windows 11 updates

On the morning of June 11, 2024, thousands of Windows 11 machines that accepted the monthly cumulative update KB5039212 found themselves caught in a relentless boot loop: systems crashed to a blue screen, restarted, and crashed again — in many cases making previously productive desktops and...

Microsoft’s January 2026 cumulative for Windows 11 has turned into a high-stakes update incident: a mandatory security rollup released on January 13 is linked to a small but serious set of machines that fail to complete startup—displaying the stop code UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME and the message...

Microsoft released its January cumulative for Windows 11 (KB5074109) on January 13, 2026 — and within days a series of serious regressions began surfacing, from brief black screens on some Nvidia-equipped machines to full startup failures that print UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME (Stop Code 0xED) and...

Microsoft’s first major Windows 11 update of 2026 has not only failed to land cleanly — it has forced multiple emergency interventions and left enterprise administrators scrambling to triage boot failures, app crashes, and unexpected reboots across a mix of desktop, server and IoT fleets...

Microsoft pushed emergency, out‑of‑band fixes in late January after its regular Patch Tuesday rollup on January 13, 2026 introduced high‑impact regressions across multiple Windows 11 servicing branches — most notably machines that restart instead of shutting down when System Guard Secure Launch...

Microsoft pushed an emergency out‑of‑band update late last week to repair a regression introduced by its January security rollup that left Outlook and other programs unable to open or save files stored in cloud‑backed folders such as OneDrive and Dropbox. The fix — delivered as KB5078127 for...

Microsoft's January 2026 Windows 11 update cycle has turned into a textbook case of update risk: a standard Patch Tuesday release on January 13 triggered a cascade of regressions that forced two out‑of‑band (OOB) emergency patches and left a limited but severe set of physical machines unable to...

Microsoft’s January update roll-out has already cost IT teams a sleepless weekend and forced two emergency fixes inside a single fortnight — a chaotic start to Windows 11 patching in 2026 that raises fresh questions about testing, packaging, and communication for Microsoft’s flagship desktop OS...

In a rare bit of good news for people who still want their Windows desktop to act like a local desktop, OneDrive’s Folder Backup (Known Folder Move) on Windows 11 has quietly gained a better undo flow — in some builds you can now stop folder backup and have OneDrive move your files back to the...

A routine January Patch Tuesday rollup (KB5074109) accidentally left parts of Microsoft’s classic Outlook experience unstable for a measurable number of users, triggering freezes, lingering OUTLOOK.EXE processes, lost Sent Items and a rapid sequence of follow‑up fixes and mitigations from...

Microsoft moved quickly to contain a trio of disruptive regressions introduced by the Windows 11 January 2026 Patch Tuesday wave, shipping targeted out‑of‑band (OOB) updates that restored Remote Desktop sign‑in flows and fixed a configuration‑dependent shutdown/hibernate bug — while a separate...

Windows 11’s January update cycle left a lot of users shaken — and in the same week a small hardware company reignited Windows Phone nostalgia with a phone that can boot Android, Linux, and Windows 11. The juxtaposition could not be sharper: one story exposes the brittleness of a sprawling...

Microsoft’s ecosystem hit and curious pivot this week: a community-fueled revival of the Windows Phone concept via a third‑party device that can run Windows 11, while Microsoft’s flagship desktop OS continues to wrestle with a fresh wave of stability bugs affecting apps and core features. The...

Microsoft released an out‑of‑band cumulative update for Windows 11, version 23H2—KB5078132 (OS Build 22631.6495)—on January 24, 2026 to address a set of post‑Patch‑Tuesday regressions and to roll together prior January fixes into a single package for affected systems. The package is explicitly...

Microsoft has done something it rarely does: told affected Windows 11 users to uninstall its January 13, 2026 security update (KB5074109) while engineers investigate widespread system and application breakages that followed the patch's rollout. The guidance comes after reports of severe...

Microsoft's own guidance for some Windows 11 users is now blunt: if the January 13, 2026 cumulative update (published as KB5074109) has left your system unstable or Outlook unusable, remove it — temporarily — while Microsoft investigates and prepares a true fix. This is an uncommon public...

Microsoft is preparing a pair of substantial, free Windows 11 updates this year — an early, device‑specific spring release and a broader autumn rollout — and those releases will push Copilot deeper into the operating system, restore long‑missed interface conveniences, add gaming‑oriented...

Microsoft’s January cumulative update for Windows 11, KB5074109, intended to deliver security and platform improvements, has triggered a wave of configuration-dependent regressions — most visibly brief black screens on some desktops and hangs in the classic (Win32) Outlook client — prompting...

Microsoft-watchers have spotted a new, internally listed Windows updateate labeled KB5078127 (build reported as 26×00.7628) — but Microsoft has not published any official support documentation yet, and the only public signal so far comes from a Windows analyst’s discovery relayed by Windows...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update once again left a small but vocal number of users stranded with failed shutdowns, login errors, and machines that freeze during restarts—an incident Techlicious framed as a fresh reminder that Windows updates can and do sometimes break PCs. review Windows...