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Microsoft has identified CVE-2026-26172 as a Windows Push Notifications Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability, and the most important detail in the advisory text is the confidence signal you quoted. That metric is Microsoft’s way of telling defenders how certain it is that the flaw exists and how...

Overview Microsoft’s CVE-2026-32159 is labeled a Windows Push Notifications Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability, and that alone tells security teams a great deal. It places the issue in the class of bugs that can let an attacker move from a lower-privilege context to something more powerful on...

Microsoft’s CVE-2026-26167 advisory points to a Windows Push Notifications elevation-of-privilege issue, but the public-facing information available in the update guide is limited, and that matters. In Microsoft’s own terms, this kind of “confidence” metric is meant to tell defenders how certain...

Mozilla quietly closed a privacy gap that broke one of the core promises of private browsing: push notification data from private windows was being written to disk unencrypted, potentially exposing sensitive content long after a private session ended. Background Private browsing modes are...

Microsoft’s Copilot now promises to do something deceptively simple: set a reminder for you from your PC and make your phone buzz when the time comes. But early hands‑on testing suggests the feature is not yet living up to that promise — and that gap between claim and delivery matters more than...

Microsoft has opened the public preview of Windows Azure Mobile Services, a hosted backend platform designed to give app developers a cloud-ready, code-light way to add data, authentication, and push notifications to mobile and Windows Store applications in minutes. Background Windows Azure...

Microsoft has recorded CVE-2025-59209 as an information disclosure vulnerability in the Windows Push Notification Core that can permit a low-privilege, authorized local actor to obtain sensitive information from a host; the advisory classifies the flaw as local-only with a medium CVSS v3.1 score...

Missing or silent Outlook alerts can quietly undermine schedules, cause missed meetings, and fracture workflows — and fixing them is often a matter of methodically checking a handful of settings rather than reinstalling your life. This guide walks through every practical step to restore Outlook...

Microsoft’s security advisory identifies CVE-2025-53724 as an elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Windows Push Notifications Apps component that stems from an access of resource using incompatible type (type confusion); when triggered by a locally authorized user, the bug can be abused...

Optimal IdM, a prominent provider of Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions, has recently unveiled a universal Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) integration tailored for Microsoft Azure tenants. This development signifies a substantial advancement in bolstering security measures for...

Microsoft’s Windows 11 has sparked lively debate within the tech community once more, this time over a seemingly innocuous feature: a backup prompt tucked inside the operating system’s Settings app. As seemingly minor as a notification banner may sound, this new addition—particularly its...

Understanding Microsoft's Push for Account Recovery: The Next Phase for Windows 11 Security Microsoft's ongoing drive to get users signed in with their Microsoft accounts on Windows 11 is well documented, and with good reason. As the operating system evolves, more of its headline features...

Users tell us that they find notification requests bothersome and distracting – except when they don’t. We want sites to engage with users without annoying them, but we also don’t want our users to miss reminders that may be important for them. With new changes that we’re rolling out, we are...

The next update to Microsoft Edge is now available with the Windows 10 April 2018 Update! This update includes EdgeHTML 17, the next major version of Microsoft Edge’s rendering engine, as well as new features and everyday improvements across the product. You can get your hands on the April 2018...

A little over a year ago, we outlined our vision to bring Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) to the more than half a billion devices running Windows 10. We believe PWAs are key to the web’s future, and couldn’t be more excited about their potential to enable more immersive web app experiences across...

We’re thrilled to announce that today’s Windows Insider build enables Service Workers by default in Microsoft Edge for the first time. This is an exciting milestone for us and for the web! These new APIs allow the web to offer better experiences when devices are offline or have limited...

Just a short time ago, the new Microsoft Intune for Education was announced for teachers and technologists to manage devices, accounts, and apps for students. Since that time, we’ve heard from a number of developers and app publishers who work in education, who have questions about how their...

With last summer’s release of the Windows 10 Anniversary Update and the announcement of the Windows Store supporting apps built with the Desktop Bridge technology, we want to share more details and sample code on how to further enhance and extend your PC software on Windows 10. In addition to...

Mobile Marketing Automation (MMA) encompasses a wide range of technologies and approaches with the intent of increasing customer engagement. MMA provides understanding into the user, allowing for the creation of personalized content that is both relevant to the user and delivered in an optimal...

Join Wade and Link Removed each week as they cover Windows Azure. You can follow and interact with the show at Link Removed. In this episode, Wade is joined by Link Removed—Technical Evangelist for Windows Azure—who shows us the Consumer Preview update of the Link Removed. Nick goes into depth...