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Microsoft released an out‑of‑band update on August 19, 2025—KB5066189—for Windows 11 devices on the 22621 and 22631 build families (OS Builds 22621.5771 and 22631.5771). The package is an optional, non‑security rollup that patches a regression introduced by the August 2025 monthly updates, restores broken reset and recovery flows, and includes a servicing‑stack refresh (SSU KB5062686). Administrators and advanced users should treat this as a targeted remedial update: it fixes failed attempts...

Microsoft released an out‑of‑band (OOB) non‑security update on August 19, 2025 — KB5066189 for Windows 11 (OS Builds 22621.5771 and 22631.5771) — to repair a regression introduced by August’s cumulative updates that can block device reset and recovery operations, and to deliver a servicing stack refresh; the release also re‑emphasizes Microsoft’s public timeline for the upcoming Windows Secure Boot certificate expiration and the steps organizations must take to avoid boot and update...

Microsoft released an out‑of‑band (OOB) fix on August 19, 2025 that restores Windows’ Reset and cloud recovery workflows for devices on the 22621/22631 servicing families (Windows 11 22H2 and 23H2) after an August security cumulative caused those flows to fail; the update, published as KB5066189 (OS Builds 22621.5771 and 22631.5771), also bundles a servicing‑stack refresh and reiterates Microsoft’s ongoing Secure Boot certificate timeline. Background / Overview The August Patch Tuesday...

Microsoft released an out‑of‑band update on August 19, 2025—KB5066189 (OS Builds 22621.5771 and 22631.5771)—that quickly became the must‑install patch for Windows 11 22H2/23H2 devices affected by a regression introduced with the August security rollup; the update’s headline fix restores Reset and other recovery flows that were failing after the earlier August security update. Background / Overview Microsoft’s August 12, 2025 security release introduced broad fixes across Windows client and...

Microsoft released an out‑of‑band (OOB) update on August 19, 2025 — KB5066189 for Windows 11 builds 22621.5771 and 22631.5771 — that restores broken reset and recovery flows introduced by the Patch Tuesday rollups earlier this month, and administrators and home users should treat this patch as a high‑priority remediation for affected client branches. Background Microsoft shipped its August 2025 Patch Tuesday updates on August 12, 2025. In the days after that rollout multiple reports surfaced...

Microsoft has folded generative AI directly into Excel’s calculation engine with a native =COPILOT formula that lets users type natural‑language prompts into cells, reference worksheet ranges for context, and receive live, spillable outputs that recalculate automatically when the source data changes. Background / Overview Spreadsheets remain the backbone of countless business processes — budgeting, customer analysis, reporting, forecasting and ad‑hoc automation. Embedding a language‑model...

Board’s announcement that it has earned the Microsoft Solutions Partner designation with Certified Software for Azure marks an important inflection point in the vendor’s long-running strategy to position its Enterprise Planning Platform as a first-class, enterprise-ready SaaS option for large organizations running workloads on Microsoft Azure. Background Microsoft’s Solutions Partner program with certified software is the company’s formal pathway for validating ISV offerings that meet...

SAP’s decision to host a flagship AI-enabled business application inside Amazon Web Services and Microsoft datacenters in Brazil marks a clear escalation of enterprise AI efforts — a move that combines SAP’s application footprint with hyperscaler scale and local data residency, while rewriting how Latin American companies will access generative AI inside core business systems. This is a pragmatic pivot: SAP is bringing its Business AI capabilities closer to customers by placing critical AI...

Aaeon’s new UP Xtreme ARL arrives as a decisive answer to the question many hobbyists and embedded developers have been asking: what if a Raspberry Pi–sized board used a modern Intel Core Ultra CPU, offered up to 64 GB of LPDDR5, and shipped with first-party Windows 11 support out of the box? The short version: it’s orders of magnitude more powerful than a Raspberry Pi 5 while preserving a familiar SBC form factor and a 40‑pin expansion header — but that power comes with trade‑offs in price...

