Articles from June 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in June 2026
Vasu Jakkal Steps Down as Microsoft Security CVP After Six Years: Trust and Leadership in the Crosshairs
Microsoft’s corporate vice president of security, compliance, and identity, Vasu Jakkal, announced on June 30, 2026 that she is leaving the company after a six-year tenure that fundamentally...
Ireland’s Oireachtas Shifts to Teams Telephony, Fueling EU Sovereignty Concerns
Dublin’s Leinster House has completed a full migration of its telephone system to Microsoft Teams, placing the Irish legislature’s entire voice communications on a US-owned cloud platform. The...
Microsoft 365 Copilot Prompt Gallery Gains Tenant-Wide Publishing to Tighten AI Governance
Microsoft is sharpening its enterprise AI toolkit with a new Copilot Prompt Gallery feature that hands IT administrators the keys to company-wide prompt distribution. An update to the Microsoft 365...
Microsoft Teams to Introduce Dedicated Backstage Chat for Webinar Organizers by August 2026
Microsoft has updated its Microsoft 365 Roadmap to confirm that a private chat channel exclusive to organizers, co-organizers, and presenters is coming to Teams structured meetings and webinars....
Microsoft Copilot Chat to Unlock Scanned PDFs and Image Text in July 2026 Update
Microsoft has officially confirmed that Copilot Chat will soon be able to search and retrieve text from scanned PDFs and images embedded in documents, a long-awaited capability slated to arrive in...
Microsoft to Launch Copilot Cowork Analytics Dashboard in July 2026, Exposing AI Cost and Impact Data
Microsoft has quietly updated its Microsoft 365 roadmap with a new feature that will give enterprises hard numbers on how their employees use AI. Roadmap item 567005, added on June 30, 2026,...
Automatic Recording and Transcription Coming to Teams Call Queues in August 2026
Starting in August 2026, Microsoft Teams administrators will gain a powerful new capability: the automatic recording and transcription of every call handled by a Call Queue. The feature, which has...
Microsoft Teams Town Halls to Gain Professional-Grade SRT Ingest for Ultra-Low-Latency, Broadcast-Ready Streaming
Microsoft’s Microsoft 365 Roadmap updated June 30, 2026, shows that Secure Reliable Transport (SRT) ingest is rolling out for Microsoft Teams town halls on desktop and Mac clients, targeting...
Microsoft Unveils OneNote Copilot Notebooks: AI That Drafts Docs from Your Ideas
Microsoft’s OneNote will soon gain the ability to autonomously suggest creating Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations directly from your notebooks, according to a new...
Microsoft Purview’s AI Semantic Intent for Custom SITs Arriving Late Summer 2026
Microsoft has quietly updated its Microsoft 365 roadmap to reveal a significant new capability for its Purview compliance platform: an AI-powered feature that will generate human-readable “semantic...
Microsoft 365 Copilot Notebooks Embrace Web Links as Direct References, Transforming Research Workflows
Microsoft has begun rolling out a new feature that promises to make Microsoft 365 Copilot Notebooks far more versatile for knowledge workers: the ability to add web links as direct references. The...
After June 2026 Patch, Microsoft 365 Business Standard Users Find Office Automation Dead in the Water
Microsoft's June 9, 2026 security update for Windows 11 has unleashed a wave of frustration across small and mid-sized businesses relying on Microsoft 365 Business Standard. While Word, Excel, and...