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Microsoft wants to stop force-installing Windows feature updates on managed PCs. The company is now adding a new option to help IT admins and sysadmins to choose how they want to deploy such updates.

Microsoft has published a detailed blog post on why Windows users should not use the iPerf3 tool for network benchmarking and testing. The company recommends ntttcp and ctsTraffic instead.

Microsoft has released a detailed set of FAQs and recommendations for users who are affected by the XZ Utils vulnerability which allows a threat actor to exploit SSH operations and get remote access.

Microsoft recently started Windows 11 23H2 hardware certification to ensure compatibility. Now the company is doing the same for Microsoft 365 services with improvements to the Test Base.

Microsoft is altering the way IT administrators and system administrators can now import WSUS updates. The process is moving over from the Update Catalog to PowerShell script delivery method.

Three months ago, Microsoft announced the public preview of Windows 365 Frontline. If youre not familiar with it, Windows 365 is a service that allows users to stream Windows 10 and Windows 11 from the cloud to any device. Frontline is a special version for workers who only need a Cloud PC for a limited amount of time during a working day.

Microsoft Edge already has plenty of features one may consider excessive. Still, there is no stopping: users discovered a new work-in-progress feature that turns Edge Canary into a photo viewer.

Microsoft has made a major change in its plans for killing off Internet Explorer. The tech giant now says it will live on under "exceptional scenarios" and won't be affected by Windows Updates.

@goretskyposted this in one of our staff forums earlier, it was made known at the start of the week in a notice to former MVPs. Personally I never felt much for the MVP program, I was invited in 2004 but at the time it seemed like Microsoft wanted to control Neowin, so I declined and I never appl...

Microsoft has published yet another article about Windows UUP on-premises updates, trying to address a lot of the concerns, doubts, and questions that customers have had, since its release.