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Microsoft’s 365 Copilot Now Serves Excel, Outlook AI Prompts on Homegrown MAI Models
Microsoft has started routing tens of thousands of weekly AI prompts from Excel and Outlook through its own MAI models, Bloomberg reported on July 7, 2026, marking the first disclosed...
CiraSync Taps Microsoft 365 to Erase Stale Contact Delays for Emergency Responders
On July 7, 2026, CiraSync announced via EIN Presswire that government agencies and emergency response organizations are deploying its contact-synchronization platform to automatically push Microsoft...
Windows 11's Start Menu Gets Smarter: New Account Flyout Tracks Your Microsoft 365 Subscription
Microsoft shipped a new preview build of Windows 11 to Insiders this week that redesigns the account control flyout in the Start menu. The change puts Microsoft 365 subscription information, security...
A Spanish Reseller Is Advertising Deeply Discounted Windows and Office Licenses—Here's What Buyers Should Know
A Spain-based online shop called La Tienda de las Licencias has recently drawn attention for promoting Windows, Office, and Microsoft 365 licenses at prices significantly below official retail....
Microsoft Delivers Invoke-ChangeMeetingOrganizer to Reassign Any Meeting or Series
Microsoft is giving Exchange Online administrators a long-awaited tool to fix one of the most stubborn problems in meeting management: the inability to change who owns a meeting without canceling and...
Microsoft automates offboarding for Loop and Copilot Pages to tackle data sprawl
Microsoft has quietly released a new governance feature for the Microsoft 365 app that automates the offboarding of Loop workspaces and Copilot pages, giving IT administrators controls to retain or...
Your Government Tenant Will Soon Show Who's Using Copilot Chat—and Where
On July 6, 2026, Microsoft planted a new flag in the government cloud landscape: an admin center usage report for Copilot Chat is coming to GCC, GCC High, and DoD tenants. General availability is...
Microsoft Gives Viva Glint a Dedicated Survey Designer Role – What It Means for Your Organization
Microsoft has delivered a new dedicated role for Viva Glint that lets organizations delegate survey creation without handing over full platform control. The Survey Designer role, tied to Microsoft...
Microsoft Outlook to get a ‘you’re replying to an old message’ alert – here’s what it means for you
Microsoft has confirmed a feature that many Outlook users have been asking for: a warning that pops up when you are about to reply to an older message in a conversation, instead of the latest...
Custom Viva Glint survey privacy wording arrives June 2026 – here’s your governance checklist
Microsoft will let Viva Glint customers replace the default confidentiality statement employees see before surveys with custom, tenant-specific privacy language, starting in June 2026. The change...
As Copilot Expands in the UK, Partners Become the Gatekeepers of Data Sovereignty
Channel partners across the UK and Ireland have quietly become the critical bridge between Microsoft’s Copilot ambitions and enterprises’ insistence on knowing exactly where their AI-processed...
Excel for the Web Usage Jumps 10x in Six Years—Here’s What That Means for Your Workflow
Microsoft’s browser-based Excel has seen its session count climb tenfold over the past six years, according to Excel product chief Brian Jones. The milestone, shared in a recent interview, signals...