windows 11

Microsoft’s Copilot Vision is already one of those features that sounds like science fiction until you actually point a camera at a menu, or ask an AI to “read” two app windows at once and find the dates when you’re free for a baseball game — then it suddenly feels like tomorrow’s productivity...

Microsoft's push toward cloud-first sign-ins has made installing Windows 11 without a Microsoft account more awkward than it used to be, but practical workarounds remain that let privacy-minded users create a local account during OOBE (out‑of‑box experience) or pre-build installation media that...

I was forced to upgrade to Windows 11 after a hardware repair and watched a beloved game break mid‑event because of a series of automatic updates — an increasingly common experience that sits at the intersection of user frustration, corporate risk management, and the modern reality of a tightly...

Microsoft acknowledged that an August preview update and subsequent September rollups for Windows 11 introduced a regression that can prevent legally purchased Blu‑ray, DVD and some digital‑TV applications from playing DRM‑protected content, producing copyright errors, black screens, freezes or...

Three weeks is not a long time in the life of a PC, but when that window sits directly ahead of a fixed end-of-support deadline it becomes a hard stop: Windows 10 will stop receiving routine security and quality updates on October 14, 2025, and every Windows 10 user now has three practical...

Microsoft has quietly released the optional preview update KB5065790 for Windows 11 version 23H2 (Build 22631.5984), a compact quality rollup that fixes a handful of high‑impact reliability issues — notably a SIM PIN sign‑in freeze, multi‑monitor Remote Desktop shutdowns, problematic Chinese IME...

Microsoft has released the optional, non‑security preview update KB5065790 for Windows 11 version 23H2, a compact cumulative focused on reliability fixes rather than new features — and it lands at a time when 23H2 is weeks away from end‑of‑service for consumer editions. Background / Overview...

A Windows 11 servicing update released in late August and rolled into September’s cumulative rollup has introduced a wide-ranging playback regression that breaks DRM‑protected video and audio in certain legacy players and digital TV apps, leaving legally purchased Blu‑ray/DVD titles...

Microsoft has quietly closed the book on two long-running Windows 11 problems that kept a subset of PCs from upgrading to the 24H2 feature update — but the September servicing cycle introduced a fresh regression that breaks playback of DRM‑protected Blu‑ray, DVD and digital‑TV content for some...

Microsoft has quietly restored one of Windows’ most nostalgic personalization features: native video wallpapers — the spiritual successor to DreamScene — now appearing in Windows 11 Insider preview builds and accessible through the familiar Settings > Personalization > Background workflow when...

Microsoft’s long-running experiment with the Windows 11 Start menu has finally produced a design that feels like a pragmatic step forward: a single, scrollable Start surface that consolidates Pinned apps, Recommended content, and All apps into one view, new layout modes for the All apps list, a...

Microsoft has quietly removed the compatibility block that kept a slice of PCs from receiving Windows 11 version 24H2 after fixing a nearly year‑old camera/Windows Hello interaction that could freeze apps and block facial sign‑in. Background Windows 11 24H2 shipped in October 2024 with a set of...

Microsoft shipped an unscheduled, out‑of‑band cumulative update for Windows 11 (KB5068221) to repair a high‑impact compatibility regression that caused Microsoft Office to fail when delivered via Microsoft Application Virtualization (App‑V), while also carrying forward September’s security fixes...

Windows 11 on new PC. Intel NUC NVME. O365 fresh installation. All Windows updates done, no viruses, no junk software, no app extensions. O365 Word, Excel report 4 errors. Reinstalled O365, restarted many times, reset TPM in Device Security > Security Processor > TPM reset or whatever it was...

Microsoft’s 2025 Windows 11 feature update — version 25H2 — arrives as a careful, operationally minded release rather than a headline-grabbing rework: it’s an enablement package that flips on features already staged in the 24H2 servicing stream, removes a few long‑deprecated tools, and resets...

Microsoft is quietly testing native video wallpapers inside Windows 11 Insider Preview builds, restoring a DreamScene‑style capability that lets ordinary video files act as looping desktop backgrounds and eliminating the immediate need for third‑party tools for basic animated wallpapers...

Microsoft has rolled out the KB5065790 Preview update for Windows 11 — a compact, non‑security “quality” rollup that fixes a cluster of high‑impact reliability issues, most notably an SMBv1 over NetBIOS (NetBT) file‑sharing regression and a Windows sign‑in freeze that affected WWAN/eSIM devices...

Microsoft has confirmed that a late‑August Windows 11 servicing update has introduced a compatibility regression that can cause Blu‑ray, DVD and certain Digital TV apps to freeze, show black screens, or present copyright‑protection errors when attempting to play protected content — and the...

Microsoft released the September non‑security optional preview (the “C” release) update for Windows 11 under KB5065790 — a targeted cumulative quality rollup that addresses a handful of reliability problems ranging from a sign‑in freeze when entering a SIM PIN to display and printing glitches...

Microsoft has pushed an out‑of‑band cumulative update for Windows 11, version 24H2, to repair a targeted compatibility regression that caused Microsoft Office applications to fail when delivered via Microsoft Application Virtualization (App‑V). The patch — released on September 22, 2025 — raises...