Articles from August 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in August 2025
Microsoft Azure Tops $75B Revenue as AI Data Center Buildout Surges
Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform generated $75 billion in revenue during fiscal year 2025, a 34% leap that reflects soaring enterprise demand for AI workloads and the company’s relentless data...
Microsoft Delays Teams Copilot Screen Analysis to 2026 Amid Privacy Uproar
Microsoft has quietly shelved one of its most ambitious Copilot integrations for Teams, delaying a feature that would allow the AI assistant to analyze shared screen content during meetings until at...
Microsoft, Phison Find No Evidence That Windows 11 KB5063878 Causes SSDs to Vanish
After weeks of investigation, Microsoft and SSD controller manufacturer Phison have concluded that they could not reproduce the alarming reports of SSDs vanishing or being corrupted following the...
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...
Leaked Microsoft Salaries Expose Stock Awards Driving Six-Figure Pay Gaps Across Teams
A massive internal compensation leak has ripped away the curtain on Microsoft’s pay structure, revealing that equity grants—not base salaries—are the engine of staggering pay disparities among...