This week’s AI headlines — from a fresh congressional bill that would reshape how high‑performance chips are sold, to the U.S. government’s rollback of an earlier export-control framework, and Microsoft’s quiet decision to split Office 365’s AI supply between OpenAI and Anthropic — have combined...
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Microsoft’s decision to formally separate Teams from Office 365/Microsoft 365 marks the close of a high‑stakes regulatory chapter and creates a new competitive baseline for enterprise collaboration tools worldwide. The European Commission and Microsoft reached a negotiated package of commitments...
Microsoft’s decision to fold Anthropic’s models into Office 365 represents a deliberate, high-stakes recalibration of its AI supply chain — one that pares dependence on a single vendor, broadens technical options inside Copilot features, and reshapes enterprise risk calculations for productivity...
Microsoft’s Office 365 product line is poised for a material AI shift: sources say Redmond will begin routing certain Copilot and Office features to Anthropic’s Claude models — notably the Sonnet 4 family — alongside continued use of OpenAI and Microsoft’s own models, a move that reflects both...
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Microsoft’s move to fold Anthropic’s Claude models into Office 365 marks a clear turning point in the company’s AI strategy: after years of heavy reliance on OpenAI, Microsoft is now building a multi-vendor, task‑optimized Copilot that mixes Anthropic, OpenAI, and its own in‑house models to...
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Microsoft’s Copilot is getting quietly practical: you can now turn a Word document into a ready-to-edit PowerPoint slide in seconds — and for anyone still running Windows 10 there’s a second, much louder message: upgrade planning is no longer optional. This dual moment — an incremental but...
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Microsoft has issued a clear reminder that Microsoft Access 2016 and Access 2019 — like many Office-era products — will reach official end of support on October 14, 2025, meaning security updates, bug fixes, and technical assistance stop on that date and users who remain on these versions will...
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Microsoft’s Copilot is no longer an experiment you can buy and forget; it’s a capability that demands the same programmatic rigor as ERP, CRM, or any other enterprise-grade system if organizations want predictable ROI and real, sustained change.
Background: why Copilot adoption matters now...
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Microsoft’s Exchange team has given hybrid administrators a clear-but-urgent migration mandate: switch to the dedicated Exchange hybrid app and update on‑prem servers now, or face temporary disruptions in September and October followed by a permanent enforcement that will stop rich coexistence...
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This week’s wave of security headlines delivered a clear, uncomfortable message for Windows admins and security teams: the internet’s trust fabric is fraying in ways that let attackers hide inside legitimate flows — and Microsoft’s own infrastructure, link‑wrapping services, and even patch...
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Microsoft’s Copilot is delivering real productivity gains across Word, Teams, Outlook and other Microsoft 365 surfaces — but a recent disclosure shows those gains can come at the cost of auditability: under certain prompting patterns Copilot has produced user-visible summaries and actions...
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Microsoft’s recent policy updates around Office distribution have been widely misunderstood: the company is not locking Office into the Windows Store — it is effectively retiring the Microsoft Store installation type for Microsoft 365 (Office) apps and steering users toward Click-to-Run delivery...
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Microsoft’s Windows 10 S and the accompanying Surface Laptop were less a surprise and more a strategic recalibration: a deliberately simplified, cloud-first Windows SKU paired with a premium clamshell that wore Microsoft’s design language like a banner. Announced as a classroom-friendly...
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A heap‑based buffer overflow found in Microsoft Excel, tracked as CVE‑2025‑53741, has been published in Microsoft's Security Update Guide as a vulnerability that can allow an attacker to execute code on a victim machine when a crafted spreadsheet is opened; administrators and users should treat...
Microsoft’s Copilot has moved fast from a marketing phrase to a platform-level feature that now shapes how millions of people search, write, schedule, analyze data, and even debug code — and with the arrival of GPT‑5 across Microsoft surfaces, that transformation has accelerated into a new phase...
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A confusing product page for a 15.6‑inch Lenovo IdeaPad has surfaced on a third‑party site, promising a modern Windows 11 laptop with 1 year of Microsoft Office 365, Wi‑Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.x, and a blend of eMMC + PCIe SSD storage, but the listing mixes multiple processor and display claims in...
Microsoft is preparing to make a seismic shift in the Office productivity ecosystem by phasing out several popular voice-enabled features from older Office 365 versions by January 2026. The abruptness of this change is reverberating far beyond individual users—entire organizations now face a...
Microsoft is signaling another milestone in its sweeping modernization push: voice-driven productivity tools within Office apps are about to become exclusive to the newest wave of subscribers. Users of older Office suites—Word, Outlook, OneNote, and PowerPoint among them—face an impending...
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