Featured content

Canon’s imageFormula DR-S150 is a compact A4 document scanner for small offices that combines 45ppm duplex-capable scanning, a 60-sheet automatic document feeder, wired and wireless networking, and a 4.3in touchscreen for walk-up scan jobs. That sounds mundane until you remember how much office hardware still treats scanning as a punishment ritual. The DR-S150’s real trick is not raw speed; it is turning scan workflows into something a receptionist, accounts clerk, or roaming manager can...

Insight Enterprises said on July 1, 2026, that it will offer Microsoft 365 E7 to customers as a launch partner while deploying the AI-heavy enterprise suite across its own workforce, turning Microsoft’s newest premium Microsoft 365 bundle into both a resale motion and an internal operating bet. The announcement matters less because another Microsoft partner has a new SKU to sell, and more because Insight is volunteering itself as a proof point for Microsoft’s most consequential productivity...

In a leaked 2024-era video reported by Windows Latest and corroborated by Windows Central, Microsoft’s internal “Project Aion” appears to show a Copilot-first PC operating environment built around Edge, web apps, enterprise data routing, and AI-generated task spaces rather than the familiar Windows 11 desktop. The important part is not whether Aion ships as a product; it almost certainly will not in the form shown. The important part is that Microsoft was willing to prototype a...

Microsoft promoted the dedicated Copilot key this week with social posts suggesting it is “the button you can press to fix everything,” reviving a familiar Windows 11 argument just as the company is preparing to let users remap that same key back to Right Ctrl or the context menu. The ad was meant to make Copilot feel playful, inevitable, and central to the PC. Instead, it landed as a reminder that Microsoft still has not learned the difference between giving users AI and taking something...

Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview, introduced in April 2026 through Project Glasswing, is a restricted AI cybersecurity model that reportedly helped vetted partners find thousands of serious software vulnerabilities, including old flaws in major operating systems, browsers, and open-source projects. The obvious story is model safety: who gets access to a tool that can find bugs at industrial scale. The more durable story is governance, because most organizations are not built to absorb risk...

Apple released iOS 26.5.2, iPadOS 26.5.2, and macOS Tahoe 26.5.2 on June 29, 2026, delivering more than 25 security fixes for iPhones, iPads, and Macs rather than new consumer-facing features. That makes this one of those deceptively dull point releases that matters precisely because it does not announce itself with fireworks. Apple is not selling a feature here; it is closing windows before someone learns how to climb through them. For users and IT teams, the message is blunt: install the...

Vexcel announced on June 30, 2026, that it is bringing its aerial imagery and geospatial data into AI assistants through Vexcel Model Context Protocol, a connector designed for ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini, and other MCP-compatible platforms. The move is not just another data integration pitch. It is an argument that the next useful phase of enterprise AI will depend less on bigger chat windows and more on trusted, current, location-aware context. For Windows users, IT teams...

Sherlocq said on July 2, 2026, that its AI-powered regulatory intelligence platform is now available as a native connector inside Claude and ChatGPT, with Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini integrations in development for compliance, legal, financial services and regulatory professionals. The announcement is less about another chatbot badge than about where compliance work actually happens. Sherlocq is betting that the next fight in RegTech will not be won by the platform with the largest...

Kyndryl announced on July 1, 2026, in New York that it is expanding its sovereignty services with Microsoft, combining Kyndryl Sovereignty Solutioning with Microsoft Sovereign Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, and Azure Local capabilities for regulated and government customers. The move is not just another alliance press release in the already crowded sovereign-cloud market. It signals that “sovereignty” is being pulled out of the policy deck and pushed into the daily plumbing of hybrid...

Microsoft has opened Azure Linux 4.0 in public preview in June 2026 as a Microsoft-maintained, Fedora-based Linux distribution for Azure VMs, AKS hosts, containers, and downloadable ISO testing on local servers and virtual machines. That does not mean Windows Server has been handed an eviction notice. It does mean Microsoft is no longer treating Linux as somebody else’s guest operating system. The bigger story is that Redmond now has its own enterprise Linux lane, and it is steering Azure...

