SOFTWARE Update Teams mobile app by October or lose your calendar A nice little summer job for someone
ON-PREM Microsoft makes Copilot harder to miss in Classic Outlook New button beside the ribbon promises consistency – and more questions for admins
security Russian spies take their half-click email attack from Zimbra to Outlook Opening a booby-trapped message unleashes a browser implant that can survive password changes and device rebuilds
OFFBEAT 30 years ago, AT&T gave Internet Explorer the default advantage Netscape still ruled the browser market, but Microsoft had Windows 95, WorldNet, and a very valuable foothold
ON-PREM Cisco 'retires' its Azure Local offering rather than catch up to Microsoft’s changed hardware requirements Redmond now allows only locked-down rigs with joint software and hardware support for its on-prem hyperconverged cloud and Switchzilla won't go there
SOFTWARE Microsoft's cloud brings rain of revenue but modest M365 AI revenue harvest Capex spending? What? Me worry?
security Word worm crawls into Copilot, spreads chaos Researcher says months of coordination with Microsoft have yet to produce a robust mitigation
SOFTWARE Microsoft faces competition probe over Copilot subscription price hike Watchdog asks whether customers were clearly told how to avoid the costlier AI-equipped plans
DEVOPS Microsoft lays out a buffet of Windows goodies for JavaScript Developers Just don’t call the WinRT projection for Node.js a lock-in
PATCHES Microsoft Defender for Endpoint leaves some Linux boxes defenseless after update One bug disabled the security service on restart, another blocked installation on hardened RHEL systems
SOFTWARE Microsoft seeks Supreme Court lifeline in pre-owned license battle £270M ValueLicensing case remains mostly paused while Redmond pursues permission to appeal
columnists Digital sovereignty is real in Europe. The UK? Not so much Trump's unpredictability is pushing governments and businesses toward open source while Britain remains glued to US tech
columnists FOSS smashed one Microsoft monopoly. After 20 years of failure, it's time to smash another Word up
Security Google goes it alone with a new cybercrime crew taxonomy So much for Microsoft and CrowdStrike’s plans for consistent names across the industry
PERSONAL TECH LG kills McAfee pop-up after Windows boss steps in Advert gets the chop, but the silent app installation mechanism remains untouched
off-prem Microsoft fiber foul-up cut off Azure California for almost five hours Maintenance mistake caused immediate issues and took out 27 services
PUBLIC SECTOR Ireland stalls €1B Microsoft tender amid digital sovereignty questions Government plans another Redmond-only procurement despite calls to consider European rivals
Security Kratos phishing-as-a-service kit loses its battle with international law enforcement Alleged developer arrested in Indonesia after more than 200 servers slain
os platforms Windows 11 Start menu changes trickle into Beta, movable taskbar still MIA Users asked for flexibility, but a leaner OS for older PCs might matter more as hardware prices soar
PERSONAL TECH LG monitors are using Windows 11 feature to serve adware Plug in your new display and get a McAfee pitch you never asked for
APPLICATIONS The Document Foundation says Microsoft's file formats keep users on a short leash OOXML may carry an ISO certificate, but only Office can be trusted to render it properly
security Microsoft 365 calendars become spy drop boxes in HOLLOWGRAPH campaign Malware hides commands in appointments set for 2050 and uses Redmond's own cloud to phone home
SYSTEMS Windows Server Update Services buckle under Microsoft's metadata mountain Redmond has stabilized new installations, but existing deployments remain stuck in sync purgatory
OS PLATFORMS Microsoft rushes out Windows fix for Dell's hot and bothered PCs With a wave of the wand, affected models will go to the Patch Tuesday ball after all
columnists Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical Which way to the Land of the Free again?
OS PLATFORMS Microsoft cuts OneDrive support for older Windows 10 versions next month 22H2 has until 2028, or there's always Windows 11
SAAS Microsoft gives admins Exchange Online breathing room Retirement of PowerShell -Credential parameter pushed back to the end of 2026
PASS and iaas Europe's chip ambitions won't break dependence on US cloud and software, says Forrester Brussels may spend billions on semiconductor fabs, but tech sovereignty remains firmly in American and Chinese hands
ai and ml Amsterdam activists throw acid at Microsoft datacenter project Extinction Rebellion claims responsibility for chemical-filled balloon attack targeting concrete and steel
OFFBEAT Microsoft open-sources Comic Chat, its cartoon IRC curiosity Step back three decades to 'a period when software teams were willing to color outside the lines'
OS PLATFORMS Windows 10 refuses to die, and the security bill is coming due One in six machines still run the old OS as migration stalls and patch deadlines creep closer
Security CISA sounds alarm over trio of exploited SharePoint flaws Three bugs are under active attack, and two more critical holes could add to the pain
security Patchpocalypse Now: Microsoft tops last month's record with 622 Patch Tuesday CVEs Remember when last month's 206 CVEs seemed eye-watering? Yeah, those were the days
os platforms Microsoft rolls out Windows Search updates and they're... quite good Who are you, and what have you done with Microsoft?
