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Windows 11 Slips Below 50% in August as Microsoft’s ESU Option Gives Users a Pause Button
Windows 11 lost its tenuous majority on the global desktop charts last month, sliding back to 49.02% after a brief surge that had pushed it past the 50‑percent threshold in July. Windows 10,...
WPAD Service Disabled? Windows 11 24H2 Will Break Your Corporate Network
Corporate IT teams are discovering a punishing side effect of the Windows 11 24H2 update: machines where the WinHTTP Auto-Proxy (WPAD) service has been deliberately disabled for security reasons are...
Microsoft and Phison Dismiss Windows 11 Update as Cause of SSD Failures After Exhaustive Tests
{ "title": "Microsoft and Phison Dismiss Windows 11 Update as Cause of SSD Failures After Exhaustive Tests", "content": "After weeks of swirling community reports and internal investigations,...
Bluetooth LE Audio Comes to Windows 11 24H2, Ending Long-Running Stereo vs. Mic Compromise
{ "title": "Bluetooth LE Audio Comes to Windows 11 24H2, Ending Long-Running Stereo vs. Mic Compromise", "content": "Microsoft has finally addressed one of the most persistent pain points in...
Microsoft Delivers Windows 11 25H2 as a Tiny Enablement Package, Retires PowerShell 2.0 and WMIC
Microsoft has pushed Windows 11 version 25H2 (build 26200.5074) into the Release Preview channel, and it’s unlike any major feature update you’ve installed before. Instead of a multi-gigabyte...
Windows 11 25H2 Brings On-Device AI Agent 'Mu' and Legacy Tool Removal to Release Preview
Microsoft has seeded Windows 11 version 25H2 to the Release Preview channel, signaling that the next annual feature update is nearing finalization with a focus on stability, manageability, and...
Windows 11 25H2 Hits Release Preview Amid Debunked SSD Failure Panic
Microsoft cannot catch a break from hardware failure fears, even as it pushes its next feature update into final testing. On August 29, Windows 11 version 25H2 appeared in the Release Preview...
Windows 11 Beta Adds App Recommendations to Start Menu: How to Opt Out
Microsoft has begun testing a new feature that places app recommendations directly inside the Windows 11 Start menu’s Recommended area. Limited to a small set of Windows Insiders in the Beta...
Microsoft Tests New Podcast, Document, and Quiz Categories for Copilot Library
Microsoft is quietly testing a series of new content categories inside the Copilot library, with placeholder tabs for podcasts, documents, and quizzes spotted in recent test builds. The discovery,...
Elon Musk’s xAI Files ‘Macrohard’ Trademark, Outlines AI Software Factory Fueled by Grok Ads
Elon Musk’s xAI dropped a trademark bomb on August 1, 2025, filing for MACROHARD—a name that openly tweaks Microsoft—covering downloadable software and AI services for agentic code generation,...
Windows 11 Insiders Get Android-to-PC App Resume, Long-Awaited Dark Explorer Fixes, and AI Table Conversion
Microsoft’s August 2025 Insider builds bring a trick that Windows users have wanted for years: the ability to seamlessly resume an Android app on a PC from exactly where you left off on your phone....
Microsoft’s LE Audio Update Brings Super-Wideband Stereo to Galaxy Buds on Windows 11
Microsoft has unlocked Bluetooth LE Audio in Windows 11, and for owners of Samsung’s Galaxy Buds 2 Pro, Galaxy Buds 3, and Galaxy Buds 3 Pro, the change finally banishes a decades-old scourge: the...