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Windows 11 24H2 Update KB5063878 Disrupts NDI Video Production; Switch to TCP/UDP Recommended
Microsoft’s August 2025 security update for Windows 11 version 24H2 is wreaking havoc on professional broadcasting setups, triggering severe stuttering and audio dropouts in NDI-based streaming...
Corsair, SanDisk, Kioxia NVMe Drives Vanish Under Load After Windows 11 Update KB5063878
A routine Patch Tuesday deployment spiraled into a storage crisis this week as Windows 11 update KB5063878 was linked to a wave of SSD and HDD failures, drive disappearances, and data...
Microsoft Ships Emergency OOB Fixes to Restore Broken Windows Reset and Cloud Recovery After August Patch
Microsoft released three out-of-band cumulative updates on August 19, 2025, to fix a servicing regression in its August Patch Tuesday rollouts that broke Windows' built-in reset and recovery tools,...
Windows 11 KB5063878 Triggers SSD Disappearances Under Load, Phison and Microsoft Scramble for Fix
Microsoft’s August 12, 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2 (KB5063878, OS Build 26100.4946) is at the center of an escalating storage crisis. Multiple independent testers and specialist...
Microsoft Store Removes App Update Off Switch, Imposes Pause-Only Model
Microsoft has quietly stripped away a decade-old user control in the Microsoft Store, eliminating the permanent toggle for automatic app updates and replacing it with a mandatory pause system that...
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...
Phison-Based NVMe SSDs Disappear After Windows 11 KB5063878 Update, Users Warn of Data Corruption
Microsoft’s August 12, 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2 (KB5063878) has been linked to a severe storage regression that can cause NVMe SSDs to suddenly disconnect during sustained write...
How Microsoft’s Two-Update Plan for 2017 Redefined Windows as a Service
Microsoft’s Windows 10 Anniversary Update had barely reached users when the company quietly telegraphed its most consequential shift yet: two more feature updates were slated for 2017. In an August...
Microsoft Store Disables Permanent App Update Toggle, Forces Automatic Updates After 5-Week Pause
The Microsoft Store has quietly removed the permanent toggle that allowed users to disable automatic app updates, replacing it with a mandatory pause period of one to five weeks. After the set...
Microsoft Ships Emergency Rollback After Windows 11 KB5063878 Breaks WSUS and SCCM Installs
Microsoft has confirmed that the August 12, 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 version 24H2 (KB5063878) is failing to install on endpoints managed through Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) and...
Microsoft Opens Windows Update to Third-Party Apps as Office Hours Tackles IT's Toughest 2025 Challenges
Microsoft is quietly testing a major expansion of Windows Update that will allow any third-party application or driver to be patched through the same built-in mechanism used for OS updates. The...
Microsoft Pushes Emergency KIR to Fix Windows 11 24H2 Update Failures (0x80240069)
Microsoft has confirmed that the August 12, 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2, KB5063878, crashes the Windows Update service on enterprise endpoints managed by WSUS or SCCM, leaving them...