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Microsoft has announced that its Azure Native New Relic service is now available for customers in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. The company explained that this release should help to drive cloud migrations and accelerate multi-cloud initiatives in enterprise environments. New Relic is a cloud-based platform that helps developers and IT admins monitor the performance and…

Microsoft is investigating a network configuration issue that is currently preventing users from accessing Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Azure, and other Microsoft 365 services. The company confirmed on the Microsoft Azure status page that the problem impacts customers in Europe, Asia Pacific, the Middle East as well as Africa. Specifically, users all over the world started…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the launch of its second cloud region in Melbourne, Australia. The new Asia Pacific region (codenamed: ap-southeast-4) will consist of three Availability Zones, and it should help customers comply with data residency and regulatory requirements. AWS first announced its plans to open the new Melbourne region back in December…

Microsoft has released a new feature that adds support for concurrent license assignments in Exchange Online. The latest release enables organizations to assign more than one Exchange Online license to each Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) user. Previously, the Microsoft 365 admin center and Azure AD PowerShell restricted IT admins from allocating concurrent Exchange Online…

Microsoft has announced a new multibillion-dollar partnership with OpenAI. The company explained that the deal marks the beginning of the third phase of its existing partnership with the ChatGPT-maker, following two previous investments in 2019 and 2021, respectively. In a press release, Microsoft highlighted that this new partnership should enable both companies to create AI-powered…

Microsoft Teams has introduced a set of new video filters in preview to enhance video calls and meetings. The Microsoft Teams desktop app already supports brightness and soft-focus filters, but the latest update now lets participants apply frames and styles before and during meetings. “Video Filters are a new feature in Microsoft Teams meetings that…

Microsoft has confirmed that the System Restore feature could break some apps on Windows 11 version 22H2. The company detailed that the problem affects select first and third-party applications that use the MSIX Windows app package format, including Microsoft Office, Windows Terminal, Cortana, Notepad, and Paint. In Windows 11, System Restore is a recovery tool…

Microsoft has announced that it’s rebranding the Office Insider program as the Microsoft 365 Insider program. The company says that this name change aligns with the rebranding of the Office app to Microsoft 365 on Windows, iOS, Android as well as the office.com web portal. Microsoft launched its Office Insider program about seven years ago….

Microsoft has finally decided to stop selling Windows 10 licenses to consumers and enterprise customers by the end of this month. The company has quietly announced on the Windows 10 product pages that it will block digital downloads of the Home and Pro editions of the OS on January 31, 2023. “January 31, 2023 will…

Microsoft has patched vulnerabilities in four different Azure cloud services. The security flaws could enable attackers to perform a server-side request forgery (SSRF) attack to gain unauthorized access to cloud resources. The security vulnerabilities were first discovered by researchers from Orca Security between mid-October and mid-December last year. The flaws affect various Microsoft cloud services…

Microsoft is planning to disable insecure SMB (Server Message Block) guest authentication fallbacks by default in Windows 11 Pro. The company has announced that this security improvement is already included in the Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25276 released this month According to Microsoft, the guest authentication method doesn’t provide support for inspection trails and…

Git has recently released new updates to address two critical security vulnerabilities that could allow hackers to launch remote code execution attacks. The company has also patched another Windows-specific flaw affecting the Git GUI tool. Security researchers from X41 and the GitLab Security Research Team first identified the security vulnerabilities as part of an audit…