offbeat Excel competition goes extreme, makes spreadsheet geeks compete from the street Defending world champ Diarmuid Early wins again despite being forced to solve puzzles outdoors
ai and ml Microsoft chief turns hostile on frontier AI labs, warns companies to guard their IP Lock it down, warns Satya Nadella, seemingly forgetting the billions Redmond chipped in to OpenAI back in the good old days
OS platforms Microsoft emails Windows 10 holdouts: Fine, keep your old PC another year Consumer security updates now run to October 2027, and Redmond doesn't mention Windows 11 once
columnists Microsoft is losing the battle to protect license lucre. It better get used to the feeling Time for the Clone Wars remake
AI + ML AI customers are coming around to the idea that small is beautiful OpenAI and Anthropic have built AI Swiss Army Knives, but the future may be smaller built-for-purpose tools
security Destructive Windows backdoor stuffs multiple wipers and ransomware code into a single package Microsoft says GigaWiper combines at least 3 malware families into one modular tool
on-prem AI-driven datacenter builds drive Microsoft's emissions up a quarter in one year Firm faces quandary of wanting to help the environment, but also wanting to force AI on everyone
Security Microsoft warns customers AI will mean busier Patch Tuesdays More patches mean more reasons to buy Redmond’s auto-patching tools
applications Outlook for Mac bug makes font choice a purely decorative feature Monospaced code snippets among the reported casualties
security Microsoft closes book on Nightmare Eclipse's RoguePlanet zero-day Weeks after the exploit code dropped, Redmond has finally ships a fix for the Defender zero-day
devops Speedier type checks in TypeScript 7.0 as first stable Go release ships 10X faster build times could force Slack developers back to their keyboards
Applications Microsoft to switch off OWA Light after nearly two decades Nobody needs a simple web client for Exchange, do they?
PERSONAL TECH Windows 95 detected installers by looking for magic words and hoping for the best If your name's not on the list, you're... probably not a setup program
off prem Microsoft shifts to annual exchange rate price revision for cloudy products Previously did it twice a year, so customers now have fewer chances to surf FX waves
SOFTWARE Another German state heads down the open source sovereignty road Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ditches SharePoint while Bavaria also mulls Microsoft alternatives
OS PLATFORMS Microsoft intros tech that rebuilds dead PCs without requiring local copies of Windows No USB stick required if your Win 11 box has a pulse and a network driver
cyber-crime Windows is watching: Anti-piracy tool fingers Scattered Spider suspect Along with other telemetry, Windows GDID makes online activity more traceable
Software Court tosses Microsoft's appeal in pre-owned software licenses battle ValueLicensing celebrates while Redmond considers next steps
SYSTEMS Microsoft flips Windows Backup to on by default unless you're in the EU Everyone else must opt out manually if they don't fancy settings data shipped off-device
Cybercrime Fake IT bods on Microsoft Teams coax workers into installing malware Unit 42 says attackers are posing as helpdesk staff and persuading employees to hand over remote control before dropping EtherRAT trojan
DEVOPS GitHub cuts short offer to burn repos on CD after mockery ensues A purported jab of Sony's physical media phase-out blows up on GitHub itself
software Microsoft says the world is changing faster than it can keep up as it guts commercial, Xbox teams Xbox chief says company can't afford to mistake longevity for inevitability
security Microsoft said exploitation was 'less likely' ... but CISA just added SharePoint RCE to KEV list Attackers need little more than a valid SharePoint account to execute code on vulnerable on-prem servers
os platforms Microsoft lets Azure Linux 4 out of the cloud in downloadable ISO form Fedora-derived server distro is ready for local testing, but production deployments should wait
software Microsoft builds a bouncer to keep bots out of Teams meetings Allows ISVs to put their names on the door so desirable bots always get in
DevOps .NET's long-term support is not long-term enough, dev complains Three-year lifecycle leaves enterprises with barely a year to adopt each LTS release
AI and ML How the AI bubble could pop and take down the global economy, according to the BIS Central bank for central banks sees shades of dotcom mania in hyperscaler capex binge
networks Microsoft to assist European Commission in defense of EU-US data-sharing agreement Court says Redmond can file briefs, take part in hearings amid challenge to the current path Big Tech's data spice uses to legally flow
SECURITY Microsoft keeps Windows Server 2022 hotpatching alive into 2027 In the Azure Edition, of course
columnists Telling internet platforms where to stick public service media will serve nobody. Turn it on its head Show not tell makes a far finer script
saas Italy probes AI-fueled price hikes in Microsoft 365 Regulator says subscribers may have been defaulted onto more expensive plans with Copilot features attached
SYSTEMS Engineer accused of insider trading tied to Microsoft's reboot of Three Mile Island nuclear plant SEC claims former Constellation employee made $1.4M trading options before the restart deal was announced
OS PLATFORMS Microsoft extends extended updates for Windows 10 in the most muted way imaginable Tiny tweak to support page reveals consumers can purchase another year of patch protection
