Microsoft has opened public preview of Message Trace support in Microsoft Graph, marking a significant step toward modernizing how organizations collect, query, and automate email trace data from Exchange Online. The preview shifts message tracing from the legacy Reporting Webservice to a...
Security researchers have discovered a sophisticated new phishing variant — dubbed ConsentFix — that weaponizes trusted Microsoft OAuth flows and the Azure Command-Line Interface (Azure CLI) to take over Microsoft accounts without passwords, without directly bypassing multi-factor authentication...
Microsoft this week expanded Microsoft 365 Copilot from a personal productivity assistant into a suite of context‑aware team agents that live inside Teams channels, SharePoint sites, Viva Engage communities, and meetings — agents that can prepare agendas, take notes, manage projects, tag and...
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Work is changing shape: Microsoft is shifting Microsoft 365 Copilot from a personal assistant into a set of collaboration-first agents that live inside Teams, SharePoint, and Viva Engage — effectively giving every team, meeting, project, and community an AI teammate that acts on shared context...
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Microsoft has rolled a persistent, context‑aware Copilot Chat pane directly into the canvas of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote for qualifying Microsoft 365 business customers — a free, in‑app conversational assistant intended to make AI assistance a native part of everyday...
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Microsoft has begun rolling out a free, in‑app Copilot Chat experience inside the desktop versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote for Microsoft 365 business customers — a strategic shift that embeds a web‑grounded AI assistant directly into the places people do their daily work...
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Microsoft has quietly moved Copilot from a separate app and demo stage into the daily work surface: a persistent, context‑aware Copilot Chat sidebar is now rolling out inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote, giving Microsoft 365 users a free, in‑app conversational assistant while...
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Microsoft’s decision to place a free, in‑context Copilot Chat and a new family of AI agents directly inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote is the clearest signal yet that generative AI is being baked into the everyday productivity experience — not sold as an optional add‑on...
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Microsoft is weaving its AI assistant deeper into the Office experience by rolling Copilot Chat and agent capabilities directly into core Microsoft 365 apps — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote — bringing a unified, in-context chat pane and a raft of new tools aimed at turning an AI...
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Microsoft’s Copilot is quietly evolving from a conversational assistant into a multi-modal, transactional platform — and recent test-build evidence shows the company is explicitly styling that evolution around three pillars: search that surfaces explicit references, shopping and order...
Microsoft’s quiet pivot to make artificial intelligence a native, operational layer inside Dynamics 365 marks a decisive shift: AI is no longer an optional add-on but a set of embedded capabilities designed to activate business outcomes, and the success of that activation now hinges as much on...
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Neo4j’s new Infinigraph architecture — anchored by a technique the company calls property sharding — promises to finally address Neo4j’s long‑running scalability complaints by decoupling a graph’s topology from its property payloads, enabling horizontal scale beyond 100 TB while claiming ACID...
Microsoft’s enterprise AI push has reached a new milestone with Microsoft 365 Copilot for Business now positioned as a paid, tenant-grade add‑on that embeds generative AI across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and a growing set of agent-driven automation tools — and with that promise...
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Neo4j’s new Infinigraph architecture, anchored by a technique it calls property sharding, promises to finally break the company out of its historical scalability box — allowing a single Neo4j deployment to run both high-throughput transactional (OLTP) and deep analytical (OLAP) workloads at...
On August 7, 2025, OpenAI unveiled GPT‑5 and Microsoft announced the model would be powering Microsoft 365 Copilot the same day — a high‑visibility release that quickly turned into a cautionary case study about how model upgrades matter far less to most business users than context, integration...
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Microsoft has pushed Microsoft 365 Copilot deeper into the employee experience by making Copilot for Viva Engage generally available to eligible customers, embedding a context-aware generative AI assistant that summarizes conversations, surfaces trends, improves discoverability, and provides...
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Microsoft’s push to put Copilot everywhere just took another step into the enterprise social layer: Microsoft 365 Copilot is now integrated with Viva Engage, turning the platform formerly known as Yammer into an AI-assisted hub for composing posts, catching up on conversations, and surfacing...
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A publicly exposed appsettings.json file that contained Azure Active Directory application credentials has created a direct, programmatic attack path into affected tenants — a misconfiguration that can let attackers exchange leaked ClientId/ClientSecret pairs for OAuth 2.0 access tokens and then...
Microsoft’s Copilot now promises to do the heavy lifting of a first‑round literature review: produce multi‑page, citation‑backed Deep Research reports in minutes that synthesize web content, documents, images and PDFs into a structured deliverable you can drop into Word, PowerPoint or a...
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Microsoft’s latest Insider drops — packaged as KB5064089 for the Beta channel and KB5064093 for the Dev channel — extend Click to Do with deeper Microsoft 365 integration, bringing Live Persona (profile) cards into the on‑screen assistant and adding a “Convert to table with Excel” action, while...
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