Windows 10

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Windows Update gets new energy efficiency feature, Microsoft buys Minit for mining, and QNAP says its NAS devices are vulnerable to a critical OpenSSL bug. About This Week in IT This week in IT is a weekly podcast hosted by Petri’s Editorial Director Russell Smith. Each week, Russell rounds up the most important stories for…

In today’s Ask the Admin, I’ll look at what’s new in Windows 10 version 1809 for business users.

Microsoft announces Windows 11 release date, tweaks the Windows 11 minimum hardware requirements (but not much), and Windows 365 goes live but free trials are on hold due to demand. Windows 11 release date Top of the list this month is that Microsoft announced Windows 11 will start rolling out to eligible Windows 10 PCs…

Microsoft has released a new gradual rollouts feature for its Windows Update for Business deployment service. This new capability was first announced in November 2021, and it aims to ensure a smoother feature update experience for organizations with specific software and hardware compatibility issues. For those unfamiliar, Windows Update for Business was introduced in March…

Microsoft has released a new security feature that should help to protect Windows PCs against malicious drivers. David Weston, Microsoft’s Vice President of Enterprise and OS Security, announced on Twitter today that the vulnerable driver blocklist feature is now available on Windows 10, Windows 11, as well as Server 2016 and higher. The new vulnerable…

This week in IT, Windows 11 increases its market share, Microsoft releases Defender for Business and it pledges to help protect businesses against cyberattacks during the war in Ukraine, and Lenovo releases the first ARM PCs based on Microsoft’s Pluton security platform, and much more! This Week in IT – Windows 11 Surges Forward and…

Microsoft has released the optional March 2022 non-security patch (KB5011543) for Windows 10 versions 21H2, 21H1, and 20H2. This optional update addresses a serious Bluetooth issue that was previously causing blue screens of death (BSODs) on Windows 10 machines. This Bluetooth bug was first discovered following the release of the optional KB5009596 patch in January,…

In today’s Ask the Admin, I’ll show you a couple of tricks that make working with multiple monitors easier.

Microsoft has addressed a known issue that was breaking the Outlook search functionality on Windows 10. The company announced on its Windows Health Dashboard that the problem has been resolved via the Known Issue Rollback (KIR) feature on Windows 10 versions 21H1, 21H2, 20H2, and 1809. Known Issue Rollback is a capability that enables Microsoft…