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Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI may soon accelerate with new ChatGPT-like tools coming to Office. According to The Verge, Microsoft may announce new AI-powered capabilities for Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook in March this year. Until now, Microsoft has remained tight-lipped about the new ChatGPT-like features coming to its core Office apps. However, Microsoft’s engineers have been…

Microsoft has announced the release of a new Windows 11 build for Insiders in the Dev channel. The company has started testing a new client policy for enterprise/commercial customers to enable features released through servicing updates that are disabled by default on Windows Update-managed devices. According to Microsoft, the new commercial policy allows IT admins…

Microsoft has released a new home experience that should make it easier for desktop users to get started with Viva Connections. The latest Viva Connections update has started rolling out to targeted release customers, which surfaces important tasks and personalized content as well as provides easier access to other Viva apps. “On desktop, Connections introduces…

Microsoft is planning to retire its Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT) and its related troubleshooters for Windows 11. The company has announced that it will begin the depreciation process in the next major release of Windows 11 later this year. The Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT) is a service that is designed to diagnose and…

Cloud repatriation appears to be one of the new IT hot topics of 2023. For companies that invested time and money into transferring some of their workloads to the cloud, why would it now make sense to bring some of them back to on-premises resources? Well, I’ll explain in this article why cloud repatriation is…

Microsoft has recently announced that it’s retiring the free version of Microsoft Teams for businesses on April 12. The company recommends customers to switch to its Microsoft Teams premium plan to keep chats, documents, and other important information. Microsoft launched the free version of its Teams collaboration service in 2018. It’s designed to meet the…

VMware has warned about a large-scale global ransomware campaign that is currently targeting vulnerable VMware ESXi servers worldwide. The hypervisor maker disclosed that threat actors are exploiting a two-year old vulnerability in its ESXi hypervisor and components to deploy ransomware. VMware ESXi is a service that enables companies to host multiple virtualized systems running different…

We’ve come a long way since those days and have seen technology evolve to support data stored in business cloud platforms such as Microsoft 365. In recent years, the digital revolution has made data more portable and more accessible, but crucially it has also made that data more vulnerable in many ways. Fortunately, if your organization…

Microsoft held a media event yesterday to announce a new version of its Bing search engine that leverages a next-generation OpenAI model. The new AI-powered Bing is launching as a limited preview, and Microsoft believes that it will redefine what we should expect from search engines.  “There are 10 billion search queries a day, but…

Microsoft has started testing a native Apple Silicon version of its Skype desktop app. The company says that the update is already available for Skype Insiders, and it should offer a significant performance boost to all users with Apple Silicon Macs. Microsoft explained that a native Skype client was one of the top requests from…

FireCompass, a SaaS platform for Continuous Automated Red Teaming (CART) and External Attack Surface Management (EASM) announced today that it was raising $7 million to expand to more international markets and hire more talent. This Series A investment comes four years after the creation of the company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, but FireCompass also has…

Microsoft yesterday announced the launch of Adaptive Protection support in Microsoft Purview. The new solution leverages machine learning to help organizations detect potential malicious activities and mitigate insider risks with data loss prevention (DLP) controls. Last year, Microsoft announced a new product rebranding to bring together its Azure Purview data governance service with Microsoft 365…