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    Windows 11 Aug 2025 KB5063878: SSDs Vanish Under Heavy Writes

    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...
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    HP's AI PC Push: Windows 11 Refresh, Humane IP, and Nearshored Supply Chains

    HP’s latest quarter reads like a watershed moment: revenue and unit trends that outpaced expectations, a sharpened focus on AI-capable PCs, aggressive supply‑chain moves to sidestep tariff risk, and a targeted buy of Humane’s AI assets that accelerates device‑level AI strategy—taken together...
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    Copilot in Edge, Outlook, Word: Practical AI That Saves Time

    I avoided Copilot for years, but after forcing myself to try specific features I quietly use them every day — not because the assistant is flawless, but because a handful of targeted tools actually save time and reduce friction in common tasks. The move from novelty “chatbot” to practical...
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    AWS at an Inflection Point: AI, Growth, and the Cloud Platform Challenge

    For more than a decade, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been the engine that transformed Amazon from an online retailer into one of the world’s most valuable and strategically diversified technology companies—and yet, the cloud computing race is no longer a straight sprint for raw scale. Recent...
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    Notepad Gets Real-Time Spellcheck and Autocorrect in Windows 11 Insider Preview

    Microsoft’s decades‑old Notepad is finally getting the basic writing tools most users expect: real‑time spellcheck and an autocorrect option are now rolling out to Windows Insiders as a preview, with settings that let you opt out for code files and keep the classic plain‑text experience when you...
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    Windows 11 KB5064080 Release Preview: Reliability fixes & Windows Backup for Organizations

    Microsoft has pushed a targeted Release Preview update identified as KB5064080 into the Windows 11 servicing stream, delivering incremental reliability fixes across File Explorer, storage (ReFS), networking (SMB over QUIC), input/IME handling, device‑management policy enforcement and more — and...
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    Windows Terminal update: new windowing, UI, fonts, and VT improvements

    Microsoft’s terminal for Windows just took a major step forward: a sweeping update that rewrites the app’s windowing model, brings dozens of previously hidden settings into the UI, ships updated fonts and color schemes, and delivers a raft of stability, compatibility, and usability improvements...
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    Parallels Desktop 26: macOS Tahoe support, Windows 11 25H2, and enterprise controls

    Parallels Desktop’s latest update lands as a consequential bridge between macOS’s year-based refresh cycle and the Windows ecosystem, delivering official macOS Tahoe compatibility while tightening enterprise controls and Windows VM reliability for the post-2024 OS landscape. The release —...
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    iLink Digital: Azure Expert MSP & Inc. 5000 Growth for Enterprises

    iLink Digital’s recent announcements mark a notable moment in the crowded Microsoft partner ecosystem: the company says it has reached Microsoft’s top-tier Azure expertise and — according to a syndicated press release — earned placement on the 2025 Inc. 5000 list, milestones that, if fully...
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    Microsoft tests Cross-Device Resume: Android handoff to Windows 11 (Spotify)

    Microsoft is quietly testing a macOS‑style handoff for Android apps in Windows 11 — a controlled Insider preview that can surface a “Resume from your phone” prompt on the taskbar and, with a single click, continue an active Android session on your PC (Spotify is the first partner) as Microsoft...
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    Windows 11 Quick Machine Recovery: Cloud-Powered Self-Healing Boot

    Microsoft’s Windows 11 can now attempt to repair itself after repeated boot failures by reaching out to the cloud, downloading targeted fixes, and applying them from the Windows Recovery Environment — a feature Microsoft calls Quick Machine Recovery (QMR) and which is being rolled out as part of...
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    Windows 11 Quick Machine Recovery: Self-Healing Boot Fixes via Cloud Remediation

    Windows 11 can now attempt to repair itself automatically after repeated boot failures using a new cloud-aware feature called Quick Machine Recovery (QMR) — a Best-Effort, WinRE-based remediation pipeline Microsoft built as part of its Windows Resiliency Initiative and which is rolling out into...
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    Windows 11 Insider Preview Adds Android-to-PC Resume (Spotify)

    Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Insider preview quietly adds a native Android-to-PC “resume” that behaves like Apple’s Handoff — starting with Spotify and delivered as a taskbar “Resume” alert that opens (or one-click installs) the corresponding Windows app and continues playback from the exact...
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    Windows 11 Android-to-PC Handoff Begins with Spotify

    Microsoft has started testing a native Android-to-PC handoff in Windows 11—beginning with Spotify—so you can start a song or podcast on your phone and continue with a single click on your desktop, complete with a one‑click app install if Spotify isn’t already on your PC. The preview is rolling...
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    Windows 11: Contextual Android-to-PC Handoff with Spotify Resume

    Microsoft’s Windows 11 is taking a deliberately different route to device continuity: instead of locking users into a single smartphone ecosystem, it’s building a handoff designed around Android phones and the Windows desktop — and the first public test, rolling out to Windows Insiders, uses...
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    Windows 11 KB5063878 Storage Regression: Cross‑Vendor Issue, Not Phison

    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...
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    Five Free Windows Apps for Instant Day-One Productivity

    ZDNET’s compact “five apps I always install first” playbook is an efficient, pragmatic shortcut for getting a fresh Windows PC productive in minutes: install Everything for instant local search, Google Chrome for cross‑device browsing and extensions, VLC Media Player for near‑universal media...
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    Windows 11 KB5063878 Patch Triggers SSD/HDD Failures Under Heavy Write

    Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday delivered a surprise that quickly escalated from a support thread to a cross-industry incident: the Windows 11 cumulative update KB5063878 has been linked by multiple users to SSD and HDD failures, data corruption, and drives “vanishing” during heavy write...
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    Copilot for Windows Adds Semantic File Search on Copilot+ PCs

    Microsoft’s Copilot app for Windows has received a staged Insider update that adds conversational, semantic file search on Copilot+ PCs and a redesigned Copilot home that surfaces recent apps, files and conversations — all packaged in Copilot app builds starting with version 1.25082.132.0 and...
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    Windows 11 August Patch May Vanish NVMe SSDs Under Heavy Writes (KB5063878)

    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...
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