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Microsoft’s recent clarification of what lands on Windows Insider PCs finally turns the opaque mess of KB numbers and build strings into a readable taxonomy — but the reality behind those labels still matters for anyone who tests, manages, or depends on preview builds. The company’s guidance groups Insider updates into Feature, Quality, Driver, Security, and Servicing updates, explains how these packages are surfaced in Settings > Windows Update > Update history, and points Insiders toward...

Microsoft’s August cumulative for Windows 11 (KB5063878, OS Build 26100.4946) has been linked by multiple community tests and specialist outlets to a narrow but severe storage regression in which some NVMe SSDs can suddenly become unresponsive or disappear during sustained, large writes — a failure mode that can leave files truncated, partitions inaccessible, or in a small number of reports, drives unrecoverable. Background Microsoft shipped KB5063878 (a combined Servicing Stack Update and...

Phison has publicly acknowledged the storage failures linked to Microsoft’s August 2025 Windows 11 cumulative updates (identified as KB5063878 and related KB5062660) and says it is investigating the reports with industry partners while controllers that “may have been affected” are under review. Background / Overview Windows Update released an August 2025 cumulative package for Windows 11 (commonly tracked as KB5063878, OS Build 26100.4946) that was intended to deliver security and quality...

Windows 11 has quietly started to close one of its longest-running visual gaps: file operation dialogs that have stubbornly remained bright in a system-wide dark theme are now appearing in dark mode in Insider preview builds, signaling a broader push to finally finish what dark mode started nearly a decade ago. Background Dark mode has been a prominent user preference since it first arrived for Windows with the Windows 10 era, but the rollout across the platform has always been uneven. For...

Microsoft has issued emergency out‑of‑band updates after a routine August Patch Tuesday rollup left built‑in recovery paths — including Reset this PC, the cloud‑based Fix problems using Windows Update, and management‑initiated RemoteWipe — unable to complete on a range of consumer and enterprise Windows client releases, and administrators should treat these fixes as high priority for affected fleets. Background In the August 2025 Patch Tuesday cycle Microsoft delivered multiple cumulative...

Microsoft’s new Copilot Pages is a notable entry in the rapidly expanding field of AI notes—a simple, writable workspace amplified by generative models that aims to make research, study and creative projects feel less like data wrangling and more like conversation-driven composition. Early hands-on testing shows Copilot Pages is cleaner and more flexible than Google’s NotebookLM in day-to-day use, but it also exposes the same trade-offs that define today’s AI productivity tools: convenience...

Microsoft's August Patch Tuesday set off a chain reaction: the security update that fixed scores of vulnerabilities also broke Windows' own recovery tools for many users, and Microsoft was forced to ship out-of-band (OOB) emergency patches to undo the damage. The recovery failure — which could abort a "Reset this PC" operation or a cloud-based reinstall and roll Windows back to its previous state — affected a wide range of client platforms, left administrators juggling WSUS and SCCM install...

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...