outlook

Microsoft's classic Outlook client has been at the center of a messy, high‑stakes incident that began with January's cumulative Windows updates and rippled through home users, IT departments, and enterprise patching plans — leaving hung inboxes, missing "Sent Items", and a cascade of emergency...

Microsoft's Copilot is taking another practical step out of the lab and into the day-to-day grind: Outlook can now automatically reschedule your personal appointments and one‑on‑one meetings when higher‑priority conflicts arise, sparing users the repetitive calendar choreography that wastes so...

Microsoft’s roadmap entry making Copilot an automatic companion to the email‑to‑web workflow is straightforward in intent and complicated in consequence: starting in May 2026, Microsoft plans for Microsoft Edge to auto‑open the Copilot side pane whenever a user clicks a link from Outlook...

Microsoft appears to be simplifying two of Outlook’s most friction-prone tasks: granting someone access to a mail folder buried deep inside a mailbox, and sending locally stored Office files by email without the multi-step attach dance. A WindowsReport write‑up that cites Microsoft’s roadmap...

Microsoft’s most recent Edge experiment — automatically opening the Copilot side pane when you click links from Outlook — is a small UI change with outsized implications for privacy, user control, and how Microsoft positions AI inside everyday workflows. The feature is being tested on the Edge...

Microsoft will remove the little “X” that let you hide suggested recipients in Outlook — a small UI affordance called Contact Masking — on March 31, 2026, and Microsoft says the feature caused more confusion than value across the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. Background Outlook’s recipient...

I turned on my computer for the second time today and got hit with M$ passkey brick wall asking to set up a passkey. I need someone to point me in the correct direction to get rid of this BS. Why is M$ trying to shove this down my throat. Does anyone have a way to contact a HUMAN at M$?

Outlook Mobile now includes a simple but useful option to hide meetings you’ve declined, giving mobile calendars the same declutter control that New Outlook and Outlook on the web already offer. Background For years Outlook users have juggled two competing calendar goals: keep a clean, readable...

Microsoft’s January servicing cycle for Windows 11 turned turbulent this month after the Patch Tuesday rollup released on January 13 (KB5074109) triggered a chain of regressions that left everyday apps — from classic Outlook to cloud‑backed editors — hanging or failing. Microsoft pushed two...

In a rare bit of good news for people who still want their Windows desktop to act like a local desktop, OneDrive’s Folder Backup (Known Folder Move) on Windows 11 has quietly gained a better undo flow — in some builds you can now stop folder backup and have OneDrive move your files back to the...

Microsoft pushed an emergency out‑of‑band update late last week to repair a regression introduced by its January security rollup that left Outlook and other programs unable to open or save files stored in cloud‑backed folders such as OneDrive and Dropbox. The fix — delivered as KB5078127 for...

Microsoft rushed a second emergency out‑of‑band Windows 11 update in late January to fix a regression that left Outlook and other apps freezing, hanging, or losing mail items when they accessed files stored in cloud‑synced folders such as OneDrive and Dropbox. Background In Microsoft’s normal...

A routine January Patch Tuesday update left a significant slice of Windows users temporarily unable to rely on core productivity workflows after the January 13, 2026 cumulative update (KB5074109) introduced regressions that broke parts of classic Outlook and disrupted remote access for some...

Microsoft's first cumulative Windows 11 update of 2026 — delivered as KB5074109 on January 13 — has left a broad trail of disruption: critical security fixes were installed, but several high-impact regressions followed, forcing Microsoft into rapid damage control with out‑of‑band patches and...

Microsoft’s second emergency update in two weeks is a blunt reminder that even mature platforms can stumble when complex subsystems collide — and for many Outlook users the fallout was immediate, painful, and productivity‑crippling. On January 24, 2026 Microsoft pushed a cumulative out‑of‑band...

Microsoft’s January cumulative update for Windows—published as KB5074109 on January 13, 2026—has put many users and IT teams in an untenable position: accept a security patch that breaks the classic (Win32) Outlook client for a subset of users, or remove critical protections that close more than...

Microsoft’s emergency response to a rough January Patch Tuesday landed a second out‑of‑band cumulative update on January 24, 2026 — a targeted fix that aims to stop a wave of productivity breakages sparked by the January 13 security rollup, most notably Outlook hangs and crashes when user PST...

Microsoft pushed a secoand emergency Windows update in seven days on JJanuary 24, deploying KB5078127 (and its 23H2 sibling KB5078132) to stop a fresh wave of productivity‑crippling failures that began with January’s Patch Tuesday rollup. The new out‑of‑band packages target a cluster of file‑I/O...

Microsoft released an out‑of‑band cumulative update for Windows 11, version 23H2—KB5078132 (OS Build 22631.6495)—on January 24, 2026 to address a set of post‑Patch‑Tuesday regressions and to roll together prior January fixes into a single package for affected systems. The package is explicitly...

Microsoft has told affected users to remove the Windows 11 January 2026 cumulative update (KB5074109) after widespread reports that the patch is causing serious stability and application failures — most notably rendering Classic Outlook profiles using POP accounts or local PST files unusable...