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
Outlook gets more secure with new phishing feature
Microsoft is releasing new security features for Outlook admins and users. The update also makes it easier to start a Teams chat from within the email program.
For example, administrators can set "Report Phishing" and "Report Junk" actions through the "User Reported Settings". Here, they can act... Read more
Outlook gets new features for remote working
Microsoft will add a new "work hours and location experience" to the desktop and web versions of Outlook.
The new feature will make it easier for employees to display their work location and discover where a colleague is located. At the top of the calendar, users can click on the work location t... Read more
Outlook continues to have synchronization problems
Outlook for Microsoft 365 has a new synchronization problem. This time, it concerns Outlook for Microsoft 365 clients' connection to e-mail servers via Exchange ActiveSync after a version update in January this year.
According to Microsoft, Outlook for Microsoft 365 users may be experiencing pro... Read more
Microsoft resolves connection problem with Outlook.com accounts
Update, Laura Herijgers, 09:55, 2/02: Microsoft addressed the connection problems earlier this week. Outlook.com accounts should no longer receive pop-ups asking you to authenticate. For Outlook 2013 and 2016, the tech giant does indicate that it is important that two-step verification is installed... Read more
Microsoft stops hackers trading fraudulent Outlook accounts
Microsoft recently seized a number of malicious websites and infrastructure used to trade fraudulent Outlook accounts. The Vietnamese cybercriminals of Storm-1152 were selling the accounts.
The Vietnamese cybercriminals of Storm-1152 had registered about 750 fraudulent Outlook accounts. By resel... Read more
Microsoft updates improve Copilot and address Outlook crashes
The November 2023 Microsoft Windows 11 preview update brings improvements to Copilot. Microsoft also recently fixed a problem in Outlook that caused the application to crash.
In the tech giant's recently released KB5032288 November 2023 Windows 11 preview update, Copilot received new functionali... Read more
Microsoft leak exposed 60,000 government emails
Chinese government-affiliated hackers Storm-0558 stole 60,000 U.S. government emails in May. They could do this through Exchange.
In their hacking attack, the Chinese state hackers managed to target Microsoft Outlook and gain access to the email accounts of U.S. diplomats in East Asia, the Pacif... Read more
Microsoft will force Mail and Calendar migration to Outlook
Microsoft will automatically migrate Mail and Calendar users (Windows 10 and Windows 11) to the new Outlook app in August. Support for Windows Mail and Calendar will end at the end of 2024.
The mail and calendar applications Windows Mail and Calendar are at the end of their life cycle. Microsoft... Read more
Outlook for Microsoft 365 suffering from slow startup, freezes
Outlook users have reported sluggish starts and freezing. It is giving them the impression that Offline Outlook Data Files (OST) are syncing immediately after launching the application. However, Microsoft's investigation reveals that no new OST files are being created, and there are no correspondin... Read more