Microsoft says the November 2026 Windows security updates may make printing fail for documents containing images rendered with zero height or width at the selected resolution, BleepingComputer reports. Those invisible images show up in watermarks, layout anchors and some document generators. It mainly hits Word documents printed through GDI, on Windows 10 or later and Windows Server 2016 or later, but other apps can fail too.
It’s not alone. This week Microsoft also confirmed November updates trigger activation and licensing failures with 0x80041008 errors, that updates since October’s Patch Tuesday cause SQL Server performance and stability problems, and that November’s Windows 11 updates fail to install on systems with the October preview update.
My take
Still patch. November fixed real, exploited bugs. But stage it: a test ring first, check printing and activation, then roll wider. And keep an eye on Microsoft’s release health page for fixes.
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