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Microsoft Store Plants Copilot Agents in AI Hub, Lets Insiders Launch Publisher Apps Directly
Microsoft began rolling out a Microsoft Store update to Windows Insiders this week that plants Microsoft 365 Copilot agents directly into the Store’s AI Hub and enables launching of...
Kaspersky Data Reveals 53% of Devices on Windows 10 as End-of-Support Nears
With mere weeks before Microsoft ends support for Windows 10, a new Kaspersky telemetry study reveals that 53% of PCs it monitors are still running the aging operating system, and nearly 60% of...
Microsoft Draws a Line in the Agentic AI Sand: Copilot Studio Gets a Lite and Full Experience
Microsoft has officially split its Copilot Studio into two distinct tiers, a move that signals a deliberate shift from a one-size-fits-all agent builder toward a persona-driven platform designed to...
Outlook Outage Timeline: How Microsoft Restored Service After 14-Hour Exchange Online Failure
Microsoft engineers have restored the majority of degraded infrastructure after a 14-hour Outlook and Exchange Online outage that left North American users locked out of email, calendars, and...
8 Windows 11 Privacy Settings to Change Right Now: Stop Telemetry, Ad Tracking, and Location Sharing
Microsoft's Windows 11 ships with a host of cloud-connected features that, by default, share your location, app usage, and even an advertising ID with Microsoft and third-party apps. While these...
How Azure DDoS Protection Absorbed a 3.47 Tbps Attack: Per-IP ML, Global Scrubbing, and What IT Teams Must Do Next
In late 2021, Microsoft's networks absorbed a massive 3.47 Tbps UDP reflection attack—among the largest ever recorded—on behalf of an Azure customer in Asia. This single incident, which also...
When PC Optimizers Turn Hostile: The Case Against CCleaner, Advanced SystemCare, and Clean Master
In 2017, a signed update for CCleaner—one of the world’s most popular PC cleaning tools—secretly installed a backdoor on over two million Windows machines. The incident exposed a chilling...
Microsoft Unveils Azure Service Groups Preview: Cross-Subscription Observability Without Governance Overhead
Microsoft has rolled out Azure Service Groups in public preview, introducing a tenant-level abstraction that lets organizations create flexible, cross-subscription groupings of resources for...
How Microsoft Contained and Addressed the Windows 10 1809 Data Loss Nightmare
In early October 2018, Microsoft released the Windows 10 October 2018 Update (version 1809) only to pull it days later after widespread reports that it had deleted users’ Documents, Pictures, and...
Microsoft Smashes Infuriating Windows 11 Bugs: SIM PIN Freeze, RDP Docking Crash, and Broken Text Rendering Fixed
Microsoft rolled out a cumulative update to Windows Insiders on September 11 that tackles a handful of stubborn bugs, including a sign-in freeze that could lock users out of their devices and a...
Windows 10 Share Rebounds Just Weeks Before Support Ends, Complicating Microsoft's Migration Push
Windows 10 usage ticked back upward in August 2025, a surprising reversal that saw the older operating system reclaim ground from Windows 11 just weeks before its October 14 end-of-support deadline....
Claude Sonnet 4 Slots into Word and Excel as Microsoft Rethinks Copilot’s AI Backend
Microsoft is integrating Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 models into Microsoft 365 Copilot, bringing them directly into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, according to reports from The Information...