EfficientEther Appoints Barry Flanagan to Support US Growth
Barry Flanagan joins EfficientEther as Non-Executive Director and US Sales Advisor to grow its US customer base and MSP relationships.
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Resources on licences, Azure cost, Windows 365, Intune, tenant drift, governed AI and application packaging, for the IT teams and MSPs who run estates of 50 to 600 users. Every guide ends with a step you can run this week.
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Application modernisation9 Nov 2026
Windows Installer Types and Their Market Prevalence: Our New Research
Our WinGet census of 15,880 packages: 56.9% use a setup-engine EXE, 16.6% an MSI and 1.6% MSIX. Only 7 of 50 popular products publish an MSIX.
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Application modernisation6 Nov 2026
AI and the ISV Release Cycle: What It Means for Packaging Teams
What our Windows patching research evidences about AI-assisted discovery and faster vendor releases, kept apart from our interpretation.
Application modernisation4 Nov 2026
Windows CVE Volume in 2026: What Patching Teams Should Measure
Windows and Office CVEs went from 679 to 941 to 2,438 across three complete years while mean CVSS held near 7.3. What the numbers say and what to measure.
Company news2 Nov 2026
Windows Patching When Disclosure Moves at AI Speed: Our New Research
New company research: Windows and Office CVEs rose 159.1% in the latest complete year while mean CVSS stayed near 7.3. What it measured and what it did not.
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App-V to MSIX: The Four Things That Break Every Time
Environment variables, shortcuts, scripts and file type associations behave differently in MSIX. What changes, why, and what to do about each one.
The State of Application Packaging in 2026: Evidence Over Assertion
Our free 2026 report on application packaging: measured MSIX results, Microsoft platform changes, published packaging prices and a transparent cost model.
App-V Server Is Ending. App-V Is Not.
The April 2026 date applied to App-V server components, not to App-V itself. Here is what actually ended, what did not, and how to plan without panic.
MSIX at Scale: What 3,261 Automated Packaging Cases Tell Us
New open-access research: an automated workflow built MSIX packages for 90.68% of 3,261 Windows application cases, and 80.04% passed a recorded smoke test.
Tenant Configuration Backup: What Microsoft Covers, and For How Long
Microsoft backs up tenant configuration and keeps up to seven days of history. Here is what that covers, what it does not, and how to close the gap.
Building MSIX in GitHub Actions Without the Windows SDK
Package and sign MSIX on a GitHub Actions Windows runner without installing the Windows SDK or hunting for MakeAppx.exe on the image.
Why Your Intune Device Count Is Wrong
Intune device cleanup rules hide stale devices instead of deleting them. Reconcile Intune, Entra and your asset list before somebody asks for evidence.
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