Microsoft Weekly: what happened with the SSD scare, the 25H2 ISO delay, and what you should actually do now
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A widely shared set of social-media reports in August 2025 claimed the August cumulative security update for Windows 11 (KB5063878 / 24H2 servicing stream) was causing...
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Microsoft’s slow, staged rollout of the Windows 10 Enroll now (ESU) wizard means the extension lifeline Microsoft promised for legacy PCs is available — but not instantly visible to everyone, and it comes with conditions and caveats that every Windows 10 user should understand before relying on...
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Within days of Microsoft’s August 2025 Patch Tuesday, a cluster of independent testers and community posts began documenting a worrying pattern: after installing the Windows 11 24H2 cumulative update (tracked as KB5063878, with a related preview package KB5062660), some NVMe SSDs momentarily or...
Microsoft and several SSD vendors are investigating reports that the August 12, 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2 (KB5063878, OS Build 26100.4946) can trigger a reproducible storage regression where some SSDs vanish from the operating system during sustained, large sequential writes — a...
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...
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