Editor's take: The list of deprecated features in the Windows ecosystem continues to grow, even as millions still rely on them daily. Occasionally, Microsoft has to tap the brakes on its phase-out ...

A glitch in the software that most midsize and large businesses use to update their Microsoft applications and operating systems has some administrators scrambling a day before Patch Tuesday. If the ...

An out-of-band (OOB) security update that patches an actively exploited Windows Server Update Service (WSUS) vulnerability has broken hotpatching on some Windows Server 2025 devices. The Cybersecurity ...

WSUS has downloaded content that it cannot use due to a missing decryption key. Windows upgrades are being encrypted. According to Microsoft, Windows feature updates (denoted by the “Upgrades” ...

Microsoft has fixed an issue that affected Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), a tool many businesses use to manage and distribute Windows updates within their networks. WSUS helps organizations ...

Cutting corners: Microsoft introduced Windows Server Update Services in 2005 as an improvement over previous software update mechanisms, designed for Windows patch downloads and servicing. Two decades ...