Articles from August 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in August 2025
Windows 11 Canary Build 27928 Forces Microsoft Account Setup as Copilot Gets Voice Boost
Microsoft’s latest Canary test build for Windows 11, version 27928, lands with a quiet but contentious policy change: it removes a long-used command-line workaround that allowed users to skip...
Microsoft Pulls Battery Icon Redesign, Shifts Time & Language Controls to Modern UI in Windows 11 Canary Build 27928
Microsoft released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27928 to the Canary Channel on August 20, 2025, packing a concentrated set of stability fixes and a notable migration of legacy Control Panel time...
Microsoft Testing Semantic File Search with On-Device AI on Copilot+ PCs for Insiders
Microsoft has begun rolling out a targeted update to the Copilot app for Windows Insiders, delivering semantic file search exclusively to Copilot+ PCs and introducing a redesigned Copilot homepage....
Microsoft Disables Battery Icon Revamp in Windows 11 Canary Build 27928 to Reassess User Feedback
Microsoft's August 20, 2025 release of Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27928 to the Canary Channel delivers a compact but instructive lesson in how the company balances rapid experimentation with...
Microsoft's Copilot+ Insiders Gain Semantic Search and AI-Driven Homepage
Microsoft has started pushing a major update to its Copilot app on Windows, delivering conversational file search and a redesigned homepage to Insiders running Copilot+ PCs. The rollout, which began...
Microsoft Rushes Emergency KB5066189, KB5066188, KB5066187 to Fix Broken Windows Recovery Tools
Microsoft released three emergency out-of-band cumulative updates on August 19, 2025, to restore Windows' built-in reset and recovery features that suddenly stopped working after the August Patch...
Snipping Tool v11.2507.14.0 Tests Window-Pick Video Capture for Windows 11 Insiders
Windows Insiders on the Canary and Dev channels can now record a specific app window using the Snipping Tool, thanks to a fresh update that introduces window-select video capture. Microsoft shipped...
Heavy Writes Cause SSDs to Vanish After Windows 11 KB5063878 Update
Microsoft and SSD controller designer Phison are jointly investigating a serious storage regression introduced by the August 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2 (KB5063878, OS Build...
VBS Is Now a Windows Hotpatch Requirement: Your Scale-Out Playbook
Microsoft has tied the future of update servicing to a deeper security infrastructure: Virtualization-based Security (VBS) must be enabled for Windows devices to receive hotpatch updates. This change...
Microsoft Ties Restartless Patches to VBS: Enterprises Face Hard Choices
Microsoft has drawn a hard line in the sand for Windows patch management: no Virtualization-based Security (VBS), no hotpatching. The message, delivered through technical documentation and Intune...
The IT Pro's Guide to Enabling VBS at Scale for Windows 11 Hotpatching Without Reboots
Microsoft’s move to let organizations apply security fixes without forcing a reboot—the long-anticipated hotpatch capability for Windows 11—has a hard prerequisite that catches many IT teams...
Microsoft Deploys Urgent OOB Patches KB5066189/88/87 to Fix Windows Recovery
Microsoft shipped three out-of-band (OOB) non-security cumulative updates on August 19, 2025 to repair a critical regression that left Windows' built-in recovery tools completely broken. The...