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Microsoft has released out-of-band (OOB) updates to fix issues affecting Windows Server systems after installing the April 2026 security updates. As Microsoft confirmed last week, some admins may ...

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Software King of the World, Microsoft, has published a new support page explaining why it binned phone-based activation. “Beginning December 3, 2025, the traditional telephone-based product activation ...

If you relied on the official phone-based method to activate Windows 10/11 and Office, you may be aware of an earlier report where we mentioned that the company had already deprecated that method. The ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...