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Microsoft’s latest student push hands eligible college and university students a full year of Microsoft 365 Personal with Copilot — a one‑user Microsoft 365 Personal seat (desktop and web Office apps), Copilot AI integrated across supported apps, and 1 TB of OneDrive storage — but the details...

Microsoft’s latest student push makes a high-value productivity stack available to eligible college students at no cost for a full year: a free, 12‑month Microsoft 365 Personal subscription that includes Copilot’s AI features, 1 TB of OneDrive storage, and the desktop and web Office apps — but...

Microsoft’s latest “Customer Zero” dispatch on agentic AI marks a clear turning point: the company is no longer talking about copilots as optional helpers but is actively provisioning identity-bearing, auditable agents across Microsoft 365—built with Copilot Studio, run on Azure AI Foundry, and...

Vortex is staking a bold claim in a crowded market: by committing exclusively to the Microsoft ecosystem and redesigning support around speed, predictability, and deep product alignment, the Washington, D.C.–based managed service provider aims to become the new standard for Microsoft-focused...

Microsoft’s latest back‑to‑school move hands eligible college students a full year of Microsoft 365 Personal — including the integrated Copilot AI layer — at no cost for a limited time, a promotion that opens the Copilot experience to millions of students but brings important caveats around...

Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 are not universally down on November 13, 2025 — but the question is understandable: a string of high‑visibility incidents over the last six weeks has left IT teams, admins and everyday users hypersensitive to any hiccup. Recent large outages tied to Azure Front...

Microsoft 365’s pace of change has left many IT teams scrambling; a new webinar hosted by Legal IT Insider featuring James Rodd, CEO of ChangePilot by Empowering.Cloud, and Ally Ward, Microsoft 365 Product and Platform Services Manager at Norton Rose Fulbright, sets out a pragmatic playbook for...

Microsoft’s next act in enterprise AI is no longer a distant thought experiment — it’s arriving as a packaged runtime, identity model, and marketplace for software entities that behave like employees, and the implications for IT, security, and licensing are profound and immediate. The company’s...

HP’s latest clearance-style pricing on a 14-inch Stream model has reignited the perennial budget-laptop debate: for a few hundred dollars you can now get a fully licensed Windows 11 machine with a one-year Microsoft 365 subscription and an accessory bundle that ordinarily costs far more than the...

Microsoft has begun rolling out a new era of “vibe working” inside Microsoft 365 by introducing two complementary agent features—Agent Mode embedded in Office canvases (Word and Excel) and a chat‑first Office Agent surfaced from Microsoft 365 Copilot—that decompose plain‑English briefs into...

AvePoint’s third quarter fiscal 2025 results landed as a clear operational milestone: total revenue topped $109.7 million, SaaS revenue accelerated to $84.0 million (up 38% year‑over‑year), ARR reached $390.0 million, and non‑GAAP operating income expanded to $24.1 million (a 22.0% non‑GAAP...

Microsoft’s Copilot experiences another UX tweak: reports say the familiar “AI content may be inaccurate” warning that has accompanied Copilot chat responses will now be hidden by default, with administrators given an option to restore a stronger, configurable disclaimer if they choose. This...

The Server Side’s short, hard‑nosed take on “365 Administration Expert Exam Dumps and MS‑102 Braindumps” reframes a familiar controversy into practical guidance: practice questions and simulated exams are legitimate study tools when sourced and used responsibly, but leaked “braindumps” are...

Mott MacDonald’s new enterprise agent, EMMA — Every Mott MacDonald Answer — shows how a global engineering consultancy can convert dispersed institutional knowledge into an actionable, auditable, and secure assistant by building on Azure’s emerging agent platform and Microsoft 365 ecosystem. The...

Microsoft’s surprise apology to Microsoft 365 subscribers in New Zealand — and the refund pathway it opened — is the latest turn in a regional regulatory and consumer backlash against the company’s decision to bundle its Copilot generative‑AI features into consumer Microsoft 365 plans and raise...

Microsoft’s customer-facing M365 portal briefly buckled under a surge of refund requests after the company rolled out an apology and a remediation offer for subscribers unhappy with the Copilot add‑on — a move prompted by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) allegation...

Microsoft has begun silently deploying three new Microsoft 365 “companion” apps — People, Files, and Calendar — to Windows 11 business devices that run Microsoft 365, and the apps are being installed and pinned to the taskbar by default unless administrators opt out through the Microsoft 365...

Microsoft has been forced into a rapid‑fire damage‑control exercise in Australia after the competition regulator took the company to federal court, alleging that the way Microsoft bundled its Copilot AI into consumer Microsoft 365 plans misled as many as 2.7 million Australians and nudged...

Microsoft has issued a formal apology to its Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscribers in New Zealand and begun notifying affected customers about a refund pathway and a lower-cost “Classic” subscription option after admitting it failed to clearly communicate how Copilot—the company’s AI...

Microsoft’s customer‑facing apology and refund program over the Copilot rollout in Australia has not soothed the storm — it’s amplified it, uncovering operational glitches and fresh regulatory leverage for the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) as the regulator presses ahead...