PATCH WATCH By Susan Bradley September may be back-to-school for many students, but I’m back to testing Microsoft updates. As usual, my eyes and ears (in fact, all my senses) are glued to the latest patching news, reports, social media posts — all my sources — looking for the tiniest hint of trouble. You know, […]

PATCH WATCH By Susan Bradley If you’re hoping we have a root-cause analysis of the SSD problem thought to be associated with KB5063878 and we now know exactly what happened, we don’t. We’re just as much in the dark as we were when it first showed up on X, other social media, and in many […]

PATCH WATCH By Susan Bradley For decades, the one constant of a crashing Windows PC has been that telltale blue screen. Windows 11 24H2 gets a revamped BSOD. Thankfully, they’ve become rarer. At the same time, they are strangely visible. I’ve walked by digital kiosks in shopping malls and airport signs hung at a BSOD. […]

ISSUE 22.28 • 2025-07-14 PATCH WATCH By Susan Bradley July’s updates begin the dribble of the Windows 10 ESU offering. Consumers using Windows 10 Home or Professional editions may start to see the system offering the one-year Extended Security Updates (ESU) service after the July updates are applied. To be clear, my simple definition of […]

PATCH WATCH By Susan Bradley Every so often, your feedback does make a difference. When you ask for feedback, sometimes respondents provide answers based upon what they think you want to hear. When that is followed by testing to observe actual behavior, vendors discover the difference between those answers and reality. What brought this to […]