Articles from August 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in August 2025
Microsoft Opens External Investigation into Claims Azure Stored Millions of Intercepted Palestinian Calls
Microsoft has formally commissioned an external investigation after a series of investigative reports alleged that Israel’s elite signals intelligence unit, Unit 8200, used Microsoft Azure to...
Microsoft Ships Windows 365 Link for $349, Packs Intel N250 and 6-Year Update Promise
Microsoft’s first dedicated Cloud PC hardware, the Windows 365 Link, began shipping this month at $349, delivering a fanless mini-PC built solely to stream a Windows 365 desktop. Under the hood, an...
Windows 11 Browser Defaults Face Regulatory Heat as Perplexity Bids $34.5 Billion for Chrome
Microsoft’s latest maneuvers to steer Windows 11 users toward Edge have collided with an audacious $34.5 billion bid for Google Chrome from AI search startup Perplexity, turning the browser wars...
GPT-5’s Better Reasoning Comes Too Late for AI-Linked Bromide Poisoning — Windows Users Must Heed the Warning
A 60-year-old man spent three weeks in a psychiatric ward after following an AI chatbot’s advice to swap table salt for sodium bromide — a chemical compound that steadily poisoned him and...
GPT-5’s Lukewarm Debut, Windows 11 Recall, and Coze Open Source: AI’s Most Disruptive Week Yet
OpenAI’s GPT‑5 arrived with a Death Star meme and claims of PhD‑level intelligence, but early adopters found a model that excelled at coding yet stumbled over basic reasoning—a launch that...
California Lawsuit Targets Microsoft Over Windows 10 End-of-Life, Citing 240 Million PCs at Risk of E-Waste
A single-plaintiff lawsuit filed in San Diego Superior Court aims to stop Microsoft from ending free security updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, arguing the cutoff will force millions of...
Flyoobe 1.2 Delivers Windows 11 Bypass and OOBE Tweaks, But Experts Warn of Security Pitfalls
Microsoft’s hardware requirements for Windows 11—TPM 2.0, Secure Boot, and a relatively modern CPU—have kept countless otherwise functional PCs from officially upgrading. Since the operating...
Microsoft Azure vs AWS for .NET Devs: 2025 Salary, Skills, and Job Market Reality
Microsoft’s Azure grabs nearly one in four .NET job listings in the enterprise sector, yet Amazon Web Services still commands a 29–30% share of the overall cloud market. For a .NET developer...
Defender’s Limits Exposed: A Practical Guide to Windows 11 Security Layers
When a Windows 11 machine becomes infected with a stubborn Trojan, users often turn to Microsoft Defender – and just as often, they find it can’t finish the job. This real-world frustration,...
How to Stop Windows 11’s Search Indexer from Draining Your Laptop Battery
If your Windows 11 laptop runs hot and battery life seems shorter than it should be, there’s a hidden culprit draining power behind the scenes: the Windows Search Indexer. Known as...
GPT-5's Windows Debut Brings Smarter AI, But Cautionary Tales Remain
Microsoft has embedded OpenAI’s new GPT‑5 reasoning engine into Copilot, GitHub Copilot, and Visual Studio just days after launch—bringing expanded context windows, model‑routing “Smart...
PowerShell 2.0 Engine Finally Stripped from Windows 11 24H2, Server 2025 in August
Microsoft is killing off a 16-year-old Windows component next month: PowerShell 2.0 will vanish from clean installations of Windows 11 version 24H2 starting in August 2025, followed by Windows Server...