Articles from August 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in August 2025
Enterprise IT faces alert fatigue as Windows 11 KB5063878 floods logs with harmless CertEnroll Event ID 57 errors
The August 2025 Patch Tuesday cumulative update for Windows 11, KB5063878, has brought an unwelcome surprise for system administrators and power users: a flood of Error-level Event ID 57 entries in...
Microsoft Store Update Replaces App Update Off Switch with 5-Week Pause Limit
Microsoft has changed the Microsoft Store’s longstanding app update setting, eliminating the ability to permanently disable automatic updates on many consumer devices. Instead, users are now...
Windows Insider Update History Demystified: Microsoft's KB5060570 Guide for KBs and Rollouts
On August 12, 2025, Microsoft published a support article — carrying the identifier KB5060570 — that squarely tackles one of the most persistent headaches for Windows Insiders: making sense of...
Windows Insider Update History: Decoding KB Numbers, Feature Gates, and the Hidden Risks of Preview Builds
Every Windows Insider knows the ritual: a new build arrives, installation completes, and after a reboot you head straight to Settings > Windows Update > Update history. What you see there isn't...
Windows Insider Update History: The Hidden Truth Behind Feature Rollouts and August's New AI
Microsoft has announced six new features for Windows 11 rolling out through August 2025, but many Insiders who install the latest preview builds won't see them right away—or at all. A new support...
Windows 10’s 2025 Deadline Arrives With Surprise Lifelines for Edge, Office—and a $30 Escape Hatch
Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14, 2025. That hard deadline, confirmed by Microsoft, means no more free security patches, quality updates, or technical support for the operating...
Microsoft 365 Copilot Hits DoD IL5 Cloud, Agent Builder for GCC in Major Government AI Push
Microsoft Federal Chief Technology Officer Jason Payne announced on LinkedIn that U.S. government cloud customers can now access a suite of AI tools previously confined to commercial environments....
Snipping Tool's Live Annotation Flips Screenshot Workflow with Pre-Capture Inking and AI Prompts
Microsoft is internally testing a fundamental rework of its Snipping Tool that lets users draw arrows, circle UI controls, and highlight text directly on the live screen before a screenshot is taken....
After Fixing WD BSODs, Windows 11 24H2 Update Makes SSDs Disappear and Corrupt Data
Western Digital has finally released firmware fixes for the dreaded Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) loops that plagued its NVMe SSDs after installing Windows 11 24H2. But as that drama subsides, a new...
After Nine Years, Windows 11's Dark Mode Finally Reaches Core Legacy File Dialogs
A preview build rolled out to Windows Insiders on August 14, 2025, delivers one of the most requested visual fixes in years: classic file-operation dialogs now respect the system Dark theme. Windows...
Windows 11 24H2 Update KB5063878 Causing NVMe Drives to Fail During Heavy Writes, Corrupting Data
Microsoft’s August 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2 (KB5063878, OS Build 26100.4946) has been tied to a severe storage regression that can cause NVMe SSDs to disappear during heavy write...
CISA Adds Actively Exploited Trend Micro Apex One Zero-Day to KEV, Mandates Rapid Patching
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added CVE-2025-54948, a critical command injection vulnerability in Trend Micro’s Apex One on-premises management console, to...