September 19, 2023   12:28 PM   0 Microsoft said today that the Exchange Web Services (EWS) API for Exchange Online and Office 365 will be retired in approximately three years. EWS is a cross-platform API that can be used to develop apps capable of accessing mailbox items such as email messages, meetings, and contacts.  These resources can be retrieved from various sources, including Exchange Online, Exchange Online as part of Office 365, and...

September 18, 2023   11:18 AM   2 The Microsoft AI research division accidentally leaked dozens of terabytes of sensitive data starting in July 2020 while contributing open-source AI learning models to a public GitHub repository. Almost three years later, this was discovered by cloud security firm Wiz whose security researchers found that a Microsoft employee inadvertently shared the URL for a misconfigured Azure Blob storage bucket containing the leaked...

New Surface Studio 2 laptop addresses limitations of the original model and is scheduled for release the 3rd October. Microsoft's forthcoming Surface Laptop Studio 2 is taking shape with its rumored specifications leaked ahead of the official release. The device is anticipated to be powered by a robust 13th-gen Intel Core i7 processor, coupled with Nvidia's RTX 40-series GPUs. This combination is set to redefine the standards for Surface...

  Microsoft Edge could soon change the world of blogging, journalism and email writing with a new tool, “AI-writing”. As first spotted by Windows Latest, this feature, powered by ChatGPT’s GPT-4 and Bing AI, uses Microsoft’s in-house AI and ML technologies to help you write on the web. You can soon select texts on any web page and ask Microsoft Edge to rewrite them in your preferred tone, length and more. Microsoft Edge’s AI...

September 12, 2023   02:11 PM   0 Today is Microsoft's September 2023 Patch Tuesday, with security updates for 59 flaws, including two actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities. While twenty-four RCE bugs were fixed, Microsoft only rated five as 'Critical' — four remote code execution flaws and Azure Kubernetes Service elevation of privilege vulnerability. The number of bugs in each vulnerability category is listed below: 3 Security Feature...

September 13, 2023   10:48 AM   0 Microsoft is investigating an ongoing outage preventing customers from sending or receiving messages using the company's Microsoft Teams communication platform. While Redmond is yet to provide details on what platforms are affected, users report experiencing these issues while using the desktop and mobile Teams apps. Some have also encountered problems when connecting to the Teams server or the web app starting around 8 AM...

April 27, 2023   11:36 AM   0 Microsoft has addressed a known issue affecting Outlook for Microsoft 365 customers that prevented them from accessing group mailboxes and calendars using the Outlook desktop client. The buggy Outlook version was released to the Current Channel on March 28, and the fix is rolling out to all impacted users with Outlook Desktop Version 2304 Build 16327.20214. "A recent standard service update inadvertently contains an...

March 27, 2023   12:30 PM   4 Microsoft has unveiled a faster and redesigned version of its Microsoft Teams communication and collaboration software that has begun rolling out to Windows users today as a preview release. The company describes the new Teams client as being twice as faster and consuming 50% less memory and up to 70% less disk space when compared to the current (Classic) app. It will also launch three times faster, allowing users to switch...

The Windows 11 taskbar is getting an important new update   Microsoft is working on new experiences for Windows that will allow developers to enable pinning for third-party applications, as well as enable pinning to the Taskbar. Microsoft recently announced the details of these upcoming functions in a blog post. This is the brand’s attempt to universalize its pinning process across all apps used on Windows. In practice, it will be similar to how pinning works on...

March 16, 2023   12:30 PM   0 Microsoft has announced a new assistant powered by artificial intelligence to help boost productivity across Microsoft 365 apps, currently being tested by select commercial customers. Known as Copilot, the new AI feature helps create and manage documents, presentations, and spreadsheets, as well as triage and reply to emails. Copilot is coming to all Microsoft 365 apps, from Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook,...

March 7, 2023   02:54 PM   2 Microsoft says the Excel spreadsheet software is now blocking untrusted XLL add-ins by default in Microsoft 365 tenants worldwide. The company announced this change in January with a new entry added to the Microsoft 365 roadmap when it entered an initial testing phase by first rolling out to Insiders. The new feature will be generally available in multi-tenants worldwide by late March after rolling out to all...

February 16, 2023   04:03 PM   0 A new malware dubbed 'ProxyShellMiner' exploits the Microsoft Exchange ProxyShell vulnerabilities to deploy cryptocurrency miners throughout a Windows domain to generate profit for the attackers. ProxyShell is the name of three Exchange vulnerabilities discovered and fixed by Microsoft in 2021. When chained together, the vulnerabilities allow unauthenticated, remote code execution, letting attackers take complete control of the...