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...
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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...
Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) has publicly exposed an active, server‑focused cyberespionage campaign — tracked as PassiveNeuron — that has compromised Internet‑facing Windows Server systems in government, financial and industrial environments across Asia, Africa and Latin...
Microsoft has pushed an emergency out‑of‑band update after a botched October patch left a critical Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) vulnerability — tracked as CVE‑2025‑59287 — incompletely remediated and actively exploited in the wild, prompting urgent warnings from CISA and multiple...
Microsoft has released an out‑of‑band emergency update to plug a critical remote‑code‑execution hole in Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), and federal and industry authorities warn the flaw — tracked as CVE‑2025‑59287 — is being actively exploited in the wild; immediate action is required...
Microsoft has released an out‑of‑band emergency patch to fix a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) — tracked as CVE‑2025‑59287 — and every WSUS host must be treated as a top‑tier remediation priority until it is patched or isolated. The flaw is a...
Microsoft has released an out‑of‑band emergency update to patch a critical remote‑code‑execution vulnerability in Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) — tracked as CVE‑2025‑59287 — and administrators must treat every WSUS host as a top‑tier remediation priority until it is patched or safely...
Microsoft pushed an out‑of‑band emergency update on October 23, 2025 to fix a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), tracked as CVE‑2025‑59287, and administrators must treat WSUS hosts as a top‑tier remediation priority until every affected server...
Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team has exposed a deliberate, server‑focused cyberespionage campaign — tracked as PassiveNeuron — that has targeted Internet‑facing Windows Server machines in government, financial and industrial organizations across Asia, Africa and Latin America...
Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) has exposed an active, server‑focused cyberespionage campaign — tracked as PassiveNeuron — that specifically targets Windows Server hosts in government, financial and industrial networks across Asia, Africa and Latin America, with activity...