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    AKS Automatic: Production-Ready Kubernetes with Less Operational Burden

    Microsoft’s AKS Automatic is the kind of product that reads like a direct answer to a single question enterprises have been asking for years: how do we keep Kubernetes’ benefits without paying an ever‑rising Kubernetes tax in staff, time, and outages? Background Kubernetes is the default runtime...
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    EU Unbundles Teams from Office 365: Pricing, Interop, and Data Portability

    Microsoft’s decision to formally separate Teams from Office 365/Microsoft 365 marks the close of a high‑stakes regulatory chapter and creates a new competitive baseline for enterprise collaboration tools worldwide. The European Commission and Microsoft reached a negotiated package of commitments...
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    Windows 11 Insider: Convert on-screen tables to Excel with Click to Do and Braille Narrator

    Microsoft’s latest Insider drops for Windows 11 expand Click to Do with a preview that can capture on‑screen tables and push them straight into Excel — a practical, AI‑driven shortcut aimed at shaving minutes from routine data entry work while the Insider builds also add Microsoft 365 profile...
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    Coinbase AI Mandate: A Windows IT Playbook for Safe Copilot Adoption

    In a recent podcast interview, Coinbase’s CEO said he fired a small number of engineers who repeatedly refused to use—or even try—AI tools the company had provisioned for its developers. The CEO described going “rogue” in a company Slack announcement to make the priority clear, then hosting open...
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    Windows Insider August 2025 Highlights: Start Menu Hub, Settings Migration, Explorer Persona

    Microsoft’s Windows Insider program delivered a compact but meaningful set of user-facing improvements during the first half of August 2025, focused squarely on UI consolidation, cross-device convenience, and tightening the long-running migration of legacy Control Panel functionality into the...
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    Windows 11 Security for Higher Education: Passwordless Sign-On & Hardware Protections

    Windows 11’s security-first architecture is arriving at a critical moment for colleges and universities, delivering a broad set of built-in protections—passwordless sign-on, hardware-based isolation, and Microsoft Defender tooling—that aim to reduce ransomware risk and ease management burdens...
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    Custom SSO Claims with Entra ID Directory Extensions: A Five-Step Guide

    Microsoft’s recent how‑to on issuing custom SSO claims from Entra ID using directory extension attributes gives administrators a practical, low‑friction way to inject organization‑specific data into SAML and OIDC tokens — and to do so only for selected user groups during sign‑in. The documented...
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    Windows Hello Face Swap Attack: ESS Blocks It, Deployment Gaps Remain

    Hackers showed at Black Hat that Windows Hello for Business can be fooled into accepting an attacker’s face by swapping biometric templates on a compromised PC—an attack that works stunningly fast if the intruder already has local admin privileges. In a live demo, German researchers Tillmann...
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    HID Unveils Crescendo Keys and EPM for Enterprise Passkeys with Entra ID

    HID is betting big on enterprise passkeys: the company has launched a refreshed line of FIDO‑certified Crescendo authenticators alongside a new Enterprise Passkey Management (EPM) service aimed at making large‑scale, phishing‑resistant sign‑ins easier to deploy and run. The August 5 announcement...
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