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Microsoft AI Push Backfires: Windows 11 Nags, GitHub Outages Erode Trust
Microsoft’s grand AI ambitions collided with a trio of trust-eroding issues this week, exposing deep frustrations among Windows users and developers alike. The company—busy integrating Copilot...
Azure kills one-year reserved VM deals for 14 legacy families on July 1, 2026
Microsoft will stop selling new one-year Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances for fourteen older virtual-machine families on July 1, 2026, and will block renewals of existing reservations the...
April 2026 Patch Tuesday Blocks psmounterex.sys, Crippling Backup Mounting and VSS
Microsoft’s latest monthly security update, released on April 14, 2026, has added the third-party kernel driver psmounterex.sys to the Microsoft Vulnerable Driver Blocklist, immediately preventing...
UniGetUI 2026.1.8 ships with Pinget WinGet fallback, Avalonia UI, and Flatpak support
UniGetUI 2026.1.8 rolled out on May 5, 2026, packing a portable WinGet stand-in, a ground-up UI rebuild with Avalonia, and experimental Flatpak management. The latest release of the open-source...
AppControl for Windows: 72-Hour Historical View Beyond Task Manager
Task Manager tells you what’s happening right now. AppControl tells you what’s been happening for the past three days. That’s the core pitch behind a new free utility from developer Jon...
May 2026 Azure IaaS guidance mandates micro-segmentation, TLS inspection, and identity hardening as perimeter models fail.
Microsoft’s Azure engineering team published a landmark blog post on May 4, 2026, reframing how organizations must defend their cloud infrastructure. The message was blunt: yesterday’s...
AZ-400 Exam: Master CI/CD, IaC & DevOps Security on Azure
Microsoft's Azure DevOps Engineer Expert certification validates the skills needed to design and implement DevOps practices using Azure technologies. The credential requires passing Exam AZ-400 and...
Edge Sidebar App List Retires: Pinned Apps Gone, Copilot Remains
Microsoft is winding down the Edge sidebar app list, a feature that let users pin shortcuts to web apps and services directly in the browser’s side pane. The change began rolling out to Microsoft...
Windows 11 Updates in Spring 2026 May Trigger Extra Reboots Due to Secure Boot Certificate Changes
Windows 11 PCs may undergo an additional restart during update installations scheduled for spring 2026. Microsoft has confirmed that the extra reboot is intentional and tied to the deployment of...
Ingram Micro earns Microsoft AI Apps on Azure specialization to accelerate partner AI adoption
Ingram Micro has secured Microsoft’s AI Apps on Azure specialization, a credential designed to validate deep technical expertise and proven delivery capabilities in building and managing AI-powered...
Windows 11’s New Run Dialog Delivers 94ms Speed Boost Over Legacy Version
Microsoft has rolled out a completely overhauled Run dialog for Windows 11 Insiders, marking the first major update to the decades-old utility. The new dialog, built with C# and WinUI 3, launched as...
ConsentFix v3 Phishing Toolkit Steals OAuth Codes to Bypass MFA in Microsoft Entra ID
A dangerous new phishing toolkit called ConsentFix v3 has surfaced, purpose-built to compromise Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) accounts by automating the theft of OAuth 2.0 authorization...