PATCH WATCH By Susan Bradley We’re coming up to the Secure Boot certificate deadline. It’s June. Celebration season. Graduation. Weddings. And Secure Boot certificate expirations. Okay, maybe we’re not celebrating that last one. There are only a few weeks left before the Windows Secure Boot certificates expire. Let me remind you again that consumers should […]

ISSUE 23.22.1 • 2026-06-04 By Susan Bradley Microsoft is starting to roll out its much-promised, dribbled fixes. Included in the upcoming June updates — and already included in the preview updates released on May 26, 2026 — KB5089573 includes the Secure Boot fixes and the beginning of many changes about which you’ve complained. Nonetheless, it’s […]

ISSUE 23.17.1 • 2026-04-28 By Susan Bradley The April updates continue to dribble out more fixes for Secure Boot certificates for some systems. But once you receive the April updates, you still may be waiting for the new certs to be installed. That happened to me on some systems. Nonetheless, the patching world is relatively […]