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Corporate email signatures are one of the few everyday artifacts that travel outside the firewall every time an employee hits Send — and because they travel so often, they quietly magnify both operational friction and strategic opportunity across Microsoft 365 estates. Petri’s recent piece...

Microsoft has quietly formalized what many IT teams have feared and many employees have quietly hoped for: the ability to run a consumer Microsoft 365 Copilot subscription inside work applications, enabling personal Copilot access to corporate documents when a user signs into an app with both a...

CellTrust’s entry into the Microsoft Security Store Partner Ecosystem today formalizes a deeper alignment between a specialist in regulated mobile communications and Microsoft’s rapidly evolving security marketplace—and it matters for any organization that relies on mobile messaging, voice, and...

A new Principled Technologies (PT) study — circulated as a press release and picked up by partner outlets — argues that adopting a single‑cloud approach for AI on Microsoft Azure can produce concrete benefits in performance, manageability, and cost predictability, while also leaving room for...

Microsoft this week expanded Microsoft 365 Copilot from a personal productivity assistant into a suite of context‑aware team agents that live inside Teams channels, SharePoint sites, Viva Engage communities, and meetings — agents that can prepare agendas, take notes, manage projects, tag and...

Work is changing shape: Microsoft is shifting Microsoft 365 Copilot from a personal assistant into a set of collaboration-first agents that live inside Teams, SharePoint, and Viva Engage — effectively giving every team, meeting, project, and community an AI teammate that acts on shared context...

The Office of Personnel Management has quietly opened the federal doors to mainstream generative AI by making Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and OpenAI’s ChatGPT available to its workforce — a move that follows a string of rapid OneGov procurement deals and the launch of GSA’s USAi sandbox, and that...

Microsoft is expanding the reach of AI inside Teams with a public preview of Project Manager agent skills that aim to turn meeting chatter and channel conversations into tracked, actionable work — but the feature brings licensing, governance, and operational caveats that IT teams must weigh...

Microsoft’s decision to end support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 has turned a calendar note into a business‑critical deadline: organizations that continue to run Windows 10 after that date will stop receiving security patches, feature updates, and official technical assistance — and the...

The U.S. House of Representatives has moved from prohibition to experimentation with generative AI: leadership announced a managed, year‑long pilot that will place Microsoft’s Copilot assistant inside House systems and issue up to 6,000 one‑year licenses to staff—an institutional test with...

Inforcer’s recent elevation into Microsoft’s MSP-focused Intune initiative marks a tangible step toward making Microsoft 365 more manageable, secure, and AI-ready for Managed Service Providers — and it comes at a moment when MSPs desperately need standardized, scale-ready tooling to extract...

Microsoft’s May 13, 2025 hotpatch for Windows PowerShell, released as KB5061096, is a narrowly scoped security update aimed at reducing immediate exposure for hotpatch‑eligible systems while preserving uptime for high‑availability deployments; it applies only to devices enrolled in Microsoft’s...

Microsoft released a targeted hotpatch—KB5065474—on September 9, 2025, for Windows 11 Enterprise (24H2 / LTSC 2024) that advances eligible devices to OS Build 26100.6508, delivers a focused app-compatibility / UAC repair, and includes two operational advisories administrators must treat as high...

Microsoft’s decision to stop servicing Windows 10 in mid‑October has turned a calendar item into an operational crisis for many business process outsourcing (BPO) firms — a sector that runs large, tightly controlled desktop estates and handles regulated, high‑value customer data. The technical...

Zoom’s AI push at Zoomtopia 2025 marks a pivot from helper tools to agentic assistants and lifelike synthetic presence — the company unveiled AI Companion 3.0, cross-platform note-taking and search, and photorealistic meeting avatars alongside a raft of video-performance upgrades intended to...

Microsoft has set a firm deadline: routine security updates, quality patches and standard technical support for mainstream Windows 10 editions will end on October 14, 2025 — forcing households, businesses and public-sector IT teams to choose between upgrading, buying temporary protection, or...

The House of Representatives has quietly moved from prohibition to adoption: according to an Axios briefing shared with reporters, the House will begin rolling out Microsoft Copilot for members and staff as part of a broader push to modernize the chamber and integrate artificial intelligence...

Microsoft will stop providing routine security updates, feature fixes, and standard technical support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 — a firm, previously announced lifecycle cutoff that leaves millions of consumer and business devices facing a clear migration deadline and a compact set of...

Australian small and medium businesses are sprinting to adopt generative AI — often by pasting confidential company data into free consumer tools — and that rush is creating a clear, demonstrable security and compliance gap that needs urgent remediation. Background / Overview The latest...

Cloud providers’ quiet September preview windows have turned into a loud signal to enterprise IT: the next phase of cloud AI isn’t just about model accuracy — it’s about network isolation, governance, flexible deployment, and measurable quality controls that let generative AI move safely from...