Articles from August 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in August 2025
UK Government Bets on Agentic AI to Transform Public Services by 2027
The UK government has drawn up plans to trial agentic AI across public services, with a potential nationwide rollout by late 2027 if pilot programs prove safe and effective. The initiative, outlined...
Microsoft Engineer's 4-Promotions-in-5-Years Playbook: Your AI-Era Career Blueprint
Ritvika Nagula joined Microsoft’s Azure division in April 2019 as a fresh graduate. By 2024, she had earned four promotions—a pace that eludes most engineers in big tech. Her secret? Not a...
Windows 11 24H2 SSD BSODs Spark Outrage as Power Users Recoil from Update Chaos and Copilot Bloat
Western Digital has rushed out a firmware fix for multiple NVMe SSDs that began throwing Blue Screens of Death immediately after Windows 11’s 24H2 update, but the incident is only the latest...
Windows 11 Insider Preview Adds Dark Mode to File Copy, Delete, and Permission Dialogs for the First Time
Microsoft has quietly begun rolling out one of the most long-awaited visual refinements for Windows 11: dark-themed file operation dialogs. In recent Insider Preview builds, the stark white copy,...
Microsoft Store Removes Permanent Update Off Switch, Forces Time-Limited Pauses
Microsoft has quietly removed the ability to permanently disable automatic app updates in the Microsoft Store, a change that forces users to pick a pause window of one to five weeks before updates...
KB5063878 Sends NVMe SSDs AWOL: Windows 11 Update Triggers Storage Regression Under Heavy Writes
Microsoft’s August 12 cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2, KB5063878 (build 26100.4946), is causing a severe storage regression that makes some NVMe SSDs disappear during sustained large file...
Windows Server 2025 Schema Master Flaw Triggers Duplicate AD Entries, Halts Replication
Administrators deploying Windows Server 2025 domain controllers are grappling with a severe replication failure caused by a bug in the Schema Master FSMO role. The flaw generates duplicate entries...
Microsoft's $80B AI Infrastructure Push Supercharges Contract Automation for Enterprises
Microsoft is pouring more than $80 billion into AI-capable data centers this fiscal year, a staggering bet that underpins a sweeping strategy to automate enterprise procurement through Azure-based...
Inside the 2017 Samsung ATIV S8 Rumor: How Microsoft's Mobile Strategy Had Already Moved On
A smartphone on a reflective blue-lit desk shows a grid of app icons beside a blue gadget. In early 2017, a brief report from a regional tech blog set the Windows enthusiast corners of the internet...
From Myriad X to NPUs: How Windows ML and Intel\'s VPU Sparked the On-Device AI Revolution
Seven years ago, Microsoft and Intel forged an alliance that would quietly reshape where and how artificial intelligence runs on Windows. The partnership paired Windows Machine...
Windows 11 KB5063878 Update Leads to SSDs Vanishing During Bulk Transfers
Microsoft’s August 12, 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11, KB5063878 (OS Build 26100.4946), is triggering a severe storage regression that causes certain NVMe SSDs to disappear from the system...
Microsoft's Copilot 3D Converts 2D Photos Into Textured GLB Models in Seconds
Microsoft has quietly launched Copilot 3D, an experimental tool inside Copilot Labs that transforms a single flat image into a textured GLB 3D model—ready for download, preview, or further...