Articles from July 21, 2026
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Grok Lands in Outlook: A Practical Guide to AI-Powered Email
On July 21, 2026, xAI released an official Grok add-in for Microsoft Outlook, turning the AI assistant into a sidebar companion that can draft emails, triage inboxes, schedule meetings, and search...
SpaceX-Pentagon AI Talks Could Pressure Azure Pricing: What Windows Pros Should Know
SpaceX is in discussions with the U.S. Department of Defense about a multibillion-dollar agreement to supply AI computing capacity, according to reports from The Wall Street Journal and Reuters. If...
Shadow AI, Slop, and RAG: The Microsoft 365 Governance Terms You Can't Afford to Ignore
Artificial intelligence has barreled into the Microsoft 365 workplace, bringing not just chatbots and copilots, but a whole new language of risk: shadow AI, AI slop, retrieval-augmented generation,...
Windows 11 Cuts Copilot Clutter: Why Gen Z’s Analog Revival Is Reshaping Your PC
Microsoft is stripping its Copilot AI assistant from Windows 11’s Notepad, Photos, and Snipping Tool, marking a sharp retreat from the “AI everywhere” strategy that defined its Copilot+ PC...
AXA's 119,000-Seat Microsoft 365 Copilot Rollout: What Your IT Team Must Know Now
French insurance group AXA confirmed on July 20, 2026 that it is progressively deploying Microsoft 365 Copilot to its entire global workforce—119,477 employees across 52 countries. The move vaults...
FluentCleaner Classic Packs a CCleaner-Like Cleanup Engine into a Tiny 3.57 MB Package
A new free, open-source Windows cleanup utility called FluentCleaner Classic has arrived, deliberately recreating the familiar look and workflow of old-school CCleaner while shedding the bulk,...
CISA Emergency Alert: Patch These Four Exploited Flaws Now (Includes WordPress, Routers, and AI Tools)
On July 21, 2026, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added four vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, signaling that attackers are...
AvePoint Debuts Industry-First Backup for Microsoft Copilot Studio AI Agents
AvePoint’s latest update to its Confidence Platform, announced July 21, 2026, introduces what the company calls the first-to-market backup and recovery capability for AI agents created in Microsoft...
Microsoft Whiteboard Cuts Off Personal Users August 22—All Boards Deleted by September 5
Microsoft has confirmed that personal Microsoft accounts will lose the ability to create or edit Whiteboard boards on August 22, 2026, and all associated content will be permanently deleted just two...
Druva targets AI mess: backup for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Claude Code arrives
Druva announced Druva AI Resilience on July 21, 2026, adding backup and governance for Microsoft 365 Copilot interactions, Claude Code projects, and the broader AI-driven work that traditional...
TrueDialog’s New AI Opt-Out Catches ‘Lose My Number’ as a Legit Unsubscribe
On July 21, 2026, TrueDialog launched two products that tackle the messy reality of enterprise SMS: conversations scattered across Salesforce, HubSpot, and Dynamics, and unsubscribe requests that...
Experimental IA-64 Emulator Brings Windows XP and Server 2003 Itanium Editions Back to Life
Two developers have released version 0.1 of an experimental IA-64 emulator that can boot Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 for Itanium—operating systems that until now were locked behind rare,...