Articles from August 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in August 2025
Microsoft Unleashes MAI-1-Preview: 15,000 GPUs Power Its First In-House AI Model to Rival OpenAI
Microsoft this week publicly debuted MAI-1-preview, a homegrown large language model that marks its boldest move yet to decouple from OpenAI and put its own AI into Copilot. Trained on a staggering...
Microsoft’s Windows 11 AI Push Delivers Productivity Gains—and a Fragmented User Experience
Windows 11 users now face two different Copilot apps, an opaque credit system, and hardware-locked features—leaving many wondering if the AI revolution was worth the confusion. Microsoft’s...
Battlefield 6 PC Specs Unveiled: Three Performance Tiers, Mandatory TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot for Javelin Anti-Cheat
EA and DICE have published the final PC system requirements for Battlefield 6 ahead of its October 10 launch, and the numbers come with a sharp twist: to play the game at any tier, your rig must have...
Microsoft’s 200K-Chat Study Shows Which 40 Jobs AI Is Reshaping Now—and Which It Can’t Touch
Microsoft has quietly conducted one of the largest behavioral studies of generative AI in the workplace, analyzing more than 200,000 real Copilot conversations to map exactly where large language...
No Microsoft ESU for Office 2016/2019: 0patch Offers Critical Micropatching Lifeline After 2025 Cutoff
Microsoft will permanently cut off security updates for Office 2016 and Office 2019 on October 14, 2025, and unlike Windows 10, there will be no paid Extended Security Updates (ESU) program to soften...
Before You Buy: The Truth About €31 Office 2021 and Windows 11 'Lifetime' Licenses
A back-to-school promotion offering Microsoft Office 2021 Pro for €31.25 and Windows 11 Pro keys from €13.25 has ignited fresh scrutiny of so‑called “lifetime” software licenses. The ad, a...
Windows Backup for Organizations Released: What It Actually Backs Up—and What It Doesn’t
Microsoft has officially released Windows Backup for Organizations, a feature that promises to streamline device migrations and reimages by preserving user settings and Microsoft Store app manifests....
Hebbia's Azure AI Foundry Integration Signals New Era for Fund Administration Tech
A wave of announcements from the intersection of fintech and cloud computing has washed over the private capital sector, but one integration stands out as particularly emblematic: Hebbia, the...
Windows 11 Mobile Plans App Retirement Set for February 2026: What It Means for eSIM Users
Microsoft is pulling the plug on the Windows 11 Mobile Plans app, a little-used gateway for buying cellular data on always-connected PCs, and pushing users toward carrier websites and the native...
Why JSON.parse Crashes Your Windows Apps—and the 10-Minute Fix That Works Every Time
Every Windows developer has encountered the moment: a script halts, a service won't start, and the log screams "SyntaxError: Unexpected token < in JSON at position 0". The JSON parse error is the...
One-Click AI Search: Cloudflare and Microsoft Launch NLWeb and AutoRAG
Cloudflare and Microsoft have thrown open a new frontier for website owners, unveiling a partnership that lets any site become a first-class participant in the AI-driven search revolution. The...
Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat Hits Campuses: What IT Teams Must Know as a 404 Exposes Rollout Gaps
A 404 error on Oakland University’s website last week wasn’t just a broken link. It was a sign that Microsoft’s aggressive rollout of Copilot Chat is outpacing institutional readiness, leaving...