Articles from August 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in August 2025
Xbox Cloud Gaming Beta Now Available to Game Pass Core and Standard Insiders with PC Support
For the first time, Xbox Insiders on the budget-friendly Game Pass Core and Standard plans can stream a selection of games over the cloud, including some PC titles—a privilege once reserved...
DrugsControl.org’s Rummy Post Lacks Publisher Data, Posing a Windows 10 Security Puzzle
A short post on DrugsControl.org—a site better known for drug policy and public-health content—has both puzzled and alarmed the Windows community by offering a download guide for a Rummy card...
Microsoft Warns Copilot AI 'Can Give Incorrect Responses' in Excel — Use Formulas for Accuracy
Microsoft has published an unusually blunt advisory for its Copilot AI in Excel: the tool “can give incorrect responses” and should not be used for any task requiring accuracy or reproducibility....
San Francisco’s Copilot Chat Rollout Gives 30K Staff 5 Hours Back Weekly—at No Extra Cost
San Francisco has quietly executed one of the largest municipal deployments of generative AI in the United States, rolling out Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat—powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o—to roughly...
Generative AI Meeting Assistants Promise Faster Prep, But Enterprises Must Verify Vendor Claims
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s recent public demonstration of an AI that scans past interactions to deliver five pre‑meeting talking points crystallizes a quiet revolution inside enterprise...
From Skeptic to Daily User: The Copilot Features That Actually Deliver—and the Trade-offs
For years, I refused to touch Copilot. I dismissed it as product bloat, another overhyped AI assistant Microsoft was shoving into every corner of Windows. Then I forced myself to use four specific...
Microsoft Edge Canary Unlocks Background YouTube Playback Without Premium on Android
Microsoft Edge Canary for Android has quietly slipped in an experimental feature that lets you keep YouTube videos playing in the background—even with the screen off—without a YouTube Premium...
Microsoft's 'Windows Intelligence' Hub Leaked: Centralized AI Controls Coming to Windows 11
Microsoft’s engineers have been quietly laying the groundwork for a fundamental shift in how Windows handles artificial intelligence. Buried within recent Insider Preview builds of Windows 11...
The Rise and Fall of Netflix Offline Downloads on Windows: What Travelers Need to Know Now
As of mid-2024, Netflix subscribers who relied on the Windows app to download shows for offline viewing discovered that the feature had vanished — removed without ceremony in a platform update. The...
RSM White Paper: How Microsoft Copilot’s Agentic AI Creates ‘Frontier Firms’ but Raises Risks
RSM US, a top-tier audit, tax, and consulting firm, has released a new white paper titled “From Copilot to autonomous workflows: Charting new frontiers in the enterprise,” offering a strategic...
Microsoft Ships Windows Backup for Organizations, Streamlining Enterprise Windows 11 Migrations
Microsoft has begun rolling out Windows Backup for Organizations, a tenant-scoped, Intune-integrated backup and restore capability designed to capture user settings and Microsoft Store app lists so...
Screenvision Pulls Off a 12-Week Cloud Heist: Oracle Databases to Azure and OCI Without a Hitch
Screenvision Media just closed a 12-week sprint that many IT leaders would call impossible. The national cinema advertising giant migrated its entire Oracle-driven core business to a multi-cloud...