Windows 10 will stop receiving free security fixes on October 14, 2025 — and if your PC can’t take the free Windows 11 upgrade, you have five realistic paths forward: enroll in Extended Security Updates (ESU), buy or rent a new Windows 11 PC (including cloud PCs), perform an unsupported upgrade...
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Microsoft pushed Windows 10 cumulative update KB5065429 to 22H2 machines this week, a mandatory security rollup that arrives as the platform approaches its October 14, 2025 end‑of‑support deadline — and it’s tightly linked to Microsoft’s consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) enrollment path...
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Microsoft and Phison have now all but closed the book on the late‑August panic: after weeks of community reports, lab reproductions and headlines warning that Windows 11 24H2’s August cumulative (KB5063878) was “bricking” SSDs, thorough vendor and Microsoft testing found no reproducible link...
Windows 11’s August cumulative update set off an alarm in enthusiast circles when a string of reproducible tests showed NVMe SSDs vanishing under sustained large writes — but the emerging, vendor‑validated explanation reframes the catastrophe as a narrower supply‑chain and firmware‑provenance...
Microsoft’s OneDrive Backup can be switched on for you during Windows 11 setup — but your files aren’t stolen; they’ve simply been moved into OneDrive and synced. If you prefer your Documents, Pictures, and Desktop to live locally, the change is reversible: stop folder backup in OneDrive, then...
Microsoft’s August cumulative (KB5063878) has been tied to a narrow but serious class of SSD failures and strange slowdowns — and while community researchers now point to pre‑release engineering firmware on some drives as a plausible trigger, the broader evidence remains mixed and important...
Microsoft has quietly closed another chapter of Windows history by retiring a clutch of familiar apps — Internet Explorer, Paint 3D, Movies & TV (storefront), Groove Music’s streaming service, and the legacy Mail app — each disappearance reflecting a larger strategy to consolidate services, cut...
Microsoft and Phison have announced that the widely circulated claims tying mid‑August Windows 11 patches to a wave of SSD “bricking” incidents are unsupported by their investigations — after industry tests, telemetry review, and thousands of lab hours found no reproducible, fleet‑level link...
Microsoft’s follow-up on the August 2025 Windows 11 update controversy closes one public chapter: after an industry-wide probe, Redmond says it found no evidence that the August cumulative update (commonly tracked as KB5063878) caused the cluster of SSD disappearances and failures reported by...
Microsoft and Phison say their investigations found no reproducible link between the August Windows 11 24H2 cumulative update (commonly tracked as KB5063878) and the social-media reports that the patch “bricked” or made certain SSDs vanish during heavy writes, but the incident exposes a fragile...
Phison's public rebuttal to mounting reports that a pair of August Windows 11 updates were “bricking” drives marks a turning point in a story that went from localized forum threads to mainstream headlines in days — the company says more than 4,500 hours and 2,200 test cycles produced no...
Phison’s lab report and Microsoft’s telemetry have cooled the most sensational headlines about a mass “bricking” event, but the Windows 11 SSD failure story is far from closed: real, repeatable disappearance symptoms were documented by community testers and remain a live risk for certain NVMe...
Phison’s terse lab update — that its engineers “could not reproduce” the NVMe disappearances reported after a recent Windows 11 cumulative update — has shifted an alarmed headlines cycle into a cautious, technical debate about reproducibility, telemetry, and how the modern storage stack fails...
Microsoft’s August cumulative for Windows 11 (KB5063878) lit a firestorm of community reports claiming large file copies could make some NVMe drives “vanish” or return corrupted after a reboot — but a coordinated vendor investigation led by NAND controller maker Phison found no reproducible...
A wave of community test results and vendor confirmations this week has put the latest Windows 11 cumulative update under a harsh spotlight: several SSDs can disappear from Windows during sustained, large write operations after installing the August 12, 2025 update (KB5063878), with a...
Phison has publicly disowned a circulated advisory that claimed Windows 11’s August cumulative update was uniquely “killing” Phison‑based SSDs, while the vendor — and several independent labs — simultaneously confirm an industry‑wide storage regression tied to the August 12, 2025 cumulative...
Microsoft and SSD vendors are scrambling after multiple independent testers and users reported that a recent Windows 11 cumulative update can make NVMe SSDs vanish from the operating system during sustained large writes — a failure mode that in some cases has left files corrupted or drives...
The August cumulative for Windows 11 — identified as KB5063878 (OS Build 26100.4946) — has been linked by multiple independent testers and tech outlets to a reproducible storage regression that can make some NVMe SSDs disappear mid-write and, in a subset of reports, leave files or partitions...
Windows 10’s clock is real — on October 14, 2025 Microsoft will stop shipping security updates and technical support for mainstream Windows 10, and every user still running the decade‑old OS needs a clear plan now to avoid predictable but avoidable risk.
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Microsoft’s August cumulative for Windows 11 has left a trail of disrupted installs and disappearing NVMe drives, and Phison — maker of widely used SSD controllers including the PS5012‑E12 — has confirmed it is investigating reports that the updates KB5063878 and KB5062660 can trigger...