Articles from August 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in August 2025
Forget Filenames: Copilot's New Semantic Search Finds Files by Meaning on AI PCs
Microsoft has begun rolling out a significant update to its Copilot app for Windows Insiders, introducing semantic file search that understands natural language queries and a redesigned home screen...
Windows 11 KB5063878 Update Causes NVMe SSDs to Vanish During Heavy Writes, Microsoft Investigating
Multiple independent reports and reproducible tests have confirmed that the Windows 11 August 2025 cumulative update (KB5063878, OS Build 26100.4946) can cause NVMe SSDs to abruptly disappear during...
Microsoft 365 Copilot for iOS Ditches Editing, Forces Users to Install Separate Word, Excel Apps
Microsoft is stripping editing capabilities from the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on iOS, transforming it into a preview and AI chat wrapper that pushes users toward standalone Word, Excel, and...
Suleyman: The Next AI Crisis Is Machines That Pretend to Be People
{ "title": "Suleyman: The Next AI Crisis Is Machines That Pretend to Be People", "content": "Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft’s AI CEO, has issued a stark public warning: engineers are on the brink...
Hands-On with ROG Ally X: Windows 11's Console Transformation Arrives October 16
The ROG Xbox Ally X arrives on store shelves October 16, but the hardware isn’t the headline—it’s the software. Microsoft has been quietly rebuilding Windows 11 for handhelds, and the Ally X is...
Microsoft Issues Out-of-Band Fix for Windows Reset Failures Caused by August Updates
Microsoft has released an emergency out-of-band update to address a regression that left many Windows 10 and Windows 11 PCs unable to complete critical recovery operations. The patch, designated...
Windows 11 Update KB5063878 Triggers SSD Failures: Phison Investigates, Denounces Fake Report
Phison is actively investigating a storage regression in Windows 11's August 2025 cumulative update that causes NVMe SSDs to vanish mid-transfer, while simultaneously denouncing a falsified internal...
Microsoft Sets 2029 PQC Rollout Target, Aims for Full Quantum-Safe Ecosystem by 2033
Microsoft is moving post-quantum cryptography from theoretical warnings into a concrete, multi-year engineering plan. The company’s newly detailed Quantum Safe Program (QSP) carves a path from...
Emergency Windows Updates Fix 0x8007007F Upgrade Failures and Broken Recovery Tools
Microsoft shipped three out-of-band cumulative updates on August 19, 2025, targeting a pair of serious regressions that had broken in-place Windows upgrades and made built-in recovery tools unusable....
Windows 11’s Handheld Mode Brings Console-Style Xbox Launcher to ASUS ROG Ally on October 16
Microsoft’s long-awaited handheld gaming mode for Windows 11 is no longer a prototype. On October 16, 2025, the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally and Ally X will become the first devices to ship with a...
KB5066189 and KB5066188: Microsoft’s Emergency Out-of-Band Patches Fix Broken Windows Recovery After August 2025 Rollouts
Microsoft shipped out-of-band (OOB) cumulative updates on August 19, 2025, to repair a critical regression in Windows’ built-in reset, cloud reimage, and RemoteWipe capabilities that had been...
Google's Free Gemini Coding Tools Give Solo Developers a Generous Alternative to Paid Copilot — But a 2026 Deadline Lies Ahead
Google’s free, open-source developer tooling now unlocks the same Gemini 2.5 Pro model that Microsoft just added to paid GitHub Copilot tiers – and often with more generous interactive quotas and...