Microsoft kicks new Outlook opt-out deadline down the road to 2027 Admins get another year before migration pressure ramps up SaaS06 Mar 2026 | 28
Microsoft previews tech to ease creation of keyboard-accessible websites ‘focusgroup’ has nothing to do with market research, offers devs faster coding and faster websites for everyone Software06 Mar 2026 | 28
Cloud inquiry chair quits UK competition watchdog over glacial pace of reform Kip Meeks walked a year early with the overseer of tech markets yet to take action against AWS and Microsoft PaaS + IaaS04 Mar 2026 | 9
Microsoft reportedly eyes E7 tier to make AI agents pay their way – like the humans they'll replace Redmond wants a monthly cut from every digital worker on your payroll. Agents don't need dental, they will need a SKU AI + ML03 Mar 2026 | 48
Phish of the day: Microsoft OAuth scams abuse redirects for malware delivery Crims hope for payday from malicious payloads rather than stealing access tokens Security03 Mar 2026 | 3
Windows 11 tops market share as 10 faces extended farewell More than a fifth of servers still on Windows Server 2016 OSes02 Mar 2026 | 10
Microsoft's Project Silica promises eternal storage. It can't get there from here Opinion Soon turned out, we had a heart of glass Columnists02 Mar 2026 | 28
NUC, NUC! Who’s there? ASUS with a client device for Microsoft’s cloudy PCs Dell also joins the alternative to Windows 365 Link fun Off-Prem27 Feb 2026 | 36
Microsoft to auto-launch Copilot in Edge whenever you click a link from Outlook Whac-A-Mole season continues as Redmond finds yet another corner to stuff its 21st century Clippy AI + ML26 Feb 2026 | 84
Britain's creaking courts to use Copilot for transcriptions Ministry of Justice wowed by Ontario's paperless system, announces £12M for AI unit AI + ML26 Feb 2026 | 46
Microsoft 'cooperating' with Japanese antitrust probe It looks like the same cloudy software licenses that offend Europe may be in play – along with a cute little monster Legal26 Feb 2026 | 5
Fake 'interview' repos lure Next.js devs into running secret-stealing malware Come for the coding test, stay for the C2 traffic Security25 Feb 2026 | 4
Worried Europeans can now cut Azure's phone cord completely Updated As transatlantic tensions rattle nerves, Microsoft offers a digital bunker to the sufficiently paranoid PaaS + IaaS25 Feb 2026 | 30
Microsoft gives Windows laggards the 'gift of time' wrapped in licensing fees With Server 2016 and other OSes for the chop, security fixes can continue to flow for a price OSes24 Feb 2026 | 51
West Midlands Police earn red card over Copilot's imaginary football match Parliament committee finds AI BS helped shape a real-world decision Public Sector24 Feb 2026 | 21
Microsoft teases ‘reimagined SharePoint experience’ with added AI Redmond also offers to take the OneDrive name out of your OneDrive SaaS24 Feb 2026 | 52
Microsoft execs worry AI will eat entry level coding jobs Russinovich and Hanselman say firms must train juniors to fix agent mistakes – not replace them with prompts Devops23 Feb 2026 | 41
Microsoft boffins cook up archival storage using Pyrex glass they say can last over 10,000 years It may have half the capacity of fused silica glass, but is faster and much cheaper Storage19 Feb 2026 | 55
Windows 11 finally hits right note: MIDI 2.0 support arrives Musical instrument digital interface protocol leaves preview for bright lights of General Availability OSes18 Feb 2026 | 19
Microsoft throws spox under the bus after Parliament testimony on ICC email kerfuffle Exclusive Apologizes for 'inaccuracy' SaaS18 Feb 2026 | 51
Capita taps Microsoft Copilot to dig it out from UK pensions backlog Outsourcer tells MPs AI is prioritizing cases as thousands of civil servants face delays Public Sector17 Feb 2026 | 35
AWS adds nested virtualization option for handful of EC2 instances Your chance to run a VM inside a VM, inside a cloud – which can mean WSL on a cloudy Windows PC Virtualization17 Feb 2026 | 2
FTC to probe whether Microsoft's cloud clout crosses the line Competitors asked to detail licensing terms, training costs, and business practices in widening antitrust inquiry PaaS + IaaS16 Feb 2026 | 6
If Microsoft made a car... what would it be? What is the automotive equivalent of Word, and where does Copilot fit? Bootnotes15 Feb 2026 | 164
Attackers finally get around to exploiting critical Microsoft bug from 2024 As if admins haven't had enough to do this week Patches13 Feb 2026 | 13
'Another dark day': Users slam Microsoft over Polyglot Notebooks deprecation Visual Studio Code extension faces March shutdown with no transition guidance Software12 Feb 2026 | 12
The big FOSS vendors don't eat their own dogfood – they pay for proprietary groupware Open Source Policy Summit 2026 That's not a good idea Software12 Feb 2026 | 126
Microsoft warns that poisoned AI buttons and links may betray your trust Businesses are embedding prompts that produce content they want you to read, not the stuff AI makes if left to its own devices AI + ML12 Feb 2026 | 17
How Microsoft's legal eagles wrangled Happy Days for Windows 95 Has the OS also jumped the shark? OSes11 Feb 2026 | 45
