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 […]

ISSUE 22.51 • 2025-12-22 TAME YOUR TECH By Susan Bradley Lately, I’ve seen several posts and questions about setting up a new system, as well as lingering concerns about Windows 10 ESUs. Some of these questions make me wonder about not only the quality of resources provided by vendors, but also the quality of results […]

PATCH WATCH By Susan Bradley I’m giving my approval for the installation of Windows 11 25H2. Even so, consider this an “if you want to” approval, not a warning to “do it now because 24H2 is dropping out of support.” We have until October 13, 2026, to install 25H2 because that’s when 24H2 officially falls […]

ISSUE 22.45.1 • 2025-11-13 PATCH WATCH By Susan Bradley This is the first month for updates from the Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) plan. If you’ve signed up for the ESU, you should start seeing them as you would have seen any updates in the past. But that doesn’t mean you should install them […]