Articles from August 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in August 2025
Microsoft Slaps 100-Recipient Daily Limit on onmicrosoft.com Outbound Email to Thwart Spammers
Microsoft is pulling the plug on unrestricted outbound email from its shared onmicrosoft.com domains, imposing a hard cap of just 100 external recipients per tenant every 24 hours. The change,...
Per-Mailbox Cloud Management Lets Admins Finally Retire the Last Exchange Server
Microsoft has released a per‑mailbox cloud management feature that finally gives hybrid Exchange organizations a clear path to unplugging the last on‑premises Exchange server. With the new...
Microsoft’s Full-Screen Windows 11 Upgrade Nags on Windows 10 Won’t Take No for an Answer
Microsoft has turned its in-OS upgrade pressure into a full-blown siege. Since the August 2025 update cycle, Windows 10 users are reporting that full-screen, multipage prompts to upgrade to Windows...
KB5062553 Fails to Install on Windows 11? Proven Fixes for Error 0x800f0922 and More
Windows 11’s July 2025 cumulative update KB5062553 is refusing to install on a significant number of PCs, triggering rollbacks and cryptic error codes like 0x800f0922, 0x80073712, and 0x80071a2d....
Windows 11 Adopts Black Screen of Death: What the Color Change Means and How to Fix Black Screens
Microsoft has finally retired the Blue Screen of Death’s iconic blue background. In Windows 11, the stop screen—what every IT pro dreads—now wears black. The Verge first reported the redesign...
Copilot Agent Blocking Broken: Admins Discover Policies Fail Across Teams, Outlook
Organizations relying on Microsoft Copilot's agent policies to restrict AI access are confronting a stark reality: the controls have been breaking silently. In recent weeks, multiple independent...
Recall Security Disaster and Voice Control Friction: Microsoft’s Windows AI Vision Hits Reality
The June 2024 rollout of Microsoft’s Recall feature on Copilot+ PCs triggered an immediate security firestorm. Cybersecurity expert Kevin Beaumont discovered that Recall—an AI tool that captures...
Microsoft Caps onmicrosoft.com Emails at 100 External Recipients Per Day — Enforcement Starts October 15
Microsoft will begin throttling emails sent from the default onmicrosoft.com domain to just 100 external recipients per day, starting with trial tenants on October 15, 2025. The limit is a hard cap...
Microsoft's PowerToys 0.100.0 Ships With All-New Shortcut Guide, Command Palette Gallery, and .NET 10 Backbone
Microsoft’s PowerToys team has shipped version 0.100.0, a milestone release that packs an entirely redesigned Shortcut Guide, a built-in Extension Gallery for Command Palette, multi-monitor Dock...
Best Windows 8 Data Recovery Software: 5 Tools That Actually Deliver
Accidentally deleting a critical work folder, losing a family photo collection to a corrupt drive, or facing a partition that suddenly shows up as RAW—these are the moments that send a Windows 8...
Microsoft's New =COPILOT() Function Turns Excel Into an AI Playground, But Don't Trust It With Your Budget
Microsoft has subtly but fundamentally redefined what an Excel formula can be. The company’s latest Insider Beta release introduces the =COPILOT() worksheet function—an AI-powered primitive that...
How Metadata-Driven Zero Trust on Azure Reinforces AI Pipelines Against Modern Attacks
Microsoft’s Azure platform now offers a battle-tested blueprint for locking down machine learning operations using a metadata-driven zero-trust architecture—one that InfoWorld contributor Vikram...