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Inside Windows 11: How Newsrooms Publish Sports Galleries and Obituaries in Record Time
A single image of a Falcons–Cowboys football game and a quiet obituary for Odessa Dillard Foddrell, 84, of Conover, North Carolina, reveal the twin engines of local journalism: speed and...
OneNote for Windows 10 Goes Read-Only on October 14: Your Migration Countdown Starts Now
Microsoft has set a hard stop for one of its longest-running note-taking apps: OneNote for Windows 10 will become read-only on October 14, 2025, locking all editing and sync capabilities. The company...
OneNote for Windows 10 Read-Only in October, Sync Slows in June: Act Now
Microsoft will lock millions of OneNote for Windows 10 notebooks into a view-only state on October 14, 2025. In an unusual move, the company will start degrading sync performance for the legacy app...
Microsoft’s COPILOT Function Turns Excel Cells into an AI-Powered Natural Language Engine
{ "title": "Microsoft’s COPILOT Function Turns Excel Cells into an AI-Powered Natural Language Engine", "content": "Microsoft is reengineering how AI lives inside Excel: a new COPILOT function...
OneNote for Windows 10 Enters Read-Only Mode on October 14, 2025 — Here’s How to Migrate Without Losing Data
Microsoft has drawn a hard line: after October 14, 2025, OneNote for Windows 10 will become read-only, cutting off editing and cloud sync for millions of users still clinging to the legacy UWP app....
OpenAI’s GPT-5 Stage Show Featured Google, But Microsoft Got the Real Enterprise Prize
OpenAI’s much-hyped GPT-5 launch on August 7, 2025, was stagecrafted as a Google-friendly moment. On screen, Gmail and Google Calendar integration showed ChatGPT pulling up emails and scheduling...
100+ Patches, a Kerberos Crisis, and Exchange's Last Stand: Unpacking Microsoft's August Security Blitz
Microsoft didn’t just drop a routine Patch Tuesday in August 2025. The company shipped fixes for over 100 security flaws, unveiled a one-time Extended Security Update (ESU) program that gives...
Domain Controllers at Risk: Microsoft’s August Update Closes Kerberos dMSA Vulnerability Amid 100+ Fixes
Microsoft’s August 2025 Patch Tuesday release lands with an urgent fix for a Kerberos vulnerability that could allow attackers to escalate to domain administrator, alongside more than a dozen other...
Active SharePoint RCE Exploits Chain Deserialization Bug to Deploy Web Shells and Ransomware
Attackers are actively chaining a deserialization vulnerability in on-premises SharePoint Server with an authentication bypass to gain remote code execution without credentials—then stealing the...
SharePoint 'ToolShell' Zero-Day Exploited: Critical RCE Patched Amid Active Attacks
Microsoft has released an emergency security update to patch a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in SharePoint Server that has been actively exploited in the wild. Tracked as...
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...
Employee Directory 365 Debuts on Microsoft AppSource with AI Search and 10-Minute Setup
Apps 365 & HR365 have launched Employee Directory 365 on Microsoft AppSource, delivering an AI-enhanced employee directory that lives inside SharePoint and Teams. The product promises deployment...