Microsoft has acknowledged an issue with its recent August 2025 security updates that prevent users from resetting or recovering their systems using built-in Windows tools. According the company, the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. “Reset and recovery operations on some Windows versions might fail,” ...

Microsoft has corrected two August 2025 Patch Tuesday bugs that blocked Windows 11 upgrades and broke reset and recovery tools across Windows 10 and 11. Microsoft has issued fixes for a pair of ...

A few weeks ago, Microsoft released its usual monthly patch update on Tuesday, fixing 100 security flaws and a vulnerability already exploited in the wild. However, there have been widespread ...

Just days after Microsoft killed security updates for 500 million Windows 10 users, there’s bad news for Windows 11 users as well. A new, mandatory security update is a “total disaster” and an ...