Enterprise Security
The latest Enterprise Security coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
NFL Coaches Get Natural-Language AI on Surface Tablets in Expanded Microsoft Deal
Microsoft and the National Football League have torn up the old rulebook. In August 2025, the two organizations announced a multiyear extension of their decade-plus partnership—but this isn’t a...
Microsoft Staff Erect Campus Tent Encampment Demanding End to Azure Military Contracts
Microsoft employees pitched tents on the company’s Redmond campus Thursday, launching a 24-hour protest encampment that escalates a year-long internal battle over cloud contracts with Israeli...
Microsoft Confirms August Patches Cripple Windows Reset & Remote Wipe; OOB Fix Underway
Microsoft has confirmed that the August 2025 Patch Tuesday updates have introduced a critical regression that breaks built-in reset and recovery operations on multiple supported Windows client...
Microsoft Tests COPILOT Formula in Excel: Native AI That Recalculates Automatically
Microsoft has started testing a highly anticipated feature in Excel: a native AI function called COPILOT that embeds generative AI directly into the spreadsheet's calculation engine. Announced for...
Snipping Tool's Live Annotation Flips Screenshot Workflow with Pre-Capture Inking and AI Prompts
Microsoft is internally testing a fundamental rework of its Snipping Tool that lets users draw arrows, circle UI controls, and highlight text directly on the live screen before a screenshot is taken....
Draw Before You Snip: Microsoft Tests Live Annotation for Snipping Tool
The Snipping Tool’s latest evolution breaks the traditional screenshot workflow. Microsoft is internally testing a feature called Live Annotation that lets users draw, highlight, and add shapes...
Microsoft Launches Urgent Probe Into Azure Cloud’s Role in Palestinian Mass Surveillance
Microsoft has launched an urgent external review after media investigations alleged that Israel’s Unit 8200 used a customized Azure cloud environment to ingest and analyze massive volumes of...
Microsoft Ships Windows 365 Link for $349, Packs Intel N250 and 6-Year Update Promise
Microsoft’s first dedicated Cloud PC hardware, the Windows 365 Link, began shipping this month at $349, delivering a fanless mini-PC built solely to stream a Windows 365 desktop. Under the hood, an...
Google Ships Chrome 139 Fix for ANGLE Out‑of‑Bounds Write, Microsoft Edge To Follow
Google has shipped a critical security update for Chrome, version 139.0.7258.127, to plug a dangerous out-of-bounds write flaw in the ANGLE graphics translation layer. Tracked as CVE-2025-8901, the...
Urgent Chrome 139.0.7258.127 Update Closes V8 Race Condition (CVE-2025-8880) — Patch Now for Windows, Edge, and Chromium Browsers
On August 12, 2025, Google rushed out Chrome 139.0.7258.127 with an urgent fix for CVE-2025-8880 — a high-severity race condition in the V8 JavaScript engine that could hand remote attackers the...
Chrome's File Picker Cross-Origin Leak Prompts Emergency Patch for Windows Browsers
A critical logic flaw in Chromium's File Picker—one of the browser's most sensitive UI components—can be weaponized to leak data across origins, forcing Google and Microsoft to ship urgent...
Microsoft's 111-CVE August Patch Tuesday Forces CISA Emergency Directive as Kerberos Zero-Day Looms
Microsoft released one of its heaviest Patch Tuesday updates in months this August, shipping fixes for 111 security vulnerabilities and setting off a chain reaction that includes a public zero-day...