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Microsoft is rolling out Outlook’s Co-Authoring Highlight and Rewrite feature for Outlook on the web in July 2026 for Worldwide standard multi-tenant customers in General Availability. The feature lets users select part of an email draft and ask Copilot to help rewrite that selected text by...

Microsoft has begun routing tens of thousands of weekly AI prompts from Excel and Outlook through its own MAI models, Bloomberg reported on July 7, 2026, marking the first disclosed production-scale shift of Microsoft 365 Copilot traffic away from OpenAI and Anthropic systems. The move is not a...

Microsoft Edge for Business now lets Microsoft 365 administrators control which websites Copilot may browse for employees, using allow and block lists in the Edge management service after Microsoft promoted the feature through its Edge Dev account on July 6, 2026. The change sounds small, almost...

Microsoft plans to add a Security Detection Report to the Teams admin center in August 2026 for worldwide standard multi-tenant customers, giving administrators a single web-based view of messaging detections such as impersonation, malicious URLs, and weaponizable file types. The feature is...

Administrators deciding whether to move Microsoft 365 users to Deferred release should keep most users on Standard release unless a specific, major deferred-capable Microsoft 365 Copilot change creates governance, training, compliance, or business-readiness risk. Deferred release is a short...

Microsoft has launched Enterprise Preview for Microsoft Edge in June 2026, giving Microsoft 365 admins a managed way to deliver pre-release Edge builds inside the Stable Edge application rather than asking users to install and maintain separate Insider channels. That sounds like a small...

Microsoft on Tuesday, June 16, 2026, expanded Copilot Cowork, an enterprise AI agent for Microsoft 365, with usage-based pricing that charges companies for each task according to the compute consumed while still requiring a paid Microsoft 365 Copilot subscription. The move turns Microsoft’s...

Microsoft 365 administration skills are essential for modern IT professionals because organizations now rely on Microsoft’s cloud productivity stack for identity, email, collaboration, device access, security policy, compliance workflows, and business continuity across office, remote, and hybrid...

As of June 2026, IT teams trying to disable built-in AI features across Microsoft 365, Windows, Edge, Google Workspace, Chrome, and Apple devices are finding that the controls exist, but they are scattered across admin portals, group policies, browser policies, MDM payloads, licensing decisions...

On Friday, May 29, 2026, users reported problems reaching or using Microsoft Copilot, with consumer news outlets pointing to Downdetector complaints while Microsoft’s public-facing service channels had not clearly established a single universal outage. That distinction matters because Copilot is...

Microsoft is rolling out a May 2026 wave of Outlook updates for the new Outlook for Windows, Outlook on the web, and classic Outlook, including automapped calendar visibility, teammate calendars in navigation, richer calendar multi-select controls, new email sorting options, .ics export, and...

Microsoft has pushed the enterprise “opt‑out” start for the New Outlook for Windows out by roughly one year — moving the phase Microsoft had targeted for April 2026 to March 1, 2027 — a change the company says gives organizations twelve months of lead time while it finishes key features and...

Microsoft appears to be simplifying two of Outlook’s most friction-prone tasks: granting someone access to a mail folder buried deep inside a mailbox, and sending locally stored Office files by email without the multi-step attach dance. A WindowsReport write‑up that cites Microsoft’s roadmap...

Microsoft is rolling out a major update to Microsoft Planner in early 2026 that both adds new capabilities and removes several longstanding features — most notably the ability to publish Planner tasks as an iCalendar (iCal/.ics) feed. The change is part of a broader Planner overhaul Microsoft...