Articles from August 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in August 2025
Google Slides and Vids Now Swap and Expand Image Backgrounds With AI, but No Admin Off-Switch in Sight
Google has started rolling out Gemini-powered image editing directly inside Slides and Vids, letting users replace and expand backgrounds with a simple text prompt. The tools, which began hitting...
Windows 11 Trivia Games: Fun Icebreakers or a Gateway to Tech Misinformation?
Microsoft’s strict hardware requirements for Windows 11 have sparked endless debate in IT departments, but they’ve also hatched an unexpected side effect: a ready-made party game. A website...
Safely Disable Windows Updates: Pause, Group Policy, Registry Hacks, and When to Stop the Service
Every Windows user has been there: an unsolicited reboot during a critical presentation, a sudden performance dip as cumulative updates churn in the background. Microsoft’s default automatic update...
PowerToys 0.93 Slashes Command Palette Load Times by 40% with AOT, Adds Card Dashboard
Microsoft shipped PowerToys 0.93 with a deep engineering overhaul that cuts Command Palette load times by 40%, drops memory usage by 15%, and shrinks the install footprint by 55%. The release also...
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...
Leading GenAI Browser Assistants Found Hoovering Up Social Security Numbers, Medical Data Without Consent
A sweeping new audit of the most popular generative AI browser assistants reveals that several widely used extensions silently capture and transmit highly sensitive information from ordinary web...
Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 24H2 Installation Bug Blocking All Security Updates—Rebuild Media Now
Microsoft has confirmed a critical bug in Windows 11 version 24H2 installation media that leaves freshly installed systems unable to receive any further security updates, affecting enterprise...
PowerShell 2.0 Out: Microsoft Forces Windows 11 24H2 and Server 2025 Users to Modernize by August 2025
Microsoft will excise PowerShell 2.0 from Windows 11 version 24H2 starting August 2025 and from Windows Server 2025 in September, retiring a 14-year-old runtime that predates critical security...
Dreamspace’s No-Code AI Studio Goes Live: Azure OpenAI, ZK Proofs, and Base L2 Converge for On-Chain Creators
Dreamspace’s public beta is here, and it’s not just another no-code builder. The platform stitches together Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry, Space and Time’s zero-knowledge (ZK) verifiable...
Windows 10 End-of-Life Pushes Iron Mountain's Asset Disposal Business to Record Growth
The October 14, 2025 termination of Windows 10 support has become a pivotal moment for enterprise IT asset disposition, and Iron Mountain is reporting the effects in dollars and cents. In its Q2 2025...
Ingram Micro Q2 Sales Hit $12.8B as Windows 10 End-of-Life Fuels 14% North American Growth
Ingram Micro posted fiscal second-quarter 2025 net sales of $12.8 billion—a 10.9% increase over the prior year—as the looming end of support for Windows 10 accelerated commercial device refreshes...
Microsoft Loads Windows 11 Build 26100.5061 with AI Recall, Click to Do, and a PowerShell 2.0 Axe
Microsoft dropped Windows 11 Build 26100.5061 (KB5064081) into the Release Preview Channel on August 14, 2025, packing a suite of AI-driven features, interface overhauls, and a critical enterprise...