Microsoft 365

Choose Your Own Adventure with Microsoft 365

You awake to find yourself in a dark room... with an empty wallet

SaaS22 Aug 2024 | 39

Multiple flaws in Microsoft macOS apps unpatched despite potential risks

Windows giant tells Cisco Talos it isn't fixing them

Research19 Aug 2024 | 21

Microsoft 365 remains 'degraded' as Azure outage resolved

Updated Central US region is back in business but Office apps still in trouble

Off-Prem19 Jul 2024 | 66

Microsoft 365's Chinese host uses just four percent renewable energy: Greenpeace

Red clouds are in no rush to go green

On-Prem12 Jul 2024 | 6

Microsoft expects further concessions for Teams amid EC antitrust probe

Despite unbundling video and chat app from Office, Redmond 'committed to find a resolution to regulators' concerns'

Applications05 Jun 2024 | 8

Microsoft accused of tracking kids with education software

Updated Privacy group seeks clarification of whether EU data protection law has been breached

Security04 Jun 2024 | 45

Microsoft unbundling Teams is to appease regulators, not give customers a better deal

Think before you pull the trigger, warn analysts

SaaS04 Apr 2024 | 54

Microsoft thinks bundles are great and customers love them

Rivals and regulators might disagree, so might users that are paying for software they don't need

Applications04 Apr 2024 | 25

Microsoft promises Copilot will be a 'moneymaker' in the long term

Exec tells investors to 'temper' expectations as mission to convince customers of price tag continues

AI + ML18 Mar 2024 | 57

Developers beware, Microsoft's domain shakeup is coming soon

If you don't pay attention, your lovely little Teams app will stop working

Applications14 Mar 2024 | 37

European Commission broke its own data privacy law with Microsoft 365 use

Euro folk have until December to put house in order

Public Sector11 Mar 2024 | 29

Microsoft Publisher books its retirement party for 2026

Updated Venerable desktop publisher not going to get a Copilot any time soon

Applications20 Feb 2024 | 54

NHS in Wales bets big on Microsoft with deal worth nearly half a billion

Forget historic cloud downtime, latest contract with reseller to offer 'agile and flexible' approach

SaaS13 Feb 2024 | 28

Leaked memo: Microsoft employees should be using Copilot too

It's all part of a push to get more devs using AI tools

AI + ML08 Feb 2024 | 29

Microsoft seeks Rust developers to rewrite core C# code

Embrace, extend, and ... port?

Software31 Jan 2024 | 92

Snow day in corporate world thanks to another frustrating Microsoft Teams outage

Network rollback fails to resolve issue in Americas as Redmond scrambles to optimize its way out of the problem

SaaS27 Jan 2024 | 35

Microsoft hits $3 trillion as investors drink AI Kool-Aid

That's not to say Redmond hasn't had significant Windows of misfortune

AI + ML25 Jan 2024 | 12

Lukewarm reception for Microsoft's Copilot Pro amid performance, cost grumbles

Updated Pricey AI assistant met with enthusiasm and indifference

AI + ML23 Jan 2024 | 40

University chops students' Microsoft 365 storage to 20GB

Updated Sacrificing its academic backups for the sake of the environment

Storage19 Jan 2024 | 77

Microsoft 365's add-on avalanche is putting the squeeze on customers

Like buying a car where the seats are an optional extra

SaaS18 Jan 2024 | 45

Microsoft prices new Copilots for individuals and small biz vastly higher than M365 alone

Intros ‘Pro’ AI for creators, ditches 300-seat requirement for business use

AI + ML15 Jan 2024 | 46

Data loss prevention isn't rocket science, but NASA hasn't made it work in Microsoft 365

Privacy review finds breach response plan is a mess, training could be better, but protection regime mostly holds up

Public Sector21 Dec 2023 | 13

Microsoft Forms feature request still not sorted after SEVEN years

Request for time input field was added to project backlog – where it remains

Software13 Dec 2023 | 41

Microsoft to intro dedicated mode for Cloud PCs

Latest Insider Build brings new features for Windows 365 Boot

OSes08 Dec 2023 | 28

AWS accuses Microsoft of clipping customers' cloud freedoms

World's biggest off-prem service slinger submits comments to UK cloud inquiry, mostly has Redmond HQ's rival in its sights

PaaS + IaaS07 Dec 2023 | 8

Microsoft's Swiss army knife app hopes to cut through cloud clutter

Ignite A 'win' for Windows or just another pane in the glass?

