Security Updates
The latest Security Updates coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Office 2508 Bakes VBScript RegExp into VBA as Microsoft's Deprecation Clock Ticks Louder
Microsoft has officially begun the countdown to VBScript’s permanent removal from Windows, and in a move that surprised many, the company slipped a compatibility lifeline into Office Version 2508:...
PowerToys Run's Plugin Ecosystem Makes It a True Start Menu Replacement — Here's How
For millions of Windows users, the Start menu is a daily hurdle — sluggish, unpredictable, and increasingly biased toward web results that bury local files. But a growing community of power users...
Microsoft Officially Deprecates EdgeHTML Web Components, Signaling Final Shift to Chromium-Based WebView2
Microsoft has formally added a clutch of EdgeHTML-era web integration features to its official Windows deprecated list, drawing a line under the legacy engine that once powered the original Microsoft...
Windows 11’s Screenshot Overhaul: How New Defaults and Snipping Tool Features Change the Game
Microsoft quietly pushed a major shift in Windows 11 that changes what happens when you press one of the keyboard’s oldest keys: Print Screen. No longer does it just dump a copy of your screen to...
Microsoft's Three-Day RTO and Speech Clampdown: Inside the AI-First Reset
Microsoft has begun enforcing a three-day-a-week office requirement for thousands of employees within commuting distance of its Redmond headquarters, the initial phase of a global mandate that will...
80 Fixes in September 2025 Patch Tuesday: SMB Audit Tool, NTFS RCE, and NTLM EoP Patched
Microsoft’s September 2025 Patch Tuesday landed with 80 security fixes, including a novel SMB hardening advisory that provides audit capabilities rather than a traditional vulnerability patch,...
Microsoft Ends the Road for EdgeHTML: WebView2 and Chromium PWAs Are the Future
Microsoft has quietly updated its official list of deprecated Windows features, signaling the final curtain for a suite of web components tied to the discontinued EdgeHTML engine. The move, which...
Stardock’s Start11 and WindowBlinds Bring Windows 7’s Look to Windows 11 — But It’s No Perfect Clone
A hands-on experiment by MakeUseOf’s Pankil Shah confirms that a carefully assembled toolkit can drape Windows 11 in the glassy, familiar skin of Windows 7 — and the result is more than a...
Windows 10 22H2 Gets Backup for Organizations, ESU Network Block, and SMB Auditing
Microsoft has begun rolling out its September 2025 cumulative updates for Windows 10 22H2, marking a significant moment for enterprises as the operating system approaches its end-of-support date in...
Veterans’ Affairs Launches Public Beta of AI Search While Testing Claims Extraction Tool
The Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA) has flipped the switch on a public beta of AI-powered website search, the first federal agency to do so, and disclosed parallel experiments with Microsoft...
Microsoft Ships Fixed Newtonsoft.Json in SQL Server CU to Address High-Severity DoS Flaw CVE-2024-21907
Microsoft has confirmed that a high-severity vulnerability in Newtonsoft.Json, the ubiquitous JSON library for .NET, is being addressed through cumulative updates for SQL Server and other products....
Hyper-V Privilege Escalation Flaw Exposes Hosts: Microsoft Urges Immediate Patching for CVE-2025-54115
Microsoft has released security updates to fix a critical race condition vulnerability in Windows Hyper-V that could allow an attacker with local access to escalate privileges and take over the host...