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Microsoft's decades‑old storage class driver model is finally being challenged: a native NVMe kernel driver (nvmedisk.sys) that Microsoft built for Windows Server 2025 has been discovered inside recent Windows 11 25H2 builds, and early tests indicate measurable throughput and latency gains on...

Microsoft has quietly shipped one of the most consequential storage changes in years — a native NVMe I/O path in Windows Server 2025 — and enterprising users have already found ways to flip that same switch on Windows 11, producing measurable SSD performance gains in real-world consumer tests...

Microsoft has quietly shipped an out‑of‑band update to undo a December security hardening that left Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) unable to write its on‑disk message files on many enterprise systems, restoring queue functionality after a week of outages, confusing logs, and emergency...

Microsoft issued emergency updates in mid‑December after a Patch Tuesday cumulative update broke Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) on a swath of Windows 10 and Windows Server builds, leaving enterprise IIS sites and MSMQ‑dependent applications unable to create message files and producing...

Microsoft acknowledged and — in some server channels — already shipped out-of-band patches that address a disruptive December 2025 regression which broke Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) for many enterprise deployments, and administrators now face a short-term choice between applying...

Microsoft has confirmed that its December 9, 2025 Patch Tuesday cumulative updates introduced a regression that breaks Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) in many enterprise environments, leaving queues inactive, IIS-hosted applications throwing “Insufficient resources to perform operation” errors...

Microsoft’s long-standing accommodation for the RC4 cipher in Windows authentication is finally getting a firm end date: by mid‑2026 domain controllers (KDCs) running Windows Server 2008 and later will default to AES‑SHA1 session keys for Kerberos and RC4 will be disabled by default, leaving RC4...

Microsoft returned to a London antitrust tribunal this week to argue that a proposed collective action seeking up to £2.1 billion over Windows Server licensing should be blocked at the gate because the claimants — led by competition lawyer Maria Luisa Stasi — have not identified a viable legal...

Microsoft is back in the dock over cloud licensing, and this time the dispute sits at the intersection of antitrust law, enterprise procurement strategy, and the future shape of the cloud market itself — a dispute that could change how UK organisations buy and run Windows Server workloads...

Microsoft will tell judges at the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) that a proposed mass claim accusing it of anti‑competitive cloud licensing practices should be struck out because the plaintiffs’ methodology for proving common liability and quantifying loss is flawed, a move that puts the...

Microsoft has published (and vendors have confirmed) a high‑severity remote code execution vulnerability in the Windows Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS), tracked as CVE‑2025‑62549, that affects servers with the RRAS/RemoteAccess role enabled and demands immediate inventory, patching, and...

Microsoft has quietly closed a long‑standing operational gap for datacenter teams: Windows Server failover clusters can now host Storage Spaces Direct (S2D)–backed CSVs and traditional SAN‑LUN CSVs side‑by‑side, giving organizations a supported path to modernize without abandoning existing SAN...

Microsoft has formally put the final nail in the coffin for Windows Internet Name Service (WINS): the company announced that WINS will be removed from all Windows Server releases after Windows Server 2025, leaving administrators a finite migration runway that effectively ends native WINS support...

A top trading firm in Chicago is actively recruiting a Windows Systems Engineer to join an in-office team responsible for maintaining mission-critical Windows Server and virtualization infrastructure, administering Microsoft services (Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Exchange, Group Policy)...

Microsoft's decision to remove Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) from future Windows Server releases marks the end of a two‑decade migration away from NetBIOS‑based name resolution toward a DNS‑first architecture — a timetable that gives organizations a long runway to modernize, but also...

Microsoft's roadmap for Windows Server continues its long march away from legacy networking, with an explicit notice that Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) will not survive beyond Windows Server 2025 — a change that gives organizations a defined runway to replace NetBIOS-era name resolution...

Microsoft has confirmed a formal timeline to remove Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) from future Windows Server releases — and it has altered the public wording in the official guidance to clarify that WINS in Windows Server 2025 will remain under the product’s standard support lifecycle...

A new Microsoft Security Response Center advisory published on November 11, 2025, documents CVE‑2025‑59510 — a local denial‑of‑service (DoS) vulnerability in Windows Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) that stems from improper link resolution (symlink or "link following") before file...

Microsoft has published a security update addressing CVE-2025-60715 — a heap‑based buffer‑overflow in the Windows Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) that can lead to remote code execution on RRAS‑enabled hosts, and administrators should treat any internet‑facing or otherwise reachable RRAS...

Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) has publicly exposed a focused cyberespionage campaign — tracked as PassiveNeuron — that deliberately targets Internet‑facing Windows Server hosts in government, financial and industrial environments across Asia, Africa and Latin America...