Notepad's new Markdown powers served with a side of remote code execution Smug faces across all those who opposed the WordPad-ification of Microsoft's humble text editor Security11 Feb 2026 | 75
Microsoft's Valentine's gift to admins: 6 exploited zero-day fixes Roses are red, violets are blue ... now get patching Patches10 Feb 2026 | 15
Microsoft touts far-off high-temperature superconducting tech for datacenter efficiency Someday Science10 Feb 2026 | 14
Microsoft dials up the nagging in Windows, calls it security Updated More prompts when apps and agents roam around a user's system OSes10 Feb 2026 | 57
GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability Slowdowns, outages, and Copilot problems afflict code shack Devops10 Feb 2026 | 39
Microsoft boffins figured out how to break LLM safety guardrails with one simple prompt Chaos-inciting fake news right this way AI + ML09 Feb 2026 | 26
Someone's attacking SolarWinds WHD to steal high‑privilege credentials - but we don't know who or how So many CVEs, so little time Cyber-crime09 Feb 2026 | 5
Azure power hiccup gives Windows admins a rare break from updates West US datacenter incident disrupted Microsoft Store and system patching for several hours OSes09 Feb 2026 | 10
The Linux mid-life crisis that's an opportunity for Tux-led transformation Opinion Sudo make me a star Software09 Feb 2026 | 56
Four horsemen of the AI-pocalypse line up capex bigger than Israel's GDP Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft eye $635B in infrastructure spend AI + ML06 Feb 2026 | 50
Microsoft starts the countdown for the end of Exchange Web Services Windows giant might try turning it off and on again to see who notices Applications06 Feb 2026 | 13
Microsoft declares 'reliability' a priority for Visual Studio AI Perhaps a little less focus on AI would help as well? AI + ML05 Feb 2026 | 12
Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files AI helpers can now rummage through multiple documents Storage05 Feb 2026 | 59
Three clues that your LLM may be poisoned with a sleeper-agent back door It's a threat straight out of sci-fi, and fiendishly hard to detect Security05 Feb 2026 | 38
Satya Nadella decides Microsoft needs an engineering quality czar Picks chap who used to lead Redmond’s security, lures replacement from Google Software05 Feb 2026 | 82
Estonia hedges its bets on US tech while going all-in on Microsoft Riigi IT preps European escape plan as it herds civil servants into Redmond's cloud Public Sector04 Feb 2026 | 22
Microsoft engineer speedruns Raspberry Pi magic smoke in five minutes Only cool dudes should wear a HAT backward Personal Tech04 Feb 2026 | 76
DWP finds Copilot saves civil servants a whopping 19 minutes a day Tool speeds up searches and first draft emails, becomes 'comfort blanket' for Whitehall workers AI + ML04 Feb 2026 | 41
Microsoft actually does something useful, adds Sysmon to Windows After years of bolting AI onto everything, Redmond remembers admins exist OSes04 Feb 2026 | 25
'The EU runs on Microsoft' – and Uncle Sam could turn it off, claims MEP Open Source Policy Summit 2026 Open source gains urgency as Europe reassesses reliance on US tech Software04 Feb 2026 | 153
Azure outages ripple across multiple dependent Microsoft services Managed Identity and virtual machine failures triggered knock-on problems throughout cloud platform PaaS + IaaS03 Feb 2026 | 25
Microsoft finally sends TLS 1.0 and 1.1 to the cloud retirement home Azure Storage now requires version 1.2 or newer for encrypted connections Storage03 Feb 2026 | 7
Microsoft kills standalone SharePoint and OneDrive plans, because they’re not suite enough Blames ‘unintended or nonstandard usage’ and the cost of keeping them alive Off-Prem03 Feb 2026 | 25
Russia-linked APT28 attackers already abusing new Microsoft Office zero-day Ukraine’s CERT says the bug went from disclosure to active exploitation in days Cyber-crime02 Feb 2026 | 12
Patch Tuesday meets Groundhog Day as Windows hibernation bug returns Microsoft concedes January's out-of-band fix didn't stop some PCs from rebooting instead of sleeping OSes02 Feb 2026 | 18
Microsoft spends billions on AI, converts just 3.3% of Copilot Chat users CEO talks momentum while paid uptake remains minimal AI + ML02 Feb 2026 | 63
Microsoft's Sinofsky saw Surface fail coming – then hit up Epstein for advice on exit DOJ files show former Windows chief predicting a public flop before mulling next mission Personal Tech02 Feb 2026 | 33
Microsoft's 'atypical' emergency Windows patches are becoming awfully typical Opinion Administrators sigh: OOBs, they did it again OSes02 Feb 2026 | 48
Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native Opinion Just because you're paranoid about digital sovereignty doesn't mean they're not after you Off-Prem30 Jan 2026 | 189
Systemd daddy quits Microsoft to prove Linux can be trusted Lennart Poettering's Amutable aims to bring 'cryptographically verifiable integrity' to the other OS OSes29 Jan 2026 | 168
Sat Nad declares Windows 11 has a billion users – just don't bother asking for details Terrible start to 2026 offset by optimistic operating system numbers OSes29 Jan 2026 | 41
Microsoft investors sweat cloud giant's OpenAI exposure All the promises in the world won't pay the GPU bills when the music stops AI + ML29 Jan 2026 | 25