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This has never happened before. Microsoft is expiring the authentication that protects Windows PCs from threats each time they restart. Secure Boot certificates on almost all Windows PCs date back to 2011 and will now be replaced. The process starts this month and is wrapped into April’s security update. While Microsoft had said that “starting

The bug hit Office documents opened from OneDrive and SharePoint links in classic Outlook racorn/123RF / Digital Trends Microsoft says it has started releasing a service-side update for a classic Outlook bug that caused Office files to load blank, show repair prompts, or trigger corruption warnings. The Outlook documents problem affects Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

College students who purchase eligible Windows laptops before July 31 can receive a free year of Microsoft 365 Premium, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, and a customized Xbox controller. Retailers including Best Buy, Amazon, Walmart, and Dell are leaning into the promotion, surfacing models designed to rival the MacBook Neo on...Read Entire Article...

OSes Microsoft releases first big update after Nadella's vow to 'win back fans' Lots of fixes, some performance tweaks. Fingers crossed there's no out-of-band patch to follow Microsoft is following through on its promise to prioritize Windows stability with its April 30 non-security update. Ahead of Patch Tuesday, yesterday's update was chock-full of fixes, including

That figure comes from Tey Bannerman, an AI strategy and design consultant, who undertook the challenging – but rewarding – task of counting all the Copilot products now embedded across Microsoft's ecosystem. He explained that he decided to do this after trying to describe Copilot to someone and realizing he...Read Entire Article...

Microsoft on Thursday launched three new foundational AI models it built entirely in-house — a state-of-the-art speech transcription system, a voice generation engine, and an upgraded image creator — marking the most concrete evidence yet that the $3 trillion software giant intends to compete directly with OpenAI...

Image: StackCommerce TL;DR: Microsoft Office 2024 Home & Business for Mac is available for under $100 as a one-time purchase, giving you the latest Office apps without paying for Microsoft 365 every year. Mac users often assume that Microsoft Office means signing up for Microsoft 365 and paying a yearly fee just to use Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Microsoft is investigating an outage that blocks some administrators with business or enterprise subscriptions from accessing the Microsoft 365 admin center. While the company has yet to disclose which regions are affected by this ongoing service degradation, it is tracking it on its official service health status page to provide impacted organizations with up-to-date information.