SaaS16 Nov 2023 | 6

Microsoft 365 Copilot 'generally available' – if you can afford 300 seats

Updated Small businesses need not apply

SaaS03 Nov 2023 | 15

Amazon to drop a cool $1B on Microsoft 365 cloud suite

Over a million licenses for office software to be used by corporate and frontline workers

SaaS18 Oct 2023 | 19

Microsoft delays debut of IoT security offer due to 'unexpected system challenges'

Updated Software giant tells partners not to sell it but also happy to take your cash now

Channel05 Oct 2023 | 11

Beneath Microsoft's Surface event, AI spreads everywhere

Windows gets its own Copilot to help operate the operating system – Edge, Bing, Outlook, 365 not spared, either

AI + ML21 Sep 2023 | 44

Microsoft to kill off Outlook REST API v2.0 in 2024 – for real this time

Learn to love Microsoft Graph or say hello to Mr 404

Software07 Sep 2023 | 10

Farewell WordPad, we hardly knew ye

Microsoft ends development of free basic word processor bundled with Windows

Software04 Sep 2023 | 145

Official: Microsoft unbundles Teams in Europe

Breaking up is hard to do: Redmond reluctantly lets EU play matchmaker for software suite flings

SaaS31 Aug 2023 | 19

Microsoft 365 guest accounts + Power Apps = security nightmare

Black Hat A login, a PA trial license, and some good old hacking are all that's needed to nab SQL databases

Black Hat and DEF CON10 Aug 2023 | 5

Microsoft concession: You can run our wares in AWS virtual desktop under 'revised policy'

Interest from antitrust regulators spurred action? Still a pricey option, says analyst, and change doesn't help Google or Alibaba customers

PaaS + IaaS02 Aug 2023 | 6

Microsoft puts profanity filter on %@!#ing Teams transcripts

Just in case you blurt out that L***x is better than Windows? (That was a joke, PR friends)

Offbeat30 Jun 2023 | 43

Microsoft postpones death date for personally licensed Teams Rooms hardware

The 'upgrade' is free, yet an amnesty is needed despite months of warning

Software28 Jun 2023 | 16

Where are we now, Microsoft 362.5? Europe reports outages

Redmond says problems stemmed from a datacenter in Germany, though UK spared the worst of it

OSes20 Jun 2023 | 16

With dead-time dump, Microsoft revealed DDoS as cause of recent cloud outages

Previous claims its own software updates were the issue remain almost, kinda, plausible

Security19 Jun 2023 | 20

Not even Dynamics 365 ERP is safe from Microsoft's Copilot splurge

The AI tentacles grab supply chain management, projects, and finance

AI + ML16 Jun 2023 | 19

Time is running out to finish that slurp of Outlook Moca

Microsoft retiring the calendar board view a few short years

Software11 Jun 2023 | 11

Microsoft battles through two 365 outages in one day

Updated Windows titan blames technical problems while hacktivists claim it woz them wot did it

SaaS06 Jun 2023 | 36

Microsoft Windows latest: Cortana app out, adverts in

Get Help? Yes, we highly recommend it, Redmond

OSes02 Jun 2023 | 87

Microsoft embraces Apple Mac loyalists – as long as they're using its software

iDevice admins now have a safe space where they can talk about M365

On-Prem01 Jun 2023 | 18

Microsoft enables booting physical PCs directly into cloud PCs

Running an OS from local storage is soooo last year

Virtualization24 May 2023 | 84

NHS England spends £8M to extend Microsoft deals by a month

Updated Good day at the Office for Windows giant as nurses still fight for pay raises

PaaS + IaaS18 May 2023 | 52

The world of work is broken and it's Microsoft's fault

Employees are wasting literal days on meetings and email – but in rides AI like a knight in shining armor, right?

Offbeat10 May 2023 | 59

Windows 11 wrecks speech recognition for some apps

Microsoft OS stutters with Japanese and Chinese languages

OSes03 May 2023 | 4

Microsoft tackles SaaSy URL sprawl, dumping its dotcom in favor of cloud.microsoft

Promises more cross-product links, better security, and easier admin – for you and Redmond’s own crew

SaaS27 Apr 2023 | 23

Microsoft may stop bundling Teams with Office amid antitrust probe threat

First came Slack then others joined the scrum to tackle the Beast of Redmond

CxO25 Apr 2023 | 97

Where are we now – Microsoft 363? Cloud suite suffers another outage

Final update Some customers unable to use the search function for online services like Teams and Outlook

SaaS24 Apr 2023 | 20

Microsoft not a Teams player as admin center, 365 service suffer partial outage

Final update It’s not the caching. There’s no way it’s the caching. It was the caching

SaaS20 Apr 2023 | 22

More ads in Windows 11 Start Menu could be last straw for some

Others are resigned to inevitability and argue it's better than a subscription

OSes17 Apr 2023 | 115

Microsoft stumps loyal fans by making OneDrive handle Outlook attachments

Which means you may suddenly hit a 5GB limit rather than 15GB

Storage06 Apr 2023 | 76

China somehow got through COVID without MS Teams but – phew! – it's arrived

Microsoft's cloudy pal 21Vianet upgrades to M365

Software03 Apr 2023 | 11

Microsoft breaks geolocation, locking users out of Azure and M365

Customers banished to an IP address in Uzbekistan that Redmond’s cloud did not recognize

Off-Prem24 Mar 2023 | 35