Microsoft’s latest “Make windows better” brief in Computeractive — published on 27 August 2025 — lands at a difficult moment for Windows users: the countdown to Windows 10 end-of-support is counting down, Windows 11’s AI-driven features are rolling out at scale, and a fresh set of recovery and...
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...
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...
Microsoft’s August 2025 Patch Tuesday brings mandatory security rollups for Windows 11 and Windows 10, advancing multiple servicing branches to new OS builds, patching a swath of vulnerabilities, and introducing a handful of notable UX and recovery features — including an AI-driven Settings...
Microsoft’s August Windows 11 update is less a routine patch and more a clear statement of intent: the OS is evolving into an AI-first platform where the system sees, suggests, and—when asked—acts, on behalf of the user.
Background
Microsoft has been steadily folding AI into Windows for more...