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  1. UK DBT Copilot Pilot: Modest Time Savings, Mixed Productivity

    The UK Department for Business and Trade’s three‑month pilot of Microsoft 365 Copilot delivered a mixed verdict: users reported high satisfaction and clear wins on routine drafting and meeting summaries, but independent evaluation found only modest, use‑case‑specific time savings and no robust...
  2. DBT's Microsoft 365 Copilot Pilot: High Satisfaction, Task Savings, No Dept Productivity Gains

    The UK Department for Business and Trade’s pilot of Microsoft 365 Copilot returned a clear, measured verdict: staff liked the assistant, and specific writing and summarisation tasks became noticeably faster, but the trial produced no robust evidence that those time savings translated into...
  3. Windows 11 August 2025 Patch: SSD Vanishing Issue - Community Benches vs Vendor Labs

    Microsoft’s follow‑up investigation insists the August Windows 11 cumulative patch did not “brick” SSDs, but the story is far from a tidy conclusion: community test benches produced a repeatable failure fingerprint, controller vendor lab work failed to reproduce the fault, and Microsoft’s...
  4. Microsoft Outlook Outage July 2025: Causes, Impact, and Lessons Learned

    In the digital era, seamless access to communication platforms is not just a convenience—it's a necessity. On the evening of July 9, 2025, this reality was starkly highlighted as millions worldwide found themselves abruptly cut off from one of the globe’s most relied-upon email services...
  5. Microsoft Teams Outage: Lessons on Cloud Reliability and Business Continuity

    A sweeping disruption struck thousands of professionals and organizations globally when Microsoft Teams, the communications backbone for millions, suffered a significant outage. This event echoed across workplaces, classrooms, and remote collaboration sessions, highlighting both the importance...
  6. Elevating SaaS Security in the Age of AI: A Call for Change by JP Morgan’s CISO

    The ongoing proliferation of AI-powered SaaS applications and cloud-based agents is transforming how organizations manage data, automate workflows, and collaborate—and with these gains comes a swelling tide of new security concerns. A recent letter published by Pat Opet, Chief Information...
  7. Critical Infrastructure Security: CISA's 2025 ICS Vulnerability Advisories & How to Protect Your Sys

    Some days, the cyber world feels less like a battleground and more like the world’s most complicated Jenga tower—one wrong move and the whole thing could come tumbling down. Industrial Control Systems (ICS), the invisible machinery quietly running everything from water treatment plants to power...