Microsoft’s follow‑up investigation insists the August Windows 11 cumulative patch did not “brick” SSDs, but the story is far from a tidy conclusion: community test benches produced a repeatable failure fingerprint, controller vendor lab work failed to reproduce the fault, and Microsoft’s...
Microsoft’s latest public update on the mid‑August patch storm is straightforward: after investigation, the company says the August 2025 cumulative rollup did not cause a widespread failure mode that “breaks” SSDs, but the episode still exposes fragile cross‑stack dependencies and persistent...
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Microsoft has confirmed a regression in the August 2025 security updates that can break built‑in reset and recovery operations on several still‑supported Windows client branches, forcing administrators and home users to pause certain recovery workflows while the company prepares an out‑of‑band...
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