Articles from August 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in August 2025
Identity Kits Breached, NFC Malware Spikes, and Microsoft Patches a Dangerous Kerberos Bug
The cybersecurity news cycle last week delivered a triple blow that no financial institution or Windows enterprise can afford to ignore. On Monday, a Connecticut-based credit union confirmed a data...
Microsoft’s GPT-5 Ecosystem Overhaul: Smart Routing, Deeper Reasoning, and Enterprise Guardrails
Microsoft has simultaneously activated OpenAI’s GPT-5 family across its entire productivity, development, and cloud portfolio—a coordinated day-one deployment that embeds advanced reasoning into...
How Microsoft’s Two-Update Plan for 2017 Redefined Windows as a Service
Microsoft’s Windows 10 Anniversary Update had barely reached users when the company quietly telegraphed its most consequential shift yet: two more feature updates were slated for 2017. In an August...
Windows 11 KB5063878 Update Triggers Phison NVMe SSD Failures, Disappearing Drives During Writes
Microsoft’s August 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 version 24H2, KB5063878 (OS Build 26100.4946), is causing a severe storage regression that makes certain NVMe SSDs suddenly vanish during...
Microsoft Store Kills 'Disable App Updates' Toggle, Replaces It With 5-Week Pauses
Microsoft has quietly retired the permanent toggle to disable automatic app updates in the Microsoft Store, replacing it with a temporary pause feature that reactivates updates after one to five...
Microsoft Sets August 2025 Deadline for PowerShell 2.0 Removal from Windows 11 24H2
Starting in August 2025, Windows 11 version 24H2 will no longer include the legacy PowerShell 2.0 engine, with Windows Server 2025 following in September. The removal, already visible in Windows...
Microsoft’s GPT-5 Overhaul: How Smart Mode Is Transforming Every Business Tool
Microsoft didn’t just update Copilot on August 7—it lit the fuse on a platform-wide explosion of GPT-5 across every major product surface, from consumer Windows apps to enterprise cloud APIs. The...
Firefox Nightly Tests Prompt to Keep or Delete Private Browsing Downloads, Ending Silent File Removal
Firefox Nightly builds are now testing a long-requested privacy tweak: a prompt that asks users whether they want to keep or automatically delete files downloaded during private browsing sessions....
Lawsuit Demands Microsoft Extend Free Windows 10 Security Patches Until Market Share Plummets
A California resident has filed a lawsuit demanding that Microsoft be forced to continue providing free security updates for Windows 10 long past the October 14, 2025 end‑of‑support date, arguing...
How Local Workshops Are Demystifying Windows 11, AI Features, and Online Safety
A community event listing for “Exploring Windows” appeared on the McDuffie Progress website, but attempts to access the page failed—returning a “Too Many Requests” error at the time of...
Microsoft’s $30 Windows 10 Security Lifeline: Everything You Need to Know About Consumer ESU Enrollment
The clock is ticking for Windows 10. As the October 14, 2025 end-of-support date barrels forward, Microsoft has quietly issued a rare consumer-friendly move: a one-year Extended Security Updates...
Microsoft Extends Windows 10 Security Updates Through 2027 for Consumers — With a Catch
Microsoft has officially begun enrolling Windows 10 users in its long-awaited Extended Security Updates (ESU) program, granting consumers up to two more years of critical security patches after the...