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  1. RedViking

    Microsoft Azure Down: Server Outage Impacts Multiple Services Including 365, Teams, Store, Entra

    https://www.timesnownews.com/technology-science/microsoft-azure-down-server-outage-impacts-multiple-services-including-365-teams-store-entra-article-153072114 https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status
  2. Hanno Labuschagne

    Microsoft Outlook issues in SA & Europe

    Microsoft Outlook issues in SA & Europe Microsoft 365 users in South Africa have reported experiencing problems with sending and receiving emails in Outlook. The Microsoft 365 Status account on Twitter/X has confirmed that technicians are investigating an issue in Europe.
  3. Hanno Labuschagne

    Microsoft 365 Copilot now available to all users

    Microsoft 365 Copilot now available to all users Microsoft Corp. is opening up its artificial intelligence assistant to consumers and making the corporate version available to smaller companies as it tries to increase the number of paying customers for the new services. Microsoft is selling a...
  4. Hanno Labuschagne

    Microsoft 365 Copilot price for business customers revealed

    Microsoft 365 Copilot price for business customers revealed Microsoft Corp. said new corporate artificial intelligence tools that work with Office software, called Microsoft 365 Copilot, will cost $30 (R537) per user per month on top of what most business customers already pay. Microsoft has...
  5. Jan

    Microsoft 365 price hikes announced for South Africa

    Big Microsoft 365 price hikes in South Africa Microsoft is increasing the subscription prices of its Microsoft 365 productivity suite in South Africa from next month. Microsoft 365 comprises various popular apps for professionals and students, including Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and...
  6. Jan

    Microsoft puts ads in Windows 11 Start Menu

    Microsoft puts ads in Windows 11 Start Menu Microsoft has shoved ads punting its own apps and services into an early version of Windows 11. Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel who installed Insider Preview Build 23435 and are using an offline local account will now be presented with one of...
  7. Jan

    Microsoft Loop public preview launched

    Microsoft launches first public preview of collaborative work app Loop Microsoft has launched the first public preview of its collaborative work app — Loop. First showcased in 2021, Loop allows for moving and syncing project components across Microsoft 365 apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint...
  8. RedViking

    Microsoft Loop App - the Notion / Clickup Alternative

    Loops has been available within teams for a while now. But it now has its own app with a lot more co-creation functionality and I am sure with time more featurels and Copilot (AI) implementation to compete with Notion, ClickUp, Monday, Airtables and other similar apps. Of course also...
  9. Jan

    Microsoft 365 Copilot launches GPT-powered tools for Office apps

    Microsoft 365 gets Copilot — AI-powered automation for Office apps Microsoft has revealed Copilot, an artificial intelligence-powered tool for Microsoft 365 that can create content in Office apps using text prompts. It combines large language models with user data in the Microsoft Graph —...
  10. Jan

    Microsoft Outlook for Mac is now free

    Microsoft makes Outlook free for Mac MacOS users can now use Microsoft Outlook for free without needing a 365 subscription or Office licence, the company announced in a blog post. The program is now free to download from Apple's App Store. However, the download page does specify that Microsoft...
  11. Jan

    Microsoft changing Teams free plan and wiping business users' data

    Microsoft wiping free Teams business users' data unless they buy a paid subscription Microsoft will delete data from the free tier of its Teams productivity app for small businesses unless users upgrade to a paid version. The company recently announced a new Teams version that includes a...
  12. Jan

    Microsoft gives preliminary post-incident review of cloud outage

    Why Microsoft's whole cloud was broken for hours Microsoft says the major hours-long global outage of its cloud services resulted from packet forwarding issues caused by a planned router IP address update. In a recent post-incident review, the tech giant explained that the packet forwarding...
  13. RedViking

    Microsoft Business Apps Power User Course?

    In continuation from my journey started in 2020. Is there a course you can recommend learning and implement the Microsoft Business Apps as a full workflow to automate tasks, meetings, schedules, notes, management, and whatever more I don't know etc. ? Specifically combining Teams, Power...
  14. Jan

    Microsoft 365 relies on weak encryption exposing messages to cryptanalysis

    Microsoft 365 uses weak encryption that exposes emails to snooping Security researchers from WithSecure have discovered an unpatchable vulnerability in Microsoft Office 365 Message Encryption (OME) that lets hackers infer the contents of encrypted messages. OME encrypts sent or received emails...
  15. Jan

    Microsoft rebranding all of Office to Microsoft 365

    Goodbye Microsoft Office Microsoft is rebranding its Office website and apps to Microsoft 365 in the coming months. The software giant initially renamed its cloud-based subscription-productivity suite from Office 365 to Microsoft 365 two years ago, but the website and apps had kept the...
  16. Jan

    Mahala.ms has been closed for new registrations and sign-ins for a year now

    South Africa's free Office 365 website has been dead for a year — and Microsoft is like a broken record The website that allows learners and young students to sign up for free subscriptions to several of Microsoft’s productivity apps has been dead for a year. MyBroadband’s attempts to...
  17. Jan

    New spam post tactic - fake Microsoft Office USBs that installs malware

    Scammers send phony Microsoft Office USBs that install malware Scammers in the UK have been sending fake Microsoft Office suite USBs to random addresses that install malware on people's computers, according to a Tom's Hardware report. The ruse makes victims believe they had mistakenly received...
  18. Rual dV

    Microsoft 365 users report crashes forcing Microsoft to roll back updates

    Microsoft rolls back update crashing Office 365 applications Microsoft has rolled back the Microsoft 365 Enterprise Channel version 2206 update after multiple users reported Office applications kept crashing. The applications, including Outlook, Word, and Excel, crashed when users viewed...
  19. Rual dV

    Microsoft builds enterprise-focused social networking platform into Teams

    Microsoft builds Facebook-like social platform into Teams Microsoft has launched Viva Engage, a Facebook-like application, inside Microsoft Teams. “Built on the foundation of Yammer, Viva Engage brings people together across the organisation to connect with leaders and coworkers, find answers...
  20. Jan

    Proofpoint warns OneDrive file version limits could aid ransomware attacks

    Ransomware attackers can exploit OneDrive feature to delete backups Proofpoint security researchers have discovered a way to exploit Microsoft cloud storage file version limits that could allow ransomware to encrypt OneDrive and SharePoint files and render them unrecoverable. Ransomware...
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