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Proofpoint Link Wrappers Hijacked in Malvertising Campaign Targeting Microsoft 365 Credentials
A sophisticated malvertising campaign is abusing legitimate link-wrapping services from Proofpoint and Intermedia, combined with Microsoft’s own Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) redirect...
Microsoft Smashes Records with $75B Azure Revenue, but AI Premium Multiples Raise Eyebrows
Microsoft closed its fiscal 2025 with a bang: Azure revenue shattered the $75 billion mark, contributing to a total revenue of $281.7 billion and net income of $101.8 billion. The numbers, disclosed...
Microsoft to Slash onmicrosoft.com Outbound Email to 100 External Recipients per Day — Staged Rollout Begins October 2025
Microsoft will soon enforce a hard limit on external email sent from the shared onmicrosoft.com namespace, capping it at just 100 external recipients per tenant per day. The policy, dubbed MOERA...
Microsoft Pledges Post-Quantum Crypto Rollout by 2033: Windows, Azure, M365 Get Early Start
Microsoft has drawn a hard deadline for the post-quantum era, announcing a three-phase plan that will embed quantum-resistant cryptography into every corner of its ecosystem by 2033. The timeline,...
Microsoft Slashes onmicrosoft.com Outbound Email to 100 Recipients Daily to Fight Spam
Starting October 15, 2025, Microsoft will begin enforcing a hard cap of 100 external email recipients per 24 hours for all tenants sending from the default onmicrosoft.com domain. The move, announced...
Another Microsoft 365 Crash: How a Single Config Change Broke Office.com and Copilot
Microsoft's Office.com and Copilot services crashed for North American users on August 20, 2025, after a configuration change went sideways — a rollback reversed the damage after more than four...
Microsoft Azure Tops $75B Revenue as AI Data Center Buildout Surges
Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform generated $75 billion in revenue during fiscal year 2025, a 34% leap that reflects soaring enterprise demand for AI workloads and the company’s relentless data...
Microsoft Sets 2029 PQC Rollout Target, Aims for Full Quantum-Safe Ecosystem by 2033
Microsoft is moving post-quantum cryptography from theoretical warnings into a concrete, multi-year engineering plan. The company’s newly detailed Quantum Safe Program (QSP) carves a path from...
Copilot and Office.com Outage Traced to Botched Microsoft Configuration Change
Microsoft’s cloud productivity suite hit a roadblock on August 20 when users across North America found themselves locked out of Office.com and the Copilot AI assistant. The company declared a...
Microsoft's $13 Billion Bet: How ChatGPT Became the Brain Behind Copilot—Without Microsoft Owning a Byte
ChatGPT is not a Microsoft product. Let’s get that straight first: the conversational AI that has upended search, coding, and content creation was built, trained, and is operated entirely by...
OneNote for Windows 10 Enters Read-Only Mode on October 14, 2025 — Here’s How to Migrate Without Losing Data
Microsoft has drawn a hard line: after October 14, 2025, OneNote for Windows 10 will become read-only, cutting off editing and cloud sync for millions of users still clinging to the legacy UWP app....
Copilot Audit Bypass: Microsoft's Silent Patch Leaves Log Integrity in Question
A routine prompt tweak—adding “do not include a link”—is all it takes to make Microsoft Copilot quietly access and summarize sensitive files without generating the audit record that...