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Today’s Dev Channel flight advances Windows 11’s AI-driven productivity and accessibility story while changing how Microsoft numbers preview builds — Windows Insiders now get Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.5770, delivered as cumulative content identified in Microsoft’s announcement and...

Microsoft is moving on two fronts this month: shipping a steady stream of Microsoft 365 enhancements — many driven by Copilot and Loop technologies — while quietly chasing a recurring set of audio regressions that have frustrated Windows 11 users since the 24H2 rollout. The company’s push to...

Microsoft’s decision to stop issuing security updates for Office 2016 and Office 2019 on October 14, 2025 forces a clear choice on millions of users and IT teams: upgrade to a supported platform, migrate to Microsoft 365, or accept the operational and security trade-offs of third‑party...

Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat is now appearing in more campus environments — including announcements from higher‑education IT teams — but at least one university link meant to explain the rollout is returning a 404, underscoring how fast the product is moving and how fragile institutional...

Beginning in September Microsoft wrapped a clear, deliberate push to make Copilot the connective tissue of Microsoft 365: Teams’ calendar and task surfaces are moving to the new integrated Microsoft 365 calendar, the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app becomes a preview‑and‑chat surface for Office...

The last Windows Weekly episode landed like a mixtape of outrage, optimism, and technical quibbling — a brisk tour through Microsoft’s week that touched on a campus lockdown, Windows 11 change-management headaches, Microsoft 365 and OneNote transitions, a sweep of AI news, several...

San Francisco has quietly pushed one of the largest municipal deployments of generative AI in the United States, rolling Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat—powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o—out across tens of thousands of city employees with promises of measurable productivity gains, faster resident service...

Microsoft has quietly flipped a foundational behavior in Word for Windows: new documents you create now start life in the cloud, with AutoSave enabled by default and an immediate OneDrive/SharePoint identity — a change rolling out in Word for Windows Version 2509 (Build 19221.20000) and later...

Microsoft’s latest push to fold everyday feedback workflows into its AI assistant stack landed this week with the public preview of Surveys Agent, an AI-powered agent inside Microsoft 365 Copilot that promises to let teams design, launch, monitor, and analyze surveys from a single conversational...

Microsoft has quietly—yet materially—expanded Windows 365’s regional footprint in Asia by making the Korea Central Azure region available for Cloud PC provisioning, enabling organizations operating in South Korea to host Cloud PC storage and compute within the country and reduce latency for...

Samsung and Microsoft have agreed to bring Microsoft Copilot — the company’s generative AI assistant — to Samsung’s 2025 TVs and Smart Monitors, folding natural‑language AI into large displays via Samsung’s new Vision AI framework and a Copilot web experience built into the screens. This move...

Microsoft is rolling out a quiet but consequential change to how Word for Windows saves new documents: starting with Word for Windows Version 2509 (Build 19221.20000) in Insider channels, documents you create will be saved to the cloud (OneDrive, SharePoint, or a preferred cloud location) by...

Microsoft is quietly shifting a fundamental part of the Word for Windows experience: new documents created in Word will now default to being saved in the cloud (OneDrive or another configured cloud destination) with AutoSave enabled, and the change begins with Word for Windows version 2509 and...

Microsoft’s latest survey of Microsoft Edge users reads like a product roadmap with question marks — a quiet probe that, if the signals are read correctly, points to a future where Copilot in Edge moves from summarizer to doer. The questionnaire currently circulating among Edge users asks not...

Microsoft’s Copilot is no longer an experiment you can buy and forget; it’s a capability that demands the same programmatic rigor as ERP, CRM, or any other enterprise-grade system if organizations want predictable ROI and real, sustained change. Background: why Copilot adoption matters now...

Microsoft’s Copilot for Microsoft 365 was supposed to make AI agents safer to run at enterprise scale; instead, recent reports show a control-plane failure that left some agents discoverable and installable despite tenant-level policy locks—forcing administrators into time-consuming, per-agent...

Microsoft OneNote’s humble tables are quietly becoming one of the smartest productivity weapons for 2025 — a lightweight way to turn scattered meeting notes, research scraps, and fleeting ideas into structured, actionable knowledge without pulling in a spreadsheet app. What used to be a handful...

Microsoft has acknowledged and begun rolling out a fix for a troubling Exchange Online regression that left some Outlook mobile users unable to send or receive mail — a problem traced to Hybrid Modern Authentication (HMA) and tracked inside the Microsoft 365 Admin Center as incident EX1137017...

Microsoft’s Copilot just quietly added something game‑changing: a simple, surprisingly capable way to turn a flat 2D picture into a usable 3D model. On August 23, 2025, BGR spotlighted the feature—branded “Copilot 3D”—as a differentiator Microsoft believes ChatGPT won’t match natively anytime...

Microsoft’s 2033 Quantum‑Safe Deadline: What It Means for Windows, Azure, and Your Enterprise Microsoft has put a concrete stake in the ground for the post‑quantum era: enable early adoption of quantum‑safe capabilities by 2029 and complete the transition of its products and services by 2033...