Microsoft Kills Viva Amplify Republish Feature Weeks After Missing Its Own April Deadline
Microsoft has quietly abandoned a planned Viva Amplify feature that corporate communicators had been counting on to refresh and correct their multichannel employee announcements without starting from...
Viva Engage's AI Community Agents Are Coming in September 2026 – What That Means for Your Workplace
Microsoft is preparing to inject AI directly into the social fabric of its Viva Engage platform, with community agents now slated for general availability in September 2026. The move, detailed in...
Microsoft Ships Teams Custom Reaction Icons: Here's How to Deploy Them Without Chaos
Microsoft has officially launched branded meeting reactions for Teams desktop users in the worldwide standard commercial cloud. The feature, tracked under Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 541830, reached...
Samsung Pours 2.8 Million Galaxy Z Fold 8 Units Into Production, Betting the Wider Screen Wins
Samsung is ramping up manufacturing of its next-generation foldable, the Galaxy Z Fold 8, to 2.8 million units—a 40% jump over earlier plans—just days before the company’s July 22 Unpacked...
Microsoft Teams Rolls Out Customizable Meeting Toolbar: Pin, Unpin, Reorder Controls Arrive
Microsoft has begun rolling out a redesigned meeting toolbar for Teams desktop users that, for the first time, lets participants pin, unpin, and reorder on-screen controls. The update, which reached...
Microsoft pulls Teams chat organizer update after rollback, putting August 2026 deadline at risk
Microsoft abruptly pulled a new automatic chat organizer for Teams on July 20, just weeks before its expected August 2026 rollout. The feature—designed to sweep muted conversations and meeting...
OneDrive Web Gains Full SharePoint View Management—What That Means for Your Workflow
Starting this July, if you open a SharePoint document library in OneDrive for the web, you'll find a new way to organize your work: the ability not just to switch among existing views, but also to...
Endpoint DLP Alerts in Microsoft Purview Will Soon Feed into In-Depth Content Investigations
Microsoft is closing the gap between spotting a potential data leak and understanding what was actually put at risk. Starting in August 2026, security teams will be able to pivot directly from an...
Microsoft 365 Update: Granular Access Controls for Sensitive Workforce Insights Attributes Arrive
Microsoft on Wednesday began rolling out a long-awaited governance upgrade for Organizational Data in the Microsoft 365 admin center, giving administrators the power to restrict custom workforce...
GCC High/DoD Teams Rooms gain remote camera view switching — what it means and how to get it
Microsoft has completed the government-cloud launch of a camera view switching feature for multi-camera Teams Rooms on Windows. As of June 2026, any meeting participant in a properly equipped GCC...
Microsoft Purview DLP Targets Your Google Workspace and AWS Data Starting September 2026
Microsoft will begin enforcing Data Loss Prevention and auto-labeling policies across Google Workspace, Salesforce, and five other non-Microsoft cloud services from September 2026. The expansion,...
How Microsoft’s New Proximity Join Simplifies Town Halls and Webinars in Teams Rooms
Microsoft has completed the rollout of proximity join for presenters during Teams events, allowing a personal device such as a laptop or phone to bring a nearby Teams Room system into a town hall,...