Articles from August 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in August 2025
Valve Fremont Geekbench Leak Exposes Zen 4 CPU, RX 7600 GPU in Living-Room SteamOS Console
Valve’s long-rumoured SteamOS living-room box, codenamed Fremont, has resurfaced in a Geekbench sighting that reveals a prototype packing an AMD Hawk Point 2 processor, a discrete Radeon RX 7600...
2,500 AI-Powered Surface PCs Hit NFL Sidelines in High-Stakes Copilot Rollout
More than 2,500 Microsoft Surface Copilot+ PCs are now deployed across all 32 NFL clubs, marking a pivotal expansion of the league’s decade-long tech partnership that injects conversational AI...
Thurrott.com's Bold Pivot: Annual Windows Guides, Travel Podcast, and a Membership Overhaul to Fix Billing Nightmares
Paul Thurrott is tearing down and rebuilding Thurrott.com piece by piece, addressing years of accumulated technical debt with a flurry of product and editorial moves. The site’s flagship Windows 11...
Microsoft Issues Emergency Patches for Windows Reset and Recovery Failure After August Updates
On August 19, 2025, Microsoft pushed out-of-band cumulative updates to urgently fix a critical regression that rendered Windows' built-in reset and recovery features inoperable after the August 12...
Microsoft Deploys Copilot AI to NFL Sidelines: 2,500 Surface PCs Get Assistants in Expanded Deal
Microsoft is pushing deeper into professional football operations, announcing a multiyear extension of its partnership with the NFL that will embed generative AI into play calling, scouting, and...
Microsoft Embeds Generative AI Directly into Excel Cells with New COPILOT Function
Microsoft has turned the spreadsheet itself into a prompt interface. The new COPILOT function, now rolling out to Microsoft 365 Insiders in the Beta Channel, lets users type plain-English...
Git 2.51 Shrinks Multi-Pack Indexes by 38% and Enables Portable Stashes
Git 2.51.0 ships with a new repacking behavior that shrinks multi-pack indexes by up to 38% and writes them 35% faster, while also introducing portable stashes and a path‑walk packing algorithm...
Microsoft Copilot Arrives on NFL Sidelines: AI Assistant for Coaches, But Not for Play-Calling
On August 20, 2025, the NFL and Microsoft announced a multiyear partnership extension that will embed generative AI into the league’s most critical workflows—but with an explicit ban on...
Microsoft’s Emergency Out-of-Band Updates Fix Windows Reset, Recovery Issues Caused by August Patch
Microsoft has released a set of emergency out-of-band cumulative updates to fix a critical regression that broke Windows’ built-in recovery tools, including the Reset This PC feature and remote...
India's Enterprise PC Boom: Windows 10 End-of-Life and AI Laptops Spark Record Upgrades
A hard operating-system deadline and the rapid rise of on-device AI are fueling the biggest enterprise PC refresh cycle India has seen since the pandemic. Commercial shipments jumped 9.5%...
Windows 11 KB5063878 Triggers SSD Disappearances Under Load, Phison and Microsoft Scramble for Fix
Microsoft’s August 12, 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2 (KB5063878, OS Build 26100.4946) is at the center of an escalating storage crisis. Multiple independent testers and specialist...
Microsoft Emergency Update Repairs Windows Recovery Breakage from August 2025 Patch Tuesday
Microsoft deployed an emergency out-of-band update on August 19, 2025, to resolve a high-impact regression that paralyzed Windows’ built-in reset, cloud recovery, and remote wipe capabilities. The...