Microsoft ends support for Office 2016 and 2019 in October next year
Microsoft will end support for Office 2016 and Office 2019 apps and servers on October 14, 2025. Anyone who continues to work with these versions of Office after this date risks security breaches, compliance issues and, as Microsoft states in a blog post, even reduced productivity.
However, the ... Read more
Cheaper Microsoft 365 bundle without Teams is available for the EU
Starting in October, Teams will no longer be a default application bundled in Office 365 and Microsoft 365. In fact, a new and cheaper Microsoft 365 subscription without Teams will become available. Microsoft is making the adjustment to address EU concerns and is therefore making the change only in... Read more
Microsoft Outlook flooded with spam
Microsoft Outlook users have been hit by a "flood" of spam messages in their mailboxes since yesterday. Possible cause of the amount of spam are broken email filters in the tech giant's infrastructure.
According to several end users, Inbox within Microsoft Outlook is being significantly affected... Read more
Microsoft set to show off AI-powered Office suite in March
The company plans to demo how its new AI model enhances Word, PowerPoint and Outlook.
I suppose it was just a matter of time. Microsoft is charging ahead in deploying its new OpenAI model to all its platforms. The new model, dubbed "Prometheus", was already added to Microsoft's search engine Bin... Read more
Office finally becomes Microsoft 365
Microsoft has announced that the brand name of its productivity tools will officially change from Office to Microsoft 365 starting in November. The applications that make up the suite stay the same.
With the official transition from Office to Microsoft 365, the familiar brand name of Microsoft'... Read more
Microsoft takes the liberty of closing applications to force updates
The tech giant recently started pushing Microsoft 365 updates to locked and idle devices with opened applications. Applications are automatically closed to force updates.
Microsoft deployed the feature to all end users of Microsoft 365 licensees on September 12. Ever since, Microsoft 365 update... Read more
Microsoft faces antitrust scrutiny in EU
A French company claims Microsoft bundling its Office products is harming local EU competition.
A French cloud-computing company has filed an antitrust complaint in Europe against Microsoft, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. This adding to recent criticism of the competitive prac... Read more
Office.com update brings all Office files to single, searchable overview
Microsoft released an update for Office.com and the Office app for Windows. All Office files are now searchable from a single environment.
Office.com and Office for Windows provide a dashboard for all Office apps. The latest update introduces three major changes: an overview of all Office files ... Read more
Microsoft’s new Office UI is now available for everyone
Microsoft has begun its rollout of its new Office UI to all users this week. The visual update was announced earlier this year and went into testing in the summer. Now, the company has started the rollout of all Office 365 and Office 2021 users.
The new Office UI design matches the visual change... Read more
Microsoft launches outage mode to improve Active Directory uptime
Microsoft is aiming to improve the availability and uptime of Azure Active Directory (ADD). For this purpose, it has launched a backup authentication service. The service will soon allow ADD customers to use an 'outage mode' in case of downtime.
Downtime of Microsoft's Azure Active Directory (AA... Read more