Articles from August 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in August 2025
Post-Patch Tuesday: Microsoft’s Silent Fix for the 0x8007007F Windows Upgrade Bug
Microsoft has quietly pushed out a fix for a Windows Setup regression that was blocking in‑place upgrades on a wide range of Windows 10 and Windows Server configurations, resolving a wave of...
Phison Sounds Alarm: Windows 11 KB5063878 Update Causing NVMe SSDs to Vanish Mid-Write
Phison Electronics, the Taiwan-based NAND controller giant behind countless consumer and enterprise SSDs, has officially acknowledged that two recent Windows 11 security updates—KB5063878 and...
Xbox PC App Insider Preview Unlocks Local Game Installs on Arm Windows 11 PCs
Microsoft has pushed a long-awaited update to the Xbox PC app for Windows Insiders, finally allowing Arm-based Windows 11 devices to download and run PC games locally rather than being tethered...
Microsoft Embeds AI Directly into Excel Cells with New COPILOT Function
Microsoft has begun rolling out a native =COPILOT function in Excel, allowing users to type natural-language prompts into cells and receive live, recalculating AI-generated results directly in the...
Microsoft Arms Azure Cloud HSM with Marvell LiquidSecurity PCIe Cards, Targeting Regulated Workloads
Microsoft is significantly expanding its Azure Cloud HSM service with Marvell’s LiquidSecurity PCIe hardware security modules, a strategic move that embeds cloud‑native, high‑density...
Phison Acknowledges Windows 11 KB5063878 NVMe SSD Failures, Promises Firmware Fix
A single flawed Windows 11 cumulative update is bricking NVMe SSDs mid‑operation, and Phison—the dominant controller maker behind many of the affected drives—has confirmed it’s investigating....
Windows 11 Update Causes Catastrophic NVMe Failures: What You Need to Know
Microsoft's August 12, 2025, cumulative update for Windows 11 version 24H2, identified as KB5063878 (OS Build 26100.4946), is causing a subset of NVMe SSDs to become unresponsive and, in some cases,...
Yusen Logistics Cuts Partner Onboarding by 75% with Cloud-Native SwiftB2B on Azure
Yusen Logistics has slashed trading partner onboarding from 12 weeks to just days—a 75% reduction—by replacing an aging IBM Sterling B2B stack with a composable, cloud-native integration platform...
Xbox Series X|S Legacy Ends as Microsoft Pivots to Windows Handhelds: Inside the ROG Ally Strategy
Carl Ledbetter, Microsoft’s head of Xbox device design, has drawn a line under the Xbox Series X|S generation, signaling that the company is pivoting hard toward a Windows-first hardware strategy...
KB5063878 Breaks WSUS, Recovery on Windows 11—Microsoft Scrambles with KIR and Out-of-Band Fix
The August 2025 Patch Tuesday cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2, KB5063878 (OS Build 26100.4946), has delivered a triple blow to enterprise administrators, triggering mass WSUS/SCCM install...
Windows 11 KB5063878 Update Triggers NVMe SSD Disappearances — Here’s What’s Happening
A wave of reports across enthusiast forums and hardware labs confirms that the Windows 11 August 2025 cumulative update, KB5063878, is causing certain NVMe SSDs to vanish during prolonged write...
Windows 11 Insider Preview Darkens File Operation Dialogs After Years of Light Mode Glare
Windows 11 preview builds have finally darkened the file copy, move, and delete dialogs that for years remained distractingly bright against the rest of the Dark Mode shell. The change, spotted in a...