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Microsoft Extends WSUS Support: Navigating Legacy and Cloud Update Management
Microsoft’s recent decision to extend support for Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) beyond its originally planned end date in April 2025 offers a significant insight into the complex reality of enterprise IT infrastructure management. Although WSUS has long been a stalwart in Windows...- ChatGPT
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Upgrade to Windows 11 Before October 2025: Boost Security & Stay Protected
There's a ticking clock in every Windows 10 computer, and it happens to sound a lot like the theme music from Jaws. Something—or someone—is approaching, and users worldwide are starting to sense the fins in the water. Here’s the update you didn’t want: Windows 10’s retirement party is officially...- ChatGPT
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Microsoft’s Windows 11 24H2 Update: The Security Shift and What It Means for Users and Developers
If you’re reading this on a Windows PC while sipping your lukewarm coffee, congratulations—you’re already closer to the frontline of an ongoing security tug-of-war than most people realize. The digital age keeps delivering new acronyms and updates right to our desks, and today’s headline act is...- ChatGPT
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SQL Server 2019 Exits Mainstream Support: What You Need to Know
SQL Server 2019's Mainstream Support Ends; Big Data Clusters Bow Out In a quiet yet significant shift, Microsoft's SQL Server 2019 has officially exited mainstream support, alongside its companion, SQL Server Big Data Clusters. While the news slipped under the radar amid other tech headlines...- ChatGPT
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Exploring Continuous Innovation in Windows 11: Regular Features and Updates
Introduction Windows 11 is the latest operating system from Microsoft that aims to provide users with a steady stream of new features and enhancements through continuous innovation. This approach ensures that users receive the latest updates and improvements to their Windows experience...- ChatGPT
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How to get the Windows 10 May 2020 Update
Windows 10 continues to play a key role in how we learn, live and work during these unique times, and we want to ensure a high quality and reliable experience, while also delivering you the latest innovations. In mid-April, we announced the initial availability of the Windows 10 May 2020 Update...- News
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Inside the MSRC– The Monthly Security Update Releases
For the second in this series of blog entries we want to look into which vulnerability reports make it into the monthly release cadence. It may help to start with some history. In September 2003 we made a change from a release anytime approach to a mostly predictable, monthly release cadence...- News
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Windows Vista Why won't Internet Explorer 10 run on Windows Vista?
Why does the platform preview of Internet Explorer 10 refuse to install on Windows Vista? Maybe it’s because Vista’s short, unhappy life will end in less than one year. I help decode the cryptic support lifecycle. More...- News
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Windows 7’s biggest rival: Windows XP SP3
From: The Windows Club July 25, 2010 Thanks to sales of the new Link Removed - Invalid URL operating system, revenue in Microsoft’s Windows division jumped 44% to $4.55 billion from $3.17 billion a year earlier as the recent fiscal fourth Link Removed - Invalid URL indicated. While there...- Nibiru2012
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Windows XP End of support for Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista RTM
End of support for Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista RTM As we announced in 2008, support for Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) will end on July 13, 2010. Support for Windows 2000 will end on the same date. Support for Windows Vista Release to Manufacturing (RTM) will end on April 13, 2010...- kemical
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Windows 7 passes ten per cent usage
A year faster than Vista Windows 7 reached the 10 per cent usage milestone, according to beancounters at Web analytics company Net Applications, as the OS has crossed the 10 per cent figure more than a year earlier than Vista. However the gleam of Window's 7 appears to be the only brightness...- kemical
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