Articles from June 24, 2026
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Shoosmiths Unleashes Project Apollo: Generative AI Contract Review on Microsoft Azure
Shoosmiths, one of the UK’s leading law firms, has officially launched Project Apollo, a bespoke generative AI contract review system developed in collaboration with Microsoft over the past year....
Investec Unleashes 800 AI Agents via Microsoft Copilot, Reshaping Banking Operations
On June 24, 2026, Investec did something few global banks have dared: it switched on Microsoft Copilot for roughly 8,000 employees across South Africa, the United Kingdom, and other international...
Commvault's AI-Powered Cyber Resilience Lands as Native Azure Service for Identity-Centric M365 and Windows Recovery
Microsoft and Commvault will integrate the latter’s AI-powered cyber resilience platform directly into Microsoft Azure as a native independent software vendor (ISV) service, the companies announced...
Xbox Unveils 10 Indie Gems at June 2026 Showcase, All Ready for Game Pass and Play Anywhere
Microsoft’s latest indie showcase, held during the Summer Game Fest and Xbox Games Showcase events in June 2026, introduced ten fresh titles, all of which are headed to Game Pass and support Xbox...
Windows 11 Gets a Time Machine: Microsoft’s 72-Hour Automatic Rollback Arrives
Microsoft has begun a phased rollout of a long-awaited safety net for Windows 11: Point-in-Time Restore. As of late June 2026, the feature automatically creates short-lived recovery snapshots,...
Microsoft Gives Schools Free AI-Powered Copilot Tools and Enhanced Safeguards for 2026
Microsoft dropped its third annual AI in Education Report on June 24, 2026, and with it came a suite of new AI tools for Microsoft 365 Education—at no additional cost. The move signals a deepening...
Thurrott's Windows 11 Field Guide Dives Deep into Cellular, eSIM, and Network Testing Tools
On June 23, 2026, the team behind the acclaimed Windows 11 Field Guide at Thurrott.com published two new deep-dive attachments: "test-03" and "cellular-01." These additions arrive as part of the...
Killinghall's Tiny £1,100 Bill Exposes Microsoft's AI-Powered Software Lock-in
A £1,100 annual Microsoft subscription held by a small parish council in North Yorkshire has become an unlikely Exhibit A in a national competition probe, illustrating how artificial intelligence...
EY to Deploy Microsoft-Powered Agentic AI for 160,000 Audits Globally by 2026
EY will embed a Microsoft-integrated multi-agent AI framework into its global audit platform, EY Canvas, beginning April 2026, the firm announced. The rollout, spanning roughly 160,000 client...
Inside Microsoft's 2026 AI Strategy: Unifying Azure, Copilot, and Security into a Single Control Plane
By June 2026, Microsoft intends to redefine enterprise AI not with a single product, but with a control plane architecture that turns Azure and Copilot into the central nervous system of corporate AI...
Windows 11 KB5095093 Update Delivers IPP Printing Overhaul, Secure Boot Fixes, and On-Device AI
Microsoft pushed the optional June preview update KB5095093 to Windows 11 versions 24H2 and 25H2 on June 23, 2026, advancing the two releases to builds 26100.8737 and 26200.8737 respectively. The...
Microsoft’s Datacenter Water Efficiency Improves 88% to 0.27 L/kWh as AI Scales
Microsoft’s owned datacenter fleet consumed an average of just 0.27 liters of water for every kilowatt-hour of electricity used in 2025, a staggering 88% reduction from the 2.3 L/kWh figure...