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  1. August 2025 Patch Tuesday: AI Settings, Quick Recovery, and Security Updates

    Microsoft’s August 2025 Patch Tuesday brings mandatory security rollups for Windows 11 and Windows 10, advancing multiple servicing branches to new OS builds, patching a swath of vulnerabilities, and introducing a handful of notable UX and recovery features — including an AI-driven Settings...
  2. August 2025 Patch Tuesday: Kerberos EoP CVE-2025-53779 and 9.8 RCE Fixes

    Microsoft pushed its August Patch Tuesday cumulative updates on August 12–13, 2025, delivering the monthly security rollups that fix a broad range of vulnerabilities across Windows client and server platforms—most notably a publicly disclosed privilege‑escalation bug in Windows Kerberos...
  3. Windows 11 24H2 August 2025 KB5063878: SSU+LCU, AI updates, and Secure Boot expiry

    Microsoft has shipped the August 12, 2025 cumulative security update for Windows 11, version 24H2 (KB5063878, OS Build 26100.4946), a routine Patch Tuesday release that combines the latest servicing stack update with the monthly cumulative update, patches a range of security issues, and contains...
  4. Windows 10 at Ten: A Decade of Compatibility and Service

    Ten years after its debut, Windows 10’s story reads less like a single product lifecycle and more like a decade-long experiment in balancing familiarity, compatibility, and incremental innovation — an experiment that, for most users and enterprises, largely succeeded. Background: the rescue that...
  5. California Lawsuit Seeks Free Windows 10 Updates After End-of-Support

    A California resident has filed a lawsuit seeking to force Microsoft to keep Windows 10 receiving free security updates, calling the company’s October 14, 2025 end-of-support decision a de facto coercion to buy new hardware and a move to entrench its AI strategy — a case that crystallizes...
  6. Germany Faces Windows 10 EoS: Plan Migration Before October 14, 2025

    Millions of German PCs face a hard deadline: on October 14, 2025, Microsoft will end mainstream support for Windows 10, stopping free security updates and feature patches for Home, Pro, Enterprise, Education and IoT LTSB editions — a shift that leaves a substantial portion of Germany’s installed...
  7. Windows 11 on Intel Macs: Why Secure Boot + TPM can't be faked

    The short answer is: not in the way Windows and most PC vendors mean when they say “Secure Boot.” Intel-based Macs running Boot Camp do not expose a Microsoft‑style UEFI Secure Boot + TPM environment to Windows the same way a Windows OEM PC does. Boot Camp can adjust trust so Windows will boot...
  8. Archive Windows 10 22H2 ISO Before End of Support (Oct 14, 2025)

    Windows 10’s long goodbye is nearly here, and the smartest move you can make before support ends on October 14, 2025 is to download and archive a clean, unmodified Windows 10 Version 22H2 ISO directly from Microsoft. Whether you plan to keep older PCs running, want a recovery option if a drive...