Microsoft’s looming retirement of the Azure AD Graph API is no longer a warning on the horizon—it’s now a fixed endpoint for IT departments, software developers, and the entire Microsoft cloud ecosystem. As of early September 2025, according to Microsoft’s official communications, the legacy API...
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The sudden announcement by Microsoft to retire Bing Search APIs on August 11, 2025 represents a pivotal shift not only for developers but for the broader search ecosystem that has long depended on open web data access. Since their inception, Bing Search APIs have provided a critical...
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A quiet but significant evolution is underway in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center—a change poised to impact IT departments and application developers worldwide. With Microsoft’s recent rollout of new Exchange Web Services (EWS) usage reports, administrators finally gain unprecedented visibility...
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It happened quietly, almost like a beloved neighborhood coffee shop closing its doors without a fuss: Microsoft has officially signed the death warrant for the Windows Maps app, finally admitting what some of us have long suspected—nobody was really using it, and even Microsoft themselves had...
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