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The upcoming version of Windows 10, which industry watchers expect will arrive in October, has many monikers. Its version number is 1809, its code name is Redstone 5, and its official post-launch name, announced by Microsoft at IFA Berlin, is the Windows 10 October 2018 Update.

Microsoft today put a label on its next Windows 10 feature upgrade, giving it the colorless-but-informative moniker of "Windows 10 October 2018 Update."

Mozilla this week said that its Firefox browser will soon start to automatically block some ad tracking technologies that the company claimed impact page load performance and shadow users wherever they go.

Intel really screwed up the notebook market by launching the 2-in-1 concept of products none of which were truly 2-in-1s.   You see, we knew going in that laptop users struggled with screens under 13” and tablet users wouldn’t carry tablets much over a single pound…or that had screens much larger than 10”.

Apple recently told the U.S. Congress that is sees customer privacy as a “human right,” though the explanation didn’t at that time extend to how third-party developers treat data they get from iOS apps. Now it does.

Time for the final August patching shoe to drop.

Late last night Microsoft released a flurry of patches, posting them on the Microsoft Update Catalog. Some are available through Windows Update, some aren't.

As of early Friday morning, the Win10 patches are not available through WSUS, the update server service. It’s not clear if that’s a mistake, a hesitation — or if somebody just went home last night and forgot.

Let’s hear it for patching predictability. And transparency.

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Flashback to the early 2000s, when this non-IT pilot fish works in a building where the level of computer literacy is hovering near absolute zero.