Ten years after releasing Windows 7 to the public, Microsoft officially put the popular operating system to rest earlier this month when the company rolled out the final update for Windows 7. Just kidding. It turns out that update actually introduced a new bug, so Microsoft is promising to deliver at least one more update […]
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Windows 10 May 2019 Update requires at least 32GB of storage
The next major Windows update is set to launch next month, and it’s expected to bring some new features including support for a new light theme and Windows Sandbox for Pro users, as well as the ability for Windows Subsystem for Linux users to access Linux files using Windows tools. But one change that might […]
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Windows 10 won’t automatically install every feature update
Microsoft’s Windows Update utility automatically downloads… well, updates to Windows. Up until now that’s generally included security updates, bug fixes, and major feature updates including, most recently, the Windows 10 October 2018 Update… which hit a bit of a rough patch when it turned out that the update caused some users to lose files, prompting […]
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Microsoft cuts “offline time” for big Windows updates (still takes about a half hour)
Microsoft is constantly rolling out updates for Windows 10, but most of those updates are installed in a few moments after you reboot your computer. But twice a year Microsoft rolls out a major “feature” update which can take a very… long… time to install. While some of the work happens in the background while […]
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Latest Windows update disables Intel’s crash-prone Spectre security patch
Most Intel processors* released in the past decade are vulnerable to the recently disclosed Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities, and that’s a problem. But shortly after Intel released a microcode update to mitigate the risk, users started noticing that their computers were unexpectedly shutting off (crashing) more often than before. Intel’s solution: don’t install that […]
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Reports: Windows 10 “Redstone 2” release coming in 2017
The next major update for Windows 10 is due this summer, but we may have to wait until early 2017 for the next big updated after that. According to ZDNet, Microsoft had planned to launched the “Redstone 2” update before the end of 2016, but the company has reportedly pushed back that date to coincide […]
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Now it’s easier to find out what’s in Windows 10 updates
Microsoft has released a number of updates to Windows 10 since launching the operating system in July, 2015. But up until now it hasn’t always been easy to know what features, bug fixes, or security improvements were included in each update. That’s starting to change: Microsoft has launched a new Windows 10 update history page, […]