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    August 2025 Windows Recovery Fix: OOB KB5066189/88/87 Restore Reset and Cloud Recovery

    Microsoft’s August update cycle produced an unexpected and dangerous side effect: built‑in recovery tools stopped working on numerous Windows client releases, and Redmond pushed emergency, out‑of‑band (OOB) cumulative updates — KB5066189, KB5066188 and KB5066187 — on August 19, 2025 to restore...
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    Scaling Virtualization-Based Security for Hotpatching on Windows Arm64 and x64

    Hotpatching’s promise — apply security fixes without forcing reboots — hinges on one non‑negotiable platform capability: Virtualization‑Based Security (VBS). For organizations preparing fleets for hotpatch delivery, enabling VBS at scale is the single most important operational task, and it’s...
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    Emergency Windows Recovery Fixes: August 2025 OOB Patches (KB5066189/88/87)

    Microsoft pushed an emergency, out‑of‑band patch on August 19, 2025 to repair a serious regression introduced by its August Patch Tuesday rollups that could prevent Windows’ built‑in recovery flows — Reset this PC, the Fix problems using Windows Update cloud reimage, and certain RemoteWipe...
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    Windows Recovery Regression Fixed with Microsoft's OOB Updates (KB5066189/KB5066188/KB5066187)

    Microsoft has quietly issued a set of emergency, out‑of‑band patches to fix a serious regression introduced by the August 2025 security updates that broke Windows’ built‑in recovery tools — including the widely used Reset this PC workflow — and caused some upgrade attempts to fail with error...
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    August 2025 Patch Tuesday Breaks Windows Recovery; Microsoft Issues OOB Fixes

    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...
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    Microsoft deploys emergency OOB updates to fix Windows recovery (Aug 2025)

    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...
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    Windows August 2025 Patch Breaks Reset and Recovery; OOB Fixes Deployed

    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...
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    Windows 11 22621/22631: OOB KB5066189 Restores Reset & Cloud Recovery

    Microsoft released an out‑of‑band (OOB) fix on August 19, 2025 that restores Windows’ Reset and cloud recovery workflows for devices on the 22621/22631 servicing families (Windows 11 22H2 and 23H2) after an August security cumulative caused those flows to fail; the update, published as KB5066189...
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    August 2025 Windows patch regression breaks Reset and Recovery workflows

    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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    Windows 10 Mobile Upgrade Promise vs Reality: Preview Limits Explained

    Microsoft’s early public messaging around Windows 10 for phones promised a sweeping upgrade path for existing Windows Phone 8 devices, but the reality that followed was more complicated: the company did state that the majority of Lumia phones could be upgraded to Windows 10 while limiting the...
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    Microsoft Store Pauses App Updates for 1-5 Weeks: What Changes

    Microsoft has quietly removed the long-standing option in the Microsoft Store to keep automatic app updates turned off indefinitely — the Store now forces a time-limited pause that resumes updates automatically after a selected window (commonly one to five weeks), aligning Store behavior with...
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    Microsoft Store Update Change: Pause-Only Auto-Updates on Many Devices

    Microsoft has quietly changed the Microsoft Store’s update behavior so that, for many consumer devices, the long‑standing, user-facing option to permanently turn off automatic app updates no longer persists; instead the Store now offers only time‑limited pause windows (commonly one to five...
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    Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5751: UI polish, Copilot flows, stability

    Microsoft’s newest Dev Channel drop for Insiders — Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5751 (identified as KB5064071 in community reporting) — is a compact, iterative update that prioritizes UI polish, stability fixes and targeted productivity improvements rather than headline-grabbing...
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    Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5751: New Click to Do, Snipping Tool, Fixes, and IT Guidance

    Headline: Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5751 (KB5064071) — what’s new, what’s fixed, and what Insiders and IT should do next Byline: Analysis for WindowsForum.com — published Aug 15, 2025 Lead Today Microsoft released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5751 (KB5064071) to the Dev...
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    Windows 11 24H2 Build 26100.5061 Release Preview: AI Recall, AI Actions, Backup for Organizations

    Today Microsoft pushed a new Release Preview build for Windows 11, version 24H2: Build 26100.5061 (KB5064081). At first glance this looks like another cumulative preview, but the blog post and supporting documentation show it carries a broad mix of items — from the continued staged rollout of...
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    Edge Canary Exit Nudge: Pin Edge to Windows 11 Taskbar (Chrome >90)

    Microsoft’s Edge team is quietly testing an exit‑time nudge in Edge Canary that would prompt heavy Google Chrome users to pin Microsoft Edge to the Windows 11 taskbar — a targeted experiment revealed by dormant feature flags in recent Canary builds and amplified by technology press coverage...
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    CVE-2025-49736: Edge for Android UI Spoofing — Impact & Patch Guide

    CVE-2025-49736 — Microsoft Edge (Chromium) for Android: UI‑spoofing / “UI performs the wrong action” vulnerability A deep-dive explainer, impact assessment, and practical mitigation checklist Summary Microsoft’s Security Update Guide lists CVE‑2025‑49736 as affecting Microsoft Edge...
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    Microsoft Lens Retirement: Migrating Scanning to Copilot with OCR

    Microsoft’s decision to retire the standalone Microsoft Lens mobile scanner marks a decisive step in its product consolidation around Copilot — a move that preserves core capture and OCR capabilities but abandons several of Lens’s most convenient and accessibility-driven workflows, forcing...
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    Microsoft Lens Retirement: Scanning Moves to Copilot in Microsoft 365

    Microsoft has announced it will retire the standalone Microsoft Lens mobile app and fold its scanning capabilities into the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app, beginning a phased retirement that starts on September 15, 2025, leads to the removal of Lens from app stores by mid‑November, and stops...
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    Modern Endpoint Management with Microsoft 365: The Future of Secure, Cloud-Based Device Control

    Across the enterprise technology landscape, the rapid proliferation of devices and cloud services has upended conventional wisdom on endpoint management. The traditional comfort of Group Policy and System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) is being challenged by a tidal shift toward flexible...
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