Articles from 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in 2026
Microsoft Purview Admins Can Now Send a DLP Warning Without an Email—Here’s Why That Matters
Microsoft is giving compliance teams a long-awaited dial: as of this month, administrators can turn on policy tips in SharePoint and OneDrive without triggering automatic email notifications—or the...
Copilot in Word Adds Inline Citations to Help You Fact-Check AI Drafts
In August 2025, Microsoft quietly added a feature to Copilot in Word that could change how you trust AI-generated text: when you ask Copilot to draft content based on specific files, emails, or...
OneDrive Shared Folder Links Now Route to People View
Microsoft is changing how shared OneDrive folder links behave when clicked from a Teams chat, email, or other Microsoft 365 surfaces. Instead of treating the folder as an isolated destination,...
Microsoft Schedules AI Meeting Recaps for DoD Cloud Teams by October 2026
Microsoft is targeting October 2026 to bring AI-powered meeting recaps to the Department of Defense’s Microsoft Teams environment, a long-anticipated move that will introduce auto-generated meeting...
Microsoft Targets September 2026 for Teams Rooms Call Quality Feedback on Android
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Custom Engine Agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot in Government Clouds: Delayed but Not Dead
Microsoft has quietly pushed back the arrival of custom engine agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot in its U.S. Government Community Cloud (GCC). A roadmap entry updated in late July 2026 shows the...
Your Microsoft Teams Sidebar Just Grew: A Practical Guide to Viva Engage Communities
Microsoft has flipped the switch on a long-planned integration: Viva Engage communities are now a permanent fixture inside the Microsoft Teams client. As of June, following a February preview, the...
Microsoft Teams Adds Numeric-Only Meeting Passcodes—But Only for Those Who Need Them
Microsoft has given Teams administrators a new tool to reduce meeting friction for users who struggle with alphanumeric codes, launching an optional eight-digit, numeric-only passcode policy that can...
Viva Glint’s New Copilot-Powered Topic Assignment Targets Unclassified Employee Feedback
Microsoft has rolled out a Copilot-enhanced topic assignment engine for Viva Glint, its employee engagement survey platform, fundamentally changing how open-ended comments are classified before they...
Book a Meeting Room Instantly from the Console: Teams Rooms Pro on Windows Gains Ad-Hoc Reservation
Microsoft is rolling out a new feature that lets users reserve an available meeting room for immediate use straight from a Teams Rooms on Windows console. The capability, tracked as Microsoft 365...
Microsoft to Give Copilot Agents a Major UI Overhaul by May 2027
Microsoft has signalled a significant shift in how Microsoft 365 Copilot agents will look and behave, with a roadmap entry (ID 497844) promising flexible layouts and rich UX components for...
New Exchange Online Policy Puts Admins in Charge of Outlook’s Comma Behavior
Microsoft has quietly started rolling out a new Exchange Online policy that lets administrators set a tenant-wide default for whether commas act as recipient separators in Outlook. The policy,...