Articles from August 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in August 2025
Microsoft UEFI Update Locks Surface Snapdragon X Devices at 50% Charge with No Rollback
A recent UEFI firmware update from Microsoft has left many Snapdragon X-powered Surface Pro and Surface Laptop devices stuck at a 50% charge limit, with the user-facing toggle to disable the battery...
San Diego Lawsuit Seeks to Force Microsoft to Keep Windows 10 Alive Until Market Drops to 10%
A lawsuit filed in San Diego Superior Court demands that Microsoft continue issuing free security updates for Windows 10 until the aging operating system’s global market share falls below roughly...
Microsoft's New COPILOT Function Brings AI to Excel's Calculation Engine, Sparking Governance and Licensing Fears
Microsoft has quietly slipped generative AI into Excel’s formula bar. The new COPILOT function, now rolling out to Microsoft 365 Insiders, accepts natural-language prompts and cell ranges, then...
Microsoft Reveals $30 Consumer ESU to Keep Windows 10 Secure Until October 2027
Windows 10’s formal retirement is no longer a distant calendar item. As of October 14, 2025, Microsoft has ended free security updates and technical support for the operating system that still runs...
August Windows Updates Break Reset and Recovery, Microsoft Rushes Emergency Fix
Microsoft has confirmed a serious regression in the August 2025 Patch Tuesday cumulative updates that breaks built-in reset and recovery functions across multiple still-supported Windows client...
Samsung to Supply OLED-on-Silicon Panels for Microsoft’s Gaming-Focused Mixed Reality Headset
Samsung Display has reportedly secured a deal to supply advanced OLED-on-silicon (OLEDoS) microdisplays for a new Microsoft mixed reality device, aiming squarely at gaming and media consumption. The...
Windows 11 KB5063878 Triggers Drive Disappearances During Heavy I/O, Pushing Some to Consider Linux
The August 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11, KB5063878 (OS Build 26100.4946), is causing solid-state drives and some hard disks to vanish from the system during sustained write operations,...
Microsoft’s KB5063878 Update for Windows 11 24H2 Triggers NVMe/SSD Disappearances and Data Corruption
Microsoft’s latest cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2, released on August 12, 2025, is causing certain NVMe SSDs — particularly those with Phison controllers — to vanish from the system...
Windows 11 Update KB5063878 Makes SSDs Disappear Under Heavy Write Loads
Installing Microsoft’s August cumulative update for Windows 11 version 24H2 is causing certain SSDs to vanish and become inaccessible during heavy write operations, according to a growing number of...
The =COPILOT() Function: Microsoft Makes AI a First-Class Citizen in Excel Formulas
Microsoft has just made its boldest move yet to embed generative AI into everyday productivity, introducing a new =COPILOT() function that allows Excel users to call Copilot directly from any cell....
Lawsuit Claims Microsoft Abandons Windows 10 to Corner AI PC Market as E-Waste Fears Mount
A California consumer has turned the scheduled end of Windows 10 support into a courtroom battle, filing a lawsuit on August 7, 2025, that accuses Microsoft of deliberately killing off the operating...
Microsoft’s Copilot+ PCs: Where On-Device AI Shines—and Why the Revolution Is Still on Hold
A year ago, Microsoft pitched Copilot+ PCs as a new class of computers where on-device NPUs (neural processing units) would run powerful AI models locally, delivering private, instant experiences...