Microsoft has pushed Windows 11, version 25H2 into the Release Preview channel while publicly denying any link between August’s cumulative updates and a rash of user-reported SSD failures — a week that illustrated both Microsoft’s increasingly disciplined servicing model and the fragility of...
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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 the August Windows 11 patches did not “brick” SSDs, but the episode exposes a narrow, reproducible failure fingerprint, lingering forensic questions, and practical actions every Windows user and IT team should take now.
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In mid‑August 2025 a cluster...
Microsoft’s recent service alert closes a week of anxious speculation by saying that the August 2025 Windows 11 update is not responsible for a wave of reported SSD disappearances and failures, but the episode leaves important forensic questions and practical lessons for power users, IT teams...
A rash of social-media posts and influencer videos claimed that August’s Windows 11 updates — specifically KB5063878 and KB5062660 — were bricking SSDs and corrupting user data, but a coordinated technical review by Phison and a follow-up investigation by Microsoft have found no reproducible...
Last week’s viral panic about a Windows 11 update “bricking” SSDs has been louder than the underlying evidence — but it also exposed real, repeatable failure patterns that deserve careful attention from users and IT teams. Microsoft and Phison, the SSD controller vendor most frequently named in...
Microsoft’s blunt conclusion — that the August Windows 11 cumulative update commonly tracked as KB5063878 is not the cause of reported SSD failures — closes one chapter in a fast-moving controversy but leaves crucial forensic questions unanswered for administrators and power users who handle...
Microsoft and a major controller vendor now say the August 2025 Windows 11 security update is not the smoking gun behind the bursts of SSD disappearances and alleged “bricking” reports that circulated through enthusiast forums — but the incident remains an important warning about fragile...
Microsoft’s latest service alert closes one chapter in a nervous week for Windows users: after partner-assisted lab validation and an internal probe, Microsoft says it found no evidence that the August 2025 Windows 11 security update caused a platform‑wide SSD failure mode — and Phison, the...
Microsoft’s latest position is unambiguous: after an internal review and partner-assisted testing, the company reports it “found no connection” between the August 2025 Windows 11 security update and the series of SSD disappearances and failures circulating on social media — but the empirical...
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...
Microsoft’s investigation into reports that the August 2025 Windows 11 cumulative update (commonly tracked as KB5063878) was “bricking” some consumer SSDs concludes — for now — that there is no detectable, platform‑wide link between the patch and the drive failures circulating on social media...
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Microsoft’s latest statement closes one chapter of an unsettling August patch cycle: after industry and community investigation, the company says the Windows 11 August 12, 2025 cumulative update commonly tracked as KB5063878 (OS Build 26100.4946) has not been shown to cause a platform‑wide...
Microsoft’s investigation into reports that the August 2025 Windows 11 24H2 cumulative update (KB5063878) was bricking SSDs concludes, for now, that there is no detectable connection between the patch and the drive failures users reported — but the episode exposes how fragile trust is between OS...
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...
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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Less than two weeks after Microsoft pushed the August 12, 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 (commonly tracked as KB5063878 for 24H2), a narrow but alarming failure profile began to circulate among hobbyist test benches and end users: during sustained large file transfers (commonly around 50...
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 says its labs found no evidence that the Windows 11 24H2 cumulative update (KB5063878) or the related preview (KB5062660) will “brick” SSDs — a finding that calmed some headlines but left owners, data‑recovery specialists and IT managers with unresolved questions about a narrow...
Microsoft’s August Windows 11 cumulative update has ignited a fraught, still‑unresolved investigation after community testers and some independent labs reported that sustained heavy write operations could cause certain NVMe SSDs to disappear from Windows — and, in a minority of cases, become...
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