Articles from August 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in August 2025
Microsoft's August 2025 Patches Break Reset This PC and Cloud Recovery — What Admins Must Do Now
Microsoft’s August 2025 Patch Tuesday has introduced a serious regression that breaks “Reset this PC,” cloud-based recovery, and certain remote wipe operations on a wide range of Windows 10 and...
Windows 11 Insider Builds Sneak Dark-Themed File Explorer Dialogs: A Step Toward Coherent Dark Mode
Microsoft has quietly slipped dark-themed File Explorer dialog boxes into its latest Windows 11 Insider preview builds, marking the most concrete step yet toward a fully cohesive dark mode that has...
From Boardroom to AutoML: The New MBA Toolkit for AI-First Business Leadership
Corporate recruiters are no longer satisfied with MBAs who can merely interpret a balance sheet. They want graduates who can spin up an AutoML model in RapidMiner, analyze customer churn with Vertex...
Microsoft Engages Covington & Burling for External Review of Azure’s Role in Alleged Palestinian Surveillance
Microsoft has retained the law firm Covington & Burling and an independent technical consultancy to expand an external review into allegations that Israel’s military intelligence unit, Unit...
Windows 11 Snipping Tool Can Now Record Just One App Window, But There's a Catch
Microsoft is giving Windows 11 Insiders a reason to retire their screen-cropping reflex: Snipping Tool version 11.2507.14.0 now records a specific application window, not just a manual rectangle. The...
Data Loss Alert: Windows 11 KB5063878 Makes NVMe Drives Disappear During Heavy Writes
Microsoft’s August 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11, KB5063878 (OS Build 26100.4946), has introduced a critical storage regression: under sustained heavy write loads, certain NVMe SSDs can...
A 12-Year-Old Backlog, a Chatbot, and a Blueprint for Municipal AI: Inside Cornwall's Digital Transformation
A service request had been sitting open in the City of Cornwall’s system for twelve years. That single, startling discovery became the organizing problem that drove a complete rethink of how the...
Secure Copilot Goes Live at McGill as Canadian Universities Leap into AI, But Not Everyone Cheers
McGill University flipped the switch on a secure, enterprise-grade version of Microsoft Copilot this week, giving its community a shielded AI assistant that meets the school’s privacy standards....
Microsoft's COPILOT Function Lets You Write AI Prompts Inside Excel Cells
Microsoft has embedded generative AI into the very fabric of Excel with a new COPILOT function, a move that transforms spreadsheet cells into natural-language prompt boxes. Starting this week,...
Microsoft Taps Marvell's LiquidSecurity PCIe HSMs to Lock Down Azure Cloud HSM Infrastructure
Microsoft has selected Marvell's LiquidSecurity family of hardware security modules (HSMs) to underpin its Azure Cloud HSM service, the companies confirmed on August 18, 2025. The deal cements...
Windows Live Mail Spam Setup Guide: Maximize Filters Before You Migrate to New Outlook
Microsoft officially sunset support for Windows Mail, Calendar, and People on December 31, 2024, rendering these once-essential apps unable to send or receive messages. Meanwhile, Windows Live...
KDE Plasma vs. Windows 11: 4 Features That Unleash Desktop Power Users
For years, the desktop war between Windows and Linux has simmered in the background. But with Windows 11’s rigid interface choices and KDE Plasma’s audacious configurability, the divide has never...