Is a Recent Windows Update Responsible for SSD Failures? Microsoft Has an Answer Your email has been sent Some Windows 11 users are blaming a recent patch for causing data corruption and hardware ...

Microsoft has found no link between the August 2025 KB5063878 security update and customer reports of failure and data corruption issues affecting solid-state drives (SSDs) and hard disk drives (HDDs) ...

After months of issues known to have been introduced via Windows updates, it turns out there's one Microsoft isn't responsible for.

When updating a piece of software as large and complex and old as Windows, you’re inevitably going to break something every once in a while. Microsoft tracks known issues here—generally they affect ...

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

The Windows update isn't to blame, says Microsoft. Credit: Jonathan Raa / NurPhoto / Getty Images The recent Windows 11 security update didn't cause those SSD failures, according to Microsoft (via ...

Facepalm: In what looked like yet another Windows update horror story, Samsung PC owners started reporting that their systems were suddenly refusing access to the C: drive. Affected users saw "Access ...

Microsoft has responded to reports that a recent Windows 11 security update has caused gaming SSDs to fail. According to the company, a "thorough investigation" left the company in no doubt that its ...

Microsoft has pulled a buggy Windows 11 non-security preview update to investigate a known issue that triggers 0x80073712 errors during installation.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about cybersecurity, surveillance and privacy. Microsoft’s mandatory security update this month has been ...