Microsoft 365 rival LibreOffice Online is making a comeback

Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson / betanews - With the ever-increasing number (and cost) of software subscriptions, more and more people are seeking out free alternatives to popular titles. For those looking for a free rival to Microsoft Office, LibreOffice has long been a viable alternative. But the…

Back to Top / Monday, March 2, 2026, 4:20 am / permalink 19977 / 2 stories in 4 days

Microsoft’s Copilot Enters Its ‘Second Chapter’ With Autonomous Task Execution

Liz Ticong / eweek - Microsoft previews Copilot Tasks, an agent-like feature that runs multi-step workflows in the background, with consent checkpoints and user controlThe post Microsoft’s Copilot Enters Its ‘Second Chapter’ With Autonomous Task Execution appeared first on eW…

Back to Top / Friday, February 27, 2026, 11:22 am / permalink 19883 / 3 stories in 7 days

Microsoft Bug Let Copilot AI Read Confidential Emails for Weeks

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Microsoft has confirmed a bug allowed Copilot AI to access and summarize customers' confidential emails for weeks, bypassing data protection policies.The post Microsoft Bug Let Copilot AI Read Confidential Emails for Weeks appeared first on WinBuzzer.

Back to Top / Thursday, February 19, 2026, 6:20 am / permalink 19406 / 10 stories in 15 days

Microsoft Says Bug Causes Copilot To Summarize Confidential Emails

msmash / slashdot - Microsoft says a Microsoft 365 Copilot bug has been causing the AI assistant to summarize confidential emails since late January, bypassing data loss prevention (DLP) policies that organizations rely on to protect sensitive information. From a report: Acc…

Back to Top / Wednesday, February 18, 2026, 12:21 pm / permalink 19361 / 5 stories in 16 days

Microsoft 365 Outlook down: Microsoft breaks silence on outage

mashable - Microsoft is sharing updates on the Microsoft 365 outage that took down Outlook and other services on Thursday, Jan. 22.

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Microsoft is Closing Its Employee Library and Cutting Back on Subscriptions

msmash / slashdot - An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft's library of books is so heavy that it once caused a campus building to sink, according to an unproven legend among employees. Now those physical books, journals, and reports, and many of Microsoft's digital …

Back to Top / Thursday, January 15, 2026, 1:21 pm / permalink 17917 / 2 stories in 7 wks

Microsoft Launches Copilot Checkout in the US, Betting on Merchant Consent as Amazon Faces Backlash

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Microsoft has launched Copilot Checkout in the US, enabling AI-powered purchases through PayPal, Shopify, and Stripe partnerships as agentic commerce race heats up.The post Microsoft Launches Copilot Checkout in the US, Betting on Merchant Consent as Amaz…

Back to Top / Thursday, January 8, 2026, 1:20 pm / permalink 17647 / 12 stories in 1 month

Microsoft silently kills Windows and Office phone activation and forces online activation with a Microsoft account — Windows users are now herded into an online-only portal for activation

tomshardware - Microsoft has somehow put the cap on yet another way to circumvent its internet-powered setup process, and this time it's on a build that they haven't even supported for a while! Production activation via call is still listed in Microsoft's support docs, …

Back to Top / Saturday, January 3, 2026, 2:20 pm / permalink 17462 / 5 stories in 2 months

Proton Sheets Launches as Encrypted Alternative to Google Sheets

Tim Hardwick / macrumors - Proton today announced the launch of Proton Sheets, its end-to-end encrypted spreadsheet web application designed to offer a privacy-focused alternative to Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel.Unlike traditional spreadsheet tools, Proton Sheets encrypts all …

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Bsure raises $2.1M to fix one of modern IT’s most overlooked problems

Tamara Djurickovic / tech - Norwegian startup Bsure has secured a $2.1million seed round to help companies gain visibility into blind spots withintheir Microsoft environments. The round was led by Scale Capital, withparticipatio...

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Microsoft Uncovers ‘Whisper Leak’ Flaw, Exposing Encrypted AI Chats Across 28 LLMs

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Microsoft researchers have detailed a new side-channel attack called “Whisper Leak” that can guess the topic of encrypted AI chats, exposing a fundamental privacy risk across the AI industry. In a report, the team showed how patterns in network traffic si…

Back to Top / Monday, November 10, 2025, 4:20 am / permalink 15825 / 3 stories in 3 months

Microsoft Store on the Web Adds Multi-App Install

Paul Thurrott / thurrott - The web version of the Microsoft Store quietly added the ability to select and install multiple Windows apps at once.The post Microsoft Store on the Web Adds Multi-App Install appeared first on Thurrott.com.

Back to Top / Wednesday, November 5, 2025, 5:20 pm / permalink 15709 / 4 stories in 4 months

Microsoft Azure Meltdown Exposes Critical Cloud Risk

Datamation Staff / datamation - The outage disrupted major products from Xbox Live and Microsoft 365 to critical systems used by airlines, banks, and retailers.

Back to Top / Thursday, October 30, 2025, 9:21 am / permalink 15539 / 4 stories in 4 months

OpenAI goes after Microsoft 365 Copilot's lunch with 'company knowledge' feature

Richard Speed / theregister - ChatGPT can now rummage through corporate files via connectors, though Redmond still has the deeper hooks OpenAI is chalenging Microsoft 365 Copilot with "company knowledge," a new ChatGPT feature that connects to organizational data to generate business-…

Back to Top / Friday, October 24, 2025, 11:21 am / permalink 15379 / 6 stories in 4 months

Microsoft revives the Clippy idea with Mico, Copilot's expressive new AI face

techspot - Microsoft has released major updates to its Copilot digital assistant that include the introduction of Mico, an animated avatar that gives the AI a human touch by reacting with real-time expressions during voice interactions.Read Entire Article

Back to Top / Friday, October 24, 2025, 9:21 am / permalink 15377 / 10 stories in 4 months

Microsoft makes Edge's Copilot Mode a bit smarter

Will Shanklin / engadget - Apparently, web browsers are cool again. Two days after OpenAI launched its AI browser, Microsoft has some updates for its Edge's AI mode. (Fancy that!) Copilot Mode, introduced in July, now has several features that were teased at launch.First up: Copilo…

Back to Top / Thursday, October 23, 2025, 3:21 pm / permalink 15360 / 8 stories in 4 months

Microsoft’s lofty goals for Xbox profit are behind the price hikes and studio shutdowns

Jess Weatherbed / theverge - Pressure from Microsoft to achieve industry-topping profit margins has led to Xbox being butchered over the last two years, after not imposing specific targets on the gaming unit in the past. Citing sources with knowledge of internal matters, Bloomberg re…

Back to Top / Thursday, October 23, 2025, 10:22 am / permalink 15342 / 10 stories in 4 months

Anthropic launches "Skills" so Claude can automatically pick prompts for specialized tasks

Matthias Bastian / the-decoder - Anthropic is bringing a new module system, called Skills, to Claude.The article Anthropic launches "Skills" so Claude can automatically pick prompts for specialized tasks appeared first on THE DECODER.

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