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, […]

ISSUE 22.33 • 2025-08-18 BEN’S WORKSHOP By Ben Myers The expiration of Windows 10 support is nigh. In 2021, Microsoft announced Windows 11. with considerable emphasis on its improved security compared to that of Windows 10. With announcements and promotional material, Redmond targeted government enterprises and large corporations as candidates to buy huge volumes of […]

ON SECURITY By Susan Bradley Obtaining the Windows 10 Extended Security Update (ESU) service introduces a previously unseen nuance to licensing in the consumer space, at least for Windows. For example, it’s normal for Office to be licensed for use on multiple desktops and even on smaller devices such as tablets and phones. But single […]

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 […]

ISSUE 22.26.1 • 2025-07-03 By Susan Bradley There are times when Microsoft drives us crazy, and then there are times when we don’t give Redmond enough credit. This is a time when we probably don’t praise the company enough for doing the right thing. I say this because I recently installed the July Insider preview […]

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 […]

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