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    Microsoft Sets 3 In-Office Days for Hybrid Workers in Phased 2026 Rollout

    Microsoft’s most consequential posture change on hybrid work since the pandemic landed this week: the company will require many employees who live within commuting distance of a Microsoft office to be onsite at least three days per week, rolling the policy out in phases that begin with the Puget...
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    Word for the Web: One-Click Spelling & Grammar Proofreading with Copilot

    Word for the web now lets licensed Copilot users fix every spelling and grammar issue in a selected passage with a single action, moving proofreading from a repetitive, click‑through chore to an automated, reviewable pass that applies suggested corrections inline and offers straightforward undo...
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    Undo OneDrive Backup in Windows 11: Move Folders Back Local

    Microsoft’s OneDrive Backup can be switched on for you during Windows 11 setup — but your files aren’t stolen; they’ve simply been moved into OneDrive and synced. If you prefer your Documents, Pictures, and Desktop to live locally, the change is reversible: stop folder backup in OneDrive, then...
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    Turn Word into PowerPoint with Copilot and Plan Windows 10 Migration Now

    Microsoft’s Copilot is getting quietly practical: you can now turn a Word document into a ready-to-edit PowerPoint slide in seconds — and for anyone still running Windows 10 there’s a second, much louder message: upgrade planning is no longer optional. This dual moment — an incremental but...
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    Copilot as Enterprise AI Backbone: In-Apps, Agents & Governance

    Microsoft’s Copilot has stopped being an optional curiosity and is rapidly becoming the default AI companion inside the apps people already use to get work done, and that shift matters for businesses deciding whether to bolt AI onto workflows or let it live inside them. Overview Businesses and...
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    Microsoft Retires Internet Explorer, Paint 3D, Groove Music, and More: A Windows Migration Guide

    Microsoft has quietly closed another chapter of Windows history by retiring a clutch of familiar apps — Internet Explorer, Paint 3D, Movies & TV (storefront), Groove Music’s streaming service, and the legacy Mail app — each disappearance reflecting a larger strategy to consolidate services, cut...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot Arrives in OneDrive for Windows: File Explorer AI Actions

    Microsoft’s push to fold generative AI into everyday file management just moved a major step closer to most Windows users: Microsoft 365’s Copilot is now integrated with OneDrive inside Windows, letting subscribers invoke Copilot actions from File Explorer and the OneDrive Activity Center on the...
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    Austria Launches Microsoft 365 ADR and Multi-Geo with Local Cloud Region

    Microsoft has switched on Microsoft 365 data-residency controls in Austria, bringing both the Microsoft 365 Advanced Data Residency (ADR) add‑on and Multi‑Geo capabilities to commercial customers in the country and pairing those controls with a newly opened local cloud region that Microsoft says...
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    Nadella's Five Copilot Prompts: AI-Powered Chief of Staff for Executives

    Satya Nadella’s public showcase of five Copilot prompts crystallizes a new moment in executive work: AI is not just a drafting tool anymore but a context-aware, predictive chief of staff that reasons across calendars, emails, chats and documents to surface priorities, probabilities and prep for...
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    Nadella's Five Prompts: Copilot + GPT-5 Transform Executive Workflows

    Satya Nadella has publicly shown how he uses five short, repeatable ChatGPT-style prompts inside Microsoft Copilot to “supercharge” his executive workflow — calling Copilot “a new layer of intelligence spanning all my apps” and framing the assistant less as a drafting tool and more as a...
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    Windows 11 Insider Aug 2025: Cross‑Device Resume, Dark Explorer, Excel Convert

    Microsoft’s latest Insider flights have delivered a tightly focused set of features and visual fixes that make this month’s previews worth trying — but they also underscore how Microsoft is rolling out major changes: slowly, gated by hardware and region, and baked into a server-side enablement...
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    Windows 11 Insider Beta 26120.5770: Copilot and Accessibility Polish

    Today’s Beta‑channel drop from the Windows Insider team continues the 24H2 servicing stream with a focused, polish‑first update that blends new Copilot+ experiences, accessibility improvements, and a raft of targeted fixes — Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.5770 (KB5064089) is now...
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    Microsoft MAI-1-preview: In-house LLM trained on 15k H100 GPUs

    Microsoft has begun public testing of MAI-1-preview — a homegrown large language model that Microsoft says was trained on roughly 15,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs and that will begin powering select Copilot text experiences as part of a phased rollout, marking a clear strategic shift toward reducing...
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    MOERA Throttle: Microsoft Caps Onmicrosoft.com Email at 100 External Recipients/Day

    Microsoft is moving to strictly limit outbound email sent from the shared .onmicrosoft.com tenant namespace — commonly called MOERA (Microsoft Online Email Routing Address) — introducing a hard cap that will throttle messages sent from onmicrosoft.com addresses to 100 external recipients per...
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    Microsoft 365 Outage: Risks of Config Changes and the Rollback Lesson

    Microsoft suffered another Microsoft 365 service disruption this week when Office.com and access to Copilot were knocked offline for many North American users after a configuration change the company later rolled back, restoring service after several hours of disruption. Background The incident...
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    Microsoft's Quantum Safe Program: From PQC Testing to Enterprise Migration by 2033

    Microsoft’s public roadmap for a quantum‑safe future is no longer a research manifesto: it’s a multi‑year engineering and procurement plan that maps how SymCrypt, Windows, Azure, Microsoft 365 and silicon will evolve to resist the cryptanalytic power of future quantum computers. The company has...
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    COPILOT in Excel: In-Cell AI Prompts Power Formulas

    Microsoft has quietly moved one of the most consequential AI experiments of the last year from a sidebar into the very fabric of Excel: the new COPILOT function lets users write plain‑language prompts directly in a cell and receive AI‑generated results that behave like any other formula in the...
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    Windows 10 End of Support 2025: ESU Options, Edge Lifelines, and Migration Playbook

    Microsoft’s deadline is now fixed: Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14, 2025, and with it comes a complex, staggered set of follow‑ups that will shape PC security, upgrade plans, and procurement decisions for consumers and enterprises alike. The headline is simple — the OS will...
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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 Taskbar Gets Microsoft 365 Companion Apps: People, File Search, Calendar

    Microsoft has begun pushing three lightweight Microsoft 365 “companion” apps — People, File Search, and Calendar — directly into the Windows 11 taskbar for eligible Microsoft 365 business customers, delivering one‑click access to contacts, documents and meetings without opening full clients and...
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