Microsoft made Copilot Cowork generally available worldwide on June 16, 2026, moving its Microsoft 365 agent for long-running delegated office work out of Frontier preview and into the hands of commercial tenants with usage-based billing. The launch is less about another chatbot button than...
Microsoft made Copilot Cowork generally available worldwide on June 16, 2026, with usage-based billing for enterprise customers, while Axios reports the company is considering a Microsoft-hosted, fine-tuned DeepSeek model as a lower-cost option for the agentic workplace tool. That single pricing...
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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’s June 2026 Microsoft 365 update cycle tightens Copilot access inside Office apps, adds new Teams controls for deleting meeting recap artifacts, changes meeting chat organization and live-caption defaults, and previews AI-driven SharePoint and Teams features scheduled for July and...
Microsoft made Copilot Cowork generally available worldwide on June 16, 2026, bringing a persistent agentic AI layer to Microsoft 365 that can execute multi-step work across Outlook, Teams, Excel, Word, and connected business systems. The launch matters because Microsoft is no longer selling...
Dell Federal Systems was awarded a $1.44 billion Air Force call order in June 2026 for Microsoft 365 E3, E5, and F-series licenses, software assurance, and subscription services under a blanket purchase agreement running through April 30, 2029. The size is striking, but the real story is not...
Microsoft is moving Copilot Cowork, its enterprise agent for Microsoft 365 work, to usage-based billing as of its broader 2026 rollout, while reportedly considering an Azure-hosted, fine-tuned DeepSeek V4 option to lower model costs for customers. That is the immediate news, but the larger...
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The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center warned in May 2026 that Kali365, a phishing-as-a-service platform first seen in April, is targeting Microsoft 365 users by abusing OAuth device-code authentication to capture access tokens and bypass multifactor authentication without stealing passwords...
Microsoft’s Copilot Cowork is being positioned in June 2026 as an AI task-automation layer for Microsoft 365 that can plan and execute multi-step work across apps, files, meetings, messages, and enterprise data under administrator-controlled access. That makes it more than another Copilot chat...
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Microsoft is testing an experimental “Enable OneJS-Based Edge NTP” flag in recent Edge Canary builds that can replace the browser’s normal New Tab page with a Microsoft 365-style cloud search experience after sign-in. The test is narrow, unfinished, and hidden behind a flag, but it points to a...
Microsoft fixed CVE-2026-42824, a Microsoft 365 Copilot information-disclosure vulnerability disclosed in June 2026, after Varonis researchers described a one-click “SearchLeak” attack chain that abused Copilot Search, browser rendering behavior, and Microsoft service trust to leak enterprise...
Microsoft’s connectivity.office.com, a Microsoft 365 network diagnostic site used by administrators to test access to cloud services, began showing browser trust warnings after its TLS certificate expired on June 14, 2026, and remained unreplaced for roughly 35 hours as of Monday, according to...
AI tools are saving digital workers about 11 hours a week while also forcing them to spend roughly 6.4 hours supervising, correcting, rerunning, and contextualizing AI output, according to a June 2026 Work AI Institute report based on 6,000 workers in the United States, United Kingdom, and...
Seton Hall’s June 2026 Microsoft 365 update captures a broader Microsoft shift now playing out across campuses and enterprises: Copilot is becoming more tightly licensed inside Office apps, while Teams and SharePoint are being redesigned around AI-generated meeting records, reusable prompts, and...
Keep Microsoft 365 Copilot Search enabled only if you have already tightened Microsoft 365 permissions, audited overshared mail and files, reviewed Copilot activity, and blocked obvious data-exfiltration paths; otherwise, pause or limit rollout now while security teams validate controls. On June...
Microsoft Copilot was experiencing user-reported problems on Monday, June 15, 2026, with complaints rising after 9 a.m. Eastern and more than 100 Downdetector reports by midday, while third-party status trackers showed Microsoft 365 Copilot as operational earlier in the day. The awkward truth is...
Microsoft Copilot experienced reported access problems on Monday, June 15, 2026, as users said the AI assistant was failing across web, desktop, mobile, and Microsoft 365 app integrations, though public third-party status trackers showed mixed signals and Microsoft had not clearly explained the...
Loughborough University has told students and staff that a Windows 11 and Microsoft 365 user-experience update will begin rolling out on 17 June 2026, changing the default view of the Start menu to a new layout intended to improve navigation and accessibility. The announcement is small, local...
Buy the Windows 11 Pro and Office Home & Business 2024 bundle only if you want a one-time purchase for one local Office install and a Windows 11 Pro license; skip it for Microsoft 365 if you need cloud services, multi-device access, or future Office upgrade rights. At $104.99, the advertised...
NHS England has announced a national rollout of Microsoft 365 Copilot to 505,000 clinicians and support staff, giving workers across English trusts access to Microsoft’s AI assistant for administration, analysis, document drafting, workflow automation, and internal service support. The stated...
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