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Microsoft Universal Print Adds Pull Print to Curb Exposed Documents and Print Waste
Microsoft has closed a significant security loophole in office printing with the general availability of Universal Print's pull printing feature. Dubbed "Universal Print Anywhere," the capability...
Microsoft’s Universal Print Anywhere Now GA: Secure Pull Printing for Windows, macOS with QR Release
Microsoft has officially launched Universal Print anywhere — its cloud-native pull printing feature — into general availability, arming IT administrators with a secure, cross-platform solution...
Outlook Mobile Send Button May Shift to Header Amid Wider UI Overhaul, But Key Roadmap ID Remains Unconfirmed
Reports that Microsoft plans to relocate the Send button in Outlook mobile from the bottom compose toolbar to the top header in September 2025 have ignited conversation among enterprise...
iManage Adopts Anthropic’s MCP to Bring AI Agents to Law Firm Document Repositories
iManage is betting that law firms want their AI assistants to talk directly to their document management systems—and it’s adopting an open protocol to make that happen securely. The company’s...
iManage Embraces Open AI Protocol MCP, Rolls Out Explainable Search and Copilot for Legal Pros
iManage, the knowledge management platform for legal and professional services, announced on August 11, 2025, that it is adopting the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open interoperability standard...
Microsoft 365 Companions Auto-Install on Windows 11: What IT Must Do Before the Rollout Hits
Microsoft has begun rolling out a trio of taskbar-integrated apps called Microsoft 365 companions for Windows 11 enterprise users, and they will install automatically on eligible devices unless IT...
Critical Word Flaw CVE-2025-53784 Lets Attackers Hijack PCs via Malicious Docs — Patch Immediately
Microsoft’s latest security advisory warns of a memory-corruption flaw in Word—CVE-2025-53784—that hands attackers a local-code-execution foothold from nothing more than a booby-trapped...
CVE-2025-53741: Microsoft Issues Emergency Excel Patch to Stop Remote Code Execution via Heap Overflow
Microsoft has disclosed a critical heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in Excel, tracked as CVE-2025-53741, that can give attackers the ability to remotely execute code on a vulnerable machine...
Handwriting Just Got Real: Microsoft Adds Fountain and Brush Pens to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
Microsoft has quietly ported two of OneNote’s most expressive digital inking tools—the Fountain pen and Brush pen—into Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for Windows, giving users a more natural,...
Windows 11 to Automatically Install Microsoft 365 Companions in October — Here’s What IT Admins Need to Know
Microsoft will begin automatically installing three new Microsoft 365 companion mini-apps directly into the Windows 11 taskbar starting in late October 2025. The People, Files, and Calendar...
Microsoft Begins Silent Rollout of 365 Companion Apps to Windows 11 Taskbars
Starting in late October 2025, Microsoft began automatically installing three new companion apps onto the Windows 11 taskbar for devices that already have Microsoft 365 Apps. Dubbed Calendar, File...
GPT-5 Powers Microsoft Copilot's Next Act, But Enterprise Price Hits $30
Microsoft has started rolling out GPT-5—the latest OpenAI model—across its Copilot services, marking the most significant upgrade to the AI assistant since its debut. The model landed in early...