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Microsoft’s quick apology and refund offer after Australia’s consumer watchdog sued over the Copilot rollout has exposed a deeper fault line: a well-intentioned remediation that appears to backfire by drawing fresh attention to design choices, regulatory exposure and the ethics of monetising AI...

Microsoft’s Australian legal challenge is the sharpest enforcement test yet of how tech giants bundle artificial intelligence into subscription services and communicate price changes to consumers, with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) alleging that Microsoft misled...

Australia’s competition regulator has launched a Federal Court action accusing Microsoft of misleading roughly 2.7 million Australian consumers after the company bundled its Copilot generative‑AI features into Microsoft 365 and raised subscription prices — and the case now tests where...

Australia’s competition regulator has taken Microsoft to the Federal Court, accusing the company of misleading roughly 2.7 million Australian Microsoft 365 subscribers after Copilot — Microsoft’s generative‑AI assistant — was folded into consumer plans and associated renewal prices rose, while a...

Microsoft’s consumer-facing Copilot rollout has landed the company in federal court in Australia after the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) accused Microsoft of misleading roughly 2.7 million subscribers by bundling Copilot into Microsoft 365 personal and family plans while...

Microsoft has quietly begun testing a more integrated, surface-level approach to Account management in Windows 11 through the latest Insider builds (delivered as KB5065786), and the changes deserve attention from everyday users, power users, and IT administrators alike. These updates — visible...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Insider builds are shipping a new, full-screen renewal prompt aimed at lapsed Microsoft 365 subscriptions — an eye-catching SCOOBE (Second‑Chance Out‑of‑Box Experience) screen that insiders and early reports describe as a full‑screen nag to renew rather than a...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Insider Preview update, rolled out as KB5065782 to Dev and Beta channel testers on September 12, 2025, repurposes the SCOOBE (Second‑Chance Out‑of‑Box Experience) flow to display a full‑screen Microsoft 365 “needs attention” renewal prompt that occupies the display...

Microsoft has quietly expanded the Second Chance Out‑of‑Box Experience (SCOOBE) in Windows 11 Insider builds so it can surface a full‑screen reminder when a Microsoft 365 subscription “needs attention” — for example, when a renewal payment fails — and that reminder can appear before the desktop...

DuckDuckGo has quietly retooled its paid offering into a one-stop privacy and AI bundle, adding access to higher‑end chat models while keeping the $9.99/month price and the three core privacy protections that first made the subscription notable. Background DuckDuckGo started as a privacy-first...

Microsoft is quietly testing Copilot recommendations inside the Windows 11 Start menu — a small interface change that marks a strategic shift: Microsoft is no longer content to confine Copilot to a sidebar or system tray; it wants the AI assistant surfaced where users begin tasks, and it’s...

Dreamspace’s public beta pulls together Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry and Azure OpenAI, Space and Time’s verifiable SQL database, and Coinbase‑incubated Base to let non‑technical creators describe an idea in plain English and publish a working, monetized on‑chain app — frontend, backend, and...

Microsoft has officially released the Exchange Server Subscription Edition (SE) on July 1, 2025, marking a significant shift in its on-premises email server offerings. This new edition is set to replace Exchange Server 2016 and Exchange Server 2019, both of which will reach the end of support on...

Few products in the enterprise communication landscape have navigated as turbulent an evolution as Skype for Business Server. With the launch of the Subscription Edition (SE), Microsoft’s latest move, the platform is undergoing a significant licensing transformation that directly reflects the...

CVE-2025-47172 is a critical vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint Server that allows authorized attackers to execute arbitrary code over a network due to improper neutralization of special elements used in SQL commands, commonly known as SQL injection. This vulnerability affects multiple...

In a significant shift for digital payments, Google Wallet will drop support for PayPal accounts in the United States effective June 13, and users must act promptly to avoid disruption in their daily transactions. This move, recently confirmed by both official Google statements and technology...

Microsoft’s most recent quarterly results have set the tech industry abuzz—not only with the staggering headline figures of $70 billion in revenue and nearly 88 million Microsoft 365 subscribers, but also with the underlying strategy orchestrating these numbers. While financial success at this...

Microsoft’s latest quarterly performance has sent shockwaves through the tech landscape—not solely for the sheer scale of its numbers, but for the strategic vision behind them. With revenue soaring past $70 billion and subscription growth outpacing even bullish analyst estimates, Microsoft is...

Microsoft is stepping up its game by urging corporate customers to ditch perpetual Office licenses in favor of Microsoft 365 subscriptions—a move that promises not only enhanced collaboration and mobility but also tangible cost savings and efficiency boosts. The Shift Toward Subscription-Based...

Exchange Server administrators, rejoice (and perhaps break out the celebratory coffee mug) because a quiet revolution is coming in 2025. Microsoft’s upcoming Exchange Server Subscription Edition (ESSE) promises to be the familiar friend you know from Exchange Server 2019 CU15—with a shiny...