Microsoft 365

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  Amazon Paused Rollout of Microsoft Office for a Year After Hacks

  Amazon paused the rollout after Microsoft discovered a Russia-linked hacker group had gained access to some of its employees’ email accounts. After conducting its own analysis of the software, Amazon asked for changes to guard against unauthorised access and create a more detailed accounting of user activity in the apps

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  Microsoft Denies Using Word and Excel User Data For Training AI

  The controversy erupted as social media users speculated the possibility based on the "opt-out" feature inside Microsoft 365 Suite

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  Microsoft Denies Training AI Models on User Data From Microsoft 365 Apps

  Microsoft on Wednesday denied claims that it uses customer data to train artificial intelligence models. The response came after some users pointed out on social media that the company requires users to opt-out of its "connected experiences" feature, which they argued was used to train AI models.

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  Microsoft Introduces Purpose-Built AI Agents, Copilot Actions at the Ignite 2024 Event

  Microsoft Ignite 2024, the company’s annual conference for developers and IT professionals, was held on Tuesday. At the event, the Redmond-based tech giant made several new announcements around Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, and its artificial intelligence (AI) platform Copilot. In the AI space, the company introduced new purpose-built AI agents ...

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  Microsoft Windows 365 Link Cloud-Based Mini PC That Resembles Apple's Mac Mini Launched

  Microsoft unveiled its Windows 365 Link Cloud PC on Tuesday. The company's first Cloud PC device that lets users quickly and securely connect to Windows 365 arrives as Microsoft's response to Apple's Mac Mini M4. The PC has a thin and light build and it runs a cloud-based version of Windows 11. The Windows 365 Link offers dual monitor connectivity,...

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  Microsoft 365 Copilot Pages, New AI Capabilities in Apps and Copilot Agents Rolled Out

  Microsoft 365 Copilot, the rebranded name for the enterprise-focused version of the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot is getting new features. Announced on Monday, the tech giant is rolling out various improvements in Microsoft 365 apps as well as a new Copilot Page feature. The latter is a multiplayer AI feature which allows different users to ...

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  Crowdstrike CEO Apologises for Global Tech Outage After Firm Deploys Fix for Issue

  CrowdStrike on Friday announced that it has deployed a fix for an issue that caused a global tech outage impacting airlines, banking, healthcare sectors, while cybersecurity company's CEO apologised for the incident on Friday. Meanwhile, Microsoft also resolved the underlying cause for the outage of its 365 apps and services, as systems continue to...

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  CrowdStrike Update Error Debacle: 5 Things to Know About Microsoft’s Global Outage

  CrowdStrike, the Texas-based cybersecurity company, caused one of the biggest global outages in recent times when it led to the disruption of several Microsoft services following an update to one of its products on Friday. As the curtain draws to a close on a certainly eventful day, here are 5 things to know about the Microsoft global outage.

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  CrowdStrike Update Causes Global Microsoft Outage, Affecting Services and Bringing ‘Blue Screen of Death’

  CrowdStrike has caused a major global outage of Microsoft services including Windows and Office 365 following an update. The alleged issue brought the ‘blue screen of death’ (BSOD) to Windows devices across the world, with users unable to access the devices. Furthermore, the problem is also reported to have resulted in the disruption of service...

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  Explained: What Is Causing The Dreaded 'Blue Screen Of Death' On Windows?

  Microsoft Cloud Outage: A major tech issue has affected millions of Windows computer systems worldwide, causing a sudden shutdown or restart. Microsoft Inc. said the error is due to a recent CrowdStrike update.

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  Microsoft 365 Copilot Expands Support for Indian Regional Languages

  Microsoft is expanding the support of Indian regional languages for its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Copilot. The tech giant is adding multiple new Indian languages to the AI model to accurately understand queries and generate responses in these languages. As per the company, support for more languages was added to make the AI tool more acc...

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  Microsoft to Separate Teams and Office Globally Amid Antitrust Scrutiny

  Microsoft will sell its chat and video app Teams separately from its Office product globally, the US tech giant said on Monday, six months after it unbundled the two products in Europe in a bid to avert a possible EU antitrust fine.

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  Adobe, Microsoft Join Hands to Bring a Suite of Generative AI Features for Marketers in Microsoft 365

  Adobe and Microsoft joined hands to announce a suite of new AI features for marketers at the Adobe Summit on Tuesday. In this collaboration, Adobe will offer its Adobe Experience Cloud workflows and insights to Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 applications. The new capabilities are aimed at reducing data silos and the inconvenience of using mult...

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  Microsoft Copilot Pro Rolled Out Globally; Know Its Price in India, Features

  Microsoft Copilot Pro, the premium tier of the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) platform, is now available in 222 countries, including India. The tech giant announced on Thursday that the chatbot-based AI suite is available to individuals as well as small and medium-sized organisations. Copilot Pro was first introduced in January 2024 in se...

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  Microsoft Introduces Copilot for Finance, an AI Tool to Streamline Enterprise Finance Tasks

  Microsoft unveiled a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool called Copilot for Finance on Thursday, aiming to help financial professionals in easily navigating through everyday mundane tasks. The Copilot tool is not a new AI model, and instead builds on the existing Copilot for Microsoft 365 stack to bring new features specific to financial operatio...