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Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday has gone from a routine security maintenance window to an operational headache for administrators and home users alike, as the August 12, 2025 rollups introduced a pair of serious regressions — first a storage regression that could make some SSDs disappear under heavy writes, and then a separate bug that broke built‑in Reset and recovery workflows — forcing Redmond to ship emergency out‑of‑band updates to repair the damage. Background and overview Microsoft...

Microsoft’s August cumulative update has sidelined one of Windows’ most important safety nets: Reset and recovery flows that let users refresh, reinstall, or remotely wipe machines now fail on multiple client builds after the Patch Tuesday rollup, and Microsoft has shipped emergency out‑of‑band patches to repair the break. Background / Overview On August 12, 2025 Microsoft shipped its monthly Patch Tuesday cumulative updates for multiple Windows client servicing families; within days...

Microsoft is preparing a substantial set of Windows 11 feature updates that start arriving in staged preview channels now and should reach general users in the weeks ahead, bringing a mix of practical quality‑of‑life fixes, broader UI polish and an expanded set of AI-driven tools—some of which will remain gated to Copilot+ hardware and paid services while others will be available to everyone. Background Microsoft’s release cadence for Windows 11 since the 24H2 update has moved toward...

The Lenovo ThinkStation P5 is a compact, mid‑range tower workstation built around Intel’s Xeon W‑2400/W‑2500 family that balances serious multi‑core CPU throughput, generous I/O and expansion, and a tightly engineered internal layout—delivering a professional workstation package that targets CAD, content creation, and engineering users who need workstation‑class GPUs without moving to a rack or full server chassis. Background The ThinkStation P5 sits squarely in Lenovo’s professional line as...

Microsoft’s 12‑month reprieve for Windows 10 users has changed the migration math — and not in Microsoft’s favor; what looked like a steady march to Windows 11 has stalled, leaving most Windows users once again facing an urgent upgrade decision with security, cost, and hardware implications that demand clear, immediate action. Background Microsoft set a firm lifecycle date for Windows 10: mainstream updates were scheduled to end in mid‑October 2025, a hard deadline that had been the driving...

SAP’s Q2 results and the Sapphire roadmap make a blunt counterpoint to the “software is dead” narrative: enterprise software isn’t disappearing — it’s getting smarter, more embedded, and more indispensable. In Q2 2025 SAP reported cloud revenue of €5.13 billion (up 24% year‑over‑year) with its Cloud ERP Suite contributing €4.42 billion (up 30%), and management doubled down on a vision in which its generative AI copilot, Joule, becomes an “omnipresent” productivity layer across SAP and...

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Microsoft’s Visual Studio has reached a new milestone for AI-assisted development: Model Context Protocol (MCP) support is now generally available in the IDE, enabling developers to plug Copilot and other agentic tools directly into local and remote services with first-class configuration, authentication, and one-click installation flows. Background What is MCP and why it matters Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard, introduced and open-sourced by Anthropic in late 2024, designed...

India’s national cybersecurity agency has escalated an urgent warning about a wave of high‑severity Microsoft vulnerabilities that together pose significant risk to consumers, enterprises, and cloud customers — the advisory links Microsoft’s August security updates (including a publicly disclosed Kerberos zero‑day) to a wide range of products from Windows and Office to Azure, Exchange hybrid deployments, developer tools and Extended Security Update (ESU) systems. (cert-in.org.in...

Updating Chrome from the command line with Winget on Windows 11 turns a repetitive, GUI-driven maintenance task into a single, scriptable operation—saving time for power users and administrators while giving clear, auditable control over browser updates. The how-to that follows summarizes the common steps (open an elevated terminal, confirm Chrome’s package ID, then run a Winget upgrade), explains the why and how in practical detail, flags known pitfalls (including real-world issues with the...

Microsoft's PowerToys team is preparing a set of small but meaningful usability fixes that aim to remove two of the most common annoyances power users report: hunting for the right toggle inside a growing Settings app, and accidentally quitting the suite when they only meant to hide it. The next PowerToys release (targeted in community discussion as v0.94) is expected to add a dedicated search box inside the PowerToys Settings experience and to change how the app’s “Shutdown/Quit” control...

The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) on 18 August 2025 issued a high‑risk advisory warning that multiple critical vulnerabilities across Microsoft’s product portfolio place millions of Windows and Office users in India — from home desktops to enterprise Azure deployments — at elevated risk unless organisations and individuals apply patches and mitigations immediately. The advisory highlights a broad attack surface including Windows, Microsoft Office, SQL Server, Dynamics...

Board's Enterprise Planning Platform has earned the Microsoft Solutions Partner designation with the Certified Software for Azure badge, a milestone that cements the vendor’s deeper engineering and commercial alignment with Microsoft and positions the product for broader discovery and procurement through the Azure commercial marketplace. Background Board, a provider of enterprise planning and performance management software, has positioned its platform as an integrated Enterprise Planning...

The proposal to allow Malaysian students to leave formal schooling at age 16 — and the related push to make secondary education universally compulsory — has reignited a necessary debate about foundational skills, infrastructure, and the real-world readiness of alternative pathways such as vocational training. Background Malaysia’s education debate in 2024–2025 has two intertwined threads: efforts to strengthen foundational skills in early years and renewed policy discussions about the length...

Microsoft employees have erected a protest encampment on the company’s Redmond campus, turning a high-profile workplace dispute over Israel ties into a public test of Microsoft’s ethics, governance, and operational transparency. protest is the latest escalation in a year-long campaign by employee activists organized under banners such as No Azure for Apartheid, demanding that Microsoft cease contracts and services that they say enable Israeli military and intelligence operations in Gaza and...

Xiaomi’s brief flirtation with a Windows‑powered Mi Pad 3 — a set of leaked slides and promotional images that promised a 9.7‑inch display, an Intel Core m3 chip, and a laptop‑style magnetic keyboard — made a stir in the rumor mill in December 2016, but closer inspection and subsequent events show the story is a cautionary example of how leaks, translation errors, and shifting product strategies can produce a very different reality from what headlines suggest. Background When Xiaomi shipped...

Microsoft has quietly moved one of Excel’s most persistent friction points — knowing the exact function syntax you need — into the spreadsheet itself by introducing an in‑cell Copilot capability that turns plain‑English prompts into live formulas and structured outputs, effectively treating a natural‑language instruction as a first‑class Excel function. Background / Overview Excel’s strength has always been its combination of a terse formula language and an expressive calculation engine...

A single frame published on a local page — a wire or staff photograph labeled “Panthers Texans Football” and paired with a terse, weather‑style line — crystallized a familiar but avoidable editorial tension: vivid visual storytelling versus the metadata and verification practices that protect rights, privacy, and accuracy. The image in the Bluefield Daily Telegraph asset, as supplied to reviewers, ran with a short, localized weather tag but, according to the provided review notes, did not...

Microsoft’s Copilot may have closed an eye‑catching zero‑click hole, but a quieter — and arguably more dangerous — problem has been bubbling under the surface: Copilot and related AI components are not reliably creating the audit trails organizations depend on for compliance and forensics. That is the central claim in recent reporting and community disclosures, and it raises three hard questions for IT teams: what audit data Copilot actually produces, where gaps exist today, and what...

Mac users no longer need to buy a Windows laptop or accept crippled workarounds to run the Czech accounting system POHODA — hosting the app in the cloud and accessing it via a Windows desktop session delivers the full, native POHODA experience on macOS, iPadOS, and virtually any internet‑connected device. Background / Overview POHODA is distributed in multiple variants — POHODA, POHODA SQL, and POHODA E1 — and the vendor explicitly documents hosting options so the application can be run...