PATCH WATCH By Susan Bradley If you are a bit timid about February’s patches and not looking forward to installing them, I don’t blame you. The last few months have been bumpy, to say the least. But neither I nor the five Windows 11 and two Windows 10 machines at my house, the one Windows […]

ISSUE 23.04.1 • 2026-01-27 By Susan Bradley The January updates present no issues for some, but lots of issues for others. I’m always hopeful of giving everyone some time every month to apply updates after we’ve vetted them. This month, I can lower the MS-DEFCON level to only 2.5. Unfortunately, we don’t have that, so […]

PATCH WATCH By Susan Bradley The second week of January is when patching returns to business as usual. That’s generally true for patches and updates from all sources — Windows, Apple, Adobe, Google — pretty much all the majors. Patches arrive for operating systems as well as for apps and Web browsers. As usual, I’ll […]