-area elevation‑of‑privilege that targets the Windows Projected File System (ProjFS): CVE‑2025‑55233 is an out‑of‑bounds read in ProjFS that Microsoft has recorded in its Security Update Guide and which third‑party...

Microsoft released the final Patch Tuesday package for December 2025 — KB5072033 — and it arrives as more than a routine security rollup: it advances Windows 11 25H2 to Build 26200.7462 (and 24H2 to Build 26100.7462), ships deeper dark‑mode polish, centralizes virtualization controls in...

Microsoft’s December Patch Tuesday brought a focused Windows 11 rollup for the 23H2 servicing baseline: KB5071417 (OS Build 22631.6345), a cumulative security-and-quality update that formally carries forward fixes from November’s roll and introduces a notable behavioral change in PowerShell 5.1...

Microsoft is closing 2025 with a sizeable Windows 11 update: a preview build released December 1 has already started surfacing a slate of UI polish, Copilot integrations, virtualization controls, gaming improvements and hardware-gated AI features — and Microsoft plans to roll the final Patch...

Microsoft has pushed a high-priority November cumulative update for Windows that closes dozens of security holes — including a Windows kernel flaw Microsoft says was being actively exploited in the wild — and users and administrators are being urged to install the patch without delay. Background...

Nvidia has confirmed that a recent round of Windows 11 cumulative updates — starting with the October 2025 Patch Tuesday rollup (KB5066835) and continuing through later builds — can cause lower gaming performance on affected systems, and the company has issued a display driver update it says...

Microsoft's November Patch Tuesday for Windows 10 stumbled when the first Extended Security Update (ESU) cumulative — KB5068781 — began rolling out on November 11, 2025 and some commercial, subscription-activated devices failed to install it, rolling back with error 0x800f0922; Microsoft quickly...

Microsoft has begun rolling out the January 12, 2016 cumulative update that raises Windows 10 (Version 1511) for non‑Insider PCs to build 10586.63 (delivered as KB3124263), a security‑focused release that patches multiple kernel, browser and remote‑code‑execution vectors and aligns public PC...

Microsoft’s November Patch Tuesday for Windows 10 — the first formal Extended Security Update (ESU) roll‑out since mainstream support ended — stumbled out of the gates when the ESU cumulative update KB5068781 failed to install on a subset of commercial devices, rolling back with error code...

Microsoft’s November Patch Tuesday appears to have closed one of the most convenient loopholes used by the activation‑circumvention community: the long‑running “KMS38” trick — widely circulated via the Microsoft Activation Scripts (MAS / Massgrave) project — stopped working for systems updated...