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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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 —...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...