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Cassidy expanded its Microsoft Office footprint in early June 2026 with a new PowerPoint extension and a substantially upgraded Excel extension that let enterprise users invoke AI agents inside Microsoft’s own productivity apps. The announcement is not merely another “AI in Office” press cycle...

Microsoft 365 is Microsoft’s cloud-first subscription suite for consumers, students, small businesses, and enterprises, bundling Office apps, OneDrive storage, collaboration services, security controls, and increasingly AI-assisted features across Windows, macOS, mobile devices, and the web. The...

Microsoft on May 28, 2026, announced a redesigned Microsoft 365 Copilot experience for desktop, mobile, and Office apps, promising faster loading, cleaner navigation, richer prompt handling, and higher usage across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook for enterprise and commercial users. The...

Microsoft 365 Copilot suffered another significant service disruption on Thursday, June 11, 2026, when a faulty software deployment reportedly broke authentication between Copilot, Microsoft Graph, and Azure OpenAI during business hours in North America and Europe. The outage matters less as an...

Microsoft Copilot is Microsoft’s AI assistant family for consumers, Windows users, developers, and Microsoft 365 customers, and as of Friday, June 12, 2026, it remains central to the company’s software-and-services strategy across web, Office apps, Teams, Edge, Windows, and business workflows...

Microsoft is expanding Copilot Notebooks and the Study Guide experience to Microsoft 365 Education A1, A3, and A5 users aged 13 and older, making the AI study workspace available through Copilot Chat for eligible schools and universities in June 2026. The move matters less because it adds...

Microsoft’s Copilot is not clearly falling behind competitors as of June 2026: BNP Paribas argues that its enterprise capabilities have improved sharply over the past six to twelve months, while Microsoft’s new NHS England deployment gives the product a high-profile institutional proof point...

Microsoft is reportedly cancelling most Claude Code access for engineers in its Experiences and Devices division by June 30, 2026, shifting teams working on Windows, Microsoft 365, Outlook, Teams, and Surface toward GitHub Copilot CLI as the company tries to rein in internal AI coding costs. The...

Microsoft confirmed on Thursday, June 11, 2026, that Microsoft 365 Copilot chat and portal.office.com access were disrupted by a recent deployment, then said it reverted to a previous build and resolved the incident by mid-afternoon Pacific time. The outage was short, but its timing was not...

Microsoft’s Copilot services suffered renewed disruption in June 2026, with users and solution providers reporting access failures, timeout errors, and broken Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat sessions while Microsoft investigated and mitigated service-health incidents across its cloud productivity...

Microsoft Copilot suffered a service disruption on Thursday, June 11, 2026, with outage trackers showing thousands of user reports in the afternoon Pacific window and users describing failures across the Copilot website, app access, authentication, and prompt responses. The interesting part is...

Kyndryl and CMPC said on June 11, 2026, in Santiago, Chile, that they have completed an enterprise-wide Microsoft 365 modernization project intended to standardize collaboration, strengthen security and compliance, and prepare the global pulp-and-paper company for Microsoft 365 Copilot. That...

Preservica and Cadence Solutions announced on June 11, 2026, that Cadence will resell Preservica’s Professional, Enterprise, and Preserve365 products in Canada and the United States for organizations running long-term records governance inside Microsoft 365. The deal is not a blockbuster...

Microsoft’s latest Microsoft 365 with Copilot advertisement, Pete, launched globally on June 11, 2026, through Panay Films and follows an auto repair shop owner using Copilot to analyze rising parts costs, weigh pricing options, and keep customer charges fair across streaming and digital...

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 and deploy Microsoft 365 security, governance, and Copilot-readiness tooling for SMB customers. The announcement is not merely another vendor listing in a...

Microsoft says Office 2019 for Mac will enter reduced functionality mode on July 13, 2026, leaving affected Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote users able to open and print files but unable to edit, save, or create them. The company frames the disruption as a certificate-expiration...

Microsoft says it spent the first half of 2026 cutting Microsoft Teams chat-switching latency by 20 percent across devices, while reducing app hangs on Apple hardware by 35 percent and making people search on iOS 25 percent faster. That is not the sort of announcement that normally gets a...

Microsoft says Office 2019 for Mac will enter reduced functionality mode on July 13, 2026, leaving Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote able to open, view, and print files but unable to create, edit, or save documents. The change is not a conventional feature retirement so much as a...

Microsoft is making Microsoft 365 Business Standard with Copilot and Microsoft 365 Business Premium with Copilot permanent small-business SKUs on July 1, 2026, priced at $23.50 and $32 per user per month respectively for one to 300 seats on annual billing. That is not merely a packaging change...

Microsoft will push Office 2019 for Mac into reduced functionality mode on July 13, 2026, because the certificate used to validate licenses expires that day and the unsupported 2019 suite will not receive the update that newer Office builds are getting. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and...