Articles from August 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in August 2025
SolanaScan npm Malware Strips Wallet Keys from Windows Developer Environments
A targeted supply-chain attack infiltrating the npm registry has been quietly siphoning cryptocurrency wallet keys, API tokens, and sensitive configuration files from developer machines. Dubbed...
Windows 11 Dark Mode Finally Covers File Dialogs in Staged Insider Rollout
File copy progress windows, delete confirmations, and access-denied prompts in Windows 11 are finally respecting the system’s dark mode, as Microsoft enables a long-requested visual fix in its...
Microsoft's Mu Model Brings On-Device AI Agent to Windows 11 Settings — But Only for Copilot+ PCs
The August 2025 Windows 11 update shipped a quiet but transformative feature: a natural-language agent inside the Settings app that can understand commands like "make my mouse pointer bigger" and...
Ricoh’s 5-Day AI Bootcamp: Upskilling Over 1,000 Staff to Fuel a Copilot-Powered Services Pivot
Ricoh Asia Pacific has just completed a region-wide, five-day AI upskilling sprint designed to transform more than a thousand of its employees from printer salespeople into Copilot-powered solution...
Power Platform Monitor Alerts: Set Health Thresholds and Catch App Issues Early in Public Preview
Power Platform Monitor Alerts, now in public preview, puts a long-awaited early-warning system into the hands of tenant and environment administrators. Instead of manually refreshing dashboards or...
TrustedTech's Bold Microsoft-First Rebrand: Can It Back Up the AI and Cloud Hype?
On August 18, 2025, TrustedTech dropped its old identity as Trusted Tech Team and unveiled a sweeping rebrand that recasts the former reseller as a full-service Microsoft-first cloud and AI systems...
Azure Modernization: Up to 400% ROI and 6-Month Payback for Scaling Agentic AI
Organizations that pair a modern cloud core with agentic AI are already pulling ahead, and new research puts hard numbers behind the shift: cloud modernization on Microsoft Azure can deliver up to...
Google Officially Deprecates Project Campfire, Ending Native Windows Dual-Boot on Chromebooks
Google has officially shelved its ambitious Project Campfire, the internal initiative aimed at enabling select Chromebooks to natively dual-boot Microsoft Windows 10. References to the feature, known...
August Windows 11 Update KB5063878 Sparks SSD Failure Warnings After 50GB+ Transfers
Microsoft’s August 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11, KB5063878, is causing a serious and reproducible storage regression that leaves some NVMe SSDs unresponsive and can corrupt data. Multiple...
5 VM Myths That Are Wrecking Your Home Lab Setup — and How to Fix Them
Most Windows enthusiasts have heard that virtual machines are too complex, resource-hungry, or insecure for home use. Those claims are largely fiction. Persistent myths around VM technology push...
Free Windows 10 Security Extensions Defuse the Urgency to Upgrade to Windows 11
Microsoft quietly rewrote the rules of the Windows upgrade cycle when it opened a free path to Extended Security Updates for consumers. Instead of facing a hard October 14, 2025 cutoff with no safety...
Microsoft embeds Copilot into Excel's grid with new COPILOT function: quotas, governance, and practical tips
Microsoft has quietly rolled out a game-changing addition to Excel: a first-class function named COPILOT that lets users call generative AI from within spreadsheet cells. The function, which debuted...