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March Patch Tuesday fixes 3 critical Office RCE flaws including CVE-2026-26144 which weaponizes Copilot Agent Mode for zero-click data exfiltration. Wave 3 launches with new E7 tier at $99/user. Secure Boot deadline June 2026.
Read Full Article →Copilot Cowork expands to Microsoft's Frontier program in late March 2026, marking the shift from AI assistant to AI executor. Multi-model architecture with Anthropic confirmed. SharePoint at 25 repositioned as the Work IQ knowledge backbone.
Read More →Critical zero-click Copilot vulnerability (CVE-2026-26144) requires immediate patching. An AI agent discovered a CVSS 9.8 RCE. Rajesh Jha retiring after 35 years — major leadership restructure incoming.
Read More →Zero-click Excel+Copilot vulnerability (CVE-2026-26144) enables data exfiltration without user interaction. March Patch Tuesday delivers 83 fixes including 8 critical and 2 publicly disclosed zero-days. New SharePoint experience rolling out.
Read More →Microsoft launched Copilot Tasks in preview — the shift from AI that answers questions to AI that does work. April 1 brings a double deadline: MFA enforcement on Partner Center APIs and grace period removal.
Read More →GPT-5.3 Instant deployed across M365 Copilot — faster responses, fewer disclaimers, watch for confident hallucinations. Skills Agent retiring March 16 — 11 days to migrate. Teams licensing restructure April 1.
Read More →Microsoft is pulling the plug on the Skills agent from Copilot Frontier. Delegation settings won't carry over. Plus SharePoint's 25th anniversary redesign enters preview and Defender drops 7 new feature updates.
Read More →Microsoft is dramatically expanding the free Copilot tier with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook access — even without a M365 Copilot license. Plus, SharePoint gets 31 new page templates and Defender extends URL protection to Teams.
Read More →Happy 25th birthday, SharePoint! Microsoft is celebrating with a digital event and live AMA today. The new SharePoint experience enters public preview this month with redesigned UI and AI-powered features.
Read More →Microsoft patches Copilot DLP bypass vulnerability. M365 price increases confirmed for July 1 (8-33% depending on SKU). Word, Excel & PowerPoint Agents now rolling out globally. AI content watermarking now available for audio.
Read More →Declarative agents upgraded to GPT-5.1 with intelligent model selection. Five new Copilot connectors dropped: Monday.com, WordPress, Azure File Share, Veeva, Jira Data Center. Excel Agent Mode goes broad.
Read More →Microsoft pivots from cloud-first — Azure Local and M365 Local are now GA with air-gapped AI via Foundry Local. July pricing increases locked in: E3 jumps to $39/user. Plus Power BI's February update.
Read More →Yesterday's MFA outage revealed critical third-party dependency risks. Microsoft announced Agent 365 — a unified AI agent governance platform. GPT-5.2 is now live in Copilot. And 2026 pricing brings a 31% Windows Enterprise increase.
Read More →A critical security flaw is exposing organizations to compliance risk — Copilot can summarize DLP-protected emails. The fix is rolling out but NOT complete. Plus one-click email summarization and GPT-Image-1.5 preview.
Read More →CVE-2026-21509 is being actively exploited in the wild — Office 2016/2019 users need to patch manually. M365 price increases (5-8%) are locked in for July 1. Copilot's PowerPoint Agent Mode is rolling out.
Read More →February Patch Tuesday delivered 6 actively exploited zero-days — the highest single-month count in years. M365 price increases (5-8%) are locked in for July 1. CSP partners have until April 1 before the renewal grace period ends.
Read More →Teams Live Events, InfoPath, and Project Online retirements approaching. February Patch Tuesday includes an actively exploited zero-day. Plus M365 Community Conference dates announced and Copilot Memory rolling out next month.
Read More →Teams Live Events, InfoPath, and Project Online are all retiring in 2026. Copilot just hit 15 million paid seats. And February Patch Tuesday delivered an actively exploited zero-day.
Read More →MFA enforcement for Microsoft 365 Admin Center is live today. Teams Direct Routing and Phone device updates are due this month. Plus Copilot Memory is coming in March.
Read More →Microsoft is consolidating. Standalone SharePoint and OneDrive plans are being retired. July 2026 pricing is confirmed. MFA is mandatory. Here's what IT admins need to know.
Read More →Before you can deploy Copilot, your Microsoft 365 environment needs to be ready. Here's the readiness checklist every IT admin should work through first.
Read More →Most small businesses set up Microsoft 365 and never touch the admin settings again. Here are 5 changes that take minutes but dramatically improve security and usability.
Read More →An actively exploited Office zero-day requires immediate patching. MFA is now fully enforced for all M365 admin center sign-ins — no exceptions. Plus Microsoft's NTLM deprecation timeline.
Read More →SharePoint Framework reveals AI-era roadmap with Teams/Viva integration, Copilot Studio extension hits GA with version control support, and Microsoft Graph gets a new User Configuration API.
Read More →SMTP Basic Auth retirement is official, Microsoft 365 prices jump in July 2026, SharePoint Add-ins hit EOL — plus Copilot Agent Mode, GPT-5.2, and the new Teams Facilitator Agent.
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