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Microsoft is redesigning the mobile Copilot experience on iOS: beginning this fall the Microsoft 365 Copilot app will act primarily as an AI-powered viewer and conversational hub, offering in-context file previews, summaries and Q&A — while editing for Word, Excel and PowerPoint files will be...

Microsoft’s quiet nudge toward a cloud-first file culture is now more than design preference — it’s a default behavior baked into Windows setup and Office that reshapes how most people will create, save, and think about their documents. Background Microsoft’s strategy has been moving toward...

Microsoft’s MAI launch is a deliberate pivot: the company is taking the pieces it once licensed, packaging them with native infrastructure and orchestration tools, and betting the future of productivity on a team of specialized agents rather than a single, monolithic brain. This matters for...

Microsoft’s latest Insider preview (Build 26220.6682, KB5065782) sharpens Narrator’s reading and navigation behavior, brings a small curated set of Emoji 16.0 glyphs to the emoji picker, and rolls out incremental Click to Do (Copilot) refinements — changes that are small in headline but...

The long-running honeymoon between Microsoft and OpenAI has entered a new, more transactional phase: the two companies have signed a non‑binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) that lays out a revised partnership framework while OpenAI pursues a controversial restructure that hands a very...

Microsoft's public posture toward Windows Mobile has quietly shifted from product-led ambition to maintenance-mode realism: the company will keep the platform alive for security patches, enterprise deployments and compatibility with Windows 10's broader ecosystem, but it will no longer...

Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday consolidates a large and varied set of fixes: Microsoft shipped updates covering roughly eighty CVEs across 15 product families, with a cluster of Elevation of Privilege (EoP) and Remote Code Execution (RCE) issues dominating the tally and a small set of...

Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday delivers a heavy, operationally urgent security package: more than 80 CVEs across Windows, Office, Hyper‑V, Azure components and developer libraries, including eight items Microsoft rates critical and two vulnerabilities that were publicly disclosed before the...

Microsoft pushed its September 2025 monthly security updates on Patch Tuesday, delivering a broad set of fixes that address dozens of vulnerabilities across Windows client, server, and Microsoft server products — including multiple emergency severity fixes for remote code execution and a...

Microsoft's gentle-but-urgent nudge that VBScript really is on the way out has moved from rumor to a concrete program of deprecation, and the implications for enterprise automation and long‑running VBA codebases are immediate and real. Microsoft has confirmed a staged removal plan that will make...

Microsoft’s productivity stack is entering a new, more plural era: after years of deep integration with OpenAI’s models, Microsoft is reported to be adding Anthropic’s Claude — specifically the Sonnet model family — into Office 365’s Copilot workflows, creating a multi‑model orchestration that...

Microsoft’s September 2025 Patch Tuesday shipped a wide-ranging set of fixes addressing 80 CVEs across Windows, Office, virtualization, and platform components — with eight rated Critical and 72 rated Important — and included several high-profile fixes for SMB, NTLM, NTFS, Office, SharePoint...

Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday arrived with a broad set of fixes and a matching set of detection updates from Cisco Talos — including a new Snort ruleset — aimed at the most likely-to-be-exploited flaws this month. The update package contains dozens of CVEs spanning Windows core components...

Microsoft’s Security Response Center has published an advisory for CVE-2025-54907, describing a heap-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Office Visio that can allow an unauthorized attacker to execute code in the context of the user who opens a malicious file. This is a document‑parser...

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Microsoft’s security tracker now lists CVE-2025-54899 as a memory-safety flaw in Microsoft Excel that can lead to local code execution when a crafted spreadsheet is opened — an entry that joins a steady stream of Excel parsing bugs that remain a favored initial-access vector for attackers...

Microsoft’s latest moves to decouple Teams from its flagship productivity suites mark a watershed moment in how dominant software vendors respond to regulatory pressure — and could redraw the economic map for collaboration tools, enterprise procurement, and platform integration worldwide. The...

I've got an old Office 2010 package that has been working perfectly fine on my laptops for all years, running up to (and including) Windows 10, when connected to a local Exchange server. But when I upgrade to Windows 11 I now have to repair the installation once every 3 days as emails get stuck...

Microsoft’s long-running legal battle with UK reseller ValueLicensing has reopened at the Competition Appeal Tribunal, and this time the dispute centres not just on alleged anti-competitive conduct but on a provocative legal contention from Microsoft: that reselling pre‑owned copies of Office...

Microsoft’s Windows lead has just sketched a future in which the operating system becomes ambient, multimodal and agentic — able to listen, see, and act — a shift powered by a new class of on‑device AI and tight hardware integration that will reshape how organisations manage and secure Windows...