Articles from August 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in August 2025
Forrester: Up to 353% ROI for Microsoft 365 Copilot, But Only With Rigorous Adoption
An independent Total Economic Impact study commissioned by Microsoft projects that small and mid-size businesses can achieve a staggering 132% to 353% return on investment from Microsoft 365 Copilot...
Atturra’s Full Microsoft Partner Designations Fuel Private Cloud Ambitions — But ‘First’ Label Questioned
Atturra, an Australian IT services provider, has secured the full suite of Microsoft Solutions Partner designations and expanded its sovereign private cloud capacity in NEXTDC data centers. But one...
Parallels Desktop 26 adds macOS Tahoe support and enterprise policy controls.
Parallels Desktop 26 lands just as Apple pivots to a year-based naming scheme for macOS and Microsoft pushes Windows 11 version 25H2 toward general availability—bringing explicit macOS Tahoe...
Windows 11 Tests 'Resume from Phone' Feature: Seamless Android-to-PC Handoff Begins with Spotify
Windows Insiders on the Dev and Beta channels can now test a new cross-device feature that lets them continue listening to Spotify from their Android phone directly on a Windows 11 PC—no manual...
Stop HDR from Looking Broken on Windows 11: Nvidia RTX Guide to Perfect Color
Windows 11’s HDR feature promises vibrant visuals, but for Nvidia RTX owners, it often delivers washed-out colors, missing toggles, or black screens at launch. The culprit is rarely a single...
Windows 11 HDR Update Troubles: Auto HDR Regressions, Calibration Fixes, and What Displays Actually Deliver
Microsoft’s push to make HDR gaming mainstream on Windows 11 has hit simultaneous highs and lows. Recent OS updates have delivered smarter calibration tools and per-app toggles, yet they’ve also...
Microsoft's DocumentDB Lands at Linux Foundation to Forge an Open Standard for NoSQL on PostgreSQL
Microsoft's DocumentDB, the rapidly growing open-source document database built atop PostgreSQL, has officially moved under the stewardship of the Linux Foundation. The transition, announced at Open...
OneNote for Windows 10 Becomes Read-Only on Oct 14: How to Avoid Data Loss and Switch to the New App
Starting October 14, 2025, OneNote for Windows 10 will be reduced to a read-only shell, cutting off editing, syncing, and security updates for millions of users still clinging to the legacy app....
Windows 11 KB5050094 Fixes Auto HDR Oversaturation: Step-by-Step Recovery Plan
{ "title": "Windows 11 KB5050094 Fixes Auto HDR Oversaturation: Step-by-Step Recovery Plan", "content": "Windows 11 users grappling with washed-out colors and broken Auto HDR after recent updates...
Microsoft's SilentCleanup Task: The Hidden Culprit Behind Bloated AppData Folders
A silent, scheduled task buried in Windows’ Task Scheduler may be the hidden villain behind countless bloated AppData folders, leaving users scrambling for disk space. As SSD capacities plateau and...
Microsoft Copilot's Policy Flaw Allows Blocked AI Agents to Resurface, Creating Governance and Audit Nightmares
Enterprise administrators who thought they had locked down Microsoft 365 Copilot agents are discovering that tenant-wide "No users can access" settings have been silently ignored for certain agents,...
Microsoft Designer Envisions HoloLens Successor as AI-Powered Earbuds That See and Speak
A Microsoft principal designer has sketched out a radical departure from bulky mixed-reality headsets: a pair of AI-driven earbuds that use stereo cameras to understand your surroundings and speak...