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2 posts tagged #print-spooler.
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Analysis · May 28, 2026 · Colten Anderson
The print stack regresses on schedule
KB5087424 broke 32-bit printing on Windows Server 2022 hotpatch fleets. It's the latest data point in a five-year arc of print-stack regressions that track Microsoft's deliberate retirement of the legacy spooler architecture.
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Analysis · May 27, 2026 · Colten Anderson
Hotpatch was supposed to be the smoother path
KB5087424 broke 32-bit printing on Windows Server 2022, and the no-reboot delivery model that was supposed to reduce friction has no fix path that doesn't surrender the security content.