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Microsoft Purview’s File Archiving Feature Arrives September 2026—Here’s What to Expect
Microsoft is preparing to give organizations a new way to handle the growing pile of old documents in OneDrive and SharePoint: a built-in, policy-driven archive button. The company has updated its...
Microsoft Fixes Blocking Update Bug and Overhauls File Explorer in New Experimental Build
Microsoft shipped Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26300.8935 to the Experimental channel on Monday, July 20, delivering a fix for a stubborn update failure — error 0xc0000409 — that had left...
Your Android Phone Is About to Become a Smarter Field Notebook: OneNote’s Multimodal Capture Lands in 2026
Microsoft has confirmed that its multimodal Capture feature in OneNote—already available on iPhones and iPads—will enter public preview on Android in August 2026, with general availability slated...
SharePoint Pages to Get Design Guides and One-Click Conversion for Flexible Sections
Microsoft will roll out a set of authoring improvements for SharePoint Pages in August 2026, including visual column guides, persistent gridlines, and a command to convert existing sections into...
Microsoft Teams Mobile Gets Multi-Line Calling: How to Use Multiple Business Numbers on One Account
Microsoft has started rolling out multi-line calling support to Teams Phone on Android and iOS, closing a major gap between the mobile and desktop experience that forced road warriors to carry extra...
Teams Events App Now Saves Webinar Setups as Reusable Templates
Microsoft has quietly removed one of the most tedious parts of running webinars and town halls in Teams: rebuilding the entire configuration every time. The company’s Roadmap item 561915, now...
No More Duplicate Installs: Microsoft 365 Will Unify App Deployments Across Teams, Outlook, and Copilot in August 2026
Microsoft is taking a step that many IT administrators have long wished for: a single deployment command that places an approved application or AI agent into Teams, Outlook, and Microsoft 365 Copilot...
Power BI Answers Are Coming to Microsoft 365 Copilot This August – What to Know
By August 2026, Microsoft 365 Copilot will start pulling answers directly from your organization’s Power BI reports and semantic models, marking its evolution from a document-summarizing assistant...
Microsoft Teams Events Can Now Warn Organizers of a Double-Booked Room Before It's Too Late
Microsoft has quietly slipped a deceptively important scheduling improvement into the Teams Events app: organizers can now see, directly within the event creation workflow, whether the conference...
Copilot Studio Run-Only Sharing Preview Set for August 2026: What It Means for Enterprise Automation
Microsoft has quietly added a beacon to its public roadmap that could reshape how enterprises adopt AI-driven automation. Roadmap item 567894, published July 20, 2026, previews a new "Share...
Teams Events now supports shared and delegated mailboxes: Setup guide and pitfalls
Microsoft has quietly addressed a longstanding scheduling headache for organizations that run executive briefings, customer webinars, and all-hands town halls. As of July 2026, the Teams Events app...
How Google's 'Frozen v2' Chip Could Make Gemini Faster and Cheaper on Your Windows PC
Alphabet is quietly developing a new server processor, codenamed “Frozen v2,” that could dramatically cut the cost and power consumption of its Gemini AI models. The chip is designed to generate...