AI and ML AI giants back non-profit to retrain workers left behind by AI Sorry we spent your wages on datacenters, but call us when you're AI-ready
PERSONAL TECH Windows 11 can now turn back the clock when updates go bad Point-in-time restore offers a 72-hour escape hatch for stricken PCs
LEGAL European Commission lines up Amazon and Microsoft for cloud gatekeeper status Preliminary position calls for designation under the Digital Markets Act
Research Boffin claims Microsoft's supposed quantum leap does not compute due to 'basic Python errors' Nature paper argues researchers cherry-picked data. Redmond insists its work is sound
saas Microsoft rivals line up to tell UK watchdog where the software behemoth hurt them Browsers, cloud challengers, and Killinghall Parish Council all accuse Redmond of locking in customers, hobbling competition
OFFBEAT Ordering a trip back to 2009, with a side of nostalgia A time when Windows 7 was Microsoft's latest and greatest
systems Datacenters dip a toe back into waterborne computing despite obvious challenges Floating or sub-surface bit barns are all the rage, but unlikely to compete with multi-gigawatt sites
ON-PREM Texas lassoes massive Microsoft datacenter – and 20 years of gas turbine emissions The air turns brown when bit barns come to town … deep in the heart of Texas
OS PLATFORMS Microsoft tells Windows users to get ready for 26H2 – unless they're on 26H1 Same core as 24H2 and 25H2 means an enablement package, while Search gets a little more forgiving
PERSONAL TECH Microsoft accidentally kills epic Outlook email threads Redmond manages to break replying to an email on Outlook for macOS, one of the most basic functions
PERSONAL TECH Microsoft's latest Windows bug belongs in the Recycle Bin File deletion dialog swaps recognizable names for internal gibberish
OFFBEAT Microsoft once used its own brand of 'Lego' to optimize Windows Making software feel snappier when you only have 12 MB RAM
PERSONAL TECH Surface tension rises as Microsoft's latest kit starts at a pricey $1,499 Snapdragon X2 silicon and recycled aluminum are nice, the sticker shock less so
OS PLaTFORMS Windows devs rerolled old code to save precious bytes There really was a time when Microsoft cared about every KB
Public sector UK.gov links up with LinkedIn for jobs market intel from 40M accounts What anonymized data taught me about B2B sales... and reliance on the private sector for statistical info
PERSONAL TECH Windows update leaves third-party Office document launches in limbo Microsoft won the OLE vs OpenDoc wars. Now it's saying OLE dependencies don't matter
SOFTWARE Microsoft faces down sueball, capacity problems in series of challenges Misleading statements about Copilot and AI? Surely not!
Cyber-crime Crooks found a new way to collaborate using Teams – by hiding command-and-control traffic Custom malware routed communications through legitimate Microsoft services, making malicious activity look like routine corporate collaboration
DATABASES SQL Server may be too lucrative for Microsoft to ditch, but too legacy to love Analysts say Redmond still has billions of reasons to keep backing its flagship DBMS, even as Azure, Postgres, and AI hog the spotlight
On-PREM France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity well Nextcloud rollout shows locally controlled storage is one thing; getting users off Office is quite another
Security Microsoft site throwing warnings after someone forgot to renew cert Connectivity checker trips browser alarms thanks to lapsed security paperwork
PUBLIC SECTOR UK Treasury hunts CTO on salary that may not compute for top tech talent The pension may be cushy, but the looming headaches for £77K are not
OFFBEAT Munch Museum Windows display gives visitors something to scream about When art reflects modern realities
offbeat XP-era Windows spotted haunting London's driverless railway A blast from the past greets commuters
SECURITY Microsoft has mostly repaired flaw in Surface hardware that allowed unprotected devices to be bricked by a single packet
security GitHub nukes 70+ Microsoft repos, breaks CI/CD pipelines, following suspected worm infections
Security Another bug hunter leaks Microsoft exploits in defiance of company’s handling of vulnerability disclosures
OS PLATFORMS Microsoft Build News: Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, Coreutils for Windows, air-gapped GitHub and more
os platforms I designed Microsoft's $5B EA channel architecture in 2001. The 2026 transition is missing what made it work
Security Lone attacker published 14 malicious npm packages mimicking popular OpenSearch, Elasticsearch libraries
Security Disgruntled 0-day hunter 'humiliated' by Microsoft pledges 'bone shattering drop' as Redmond calls cops
Security Microsoft shuts down illegal code-signing operation used by ransomware crims to mask their malware
Columnists Microsoft's bad obsession is showing up in shabby services and slipshod software. Here's proof
Patches Microsoft's patch for a 0-day exploited by Russian spies fell short. Another Windows flaw is under attack
Public Sector UK.gov's DCMS to new CDIO: Migrate from Google to Microsoft, overhaul ERP, build a team
Software Microsoft tackles quality control issues. Just kidding, it's encouraging experienced workers to leave
Applications Artemis II astronaut: 'I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working'
On-Prem Microsoft takes up residence next to OpenAI, Oracle at Crusoe's 900 MW Texas datacenter expansion
OSes Microsoft tells crusty old kernel drivers to get with the Windows Hardware Compatibility Program
