Articles from 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in 2026
Microsoft Planner’s AI Status Reports Come to Life in August: Here’s Your Guide
Microsoft is adding AI-powered status reports to Planner this August, giving users a way to turn task data into polished, stakeholder-ready narratives with a single prompt. According to a new entry...
Microsoft Purview DLP SLA Dashboard Lands August 2026 Preview, Giving Orgs MTTA and MTTR Tracking
Microsoft has confirmed plans to add a built-in SLA dashboard to Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, giving security and compliance teams a direct way to measure response times for sensitive data...
Microsoft's New Copilot Agent Will Let Leaders Query Their Workforce Data in Plain Language
Microsoft has revealed a new AI-powered agent for Microsoft 365 Copilot that promises to make organizational data conversational. The Workforce Insights Agent, added to the official Microsoft 365...
Outlook Mobile Will Finally Let You Drag Calendar Events, Arriving August 2026
Microsoft has confirmed a small but significant update to Outlook on iOS and Android: the ability to reschedule calendar events by dragging them to a new time slot. The feature, listed on the...
Microsoft Purview DLP to Let Admins Auto-Close Low-Risk Alerts and Tag Workflows by September 2026
Microsoft will give security and compliance teams a powerful new lever to cut alert noise in Purview Data Loss Prevention starting in September 2026. A planned update, tracked under Microsoft 365...
Microsoft’s July Excel Update: Copilot Now Shows Its Work—and Drops the AutoSave Mandate
Microsoft’s July 2026 feature drop for Excel doesn’t revolve around new worksheet functions or chart types. Instead, the entire release trains its sights on a single ambition: making Copilot in...
Microsoft 365 Copilot’s New ‘Study and Learn’ Agent Is Built for Students Who Actually Want to Learn
On July 28, Microsoft released a new AI agent called Study and Learn that sits inside Microsoft 365 Copilot. It’s built for one specific task: helping students actually learn the material, not just...
Outlook for Mac, iPad to Get Detachable Copilot Chat Window in August 2026
Microsoft is giving Outlook for Mac and iPad users a reason to look forward to August 2026: a detachable Copilot Chat window that floats above your inbox. The change, first spotted on the Microsoft...
Copilot Notebooks Can Now Use Outlook Emails as Grounding Material – Here’s What You Need to Know
Microsoft has begun rolling out a much-requested capability for Microsoft 365 Copilot Notebooks: the ability to add Outlook emails as explicit references. The feature, tracked as Roadmap ID 564910,...
Analysis-First PST Import from Azure Blob Storage Set for Government Clouds
In November 2026, Microsoft plans to deliver a long-awaited shortcut for government cloud administrators: the ability to import PST files directly from Azure Blob Storage into Exchange Online,...
Microsoft Draws Final Deadline for Legacy Dynamics ERP: 2031 for NAV and GP, 2030 for SL
Microsoft has issued definitive end-of-life timelines for three of its oldest on-premises enterprise resource planning systems—Dynamics NAV, Dynamics GP, and Dynamics SL—giving customers a hard...
Android Users Must Update Chrome Now: CVE-2026-13037 Exploits WebView for Sandboxed Code Execution
Google shipped an emergency fix for Chrome on Android on June 23, addressing a high-severity bug that lets attackers execute arbitrary code inside WebView’s sandbox using a booby-trapped web page....