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Windows 10 SmartScreen Sends URLs and App Names to Microsoft

Over the weekend, privacy concern were raised regarding how Microsoft Edge is uploading the URLs to SmartScreen. After further testing by BleepingComputer, we learned that Windows 10 also transmits a great deal of potentially sensitive information about your applications to SmartScreen when you attempt to run them. […]

20 Jul

Microsoft Edge Uses Controlled Feature Rollout to Test New Features

The Chromium-based Microsoft Edge is using Controlled Featured Rollout to test new features with randomly selected small groups of users. Over time, Microsoft gradually increases the size of the control group to garner further feedback and usage statistics. […]

20 Jul

Windows Defender Gets a New Name: Microsoft Defender

Windows Defender is being rebranded to Microsoft Defender to indicate that it now part of a cross platform family of products. This includes enterprise products, which offer solutions for multiple OS platforms. […]

18 Jul

Microsoft Begins Testing Windows 10 Controlled Feature Rollout

Microsoft has started testing the new Window 10 Controlled Feature Rollout feature with Windows Insiders in the Slow ring. This feature allows Microsoft to slowly roll out new features without releasing entirely new builds. […]

18 Jul

Microsoft Adds Office 365 Group Lifetime Auto-Renewal Feature

Microsoft says that a new user activity-based expiration policy can be enabled for Office 365 groups by select Azure AD Premium customers starting today allowing for automated lifetime renewals without any user intervention. […]

18 Jul

Windows 10 20H1 Build 18941 Fixes OneDrive Search Crashes

Microsoft has released Windows 10 20H1 Insider Preview Build 18941 to Insiders in the Fast ring. This build includes various fixes, such as for a crash when searching the OneDrive folder, and a new Korean IME. […]

16 Jul

Windows 10 KB4507466 and KB4507465 Released With Fixes

Microsoft has just released new cumulative updates for Windows 10 April 2018 Update (version 1803) and Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (version 1709) with multiple fixes and improvements. […]

16 Jul

Microsoft Patches PowerShell Core Security Bug to Fix WDAC Bypass

Microsoft has released new versions of PowerShell Core to fix a vulnerability that allows a local attacker to bypass Windows Defender Application Control (WDAC) enforcements. This could allow the attacker to execute untrusted programs even with WDAC enabled. […]

16 Jul

Microsoft Rolls Out Windows 10 1903 on April 2018 Update Devices

Microsoft says that Windows 10 version 1803 devices reaching the end of 18 months of service will start receiving the Windows 10 May 2019 Update as part of an effort to keep them well serviced and in a secure state. […]

15 Jul

Windows 10 1903 Bug May Show Black Screen in Remote Desktop

Microsoft has added a new bug to the list of known issues in Windows 10 1903 about Remote Desktop connections displaying a black screen when connecting to devices using older graphic drivers. […]

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Windows 10 SmartScreen Sends URLs and App Names to Microsoft

Microsoft Edge Uses Controlled Feature Rollout to Test New Features

Windows Defender Gets a New Name: Microsoft Defender

Microsoft Begins Testing Windows 10 Controlled Feature Rollout

Microsoft Adds Office 365 Group Lifetime Auto-Renewal Feature

Windows 10 20H1 Build 18941 Fixes OneDrive Search Crashes

Windows 10 KB4507466 and KB4507465 Released With Fixes

Microsoft Patches PowerShell Core Security Bug to Fix WDAC Bypass

Microsoft Rolls Out Windows 10 1903 on April 2018 Update Devices

Windows 10 1903 Bug May Show Black Screen in Remote Desktop