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Microsoft's current desktop operating system, successor to Windows 10, updated via periodic feature releases (22H2, 24H2, 25H2) that change tools and defaults.
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Microsoft has switched Windows settings backup on by default for Entra-joined and hybrid-joined PCs upgraded to Windows 11 26H2, released September 29. Tenants that never set the policy now copy users' settings and Store app lists until an admin turns it off.
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Microsoft has stopped calling new PCs Copilot+ even when they clear the old bar of a 40 TOPS NPU and 16GB of RAM, Surface CVP Brett Ostrum said. Buying specs that used the name as shorthand for that hardware now have to state the NPU and memory figures themselves.
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Microsoft has removed the legacy WMIC binary rather than deprecating it again. WMI itself stays, so admin scripts and detection content keyed to wmic.exe both need rework this cycle.
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A driver installed by RGB lighting hardware is crashing games on Windows 11 after KB5121003. Microsoft points at the peripherals; Embark Studios points back at a Windows kernel change.
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The September 2026 security updates left File History unable to create or update backups on Windows 10 21H2 and later and Windows 11 23H2 and later. The fix ships in an optional preview update; machines on mandatory updates wait until October 13.
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Tom's Guide found the fanless chassis cool with three creative apps running at once, and calls the new Surfaces the closest Microsoft has come to the MacBook Air. The session covered heat, not endurance.
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One Oracle micro VM held Pi-hole, the exit node and the tailnet's only resolver. When its node key came due at 180 days, both clients lost name resolution and every admin path into the box was already closed.
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Huntress showed WWAHost.exe rendering attacker JavaScript with full WinRT access, driving a genuine login.microsoftonline.com prompt. The tokens survive MFA. The gate is Developer Mode.
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The September 2026 security updates leave affected tunnels stuck in Connecting. Microsoft's interim mitigation pins each profile to a single protocol and drops the fallback attempt while it works on a permanent fix.
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Calendar, People and Files stop working on December 16, 2026, and Microsoft has already stopped shipping them, leaving a removal job on fleets that took the apps automatically at the end of 2025.
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Microsoft says some machines cannot create or update File History backups after installing the September 2026 security update, and affected PCs report the backup drive as disconnected while it sits attached and working.
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CVE-2026-85889 let an unauthorized attacker elevate privileges over the network in the platform enterprises use to run generative AI agents. Microsoft says the fix is already live and there is nothing for customers to install.
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Defender Antivirus 4.18.26080.4 fixes notifications that told users the antivirus was off while it was still scanning. The bug reached every supported Windows client and server build and had been visible in Release Preview since June.
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KB5124008 and KB5124012 make Windows honour Machine Identity Isolation settings that were already provisioned, and Microsoft's own documentation says turning enforcement off again breaks domain authentication until the device is rejoined.
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Microsoft says it is investigating reports that the update leaves domain-joined Windows 11 25H2 machines rejecting valid credentials after reboot, and administrators are pointing at Machine Identity Isolation in enforcement mode.
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Build 26220.9343 promoted Cloud Rebuild to the Beta channel on September 9, and a rebuild now reformats the system disk and fetches Windows plus drivers from Windows Update while still needing someone at the keyboard.
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KB5124008 stopped virtual machines from seeing folders shared by the Windows host, and that took local command execution away from both Windows Subsystem for Linux and Anthropic's Claude Cowork. Monday's KB5129195 restores it.
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Microsoft's release health note says RDP connections can fail after several minutes and servers can hang at the Remote Desktop Configuration screen. Group Policy mitigations cover ten build families while a permanent fix is still in work.
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The Verge tested 8GB and 16GB XPS 13 units, both with 512GB SSDs, and recommended the $999.99 one. Dell has since moved the $699.99 entry price onto a 256GB machine and added $100 to both tested builds.
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A dev.to teardown logs 78 critical Windows events in a day, VID peaks of 1.4868 V and clean RAM tests before pinning universal 0xc0000005 crashes on Vmin Shift Instability and capping the chip at 80 W.
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