Microsoft dives down a bizarre non-cumulative rabbit hole with July patches

If you’re trying to apply this month’s patches — an exercise in futility that I continue…

Stung by a festering pile of bugs on Patch Tuesday, MS releases 27 more patches

In what is becoming a common occurrence, Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday brought along so many bugs that…

Surface Pro 2 owners wonder: Will Microsoft ship TPM firmware that works?

If you have a Surface Pro 2, you’re in for yet another runaround. This time, the…

Microsoft yanks buggy Office 2016 patch KB 4018385, republishes all of this month’s patch downloads

As I reported yesterday, the July 2018 Windows and Office patches teem with bugs. We’re just…

Patch Tuesday problems abound, Server 2016 crashes, and a .Net patch goes down in flames

You know it’s going to be an Alice in Wonderland month when some sites report that…

Make sure Windows Update is temporarily disabled, particularly on Win7

June 2018 was a relatively innocuous patching month, but even amidst the mediocrity there were a…

Does your Surface Book 2 or Pro 4 have super slow write speeds? You aren’t alone

Way back in December, KyoHyoukKim, posting on the Microsoft Answers forum, had a simple question: My…

Get the Microsoft June patches applied, but watch out for Win7 NICs and old antivirus

Windows 7 customers should be on the lookout for a couple of, uh, challenges this month,…