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Windows 11 Insider Builds Turn Screen Captures into Excel Tables and Surface Live Profile Cards
Microsoft’s latest Windows Insider builds—KB5064089 for the Beta channel and KB5064093 for the Dev channel—directly embed Microsoft 365 productivity into the desktop via Click to Do. The...
Snapdragon-Only: Windows 11’s Click to Do Ties Screen Tables to Excel, EEA Blocked
Microsoft is shipping a new AI-driven feature in the latest Windows 11 Insider preview builds that lets users grab any on-screen table—whether in a document, Teams call, or screenshot—and fling...
MFA Mandate Expands to Azure CLI, PowerShell, and IaC: The Clock Ticks for DevOps Migration
Microsoft is extending mandatory multi-factor authentication (MFA) beyond the Azure portal and into the command-line tools and automation interfaces that power cloud operations. Starting with its...
Life Without Barriers' Microsoft Security Overhaul: 321,000 Sensitive Files Tagged, 8.3M Activities Monitored
Life Without Barriers, one of Australia’s largest human‑services nonprofits, has uncovered over 321,000 documents containing sensitive data—and automated their protection—in a sweeping...
Microsoft Ships Windows Backup for Organizations, Streamlining Enterprise Windows 11 Migrations
Microsoft has begun rolling out Windows Backup for Organizations, a tenant-scoped, Intune-integrated backup and restore capability designed to capture user settings and Microsoft Store app lists so...
Microsoft’s Agent Factory: 5 Observability Practices Every Enterprise AI Team Must Adopt
Microsoft’s Agent Factory series has turned its focus to a make-or-break element of enterprise AI: observability. In the third installment, published this month, the company argues that without...
Windows 11 KB5064080 Pushes Windows Backup for Organizations into Release Preview Alongside Critical Fixes
Microsoft has released the optional non-security preview update KB5064080 for Windows 11, bringing the long-awaited Windows Backup for Organizations feature to the Release Preview channel. The...
Microsoft’s 1.3 Billion Agent Projection Sparks Urgent Security Overhaul with Entra Agent ID and MCP Governance
Microsoft expects more than 1.3 billion AI agents to be operating across enterprises by 2028—a staggering scale that demands a fundamental rethink of identity, access, and runtime security. The...
Microsoft and CISA Demand Hybrid Exchange Overhaul: October 31 Permanent Cutoff After Vulnerability Alert
Microsoft has drawn a hard line in the sand for hybrid Exchange administrators: after October 31, 2025, any on-premises server still relying on the legacy shared service principal for rich...
Per-Mailbox Cloud Management Lets Admins Finally Retire the Last Exchange Server
Microsoft has released a per‑mailbox cloud management feature that finally gives hybrid Exchange organizations a clear path to unplugging the last on‑premises Exchange server. With the new...
How Metadata-Driven Zero Trust on Azure Reinforces AI Pipelines Against Modern Attacks
Microsoft’s Azure platform now offers a battle-tested blueprint for locking down machine learning operations using a metadata-driven zero-trust architecture—one that InfoWorld contributor Vikram...
Microsoft Rolls Out Team-Scoped Copilot Dashboards to Managers in Viva Insights
Microsoft will begin rolling out a major expansion of its Copilot analytics platform in late September, placing team-scoped dashboards, prebuilt adoption reports, and a publishing pipeline directly...