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Microsoft is facing a potentially watershed legal challenge in the UK as a £2.1 billion collective action over Windows Server pricing moves toward trial, with the core allegation being that the company charged more to run Windows Server on rival clouds than on Azure. That sounds like a narrow...

Microsoft is now facing a serious test of its cloud licensing playbook, and the stakes go well beyond one billing dispute. A UK collective action alleges the company charged businesses more to run Windows Server on rival clouds such as AWS, Google Cloud, and Alibaba Cloud than it charged on...

Microsoft’s latest Windows Server mishap is a reminder that the most painful update problems are often the ones that look routine at first. What began as a release-health curiosity has now turned into a case study in how quickly trust can erode when a patch changes behavior in the wrong place...

Microsoft is using Windows Server 2026’s planning season to make a very clear point: the next phase of server operations is less about chasing isolated features and more about reducing friction in the real world. In practice, that means faster patch-to-protect cycles, tighter control over...

Microsoft has moved quickly to contain a nasty April 2026 Windows Server servicing problem, issuing out-of-band fixes that address both repeated restart failures and update-installation errors tied to the month’s Patch Tuesday release. The immediate relief is real for administrators running...

Microsoft’s latest Windows Server patch drama is a reminder that the most dangerous updates are often the ones meant to protect the crown jewels. An out-of-band fix issued in April 2026 targets a restart-loop problem that could knock domain controllers into repeated reboots after the month’s...

Microsoft’s April 2026 Patch Tuesday is turning into an uncomfortable reminder that Windows servicing can fail in more than one way at once. While Microsoft is already dealing with a Microsoft account sign-in regression in Windows 11, fresh reporting and forum analysis now point to a separate...

Microsoft’s April 2026 Patch Tuesday cycle is already proving to be a rough one for Windows administrators, with one update lane improving Remote Desktop security on Windows 11 while another is now tied to a far more dangerous server-side failure mode. The latest confirmed issue affects Windows...

Microsoft’s April 2026 Patch Tuesday is already looking like a case study in how security updates can collide with identity and boot-time reliability at the worst possible moment. On one side, Microsoft has confirmed that Windows account sign-in can fail after March’s KB5079473 update, with a...

Microsoft has finally closed the loop on one of the most unnerving Windows Server servicing misfires in recent memory: a bug that could steer some Windows Server 2019 and Windows Server 2022 systems toward Windows Server 2025 without the kind of deliberate, administrator-approved intent...

Microsoft has finally closed the loop on one of the more frustrating Windows Server update problems of the past year: the issue that could push some Windows Server 2019 and Windows Server 2022 systems toward Windows Server 2025 without the kind of clear, deliberate approval enterprise admins...

CVE-2026-32224 is the kind of Windows Server vulnerability that administrators cannot afford to treat as a theoretical footnote. Microsoft’s Security Update Guide entry identifies it as a Windows Server Update Service (WSUS) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability, and third-party tracking...

Microsoft’s CVE-2026-26174 is a Windows Server Update Service (WSUS) Elevation of Privilege issue, and the key signal in Microsoft’s confidence metric is that the vendor is publicly acknowledging the vulnerability as real while keeping the low-level mechanics intentionally sparse. That...

Choosing the best Windows VPS in 2026 is less about chasing the lowest monthly price and more about buying the right blend of performance consistency, Windows optimization, and operational simplicity. That distinction matters because a Windows VPS is rarely just a generic virtual machine; for...

An unauthorized autonomous AI agent can look mundane right up until it becomes a bridgehead. In the OpenClaw case described by Qualys, what began as an ordinary package finding on a Windows Server host became a priority incident only after multiple telemetry sources were correlated into a single...

SPMB’s opening for an IT Specialist in Cedar Rapids is a useful reminder that many law firms now depend on in-house technology talent, not just outside vendors. The ad is straightforward, but the skill set it asks for is telling: this is not an entry-level help desk role, and it is not limited...

The Group Policy Management Console, or GPMC, remains one of the most important tools in the Windows administrator’s toolkit because it centralizes how policies are created, linked, delegated, and troubleshot across an Active Directory environment. For organizations running Windows Server...

Microsoft's security update for March 10, 2026, closed a high‑severity remote code execution hole in the Windows Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) that Microsoft track as CVE‑2026‑26111 — an integer overflow / wraparound defect in RRAS that, if successfully triggered, can allow an...

Fourteen years after ReFS first shipped as a data-centric filesystem with Windows Server 2012, Microsoft has taken the cautious — and consequential — step of allowing Windows Server to boot from an ReFS-formatted system volume in preview builds. This change, enabled in the Windows Server vNext...

Fourteen years after Microsoft first shipped the Resilient File System (ReFS) with Windows Server, the company has taken the long‑anticipated step of allowing Windows Server to boot from a ReFS‑formatted system volume — but only in preview, with strict caveats and nontrivial operational...