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The latest Teams coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Visier’s Vee Wins Top HR Product Award—and It’s Now Inside Word, Excel, and Teams
Human Resource Executive named Visier’s Vee the Top HR Product of the Year on June 12, less than two months after the company stitched its generative AI assistant into the fabric of Microsoft 365....
Office 2016/2019 Support Ends October 14 with No ESU — Here’s What IT Teams Must Do Now
On October 14, 2025, Microsoft will pull the plug on all support for Office 2016 and Office 2019 — and unlike some other aging products, these productivity suites will receive no Extended Security...
Microsoft's Agentic Collaboration: Teams, Copilot Studio, and AI Agents Reshape Enterprise Work
Microsoft is no longer just adding features to Teams; it is re-architecting the collaboration hub as the central nervous system for AI agents that perform work alongside humans. The company's...
Microsoft Agrees to Unbundle Teams Globally After EU Probe, Offers $2.20/User Discount
The European Commission is poised to approve a landmark settlement with Microsoft that formally unbundles Teams from Office 365 and Microsoft 365, closing a five-year antitrust drama while reshaping...
Satya Nadella’s 5 Copilot Prompts Turn Microsoft 365 into an AI Leadership Engine
Microsoft’s quiet integration of GPT‑5 into its Copilot family on August 7, 2025, was not just a routine model bump — it was the engineering unlock that turned a handful of brief, repeatable...
Microsoft Imposes 3-Day Office Mandate, Puget Sound First in Phased 2026 Rollout
Microsoft will require thousands of employees living within 50 miles of a company office to work onsite at least three days a week, the company announced this week, setting a February 2026 compliance...
Windows 11 KB5064081 Ships Emoji 16.0 Fonts — Emoji Panel Still Shows Blanks
Microsoft has begun rolling out support for Emoji 16.0 in Windows 11 24H2 through the August 2025 optional preview update KB5064081, but users who open the Emoji Panel (Win + .) expecting to find the...
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...
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....
Satya Nadella’s 5 Daily Copilot Prompts: A Governance Playbook for Enterprise AI
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s recent X thread sharing five daily prompts for GPT‑5‑powered Copilot is more than a productivity hack—it’s a real‑world demonstration of how enterprise AI...
Tiny11’s Latest Builder Can Purge Copilot, Outlook, and Teams from Windows 11 — But There Are Risks
Tiny11’s builder, a community-favorite script for slimming down Windows 11 installs, just got a major update: it can now surgically remove Copilot, the new Outlook for Windows, and Microsoft Teams...
tiny11builder Gains 25H2 Support, Now Purges Copilot and Outlook from Windows 11 ISOs
A freshly updated PowerShell script gives Windows power users a sharper scalpel for stripping unwanted components from Windows 11. The open-source tiny11builder project now supports version 25H2...