Articles from August 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in August 2025
Zyxel WBE510D Delivers Wi-Fi 7 and BandFlex to Windows 11 Without Triple-Band Cost
The Zyxel WBE510D is a BE6500-rated Wi-Fi 7 access point that sidesteps the cost of a full tri-radio AP by offering a dual-radio design with BandFlex—allowing IT admins to toggle the second radio...
The Linux Mindset Revolution: 5 Signs You've Left Windows Behind and Why Open Source Might Win the Long Game
The shift from Windows habits to a Linux mindset isn’t just about installing a new operating system—it’s a fundamental rewiring of how you think about software, privacy, and control. A recent...
The Windows Shortcut Set That Saves 30 Minutes a Day — 8 Keys to Master First
For the average knowledge worker, the seconds lost to mouse navigation accumulate into a staggering 30 minutes each day. That’s over two and a half hours per week spent moving a cursor,...
Windows 11 24H2 Bug Corrupts SSDs During Large Writes: Microsoft and Phison Investigate
A critical storage bug in Microsoft's August 2025 Patch Tuesday update for Windows 11 version 24H2 is causing NVMe and SATA SSDs to vanish mid-transfer, sometimes taking data with them. Multiple...
Microsoft Rolls Out Team-Scoped Copilot Dashboards to Managers in Viva Insights
Microsoft will begin rolling out a major expansion of its Copilot analytics platform in late September, placing team-scoped dashboards, prebuilt adoption reports, and a publishing pipeline directly...
Critical Copilot Audit Flaw Fixed Silently as Governance Issues Mount
Microsoft has patched a critical flaw in Microsoft 365 Copilot that allowed attackers to access and summarize enterprise files without leaving any trace in audit logs—and did so without notifying...
Microsoft Packs 1.1TB GPU Memory into Azure VMs for Unprecedented AI Training Scale
Microsoft has dropped a massive hardware upgrade onto Azure Machine Learning, launching ND H200 v5 virtual machines that cram eight NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPUs into a single instance. That’s 1,128...
Microsoft’s August Updates Break NDI Streaming: Change Receive Mode to Keep Streams Alive
Streamers and live production teams relying on NDI discovered a nasty surprise after installing Microsoft’s August 2025 cumulative updates: previously smooth video and audio streams suddenly...
KB5066189: Microsoft's Emergency Fix for Windows Recovery Failures After August Patches
Microsoft shipped an emergency out-of-band update late Monday to rescue a core set of Windows recovery tools that its August 2025 security rollups had silently broken. The patch, KB5066189, addresses...
48 Windows Shortcuts That Promise to Speed Up Your Work—and the Pitfalls to Avoid
A new collection of 48 essential Windows 11 keyboard shortcuts is making the rounds, and its central promise is simple: learn these combos, click less, and finish routine tasks faster. But a deeper...
PowerToys 0.93 Supercharges Command Palette, But Flow Launcher Remains the King of Windows Launchers
Microsoft dropped PowerToys 0.93 on April 22 with a headline-grabbing boost for its Command Palette launcher: ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation in the Windows App SDK slashed startup memory by 15%, cut...
Windows 11 KB5031354 Delivers Copilot, File Explorer Overhaul, and More—But AMD and Touchpad Issues Surface
Microsoft’s October 10, 2023 cumulative update for Windows 11—delivered as KB5031354—is a two-headed beast. It’s both a mandatory security patch and the vehicle for the highly anticipated...