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Microsoft is making Microsoft 365 Business Standard with Copilot and Microsoft 365 Business Premium with Copilot permanent small-business SKUs on July 1, 2026, priced at $23.50 and $32 per user per month respectively for one to 300 seats on annual billing. That is not merely a packaging change...

Microsoft’s guidance for CVE-2026-44819 says Office customers must install every security update offered for the affected Office software on their systems, even when the Security Updates table lists multiple packages for what appears to be the same product. That small sentence matters because it...

Microsoft is cutting hundreds of Azure-related jobs in Beijing and Shanghai, with affected employees reportedly told last week that their roles will end on July 6 as the company reassesses its mainland China cloud footprint amid tighter US and Chinese data rules. The reported cuts are not a...

Strategic preparation remains the decisive factor in passing IT certification exams in 2026, as cloud, cybersecurity, networking, and project-management credentials increasingly test practical judgment rather than rote recall across global exam programs. That is the useful truth inside a...

CVE-2026-42507 is a Go standard-library vulnerability published in early June 2026 in which net/textproto could include attacker-controlled input in error messages without escaping it, creating a path for misleading log entries or terminal-control injection in software that prints or records...

The University of Leicester has announced a Microsoft collaboration to provide full Microsoft 365 Copilot access to more than 21,000 students and 4,000 staff, making it one of the first UK universities to deploy the AI assistant across an entire academic community. The move is not just another...

On June 3, 2026, Microsoft published a customer story describing how Japan’s Shinsei Technos adopted Microsoft Entra Internet Access and Microsoft Entra Private Access to secure mobile work, temporary construction offices, and access to internal systems while preserving parts of its existing...

On June 3, 2026, Microsoft said Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, and Wipro had each expanded Microsoft 365 Copilot deployments beyond 100,000 employees, taking their combined rollout past 300,000 seats in less than six months. That is not just another vendor adoption statistic. It is a signal...

On June 3, 2026, Microsoft said Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services and Wipro had each expanded Microsoft 365 Copilot to more than 100,000 employees, pushing the three Indian IT services giants beyond 300,000 combined licences in less than six months after their December rollouts. The number...

Microsoft said on June 3, 2026, that Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services, and Wipro have each expanded Microsoft 365 Copilot licensing to more than 100,000 employees, pushing their combined commitment beyond 300,000 seats in less than six months. The headline number is impressive, but the more...

India’s TCS, Infosys, and Wipro have each expanded Microsoft 365 Copilot deployments beyond 100,000 employees as of June 3, 2026, taking their combined rollout past 300,000 users in less than six months. That makes the Indian IT services sector one of Microsoft’s most important proving grounds...

Microsoft announced Scout at Build on Tuesday, June 2, 2026, as an always-on workplace AI agent for Teams, email, calendars, and Microsoft 365 tasks, initially launching with a small customer group and a Frontier-access desktop app tied to GitHub Copilot. That makes Scout less a chatbot than a...

Windows administrators preparing for the May and June 2026 Patch Tuesday cycle should rank MSRC items by signal quality first: exploited-in-the-wild status, report-confidence metadata, advisory status, revision history, and only then headline severity or CVSS score. That ordering is the...

Microsoft’s April 7, 2026 OpenSSL advisory for CVE-2026-28387 describes a low-severity, client-side use-after-free and possible double-free flaw in DANE TLSA certificate validation, affecting OpenSSL 1.1.1 and 3.x branches before patched releases. The dry wording hides a familiar enterprise...

More than 3,000 attendees gathered at the European Collaboration Summit in Cologne, Germany, from May 5 to May 7, 2026, for a Microsoft-focused event where AI implementation, Copilot adoption, governance, security, automation, and modern work dominated the agenda. The important word is not AI...

Microsoft has listed CVE-2026-35433 as a .NET elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in the Security Update Guide as of May 2026, with the public advisory offering the vulnerability title and scoring context but little technical detail about the underlying flaw. That thin disclosure is not unusual...

How-To Geek published a May 11, 2026 Windows article arguing that five everyday PowerShell techniques — Out-GridView, Invoke-Command, PSReadLine history search, Get-Content -Wait, and Where-Object — can remove repetitive console work for Windows users and administrators. The framing is casual...

CVE-2026-7921 is a high-severity use-after-free flaw in Chrome’s Passwords component, disclosed on May 6, 2026, affecting Google Chrome before 148.0.7778.96 on Windows, macOS, and Linux desktops and tracked by Microsoft because Chromium-based Edge inherits the same upstream browser security...

Google and Microsoft disclosed CVE-2026-7936 on May 6, 2026, describing a medium-severity object lifecycle flaw in Chromium’s V8 JavaScript engine that affects Google Chrome before version 148.0.7778.96 and can be triggered by a crafted HTML page. The bug is not the kind of banner-grabbing...

Google and Microsoft disclosed CVE-2026-7977 on May 6, 2026, as a medium-severity Chrome Canvas flaw fixed in Chrome 148.0.7778.96 for Linux and 148.0.7778.96/97 for Windows and macOS, allowing a crafted HTML page to bypass the browser’s same-origin policy. That is the plain answer; the more...