Articles from August 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in August 2025
Windows 11 Snipping Tool Canary Now Records Single App Windows — But No Dynamic Tracking
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Xbox App on Windows 11 Now Launches Battle.net and GOG Galaxy Directly—for Insiders
Microsoft has begun rolling out a new experimental tab in the Xbox app for Windows 11 that lets users install and launch third-party applications—including rival game storefronts—directly from...
30 Years of Start: How Windows 95’s Flawed Genius Remade Personal Computing
On August 24, 1995, Microsoft did something no software company had pulled off before: it turned a computer operating system into a pop culture phenomenon. Midnight store openings, a colossal...
Microsoft Tests Android-to-PC Spotify Handoff for Windows 11 Insiders
Microsoft has flicked the switch on a long-anticipated cross-device feature: Windows 11 can now hand off an active Spotify session from your Android phone to your PC with a single click. The...
Microsoft's Win+Space Shortcut Won't Die—Here's How to Disable It with PowerToys
For years, Windows users have tapped Win+Space to cycle through installed keyboard layouts and input languages. The shortcut is baked deep into the modern Windows shell, and on Windows 11, it's more...
Xbox App 'My Apps' Preview Unifies PC Game Launchers on Windows 11
Xbox Insiders on Windows 11 now have early access to a new “My apps” tab in the Xbox app, a feature that aggregates third-party storefronts and utilities directly inside Microsoft’s gaming hub....
Microsoft's GPT-5 Copilot Upgrade Packs 400K Token Context, But Deepfake Threats Surge
Microsoft has begun folding OpenAI's GPT-5 into every corner of its Copilot ecosystem—from Word and Outlook to GitHub and Azure—arming millions of workers with a unified reasoning engine that can...
AI Copilots in HR Show Productivity Surge, But Governance Gaps Pose Legal Threats
When Chemist Warehouse, one of Australia’s largest pharmacy retailers, rolled out an AI-powered HR advisory assistant called AIHRA, the goal was straightforward: draft routine query responses for...
Windows 95's $30M Debut: How the Start Button Redefined Computing
Microsoft raked in $30 million from Windows 95 sales in a single day on August 24, 1995, triggering a consumer frenzy that saw 1.63 million copies move through retail channels in just 11 days. That...
48 Windows 11 Keyboard Shortcuts to Supercharge Your Productivity: A Real-World Guide from ZDNET
Keyboard shortcuts have long been the secret weapon of power users, but a new guide from ZDNET distills 48 Windows 11 keystrokes into a practical productivity system that promises to save you hours...
Google Gemini's New Agent Mode, Go, and Immersive View Leak in Testing—Here's What They Do
Google is quietly testing three new experimental modes inside the Gemini web app that could fundamentally change how users interact with the AI assistant. Code-sleuths at TestingCatalog discovered...
New Open-Source AppLockerGen Tool Promises Easier XML Policy Editing — But Beware the Pitfalls
Windows administrators and security engineers struggling with the arcane XML syntax of AppLocker policies have a new ally: AppLockerGen, an open-source Streamlit-based graphical editor that promises...