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Microsoft will remove the little “X” that let you hide suggested recipients in Outlook — a small UI affordance called Contact Masking — on March 31, 2026, and Microsoft says the feature caused more confusion than value across the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. Background Outlook’s recipient...

On Friday morning, February 13, 2026, a fresh wave of community posts—like the DesignTAXI thread asking “Is Microsoft Copilot down?”—restarted an old question: is the Copilot family experiencing a service-level outage, or are users witnessing regional or feature-specific degradations and...

Headline Updates to Get-Contact and Set-Contact in Exchange Online — What admins must know (announcement, impact, detection, remediation, and migration guidance) Summary (TL;DR) Microsoft announced on Oct 7, 2025 that Exchange Online will stop returning or allowing management of Contact...

Microsoft is quietly testing a small but notable convenience feature in Windows 11: a one‑click internet speed test shortcut embedded directly in the network flyout and taskbar context menu — a shortcut that, for now, simply launches Bing’s online speed‑test widget rather than running a native...

Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday delivers a surgical corrective: the cumulative updates released on September 9, 2025 refine the User Account Control (UAC) behavior introduced in August and restore expected installer and streaming behavior while preserving the security hardening that closed...

Executive Summary Microsoft has released a security update addressing a new heap-based buffer overflow in Windows Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS), tracked as CVE-2025-54113. The flaw could allow remote code execution (RCE) if exploited, and administrators are strongly urged to patch...

BornCity’s latest dispatch raises a subtle but important question: did Microsoft quietly neutralize the wave of SSD failures reported from Japan after the August 2025 Windows 11 24H2 roll‑out, or did the alarm simply fade after vendors and Redmond concluded they could not reproduce a systemic...

Microsoft's August 2025 cumulative updates have produced a high‑profile compatibility regression that prevents many non‑administrator users from completing per‑user MSI installations and self‑repairs, prompting emergency mitigations from Microsoft and a wave of operational guidance for IT teams...

Microsoft Word for Windows has quietly shifted the default lifecycle of new documents: starting with Insider builds identified as Version 2509 (Build 19221.20000), a freshly created document will be saved to the cloud with AutoSave enabled by default, unless the user or administrator changes the...

Microsoft has acknowledged and begun rolling out a fix for a troubling Exchange Online regression that left some Outlook mobile users unable to send or receive mail — a problem traced to Hybrid Modern Authentication (HMA) and tracked inside the Microsoft 365 Admin Center as incident EX1137017...

Microsoft has quietly changed how the Microsoft Store manages app updates: the once-simple toggle to permanently disable automatic app updates in the Store UI is being removed for many consumer devices, replaced with a time-limited pause option (commonly between one and five weeks) after which...

Microsoft is retiring the standalone Microsoft Lens mobile app and moving its scanning and capture capabilities into the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app in a phased shutdown that begins in mid‑September and completes by mid‑December, a shift that will reshape how millions of users scan...

Microsoft has announced it will retire the standalone Microsoft Lens mobile app and fold its scanning capabilities into the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app, beginning a phased retirement that starts on September 15, 2025, leads to the removal of Lens from app stores by mid‑November, and stops...

A critical security update has emerged for organizations leveraging Microsoft Exchange Server in hybrid cloud environments, as CVE-2025-53786 exposes a significant elevation of privilege vulnerability. On April 18th, 2025, Microsoft not only published important security changes for hybrid...

Microsoft’s Windows ecosystem is in a constant state of evolution, with tools and features frequently updated not only for performance and security but also to provide a richer, more integrated user experience. Among such features is the Microsoft 365 Feed widget, an enterprise-focused tool...

Microsoft has recently rolled out crucial guidelines for an update tied to CVE-2023-24932, an exploit tied to a significant bypass vulnerability in Secure Boot. This particular security advisory is of monumental importance for anyone operating a Windows system with Secure Boot enabled—whether...