Articles from August 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in August 2025
Microsoft Tests Start Menu Copilot Prompts, Sparking Ad Creep Debate in Windows 11
Microsoft is once again blurring the line between helpful operating system features and integrated advertising, this time by testing AI-powered Copilot prompts inside the Windows 11 Start menu. The...
Kansas City Lawyers Are Deploying AI With Caution: Pilots, Policies, and Ethics Training to Avoid Sanctions
Kansas City law firms that wait to adopt artificial intelligence risk being left behind—but rushing in without proper governance could be even more costly, as recent sanctions against lawyers who...
NFL Coaches Get Natural-Language AI on Surface Tablets in Expanded Microsoft Deal
Microsoft and the National Football League have torn up the old rulebook. In August 2025, the two organizations announced a multiyear extension of their decade-plus partnership—but this isn’t a...
AI Meets the Gridiron: How Microsoft Copilot and Azure Are Overhauling NFL Sideline Analytics
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No Azure for Apartheid: Microsoft Employees Stage Sit-In to Halt Israel Cloud Contracts
A sustained sit-in by dozens of Microsoft employees has transformed the company’s Redmond, Washington campus into a high-stakes standoff over cloud ethics, corporate accountability, and the limits...
Uncluttered by Default: How Windows 11 25H2 Reshapes the Desktop Experience
Microsoft’s Windows 11 version 25H2 introduces no sweeping overhaul of the Desktop—instead, it polishes the surface with a discipline that should please newcomers while giving power users enough...
Xbox Cloud Gaming on the Verge of Ad-Supported Tiers as Microsoft and AMD Team Up for Next-Gen Hardware
Microsoft is developing a new low-cost tier for Xbox Cloud Gaming that could be funded by advertisements, a move the company’s CFO laid out in stark detail at a recent investor summit. Xbox Chief...
Phison Denounces Forged Memo as Windows 11 Update Triggers SSD Failures Under Heavy Writes
Phison, one of the largest suppliers of NAND flash controllers, has publicly disowned a document circulating among industry partners that falsely claimed the latest Windows 11 security updates were...
Lenovo’s ThinkStation P5 Delivers Xeon Power but Stumbles on Windows Licensing and Networking
Lenovo’s ThinkStation P5 arrives with a clear mission: deliver Intel Xeon W processing power, ECC memory support, and PCIe Gen5 expansion in a tool-less, serviceable chassis for demanding...
Excel’s New =COPILOT() Function Embeds Generative AI Directly Into Spreadsheet Formulas
Microsoft just turned the Excel formula bar into an AI prompt box. The company’s new =COPILOT() function, now rolling out to Insider/Beta Channel users with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license, allows...
Microsoft Clarifies the Five Types of Updates Windows Insiders Receive—and How to Decode Them
Windows Insiders have long sifted through a jumble of KB numbers, build strings, and vague update labels, but Microsoft’s latest guidance finally imposes order on the chaos. The company has...
Windows 11’s KB5063878 Triggers SSD Vanishing Act Under Heavy Load, One Drive Unrecoverable
Microsoft’s August 12, 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2, KB5063878 (build 26100.4946), has triggered a narrowly distributed but severe storage regression: during sustained large...