office updates

Microsoft’s ongoing commitment to maintaining and improving the Outlook experience for millions of Microsoft 365 customers was tested once again as several impactful issues—ranging from keyboard shortcut mishaps to calendar glitches—surfaced and were subsequently addressed. The recent...

Microsoft's latest update to PowerPoint brings a notable enhancement to the core experience of creating presentations: the modernization of placeholders, those familiar dotted boxes that serve as guides for placing text, images, charts, and other content on a slide. For millions of users who...

Microsoft's classic Outlook client has recently become the center of frustration for many users due to a CPU usage spike bug that causes the application to consume disproportionately high system resources, locking up computers and draining power. This issue, which has been officially confirmed...

The recent CPU spike issue in Classic Outlook on Windows has become a significant pain point for users and IT professionals alike, casting renewed light on Microsoft’s ongoing push for adoption of the New Outlook client. This problem, officially acknowledged by Microsoft in 2025, causes Classic...

When Typing an Email Turns Your CPU into a Furnace: Unpacking the Latest Outlook Bug Picture this: you’re drafting a simple email in the classic Outlook for Microsoft 365, and suddenly your computer sounds like a jet engine taking off. Your CPU usage spikes wildly, soaring to 30-50% utilization...

Microsoft’s Classic Outlook client has recently been under the spotlight for a puzzling and frustrating issue that causes it to become a significant system resource hog. Users across Windows 10 and Windows 11 environments have reported sudden CPU spikes during routine tasks like composing...

It started with innocent typing—just a few keystrokes in Classic Outlook on Windows. Before you knew it, your system fans spun up in a panicked whir, and Task Manager exposed the culprit: Outlook, of all things, chewing up anywhere from 30% to 50% of your CPU. Was this a denial-of-service...

If you’ve ever spent thirty minutes tracking down who left a cryptic “Needs more pizzazz!” sticky-note on a PowerPoint slide, only to discover that the slide in question has since been split, shuffled, and thoroughly mutilated for the sake of version 37, relief is here—courtesy of Microsoft’s...

In a world where our digital lives are increasingly carved up into monthly payments — from video streaming binges to the cloud that stores our awkward family photos — there lies a productivity question for the ages: should your writing, spreadsheet-wrangling, and slideshow-summoning tools come...

Imagine you’re typing out a quick, innocuous email—maybe a last-minute apology for being “slightly” late to a Monday morning Teams meeting—and you feel the unmistakable whir of your laptop’s fan. As you innocently pound the keys, your CPU usage creeps, then leaps. Your device, suddenly...

Microsoft Disables ActiveX by Default in Microsoft 365 and Office 2024: The End of a Risky Era Microsoft is pulling a decisive security lever by disabling ActiveX controls by default in Windows versions of Microsoft 365 and Office 2024 applications. This change, rolling out imminently, aims to...

When Classic Outlook Struggles: Understanding and Tackling CPU Spikes and Crashes Microsoft Outlook has long been the stalwart workhorse for millions managing email, calendars, and daily communications. Yet, even giant software can stumble. Lately, users of the classic Outlook client have...

Microsoft is making a bold move that aims to significantly reduce one of Office’s longstanding vulnerabilities. In a bid to enhance security and protect users, Microsoft 365 for Windows is set to disable ActiveX content by default in its flagship applications—Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio...

Analyzing April's Dynamic Patch Tuesday Release April’s Patch Tuesday has arrived with a veritable storm of updates, delivering 126 patches that span the wide spectrum of Microsoft products. This expansive release is not for the faint-hearted. It is characterized as "dynamic"—a term that, in...

Microsoft’s April 2025 Patch Tuesday rollout has arrived, and with it comes a hefty dose of security updates across a wide range of Windows and Office products. This month’s release—boasting 126 security patches for various Microsoft applications alongside nine updates addressing non-Microsoft...

It’s another day in the IT trenches, and today’s battle involves Microsoft Outlook 365 randomly bailing on users hosted on Windows Server 2016 environments. If you’re staring at the dreaded crash messages or scrambling to appease frustrated end-users, you’re not alone. A recent spike in issues...

How find out what Microsoft Office 2016 updates are installed in Windows 11? They show in Win 10 I have found that Win 11 does not seem to be downloading for instance security updates and other Office 2016 updates on my Win 11 machine. And so I install them manually from Microsoft Catalog...

Hello, Something strange happening : I run Windows 7 entreprise_x64, when i install Office standard 2010 or 2016, when i check for updates, MicrosoftUpdate provide me some updates( for example after installing the 2010version, i 've got 52 updates, when the insatalltions is finished, i check...

Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (August 11, 2015): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update helps to resolve an information disclosure vulnerability in Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Office. To exploit the vulnerability an attacker would first have to...

Just finished with the first Patch Tuesday updates under Windows 10 and all went well. In addition to some office updates there was a Windows 10 cumulative update already. :l: