Articles from August 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in August 2025
Windows 11 Disk Cleanup Guide: How 3 Built-In Tools Can Safely Free Up 10+ GB Right Now
Low disk space warnings in Windows 11 are more than a nuisance—they can block critical updates, slow everyday performance, and force users into frantic file-dumping marathons. But the fix doesn’t...
Patch Tuesday Deluge: Digest Auth RCE (CVE-2025-21294) Puts IIS Servers at Risk
Administrators running Internet-facing Windows IIS servers must immediately disable Digest Authentication to block a newly discovered remote code execution vulnerability, CVE-2025-21294, confirmed by...
Microsoft Forges a Hardware Security Stack for Azure: Custom DPU, Local HSM, and Post-Quantum Roots of Trust
Microsoft is embedding security directly into the silicon that powers Azure, rolling out custom data processing units, server-embedded hardware security modules, and an open-source root of trust...
Windows Server 2025 Upgrades Threatened by Lingering IIS and WSUS Misconfigurations
A recent technical report in International Daily News has cast a spotlight on the brittle relationship between three backbone components of the Microsoft server ecosystem—Internet Information...
IIS Under Fire: 2025 Patch Avalanche, ViewState RCE, and Windows Server 2025 Pitfalls
Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS) has once again taken center stage in the cybersecurity spotlight. Throughout 2025, a relentless wave of security patches, newly disclosed attack...
IIS Domain ‘Refusal’ and WSUS Crash 0x80070003: The Fixes Every Windows Admin Needs
When a production IIS website suddenly stops responding to your naked domain while the www subdomain loads fine, or when a routine WSUS postinstall spews a COMException 0x80070003 and halts, the...
One Checkbox to Kill Windows 11's Pesky Snap Flyout — Without Losing Snap Layouts
A single toggle in Windows 11 Settings can banish the intrusive Snap Layouts flyout that plagues multi-monitor users, without disabling the full snapping feature. For many, that small pop-up —...
Teams Channels Disappeared? Microsoft’s New Combined View Is Likely the Culprit—Here’s the Fix
Microsoft rolled out a sweeping UI update this month that merges chats and channels into a single, unified view—and it’s causing mass confusion. Across forums and IT help desks, the complaint is...
Big Tech’s $250 Billion AI Infrastructure Gamble: How Microsoft, Google, and Meta Are Building Unbreachable Moats
In 2025, the world’s largest technology companies are not just experimenting with artificial intelligence—they are wiring it into the very foundations of global computing. Microsoft, Alphabet,...
Ears Over Eyes: Microsoft’s Copilot Veja Concept Reimagines Wearable AI Post-HoloLens
Microsoft’s official exit from HoloLens hardware took shape in late 2024, when the company stopped producing HoloLens 2 and announced a last-time-to-buy window. Security updates will dry up on...
Shiva 2 Prebuilt PC Review: RTX 5060 Ti & Ryzen 8600G/9600X Specs Under the Microscope
A gaming desktop listing on teamduval.org promises the moon: an AMD Ryzen processor, 16GB of DDR5, a 1TB Gen4 NVMe drive, and—most enticingly—an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti with 16GB of GDDR7. The...
Microsoft Releases Agentless VMware-to-Hyper-V Migration Tool in Windows Admin Center Preview
Microsoft has shipped a public preview of a native VM Conversion extension for Windows Admin Center, taking aim at one of the most stubborn challenges in datacenter operations: moving virtual...