windows 11 24h2

Microsoft’s Windows team has confirmed what industry insiders have been expecting for months: the future of the OS will be built around context-aware, multimodal AI that can see and understand what’s on your screen, respond to voice and pen input, and act on your intent — but those headline AI...

Microsoft’s August cumulative for Windows 11 24H2 (KB5063878) has been linked by independent testers and enthusiast communities to a reproducible storage regression in which certain NVMe SSDs can suddenly stop responding during sustained large writes, sometimes vanishing from Device Manager and...

Microsoft’s Windows 11 24H2 rollout has already spawned two separate storage headaches: an earlier compatibility surge that produced looping Blue Screens of Death (BSODs) on certain Western Digital and SanDisk NVMe drives, and a later August 12, 2025 cumulative patch (KB5063878, OS Build...

Microsoft’s August cumulative for Windows 11 (KB5063878) promised performance and security fixes, but within days it became the focal point of two separate reliability incidents: an enterprise deployment failure that blocked WSUS/SCCM installs and, more alarmingly, early community reports that...

Microsoft has quietly unlocked one of the most consequential features Windows on Arm owners have been waiting for: the Xbox PC app can now — in preview — download and run compatible games locally on Arm-based Windows 11 devices. Background Windows on Arm has long been pitched as the...

Microsoft has confirmed that Windows PowerShell 2.0 — the legacy engine introduced with Windows 7 and officially deprecated in 2017 — will be removed from the Windows OS image in upcoming releases: it will be absent from Windows 11, version 24H2 beginning in August 2025 and from Windows Server...

Microsoft has set a firm date to excise a long‑running compatibility relic: Windows PowerShell 2.0 will be removed from shipping Windows images beginning with Windows 11, version 24H2 (rollout starting August 2025) and will follow in Windows Server 2025 (September 2025) — a change already...

Microsoft has quietly pushed an emergency mitigation and updated guidance after a late‑2024 Windows 11 installation‑media bug left some freshly installed systems unable to accept subsequent security updates, forcing affected users and IT teams into painful workarounds including media rebuilds...

Microsoft is executing the long‑announced end of Windows PowerShell 2.0: starting with Windows 11, version 24H2 in August 2025 and following with Windows Server 2025 in September 2025, the legacy PowerShell 2.0 engine will be removed from shipping Windows images as part of a platform cleanup...

Today Microsoft published Windows 11 Build 26100.5061 (KB5064081) to Insiders on the Release Preview Channel for Windows 11, version 24H2, delivering a broad mix of AI-driven features, quality fixes, and platform changes that will begin rolling out to wider audiences in the coming weeks. The...

Microsoft has confirmed that the Windows 11 August 2025 cumulative update (KB5063878) is causing installation failures in certain enterprise scenarios and has pushed an emergency mitigation while engineers work on a permanent fix. The issue surfaces as error code 0x80240069 when updates are...

Microsoft’s August security roll-up arrived with muscle: a broad set of fixes across Windows, Office, Hyper‑V, RRAS, and Edge that closes dozens of high‑risk holes — but the tally of affected CVEs, the presence of a publicly disclosed Kerberos issue, and multiple graphics‑parsing remote code...

Microsoft’s reminder that Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14, 2025 has pushed many users — especially those with older or non‑upgradeable machines — to consider free alternatives, and a number of Ukrainian outlets and community posts are already pointing readers toward Linux...

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...

Microsoft’s optional July preview (KB5062660) and the August cumulative that rolled its fixes into mainstream channels have produced a repeatable Event Viewer error — CertificateServicesClient (CertEnroll) Event ID 57 — that logs “The ‘Microsoft Pluton Cryptographic Provider’ provider was not...

Microsoft has confirmed that Event Viewer entries reporting a CertificateServicesClient (CertEnroll) error are appearing on Windows 11 version 24H2 after recent updates, but the company says these logs are cosmetic and do not affect running apps or network connectivity. Background Windows 11’s...

Windows 11’s newest cumulative update brings a pragmatic — and quietly radical — addition: Quick Machine Recovery (QMR), a cloud-assisted rescue system that aims to repair unbootable PCs from within the Windows Recovery Environment. The August 12, 2025 patch (KB5063878) that delivered this...

Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 11, version 23H2 will reach end of updates for Home and Pro editions on November 11, 2025, meaning devices still running 23H2 after that date will no longer receive security fixes or quality updates; Enterprise and Education editions on the same release train...

Microsoft’s long‑standing compatibility concession for legacy automation has come to an end: Windows PowerShell 2.0 is being removed from shipping Windows 11 and Windows Server images, beginning with Windows 11, version 24H2 in August 2025 and Windows Server 2025 in September 2025. This change —...

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...