Articles from August 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in August 2025
Microsoft Opens Xbox App on PC to Steam and Other Stores in Major Platform Shift
The Xbox app on PC is no longer a walled garden. Microsoft has begun integrating Steam and other third-party storefronts directly into the Xbox app, transforming it from a closed Game Pass launcher...
April 13, 2021: The Day Microsoft Forcibly Replaced Edge Legacy with Chromium on Millions of PCs
On April 13, 2021, millions of Windows 10 machines underwent a silent transformation. A routine cumulative security update did more than patch vulnerabilities—it surgically removed the legacy...
NVIDIA GeForce 581.15 WHQL Driver Leaks with Game Ready Fixes—But Official Listing Remains Elusive
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Life Without Barriers' Microsoft Security Overhaul: 321,000 Sensitive Files Tagged, 8.3M Activities Monitored
Life Without Barriers, one of Australia’s largest human‑services nonprofits, has uncovered over 321,000 documents containing sensitive data—and automated their protection—in a sweeping...
ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X Debuts with AMD Z2 Extreme NPU and Xbox Shell on October 16
ASUS and Microsoft have drawn a line in the sand for portable PC gaming. On October 16, 2025, the ROG Xbox Ally family—two Windows 11 handhelds with an Xbox-first interface and AMD’s latest Ryzen...
Satya Nadella Shares 5 GPT-5 Copilot Prompts That Transform Executive Workflows
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella doesn't just talk about AI—he's now using the company's most advanced model to run parts of his day. In a series of posts on X, Nadella revealed five specific GPT-5...
Voca CIC Secures Teams Unify Certification and UC Today Award, but 99.999% Uptime Claim Needs Scrutiny
AudioCodes’ Voca Conversational Interaction Center has achieved Microsoft Teams Unify certification, a milestone that immediately propelled the contact-center-as-a-service platform to win UC...
Windows 11 KB5055627 Patch Tames File Explorer CPU Usage — Full Fix Guide
Microsoft’s latest cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2, KB5055627, directly combats a vexing regression that has sent File Explorer’s CPU consumption soaring on thousands of machines. While not...
Xbox UK Age Checks: Microsoft Demands ID or Face Scan to Save Social Features
Microsoft has begun rolling out mandatory age verification for UK-based Xbox accounts, warning that players who fail to prove they are 18 or older will lose access to core social features after a...
Azure’s 48-Hour Ultimatum to Gab: The 2018 Confrontation That Redefined Cloud Moderation
On a Tuesday morning in early August 2018, the social network Gab received an email that would expose the raw nerve of cloud governance. Microsoft’s Azure team had filed an urgent complaint: two...
Enterprise Windows Backup Lands in Intune: Settings Restore, Not Disk Imaging
Microsoft this week pushed Windows Backup for Organizations into general availability, a capability long promised to smooth device migrations for Intune-managed fleets. Just don’t call it a backup....
Copilot's Multi-File Upload Misses GPU Details, Raising Questions About AI Vision
Microsoft's Copilot just gained the ability to juggle multiple files in a single chat—a feature users have clamored for—but a real-world test shows the assistant still stumbles when it needs to...