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The latest Cloud Storage coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Microsoft Account Lockout Nightmare: Why Cloud-Only Backup Is a Recipe for Disaster
Mike Kaganski, a LibreOffice developer, spent a week locked out of his Microsoft account after sending what seemed like an innocuous email about code bugs. The suspension cut off access to his files,...
Microsoft Patches Azure File Sync EoP Vulnerability CVE-2025-29973—What IT Admins Must Do Now
Microsoft has confirmed an elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in its Azure File Sync service that could allow an authenticated local attacker to gain full control of affected Windows servers....
Microsoft Opens Windows 365 Reserve Preview: 10-Day Emergency Cloud PCs for Instant Endpoint Recovery
Microsoft has launched a gated public preview of Windows 365 Reserve, a new service that provisions on-demand Cloud PCs to keep knowledge workers productive when their primary devices fail. Announced...
Microsoft Kills Lens Scanner in December, Stranding OneNote and Accessibility Workflows
Microsoft will disable new scans in its popular Lens mobile app on December 15, 2025, a move that severs direct exports to OneNote, Word, and PowerPoint and removes integrated Immersive Reader...
Microsoft Lens Retires Dec 15: Copilot Scanner Misses OneNote, Immersive Reader
Microsoft Lens will stop accepting new scans on December 15, 2025, and the mobile scanning app that tens of millions of users have relied on for nearly a decade will vanish from app stores a month...
Microsoft Lens Retires This Year: How to Move Scanning to Copilot Without Losing Key Features
Microsoft is officially retiring its long-standing Microsoft Lens mobile scanning app, folding its key capture features into the Microsoft 365 Copilot app in a phased shutdown that begins September...
Goodbye Microsoft Lens: Copilot Takes Over Scanning as Retirement Deadlines Loom
Microsoft Lens, the free mobile scanning app that has helped millions of users digitize documents, whiteboards, and receipts for over a decade, is officially being retired. The company confirmed a...
Microsoft Lens App Retires December 2025: Copilot Scanner Lacks Key Features, Forcing Urgent Migration
Microsoft has drawn a hard line under its decade-old Microsoft Lens scanning app, setting a definitive retirement timeline that will disable new scans by December 15, 2025. The replacement—the...
Microsoft Lens App Ends Dec 15, Copilot Takes Scanning Reins but Leaves OneNote and Immersive Reader Behind
Microsoft’s long-standing document scanning app, Microsoft Lens, is heading for retirement in a phased rollout that begins September 15, 2025, and will leave users unable to create new scans after...
Copilot's OneDrive Connector: Microsoft's AI Now Reads Your Cloud Documents Without Uploads
Microsoft has quietly begun rolling out a major update to its Copilot AI assistant, enabling direct access to files stored in OneDrive through a new "Connected apps" feature. The change, still...
Azure Backup’s Enterprise Lock-In: How a 10-Hour Outage Revealed the Hidden Costs of Cloud-Native Protection
When a DDoS attack knocked out a major Azure region for 10 hours earlier this year, it wasn’t just websites that went dark—backup and restore operations for thousands of businesses ground to a...
Azure Storage Discovery Public Preview Adds Copilot AI to Slash Cloud Storage Costs
Microsoft dropped a new public preview today that could finally give IT teams a fighting chance against runaway blob storage costs. Azure Storage Discovery, now available to all Azure users at no...