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Excel CVE-2025-54901: Patch Now for Critical Memory Disclosure, Mac Users Wait
Microsoft has released emergency security updates to patch a significant information-disclosure vulnerability in Microsoft Excel, tracked as CVE-2025-54901, that can expose sensitive process memory...
Copilot Brings One-Click Bulk Proofreading to Word for the Web
Microsoft has flipped the switch on a long-awaited Copilot feature in Word for the web: users can now fix every spelling and grammar mistake in a highlighted passage with a single click. The new "Fix...
Microsoft Sets Teams at $5 Per User in Global Unbundling to Settle EU Probe
Microsoft will sell Teams as a $5-per-user standalone app and offer Office suites without the collaboration tool to customers worldwide, capitulating to a European antitrust probe that began after a...
Forget Password Spraying: Change Your Microsoft 365 Password in 5 Minutes with These 3 Methods
Microsoft 365 accounts face an onslaught of automated password-spraying attacks every day. Credential theft, phishing, and brute-force attempts target both personal and work accounts, exploiting weak...
Microsoft Copilot Outage Strikes on September 8, Leaving Users Scrambling for Workarounds
On Monday evening, September 8, 2025, Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant became inaccessible for a wave of users, triggering a spike in outage reports across community forums and monitoring services....
Microsoft Tests AI Image Editing in Windows 11 File Explorer—Privacy Questions Remain
Windows Insiders on the bleeding-edge Canary channel are discovering a new context menu that puts generative AI image edits—including background removal, object erasing, and Bing Visual...
Windows 11 25H2 Forces OneDrive Backup, But a Secret Update Makes It Easy to Undo
Microsoft has taken a controversial step with the latest Windows 11 release, version 25H2: on a clean install, OneDrive folder backup is now silently enabled whenever you sign in with a Microsoft...
Copilot’s Word-to-Slides Feature Saves Hours, But Windows 10’s Oct 2025 Deadline Looms
Microsoft has quietly flipped the switch on a Copilot feature that many PowerPoint users have been craving: the ability to generate a ready-to-edit slide directly from a Word document. For anyone who...
OneDrive Copilot Lands in Windows File Explorer: Summarize, Compare, and Q&A Files Instantly
Microsoft has embedded its Copilot AI directly into the Windows file management experience, adding a set of intelligent actions—Summarize, Ask, Generate FAQ, and Compare—to OneDrive files in File...
Windows 11 24H2 Eliminates OneDrive Backup Opt-Out, Silently Pushing Files to the Cloud
Microsoft has tightened its grip on user choice with Windows 11 version 24H2, removing the option to decline OneDrive folder backup during device setup and automatically relocating local files to the...
Copilot's 5.6M Mobile User Surge Proves In-App AI Is Becoming Enterprise Infrastructure
Microsoft Copilot’s mobile user base jumped by 5.6 million in three months, overtaking ChatGPT’s 3.9 million additions in the same period, according to Comscore data reported by Adweek. That...
Microsoft to Halt New Outlook Lite Installs in October, Pushing Users to Heavier Outlook Mobile App
Microsoft will block new installations of its lightweight Outlook Lite Android app beginning October 6, 2025, leaving users of entry-level devices and limited data plans without a streamlined,...