Last week, Microsoft unveiled a new, more simplified naming scheme for Windows updates on Windows 11 which were designed to make it clearer to end users what Windows Update was actually downloading ...

Just days after Microsoft killed security updates for 500 million Windows 10 users, there’s bad news for Windows 11 users as well. A new, mandatory security update is a “total disaster” and an ...

The Windows 11 December 2025 Security Update is now rolling out, and alongside it comes a number of new features and changes to round off the year.

Microsoft’s fifth major iteration of Windows 11 is nearing its release to the general public—the Windows Insider team announced today that Windows 11 25H2 was being put into its Release Preview ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. This update mistake has finally been fixed. Updated on Nov. 5 with ...

Microsoft has released the KB5065789 preview cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2, which includes 41 improvements, including new AI actions in File Explorer and bug fixes for Windows Update and ...

Microsoft this past week released a couple of new optional non-security preview C release updates under KB5064080 (for Windows 11 23H2) and KB5064081 (for Windows 11 24H2). Alongside those the company ...

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