Articles from August 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in August 2025
10 Hidden Windows Features That Instantly Boost Productivity and Lock Down Security
Most Windows users spend years staring at the same taskbar, the same Start menu, and the same handful of shortcuts without ever discovering the OS powers that lie just one keystroke away. Microsoft...
How a Rams-Cowboys Preseason Photo Tests Your Windows Metadata Chops
The final score read Rams 31, Cowboys 21, but the digital detritus from that preseason game exposes a story far larger than box scores or quarterback auditions. A single photograph, snapped by a...
10 Overdue Productivity Upgrades Windows Must Deliver in 2025
The gap between Windows' raw capability and its daily usability has become a liability. While Microsoft touts AI copilots and flashy features, enterprise users and power users are drowning in...
Microsoft Engineers Built a Windows Handheld Prototype, But It Never Left the Hackathon Floor
A three-minute video that surfaced on social media in April 2023 showed what Windows 11 could look like on a handheld gaming PC—controller-first onboarding, a gamepad-friendly homescreen, and...
Adesso EasyTouch 130 and 150: Quiet Mechanical Keyboards Get a Microsoft Copilot Hotkey Starting at $44.99
Adesso has expanded its EasyTouch lineup with two new mechanical keyboards that aim to tame the office by blending quiet tactile switches with one-touch access to Microsoft’s AI assistant. The...
When 'Windows 9' Headlines Stole the Show: Inside the Real Fall Creators Update
In the aftermath of Microsoft’s Build 2017 keynote, one news outlet made a jarring mistake: it announced the imminent arrival of “Windows 9 Creators Fall Update” in September. That error,...
Rams-Cowboys Photo Sparks Metadata Caution: IPTC, GPS, and the Ethics of Preseason Snaps
A single photograph of a Los Angeles Rams quarterback sprinting downfield has ignited a quiet debate about editorial responsibility—not over the game it depicts but over the invisible data baked...
Nvidia’s $30B Quarter Fuels AI Dominance, But It’s the Trifecta with TSMC and Microsoft That Locks In the Lead
Nvidia just delivered a fiscal quarter for the history books: $30 billion in revenue, a 122% surge from a year ago, fueled by data center sales of $26.3 billion that soared 154%. The numbers,...
The End of WordPad: Microsoft’s Windows 11 24H2 Erases 30-Year Legacy, Pushes Forward with Sudo and Smarter Updates
Windows 11 version 24H2 arrives not as a gentle refresh but as a deliberate rebalancing act, jettisoning two long‑running pieces of Windows heritage—WordPad and Windows Mixed Reality—while...
How a Metadata Misstep Could Have Twisted the Rams-Cowboys Preseason Narrative
A single mislabeled JPEG could skew millions of NFL fans' perceptions — and it almost happened during the Rams' 31-21 preseason win over the Cowboys on Saturday night. As the Los Angeles Rams...
Dell's Misleading Windows 11 24H1 Wi-Fi 7 Promise: The Truth Behind the Spring Update Mirage
Earlier this year, a footnote in Dell's promotional materials for its latest XPS laptops ignited a wave of speculation that Windows 11 would receive a spring "24H1" update delivering Wi-Fi 7 support....
Windows 365 Nested Virtualization Brings Linux to Cloud PCs; Android Support Still a Question Mark
Microsoft has officially documented support for nested virtualization on Windows 365 Cloud PCs, giving enterprise users the ability to run Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), Hyper-V, and Windows...