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Microsoft and SSD vendors are scrambling after multiple independent testers and users reported that a recent Windows 11 cumulative update can make NVMe SSDs vanish from the operating system during sustained large writes — a failure mode that in some cases has left files corrupted or drives inaccessible — and Microsoft says it is investigating the reports with partners. Background / Overview The incidents trace back to the August cumulative rollup for Windows 11 (commonly tracked as...

Microsoft's latest change to the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile experience on iOS—which converts the app into a file preview and Copilot chat wrapper that redirects editing tasks to standalone Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps—represents a deliberate shift in how the company structures mobile productivity. Beginning September 15, 2025, iPhone users will see the Microsoft 365 Copilot app move to a preview-first model for Office documents: viewing, commenting and asking Copilot Chat about files...

Microsoft’s AI chief Mustafa Suleyman has issued a stark public warning: engineers and executives are on the brink of building systems that look, talk and behave like persons — and society is not prepared for the consequences. In a wide-ranging essay published in August 2025, Suleyman framed a near-term risk he calls Seemingly Conscious AI (SCAI) and urged a deliberate pivot: build AI to serve people, not to mimic personhood. His argument lands at a fraught intersection of engineering...

The ROG Xbox Ally X I tried shows genuine promise as a portable Windows gaming platform — but its success depends almost entirely on how far Microsoft and OEMs can push Windows 11 out of its desktop mindset and into a controller‑first, battery‑smart handheld experience. Background Handheld PCs have matured fast: Valve’s Steam Deck proved there was a market for purpose‑built, Linux‑based handheld gaming, and OEMs have been racing to reconcile PC flexibility with console‑style simplicity...

Microsoft quietly pushed an emergency out‑of‑band update after an August security rollup left some Windows 10 and Windows 11 PCs unable to complete “Reset my PC,” cloud recovery, or MDM RemoteWipe operations — the fix is published as KB5066189 for Windows 11 (with companion OOB packages for Windows 10) and should be installed on affected machines as soon as practical. Background Resetting Windows — whether using the built‑in Reset this PC flow or the cloud-based Fix problems using Windows...

Phison has confirmed it is investigating a widespread storage regression tied to Windows 11’s August cumulative update (KB5063878) while simultaneously denouncing and legally challenging a circulated document that falsely claims to be an internal Phison report linking the problem exclusively to its SSD controllers. Background / Overview Microsoft shipped the Windows 11 cumulative update identified as KB5063878 (OS Build 26100.4946) on August 12, 2025. Within days, community test benches and...

Microsoft’s public roadmap for a quantum‑safe future is no longer a research manifesto: it’s a multi‑year engineering and procurement plan that maps how SymCrypt, Windows, Azure, Microsoft 365 and silicon will evolve to resist the cryptanalytic power of future quantum computers. The company has launched a coordinated Quantum Safe Program (QSP), set firm phased goals for rolling PQC capabilities into foundational libraries and identity systems, and published timetable targets that aim for...

Microsoft is retiring the OneNote for Windows 10 app and is asking users and organizations to migrate to the newer OneNote on Windows app, with the classic UWP-style OneNote becoming read-only on October 14, 2025 — the same date Microsoft ends mainstream support for Windows 10. This move consolidates Microsoft’s note‑taking strategy around a single, actively developed OneNote application available through the Microsoft Store and Microsoft 365, but it also creates a hard deadline and a...

A recent internal compensation leak has pulled back the curtain on Microsoft’s pay structure, exposing dramatic gaps in base salary, cash bonuses, and equity awards across engineering levels and product teams and reigniting debates about pay transparency, hiring practices, and the real value of stock-heavy compensation in Big Tech. Overview The leaked dataset—comprised of hundreds of self-reported entries from Microsoft employees—provides an unusually granular look at how compensation is...

Microsoft has quietly closed a painful upgrade gap: after days of user reports and frantic troubleshooting, the Windows Setup error that surfaced as 0x8007007F during certain in‑place upgrades has been resolved and recovery/reset regressions have been mitigated with targeted out‑of‑band updates. Background The issue began to appear after Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday cumulative releases. Administrators and end users reported failed upgrade attempts where Windows Setup aborted with the...

