Articles from September 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in September 2025
Windows 11 KB5065426 Triggers Install Failures and SMB Sharing Outages — Here’s How to Fix Them
Microsoft’s latest cumulative update for Windows 11, KB5065426, should have been a routine Patch Tuesday instalment. Instead, it’s triggering a wave of installation failures, delivering cryptic...
WMIC Axed in Windows 11 25H2: A Complete Migration Roadmap for IT Pros
Microsoft is yanking the rug out from under a decades-old administrative staple: the Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC) utility is vanishing from default images in Windows 11...
Firefox 143 Sneaks Microsoft Copilot into the Sidebar While Tightening Privacy and Adding Pinned Apps
Firefox 143 has arrived, and it marks the first time Mozilla has woven Microsoft’s Copilot directly into its browser interface. The update places an AI chat sidebar at users’ fingertips, allowing...
Inside Westpac’s Copilot Studio Rollout: From Scam Detection to Enterprise AI Governance
Westpac has deployed Microsoft Copilot Studio across its organisation, enabling cross-functional teams to build and scale generative AI agents that tackle real-world banking challenges—from...
Discarded Vape Becomes Functional HTTP Server: A Striking E-Waste Wake-Up Call
A discarded disposable vape pen, with its 24 MHz microcontroller and a few kilobytes of memory, now runs a live web server—and the hack is far more than a clever stunt. Engineer Bogdan Ionescu’s...
No-Reboot Fix: Microsoft KB5066360 Hotpatch Resolves Hyper-V PSDirect Security Hole
Microsoft has released KB5066360, a hotpatch that corrects a critical handshake regression in PowerShell Direct without requiring a system restart. The update, which lands on eligible Windows Server...
Microsoft AI Chief Warns Seemingly Conscious AI Could Trigger Psychosis in Windows Users
Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft’s head of consumer AI, has issued a stark operational warning: the gravest near-term danger from artificial intelligence is not that machines will become conscious, but...
Microsoft Embeds Copilot Chat Pane in Office Apps, Turning AI Into a Workplace Utility
Microsoft has flipped the switch on a long-anticipated overhaul of its productivity suite, planting Copilot Chat directly inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote. The move, part of a...
BlinkOps agentic automation for Microsoft Sentinel slashes MTTR with no-code micro-agents
Microsoft Sentinel users now have a new weapon in their automation arsenal: BlinkOps’ agentic security platform is available immediately through the Azure Marketplace and the Sentinel Content Hub,...
Oracle's Exadata X11M and AI Cloud Push Are Forcing a Rethinking of the Enterprise Stack
Oracle has quietly executed a pivot from database vendor to integrated cloud and AI infrastructure player, and the implications for enterprise buyers weighing their options against Amazon Web...
MSI Claw 8 AI+ Is Windows’ Best Handheld, but Tariffs and Scarcity Keep It Out of Reach
When reviewers call a device the best Windows handheld ever made, you’d expect to find it on store shelves. But three months after the MSI Claw 8 AI+ launched to rapturous praise for its Lunar Lake...
Windows 10 and 11’s Crucial System Restore Is Often Disabled — Here’s How to Enable It in Under a Minute
Windows 10 and 11 ship with a powerful rollback feature that can undo system-wrecking changes in minutes—but Microsoft often leaves it switched off. System Restore, officially called System...