Microsoft’s Office 2024 is real, shipping as a buy‑once desktop suite with updated apps, clearer system requirements, and a complicated relationship with AI — but claims that you can “download Microsoft Office 2024 full 32 and 64 bit, activated for life” from third‑party sites are both...
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Microsoft confirmed a regional outage that left Outlook and Exchange Online users in North America struggling with login failures, server-connection errors and delayed mail delivery, then rolled back changes and applied optimizations to restore service — while choosing not to publish full...
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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...
Microsoft will begin retiring the lightweight Outlook Lite Android app on October 6, 2025, blocking new installs that day as it directs users toward the full Outlook mobile client and consolidates engineering around a single, feature-rich Android email experience.
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Microsoft’s reported decision to integrate Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 into Microsoft 365 marks a deliberate and consequential step away from a single‑provider AI strategy and toward a multi‑model, standards‑based future for enterprise productivity tools. This move — first reported today by...
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Microsoft’s latest Canary‑channel experiment stitches AI into one of Windows’ oldest workflows: right‑clicking files. The reported Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27938 surfaces a new AI actions entry in File Explorer’s context menu that lets you run visual search, blur or remove backgrounds...
If you use Microsoft 365, updating your password regularly is one of the quickest — and most effective — ways to reduce your exposure to account takeover, phishing, and password-spraying attacks. This guide walks through three fast, practical ways to change a Microsoft 365 password (personal...
Microsoft Copilot experienced a measurable service disruption on September 8, 2025, with hundreds of user reports and outage-tracking spikes starting around 8:05 PM Eastern Time — community monitoring and real‑time trackers flagged the issue and users were advised to try alternate Copilot entry...
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Microsoft is reportedly planning to block fresh installations of Outlook Lite starting in October 2025 as it prepares a broader retirement of the app, forcing users who rely on a lightweight, battery-friendly client to either remain on an aging build or move to the full Outlook for Mobile...
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Microsoft’s latest Canary‑channel experiment pushes intelligence deeper into the Windows shell: a new AI actions submenu in File Explorer lets you right‑click images to run Bing Visual Search, blur or remove backgrounds, and erase objects — all without opening a full editor. This context‑aware...
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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Microsoft has quietly extended Copilot from the browser into the Windows desktop, adding a set of Copilot file actions directly into OneDrive’s Windows surfaces so subscribers can locate, summarize, compare and interrogate files without opening Office or a web browser—a change that reshapes...
Penn State this week announced a focused, weeklong professional-development push — Learning Tools for Teaching: Explore, Engage, Elevate — that brings campus-supported learning platforms into one place for hands-on demonstrations, pedagogical conversation, and practical workshops designed for...
Microsoft’s latest back‑to‑school play hands eligible U.S. college students a full, 12‑month Microsoft 365 Personal subscription — including the integrated Copilot AI assistant and 1 TB of OneDrive storage — at no charge, a time‑limited promotional move that accelerates AI exposure on campus...
Microsoft’s new federal bargain is one of those rare deals that looks simple on paper and seismic in practice: deep, governmentwide discounts on Microsoft 365, Azure, Dynamics 365, security tooling and — critically — up to 12 months of Microsoft 365 Copilot for qualifying G5 agency customers...
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Generative AI has arrived in the boardroom and the break room alike — but the difference between headlines and hard outcomes is leadership, disciplined execution, and the work of adoption that too many organizations still underestimate. A recent event preview and podcast discussion that...
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Microsoft is offering U.S. college students a full year of Microsoft 365 Personal — with Copilot built into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote — at no cost if they verify eligibility and enroll by October 31, 2025, a limited-time element of the company’s new Microsoft Elevate...
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Microsoft’s latest back-to-school push hands U.S. college students a full year of Microsoft 365 Personal — including the integrated Copilot AI — at no cost, a move that promises to reshape student workflows while raising immediate questions about privacy, billing mechanics, and academic...
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Microsoft has announced that eligible U.S. college students can claim a free, 12‑month subscription to Microsoft 365 Personal — which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, 1 TB of OneDrive storage and the Copilot AI assistant — as part of its new Microsoft Elevate education...
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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...