Microsoft’s new handheld-first layer for Windows 11 — the full‑screen, Xbox‑centric “home app” experience shown on the ROG Xbox Ally family at Gamescom — is the clearest signal yet that Redmond intends to stop treating handheld gaming as an afterthought and start treating it as a first-class scenario. Early hands‑on demos show a console‑style launcher that boots in place of the traditional desktop, a stripped‑down shell that cuts background services and desktop UI elements to free resources...

Microsoft pushed emergency, out‑of‑band updates on 19 August 2025 after its regular 12 August Patch Tuesday rollups caused Windows’ built‑in reset and recovery flows to abort or roll back, leaving some users and managed fleets unable to complete “Reset this PC,” the cloud “Fix problems using Windows Update” re‑image path, and MDM‑initiated RemoteWipe operations until targeted fixes were applied. hs August 12, 2025 cumulative updates, administrators and community researchers began reporting...

Microsoft’s move to add Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro to GitHub Copilot for paying customers is a notable escalation in the cross-cloud AI arms race — but for many individual developers the better value may already be free, open-source tooling from Google that gives surprisingly broad access to the same model and capabilities without a Copilot subscription. Background / Overview GitHub has updated Copilot’s model lineup to include Gemini 2.5 Pro for paying customers across Copilot Pro, Pro+...

Microsoft has quietly acknowledged a serious disruption in core Windows recovery flows and pushed emergency, out‑of‑band (OOB) updates after the August 2025 Patch Tuesday rollups left some systems unable to complete “Reset this PC,” cloud re‑image operations, and certain remote wipe jobs — and, separately, community testing and vendor telemetry raised alarms that an August cumulative may destabilize some SSDs during large, sustained writes. Background / Overview Microsoft shipped its regular...

Microsoft may have declared Windows 10 “feature-complete” years ago, but the evidence on the ground tells a different story: the OS is still receiving meaningful tweaks, UI roll‑outs, and policy-driven changes that affect everyday users and enterprises alike. What started as small, cumulative updates has matured into a steady stream of refinements — from a redesigned About page that finally surfaces GPU details to EU-mandated default browser behaviour and a one‑click path to extended...

The University of Manchester is telling staff and students to arrange their Windows 11 upgrade as soon as possible because Microsoft will end support for Windows 10 on 14 October 2025, and continuing to run an unsupported OS will expose campus machines to increased cyber risk. Background / Overview Microsoft has announced a firm end‑of‑support date for Windows 10: October 14, 2025. After that date Microsoft will no longer provide security updates, feature updates, or routine technical...

Microsoft’s Copilot for Windows has taken another step toward becoming the primary way people find and act on files and apps in Windows 11, with a staged Insider rollout that adds semantic, natural‑language file and image search and a redesigned Copilot home — features gated initially to certified Copilot+ PCs and distributed through the Microsoft Store to Windows Insiders. Background Microsoft’s Copilot effort has evolved from an optional sidebar assistant into a system-level AI layer in...

A recent hands‑on experiment that tried to replace Microsoft Copilot’s web‑page summarization with a fully local stack — Ollama running local models and the Page Assist browser sidebar — ended with a clear, practical verdict: Copilot still delivers the faster, more polished experience for everyday web summarization, while the local alternative shows huge promise but remains a work in progress. The test highlights two competing trends in the AI‑assisted browsing space: the convenience and...

Microsoft has officially moved Copilot from a marketing talking point into the operational fabric of professional football: a multiyear extension with the NFL announced on August 20, 2025 upgrades the league’s Sideline Viewing System with Copilot‑enabled Surface Copilot+ devices, embeds Azure AI into scouting workflows and the Combine, and introduces Copilot‑driven dashboards across game‑day operations and club business systems. Background / Overview For more than a decade Microsoft Surface...

Microsoft’s relative valuation and operating footprint in the software industry make it both a growth story and a cautionary tale—its scale and profitability set a high bar, but automated industry snapshots can understate or misstate the scale and risks that matter to investors and IT leaders today. rview Microsoft is organized around three broad business segments—Productivity and Business Processes, Intelligent Cloud, and More Personal Computing—a structure that blends legacy franchises...