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Microsoft belatedly agrees to build a Windows bug status dashboard

The move, expected to roll out in 2019, comes in the aftermath of the company's botched rollout of the Windows 10 October 2018 Update. Read More

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Woody Leonhard: Heads up: A ‘critical’ Win7/Server 2008 patch coming in February/March that’s really critical

Microsoft is changing its method for electronically signing patches from an old approach known as SHA-1 to the much more secure SHA-2. If you want to continue to get Win7, Server 2008 and WSUS security patches, you need to install a patch in February or March that makes Windows SHA-2-conversant. If it gets the patch right. Read More

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Woody Leonhard: Microsoft yanks two buggy Office patches but keeps pushing one that crashes

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