Articles from August 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in August 2025
Phison Probe Underway as Windows 11 KB5063878 Update Causes SSDs to Vanish During Heavy Transfers
Phison, one of the largest SSD controller designers, has publicly acknowledged a cluster of storage failures linked to Microsoft’s August 2025 Windows 11 cumulative updates and says it is...
Microsoft Takes Aim at the ‘Flashbang’ Dialogs: Dark Mode Hits File Operations in Windows 11 Preview
File copy progress bars, delete confirmations, and permission prompts—some of the most jarring holdouts in Windows 11’s dark theme—are finally getting the dark treatment. Microsoft has started...
Windows Recovery Breaks After August Update: Microsoft Issues Emergency Fix
Microsoft rushed out emergency out-of-band updates on August 19, 2025, after confirming that its August Patch Tuesday cumulative updates had broken core Windows recovery functions. The flaw left...
Copilot Pages Hands-On: Microsoft’s AI Notebook Edges Out Google, but Privacy Concerns Persist
Microsoft’s Copilot Pages has entered the AI note-taking arena, and after extensive hands-on testing, it’s clear that Google’s NotebookLM finally has a serious rival. But while Copilot Pages...
Microsoft Rushes Out Emergency OOB Updates to Restore Windows Recovery Broken by August Patch Tuesday
Microsoft released out-of-band (OOB) emergency cumulative updates on August 19, 2025, to fix a critical regression that prevented Windows’ own recovery tools from working correctly. The flaw,...
August Patch Tuesday Chaos: Broken PC Resets, Disappearing SSDs, and Microsoft’s Emergency Fix
Microsoft’s August 12, 2025 Patch Tuesday rollout, intended to patch dozens of security vulnerabilities including a zero‑day, spiraled into a crisis within days as two separate critical...
Microsoft Races Out Emergency Fix as August Patch Breaks Windows Reset and Remote Wipe
Microsoft shipped emergency out-of-band updates on August 19, 2025, after its August Patch Tuesday rollup catastrophically broke Windows' built-in reset, cloud recovery, and remote wipe capabilities....
Microsoft Staggers Key Windows 11 AI Features in Release Preview, Settings Agent Expands to AMD and Intel
Microsoft has pushed Windows 11 build 26100.5061 to the Release Preview channel, packed with a curated set of feature enhancements that will reach general users in the weeks ahead. The update,...
Lenovo ThinkStation P5 Tested: Xeon W-2400 and Dual Pro GPU Muscle in a Compact Tower
The Lenovo ThinkStation P5 is not another overgrown desktop; it's a single-socket Intel Xeon W-2400 workstation that stuffs up to two full-length professional GPUs, ECC RDIMM memory, and a modular...
Windows 10 Share Rebounds to 47% as Microsoft's ESU Offer Stalls Windows 11 Migration
Windows 11’s hard-won market share milestone has evaporated in just weeks, and the culprit is an olive branch Microsoft extended in the opposite direction. In July, Statcounter data showed Windows...
SAP Q2 2025 Cloud Revenue Surges 24% as Joule AI Agents Augment ERP, Countering Software's Demise
SAP’s cloud revenue climbed 24% year-over-year to €5.13 billion in the second quarter of 2025, powered by a 30% jump in its Cloud ERP Suite revenue to €4.42 billion. The figures, released in...
Visual Studio Gets MCP GA: Copilot Can Now Securely Access Databases, CI, and More
Microsoft has released general availability of Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration in Visual Studio, marking a pivotal shift in how developers wield AI assistants. Starting today, GitHub Copilot...