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Microsoft unveiled Scout at Build 2026 as an always-on AI agent for Microsoft 365 that can work across Teams, Outlook, calendars, contacts, OneDrive, and SharePoint with enterprise preview access beginning in late 2026 and wider availability planned for 2027. The important shift is not that...

Microsoft’s June 2026 roadmap push for the new Outlook for Windows adds mail merge improvements, an all-accounts inbox, folder-count controls, Office file sharing, and notification work, but the changes arrive while Outlook Classic remains the more dependable client for many Windows 11 users...

Microsoft retired Word’s Reuse Files feature in August 2023, and the practical replacement is not one button but a three-part workflow: use Search in Word to find prior material, Quick Parts or AutoText to store reusable blocks, and the Office Clipboard to temporarily assemble content across...

Microsoft is recasting Windows and Microsoft 365 around generative AI in 2026, even as Windows 10 holdouts, Teams antitrust fallout, Copilot deployment backlash, and Office-suite challengers expose how much of the company’s old software franchise still depends on trust, predictability, and...

On June 19, 2026, Microsoft highlighted Windle International Kenya & Somalia’s use of Microsoft 365, Teams, SharePoint, Forms, and Copilot to support roughly 10,000 learners across Kakuma and Dadaab refugee camps, nearby host communities, and Nairobi. The story is not merely another...

Office 2021 can stay in production until October 13, 2026. After that date, the apps are not expected to stop launching or opening documents, but they lose Microsoft security updates, bug fixes, technical support, and Microsoft Update servicing. That is the operational takeaway: unsupported...

Microsoft confirmed on June 16, 2026, that it is evaluating a Microsoft-hosted version of DeepSeek V4, or another open-source model, as a cheaper optional backend for Copilot Cowork, the same day the Microsoft 365 agent became generally available worldwide. The timing was not accidental. Copilot...

Microsoft announced on June 16, 2026, that Copilot Cowork is generally available in Ireland as part of a worldwide rollout, bringing its cloud-based Microsoft 365 agent for long-running workplace tasks out of Frontier preview. The significance is not that Copilot has learned another trick. It is...

Microsoft Teams users reported on Wednesday, June 17, 2026, that the app was incorrectly showing them or their colleagues as offline, away, or otherwise unavailable, even while they were actively signed in and working. The visible failure was small — a gray dot where a green one should have been...

Microsoft patched a June 2026 vulnerability chain called SearchLeak in Microsoft 365 Copilot Enterprise after Varonis researchers showed that a crafted Microsoft 365 search link could make Copilot retrieve and exfiltrate emails, files, calendar details, and other indexed data with a single...

Microsoft has made Copilot Cowork broadly available worldwide in June 2026, moving the Microsoft 365 assistant from chat-style help toward delegated, multi-step work across Outlook, Teams, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, SharePoint, and connected business tools. The launch matters because Microsoft is...

Barracuda has launched Barracuda Integrated Email Protection for Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace environments in June 2026, positioning the cloud service as an AI-driven layer that detects, explains, and removes email threats before and after they reach user inboxes. The important word is not...

Microsoft made Copilot Cowork generally available worldwide on June 16, 2026, for Microsoft 365 Copilot customers, turning a three-month Frontier preview of its long-running, multi-tool agent into a paid usage-based service governed through Copilot Credits and Microsoft 365 admin controls for...

Pax8 said on June 9, 2026, that it will add inforcer to the Pax8 Marketplace this summer, giving managed service providers a new route to buy Microsoft 365 security, governance, and Copilot-readiness tooling for SMB customers. The announcement is not just another vendor listing in a crowded...

Microsoft Teams users reported widespread presence-status problems on Wednesday, June 17, 2026, with Downdetector showing more than 4,500 reports by 10:23am and users saying the app showed them or colleagues as offline, away, or otherwise unavailable despite being active. The short answer is...

Microsoft Project Online is scheduled to retire on September 30, 2026, and BrightWork used June 17 to announce a new BrightWork 365 release aimed at PMO teams that want to keep project and portfolio management inside Microsoft 365. The announcement is vendor news, but the timing is the real...

Microsoft has added personalization and workbook-level rules to Copilot in Excel in June 2026, letting users define persistent natural-language instructions for formatting, formulas, naming, chart styles, and report conventions across Excel on Windows, Mac, and the web. The change sounds modest...

Microsoft Teams users reported presence and availability problems on Wednesday, June 17, 2026, with outage trackers and local news reports showing a morning spike that included 226 Downdetector reports at 9:08 a.m. and broader complaints that Teams was incorrectly showing users as offline. The...

Dutch university staff will begin testing SURF’s Nextcloud-based “SURF Works” environment in July 2026 as a limited pilot for about 100 participants, offering an open-source alternative to parts of Microsoft 365, including Teams-like collaboration, files, office documents, and shared workspaces...

Microsoft has made Copilot Cowork generally available with usage-based billing in Microsoft 365, turning the Anthropic-derived cloud agent announced in March 2026 from a preview experiment into a metered enterprise service that can run long, multi-step work against tenant-held documents even...