Microsoft’s August cumulative for Windows 11 (KB5063878) has been implicated in a narrow but serious storage regression: under sustained, large sequential writes some solid‑state drives can stop responding, vanish from Windows, and in a subset of reports leave files or partitions corrupted or inaccessible. Background / Overview Microsoft released KB5063878 (OS Build 26100.4946) on August 12, 2025 as the combined servicing‑stack and cumulative quality update for Windows 11, version 24H2. The...

Most Australian small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are already using generative AI tools — but more often than not they’re doing so without a coherent plan, leaving businesses exposed to security, cost, and strategic risks while missing opportunities to drive growth and competitive advantage. According to Decidr’s inaugural National AI Readiness Index Report 2025, an urgent adoption impulse sits beside a striking absence of formal roadmaps: 83% of SMEs expect AI to have a major impact...

A coordinated pair of stories surfaced this week that together sketch two urgent and contrasting dilemmas at the intersection of technology, power, and public life: investigative reporting that Israeli military intelligence has been using Microsoft’s Azure cloud to store and analyze massive volumes of intercepted Palestinian communications, and a new policy report led by former San Francisco supervisor Hillary Ronen that outlines how local governments should govern responsible AI adoption...

Board’s Enterprise Planning Platform has secured the Microsoft Solutions Partner designation with Certified Software for Azure, a certification that positions the vendor squarely within Microsoft’s commercial ecosystem and signals that its SaaS planning suite has met a defined set of technical, security, and operational requirements for deployment on Azure. Background Board is an established vendor in the enterprise planning and performance management space, offering a unified platform...

Microsoft’s August 2025 Patch Tuesday has left a wake of confusion and real operational pain for many Windows users after Redmond acknowledged that its security rollup unintentionally disabled critical recovery paths on a swath of older client builds — a regression that can prevent “Reset this PC,” cloud-based recovery, and certain remote wipe operations from completing successfully on affected devices. Background / Overview Microsoft shipped the August 2025 cumulative updates on August 12...

Windows 11’s long-fractured dark mode has taken a tangible step toward cohesion: recent Insider Beta and Dev builds quietly include dark-themed File Explorer dialog boxes, and community testers can already surface them with third‑party tooling. This is the most visible sign yet that Microsoft is finally addressing one of the platform’s longest‑running UI complaints — but the implementation is incomplete, gated, and risks exposing testers to unfinished, inconsistent visuals if toggled...

The corporate world is no longer adapting to AI — it is being rewritten by it, and business schools that continue to teach yesterday’s playbook will graduate leaders unready for boardrooms where algorithmic strategy and fast, model-driven execution are the baseline expectation. Background Business education has long balanced two missions: teach durable management theory and train students in the operational tools companies use. The accelerating arrival of large language models, agent...

Microsoft has opened an externally supervised inquiry into allegations that Israel’s military intelligence used a bespoke area of Microsoft Azure to ingest, store and analyse enormous volumes of intercepted Palestinian phone calls — a development that escalates a months‑long policy, legal and reputational crisis for the cloud industry and for Microsoft itself. The company has engaged the U.S. law firm Covington & Burling and an independent technical consultancy to expand previous...

Windows 11’s Snipping Tool can now pick and record a specific application window — accessible via the familiar Win + Shift + R shortcut — thanks to a new window mode introduced in Snipping Tool version 11.2507.14.0, currently rolling to Insiders in the Canary (and some Dev) channel builds. Background Microsoft has steadily expanded the Snipping Tool from a lightweight screenshot utility into a compact capture and productivity hub. Over the past two years the app gained video capture...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 cumulative update has been linked by multiple community tests and vendor advisories to a storage regression that, under specific conditions, can make some NVMe SSDs disappear during large sustained writes — risking data corruption or loss — and has reignited a debate about staged rollouts, firmware preparedness, and how to protect users with at‑risk drives. raced after the August cumulative rollup for Windows 11 (24H2), distributed as KB5063878 (OS Build...

The City of Cornwall’s recent move from a 12‑year unresolved service request to a centralized, AI‑ready case‑management platform is a lesson in pragmatic municipal digital transformation: start with a real, measurable pain point, use the tools already in place, and design governance and measurement into the program from day one. Background / Overview Municipal governments across Canada and beyond face the same pressures: rising citizen expectations for anytime, online services, smaller IT...