windows it admin

Microsoft adopted OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 as the preferred model for Microsoft 365 Copilot on July 9, 2026, extending it across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Cowork as OpenAI moved the model from a restricted late-June preview into public availability that same day. The practical question is not whether...

Microsoft Threat Intelligence said on June 29, 2026, that it found a malicious Chromium-based extension called “Search for perplexity ai” that impersonated Perplexity AI, redirected browser search traffic through attacker-controlled infrastructure, and was removed after Microsoft reported it to...

On June 3, 2026, Microsoft said Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, and Wipro had each scaled Microsoft 365 Copilot to more than 100,000 employees, pushing the three Indian IT services giants beyond 300,000 seats in less than six months across their global workforces. The number matters less as...

Adobe’s Firefly creative agent expanded on June 18, 2026, into public beta across Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign, and Frame.io, while Adobe’s chatbot connectors already reach ChatGPT, Claude, and Microsoft Copilot, with Google Gemini and Slack integrations described as coming soon...

Microsoft’s 2011 Secure Boot certificate family begins expiring in June 2026, and the most consequential deadline is the Microsoft Corporation KEK CA 2011, whose replacement determines whether affected Windows devices can keep receiving future Secure Boot database and revocation updates. The...

Google said on June 6, 2026, that a Chrome Canary setting routing normal address-bar searches into Google Search’s AI Mode appeared by mistake, after reports suggested the company was testing a path to make AI Mode the default search destination in Chrome. The denial matters because the...

Microsoft’s decision to pause automatic deployment of the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on Windows 11 is a small operational change with outsized symbolic value. It suggests the company is still committed to making Copilot a central part of the Microsoft 365 experience, but it also shows that the...