A year into the Adopt, Test, Monitor framework for CPA firms, the practical truth has hardened: some AI capabilities are ready for firm‑wide deployment, others are ripe for disciplined experimentation, and a small but influential set of agentic and domain‑specific technologies belong squarely in...
Microsoft's advisory listing for CVE-2026-20958 places the vulnerability squarely in the category security teams take most seriously: a vendor‑acknowledged SharePoint flaw tied to information disclosure that demands immediate patch‑and‑hunt workflows, careful exposure reduction, and post‑patch...
Microsoft has assigned CVE-2026-20959 to a SharePoint Server presentation‑layer (spoofing) vulnerability, and administrators should treat the entry as a vendor‑tracked, high‑urgency condition that requires immediate triage and likely patching or mitigations depending on the MSRC mapping for each...
Microsoft has published a Security Update Guide entry for CVE-2026-20951, a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability included in the January 2026 security rollup, and administrators running on‑premises SharePoint should treat it as a high‑priority...
Tier3Tech’s rise to the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 and its insistence on automation-first projects signals a clear ambition: turn routine IT from a cost centre into a growth engine using SharePoint, Power Platform automation and Microsoft’s emerging Copilot/agent tooling.
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Microsoft’s advisory listing for CVE-2025-59245 describes an Elevation of Privilege issue in SharePoint Online that raises urgent operational and detection questions for administrators of Microsoft 365 tenants and hybrid SharePoint environments. The vulnerability’s public description centers on...
Microsoft’s on‑premises SharePoint ecosystem is again at the center of a high‑urgency security incident: an unauthenticated or low‑privilege remote code execution (RCE) chain built from an authentication/spoofing bypass and an unsafe deserialization path has been weaponized in the wild, enabling...
Lionel Barrow’s short, furious tour of Microsoft 365 — republished and amplified by The Register — reads like a field report from an alien visitor trying to understand a human ritual: a thirty-something engineer raised on Gmail who steps into Exchange, Outlook, SharePoint, and Microsoft’s...
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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Microsoft is expanding the reach of AI inside Teams with a public preview of Project Manager agent skills that aim to turn meeting chatter and channel conversations into tracked, actionable work — but the feature brings licensing, governance, and operational caveats that IT teams must weigh...
Bonfy.AI’s latest update to its Adaptive Content Security platform lands squarely in the intersection of AI adoption and enterprise security, expanding native integrations across Microsoft 365 and positioning an AI-first approach to Data Loss Prevention that specifically targets risks introduced...
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's latest updates to the Windows 365 family push the Cloud PC experience closer to a full, resilient desktop replacement — but they also raise important questions for IT about licensing, capacity, and user data protection. The company has expanded the Connection Center experience so...
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Microsoft has set a hard deadline: support for Office 2016 and Office 2019 — including the familiar Word, Excel, PowerPoint suites and some server counterparts — will end on October 14, 2025, and there will be no extension and no Extended Security Updates (ESUs) for those perpetual desktop...
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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...
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Microsoft’s internal account of how Teams has evolved into an AI-first collaboration platform reads less like a product update and more like a blueprint for how large organizations will work in the next decade: Teams as the connective tissue, AI agents as the operational workforce, and Copilot...
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Microsoft has confirmed that OneNote for Windows 10—the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app preinstalled on many Windows 10 machines—will be retired on October 14, 2025, and will switch to a read-only state after that date, meaning you will still be able to view content but will not be able to...
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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...
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Satya Nadella’s short, repeatable prompt playbook — presented as a set of AI templates for Microsoft 365 Copilot users — has crystallized a practical way for leaders to reclaim time, reduce cognitive load, and turn dispersed work signals into decision-ready outputs; however, the public record...
Korea Telecom’s shift from a fragmented file sprawl to a unified, AI-augmented knowledge layer shows how Microsoft 365 Copilot can be the hinge between legacy habits and modern information workflows, delivering faster discovery, clearer context, and measurable productivity gains across a large...
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