quality assurance

Windows 11 arrived with bold promises — a modern UI, new workflows, and an AI-driven future — but 2025 exposed a stubborn truth: a major release can’t coast on vision alone. Instead, everyday reliability and performance matter more than ever. Over the last 18 months users, IT teams and gamers...

Microsoft’s Snipping Tool appears poised to flip the traditional screenshot workflow by letting you draw and highlight on the live screen before you capture it — a change that promises faster annotation, tighter AI integrations, and a more pen‑friendly experience across Windows devices...

Here’s a summary of how Microsoft 365 Copilot transformed Balfour Beatty, based on your provided extract: Key Business Gains Reducing Rework: Jon Ozanne, CIO at Balfour Beatty, emphasizes that rework is costly not only in terms of time and money but also introduces health and safety risks. By...

Here's a quick summary of the situation: In a recent Windows 11 Dev Channel preview build (reported around June 16, 2025), the startup sound was accidentally replaced with the iconic Windows Vista chime. This was a bug, not an intentional change for nostalgia or an Easter egg. Testers and...

In the mid-1990s, as Microsoft prepared to launch Windows 95, the company faced a significant challenge: ensuring the new operating system was compatible with the vast array of existing software. To address this, a Microsoft development manager took an unconventional approach. He drove to a...

The rollout of Windows 11’s much-anticipated June 2025 Update, officially designated as KB5060842 for the 24H2 release, encountered an unexpected pause as Microsoft identified compatibility issues affecting a limited subset of devices. This brief delay, and the decision to throttle distribution...

When Microsoft released its May Patch Tuesday update for Windows 11, few could have anticipated that a routine exercise in operating system maintenance would leave a subset of enterprise PCs stranded in recovery mode, presenting only a cryptic error and a daunting choice: attempt recovery or...

Windows enthusiasts who eagerly sign up for the Windows Insider Program’s Canary Channel have long grown accustomed to living on the razor’s edge of Microsoft’s operating system development. The Canary builds are where raw, untested features and system overhauls are pushed first, often with the...

The evolution of quality assurance methodologies has become one of the most striking narratives in the ongoing transformation of software development and delivery cycles. With artificial intelligence moving beyond the speculative realm of science fiction to become a disruptive force in modern...

If you thought quality management in supply chains was already as complicated as assembling flat-pack furniture with instructions in Greek, buckle up: Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management is upping its game with a suite of new compliance and quality features, currently prancing about in public...

Windows users have reason to take notice this month as Microsoft’s March 2025 security update for Windows 11 rolls out. Designed for Windows 11 version 24H2, KB5053598 (OS Build 26100.3476) brings a series of security enhancements and quality improvements aimed at fortifying the operating system...

November 5, 2023 The highly anticipated Windows 11 24H2 update, which promised a host of new features and enhancements, has unfortunately been marred by a series of perplexing bugs that are frustrating users across the globe. Among these issues, a particularly troubling glitch in the File...

Building off the Windows 11 momentum Panos shared last week, we want to take a moment and share a little bit on what’s coming for the Windows Insider Program in 2022. It has truly been incredible to see the interest in the program grow since announcing Windows 11 last June. We have more people...

Hey Folks! Today, we’re excited to announce some changes to the way we release new builds to all Windows Insiders. We are transitioning and converting our current ring model, based on the frequency of builds, to a new channel model that pivots on the quality of builds and better supports...

We’ve engineered Office to be secure by design and continually invest in enhancing its security capabilities. In the spirit of maintaining a high security bar in Office, we’re launching the Bug Bounty Program for Office Insider Builds on Windows. The Office Bug Bounty Program complements our...

Hi! My name is Anita George, and I am the leader of the two Bug Bashes for the Windows 10 Creators Update (the one in November 2016 and the one we just finished up in Feb). For this most recent Bug Bash, Windows Insiders completed approximately 108,900 Quests and submitted or upvoted an...

This walkthrough demo will cover setting up a basic Cordova project, setting up a repo in Visual Studio Online, setting up the appropriate environments to handle the targeted platforms for application release, and ensuring quality build results prior to making the definitions live. As there are...

It would appear that some Win 10 users are having issues with update KB3020114. Microsoft have posted an official solution on the Windows Insider Hub: ref: Insider Hub found on Windows 10 Tech Preview

Hello, I am a QA engineer and my use case of the problem is inability to pass a build validation test: I connect to a Windows 8.1 through SSH connection and start a batch file that automates the installation of the software on Windows 8.1. virtual machine. The thing is: during the installation...

Hello all, We recently upgraded to windows 7 due to Citrix not being supported by XP in the future and ever since we have our Infopath 2007 has been playing up. We are unable to save any of the current templates (though we can submit to email etc) and when trying to amend or change anything in...