security updates

Microsoft published CVE-2026-58597 on July 3, 2026, describing a medium-severity spoofing vulnerability in Chromium-based Microsoft Edge that is fixed in Edge Stable version 150.0.4078.48, released July 2, 2026. The bug is not the sort of browser flaw that screams “drop everything” in the way a...

Microsoft’s consumer Extended Security Updates program now gives eligible Windows 10 PCs security patches until October 12, 2027, after Windows 10’s mainstream support ended on October 14, 2025, but staying put still requires enrollment, updated boot certificates, backups, and stricter security...

Microsoft has quietly extended Windows 10’s consumer Extended Security Updates program to October 12, 2027, giving eligible personal PCs an extra year of critical and important security patches after normal support for the decade-old operating system ended on October 14, 2025. The move does not...

Microsoft is warning Windows 11 Home and Pro users still on version 24H2 that support for those editions ends on October 13, 2026, after which affected PCs stop receiving monthly security updates, fixes for known issues, time zone updates, and technical support. The warning matters less because...

Microsoft has extended hotpatching for Windows Server 2022 Datacenter Azure Edition into 2027, keeping reboot-light security updates available past the operating system’s October 13, 2026 mainstream-support cutoff, while standard on-premises Windows Server 2022 editions remain on the normal...

Microsoft has extended the Windows 10 consumer Extended Security Updates program into October 2027, giving eligible PCs roughly two years of post-retirement security coverage after Windows 10’s official support ended on October 14, 2025. The company is presenting the move as a safer bridge for...

Microsoft has extended Windows 10 Extended Security Updates for personal-use devices through October 12, 2027, giving consumers who cannot or will not move to Windows 11 another year of critical security patches after Windows 10’s October 14, 2025 end of support. The move is good news, but it is...

Microsoft quietly extended the Windows 10 Consumer Extended Security Updates program for personal devices through October 12, 2027, giving enrolled home PCs another year of critical and important security patches after the operating system’s official October 14, 2025 end of support. The move...

Microsoft has extended Windows 10’s Extended Security Updates path into October 2027 for eligible users, after Windows 10 reached end of support on October 14, 2025, giving hundreds of millions of holdout PCs another year of critical security patches. The move is not a formal confession that...

Microsoft has extended Windows 10 consumer Extended Security Updates through October 12, 2027, giving individuals on Windows 10 version 22H2 a Microsoft-account-linked path to keep receiving critical and important security patches after mainstream support ended on October 14, 2025. That is not a...

Microsoft has extended the consumer Windows 10 Extended Security Updates program for eligible Windows 10 version 22H2 PCs through October 12, 2027, giving holdouts in the United States and other supported regions another year of critical and important security patches after mainstream support...

Microsoft has extended the consumer Windows 10 Extended Security Updates program for personal devices by another year, moving the effective security-update runway from October 2026 to October 12, 2027, after Windows 10’s official support ended on October 14, 2025. The company has not framed this...

Microsoft has quietly updated its consumer Windows 10 Extended Security Updates program so eligible personal devices can keep receiving critical and important security patches into October 2027, extending the practical safety window for millions of Windows 10 users beyond the previously...

Microsoft’s reported extension of the Windows 10 consumer Extended Security Updates program would keep eligible enrolled PCs receiving security fixes until October 2027, a year beyond the previously advertised October 2026 ESU cutoff and two years after Windows 10’s official October 14, 2025 end...

Microsoft has extended Windows 10’s consumer Extended Security Updates coverage for enrolled personal PCs through October 12, 2027, giving holdout users a second extra year of critical and important security patches after mainstream support ended on October 14, 2025. The move is not a...

Microsoft has extended the Windows 10 Extended Security Updates runway for personal-use devices through October 12, 2027, according to PCWorld’s report on Microsoft’s updated messaging, giving consumers another year of security patches beyond the earlier October 2026 consumer ESU deadline. The...

Microsoft has updated its Windows 10 consumer Extended Security Updates language to say enrolled PCs can keep receiving security-only updates until October 12, 2027, effectively giving holdout users a second post-retirement year after the operating system’s formal end of support on October 14...

Windows 11 turns five today because Microsoft announced it on June 24, 2021, in a streamed launch from Redmond, before shipping the operating system to eligible PCs on October 5 with a redesigned interface, stricter hardware rules, and promises of a more personal PC. Half a decade later, the...

Microsoft has confirmed that Windows security updates released on June 9, 2026, cause supported Windows clients and servers to show internal Recycle Bin filenames such as $Rxxxxx.ext in the permanent-delete confirmation dialog instead of the files’ original names, while leaving restoration...

Microsoft confirmed on June 18, 2026, that Windows security updates released on June 9 can cause the Recycle Bin’s delete confirmation dialog to show an internal $Rxxxxx filename instead of the user-facing filename across supported Windows client and server releases. The bug is small in...