Meta is reportedly developing a cloud infrastructure business inside its Meta Compute organization to sell outside customers access to AI computing capacity and possibly its own models, a July 1 Bloomberg report said, placing the Facebook parent in more direct competition with AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. The rumor was enough to send Meta shares sharply higher, because Wall Street heard something it has been waiting to hear for two years: a revenue story attached to the AI...

Meta Platforms is reportedly developing an AI cloud infrastructure business that would sell access to spare computing capacity and AI models from its data centers, a plan reported July 1, 2026, that would put the Facebook parent into more direct competition with AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. The move is not a tidy product launch so much as a strategic tell: Meta’s AI buildout has become so large that the company now needs a market-facing explanation for all that concrete, power...

Microsoft made Copilot Cowork generally available for commercial Microsoft 365 Copilot customers in June 2026, adding usage-based billing, Work IQ business-data access, Dataverse querying, deeper citations, and new Purview-backed security and compliance controls across Microsoft 365 administration surfaces. The move is not just another monthly feature drop. It is Microsoft’s clearest admission yet that enterprise AI has entered its uncomfortable second phase: the assistant is becoming an...

Microsoft plans to roll out a July 2026 Copilot in Excel upgrade that uses a coordinated multi-agent web search system to research complex questions, verify findings across sources, and revisit gaps before returning answers in Excel on Windows, Mac, and the web. The change sounds small if you think of Excel as a grid with formulas, but it is much larger if you understand where Microsoft is trying to take Office. The spreadsheet is becoming less like a document and more like a cockpit for...

Microsoft has made Azure Linux 4.0 available in public preview for Azure virtual machines, VM scale sets, container images, and downloadable ISO testing, turning its internal cloud Linux into something administrators can now boot outside Microsoft’s own datacenters. That does not make it a Windows Server replacement today. It does, however, make Microsoft’s long-term server strategy harder to describe as “Windows plus Linux support” and easier to see as “Azure first, operating system...

Logicalis announced on July 2, 2026, that it has achieved Microsoft Frontier Partner status alongside its Microsoft Copilot specialisation, positioning the global technology services provider to help enterprises move AI projects from isolated pilots into governed production deployments. The news is less about another channel badge than about Microsoft’s increasingly explicit bet that enterprise AI will be delivered through certified implementation partners. For IT leaders, the practical...

Microsoft says its service-side fix for missing Copilot buttons in classic Outlook for Windows landed on June 29, 2026, and affected users should first restart Outlook, then use File > Office Account > Update Options > Update Now to pull the latest Microsoft 365 Apps build. If the button still does not return, the practical short-term path is not another round of random ribbon tweaking. Admins should verify the user’s Copilot entitlement, confirm Outlook is on a corrected build path, and...

The Court of Justice of the European Union on July 2, 2026, rejected Google and Alphabet’s final appeal in the Android antitrust case, confirming a roughly €4.1 billion fine first imposed by the European Commission in 2018 and later trimmed by the EU General Court in 2022. The ruling closes one of the longest-running and most consequential fights over how Google turned Android from an open mobile operating system into a distribution engine for its own search and browser businesses. For...

The Court of Justice of the European Union on July 2, 2026, dismissed Google and Alphabet’s final appeal in Luxembourg and confirmed a roughly €4.1 billion antitrust fine over Android agreements that tied manufacturers’ access to Google’s mobile ecosystem to Search, Chrome, and Play Store placement. The legal fight is over, but the argument it settled is still shaping every platform that wants to look open while steering users toward a house stack. For WindowsForum readers, the Android case...

adesso’s M365 Governance Framework is an enterprise consulting and implementation offering from adesso SE that helps organizations standardize Microsoft 365 roles, policies, provisioning, access controls, lifecycle rules, and change management across Teams, SharePoint, Exchange Online, and related Microsoft cloud services. It is not a shrink-wrapped app so much as a governance operating model for tenants that have grown faster than their owners can explain. That distinction matters, because...