Microsoft curbs spam messages with new Exchange limit
Microsoft Exchange Online will support a maximum of 2,000 recipients per 24 hours starting in 2025. This limit should significantly reduce the number of spam messages.
Until now, Exchange Online has not had a similar limitation. The upper limit consists of 10,000 recipients; this will remain unc... Read more
Microsoft to raise Dynamics 365 prices significantly
Microsoft is raising the prices of its Dynamics 365 application suite by ten percent or more. As an explanation for the price increase, the company says that the products are getting more and more new features from which users can benefit.
In Microsoft's announcement for Dynamics 365, it announc... Read more
Russian hackers stole emails between Microsoft and U.S. government
Hackers from the Russian-backed Midnight Blizzard managed to obtain important emails from Microsoft. The attack led to the interception of communications between regulators and the tech company.
So concludes the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). The danger from the ... Read more
Microsoft update fixes already exploited vulnerabilities
Microsoft has fixed a number of already exploited vulnerabilities in its monthly Patch Tuesday update. The most important is CVE-2024-26234, which allows malicious actors to monitor and intercept network traffic.
In the April 2024 security update with 190 enhancements, Microsoft states that the ... Read more
New version of Copilot coming to Visual Studio 17.10 in May, preview available now
Copilot is coming to Microsoft's Visual Studio 17.10 as a unified version. The update eliminates the need for the separate extensions Copilot and Copilot Chat, and integrates them into one, which will have general availability in Visual Studio in May.
A GitHub Copilot subscription is required to... Read more
Microsoft sees more opportunities for AI in UK and opens AI hub in London
Microsoft sees many opportunities for AI research and development in the UK and is now opening a dedicated AI hub in the heart of London for that purpose. The company earlier announced it would invest around 2.9 billion euros (2.5 billion British Pounds) in AI in the UK.
According to recently ap... Read more
New Windows driver blocks software that changes default web browser
Microsoft has introduced a Windows driver that prevents users from changing default browser Edge in Windows 10 and 11 via third-party software or manual registry changes.
The driver UCPD.sys, or User Choice Protection Driver, landed without notice among other February updates for Windows 10 (KB5... Read more
Consortium must assuage concerns about job loss due to AI
In response to -certainly not unwarranted- concerns about job loss due to the rise of AI, major technology companies have formed a consortium to prepare workers and organizations in the ICT sector for upcoming changes through upskilling and retraining. Cisco spearheaded the foundation of this aptly... Read more
Much faster Microsoft Store in Insider version of Windows 11
Windows 11 Insider build 26100 includes a significantly faster Microsoft Store. The feature was not mentioned in the official announcement of this latest version.
Build 26100 focuses mainly on bug fixes and other relatively minor improvements. For example, it was already possible to run Copilot ... Read more
Microsoft now offers a unified SecOps platform: what does it entail?
Microsoft is presenting a public preview of its unified security operations platform announced in November. This platform connects SIEM and XDR from Microsoft Sentinel and Defender XDR with GenAI features from Microsoft Copilot for Security. It aims to give SOCs more agency to directly disrupt atta... Read more