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Windows 11 23H2 Home and Pro reach end of support in 60 days

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-26 00:15:22

Microsoft has reminded customers today that devices running Home and Pro editions of Windows 11 23H2 will stop receiving updates in November. Enterprise and Education editions will continue to receive mainstream support for an additional year, until November 10, 2026, as stated on the Windows release health dashboard. "On November 11, 2025, Windows 11, version 23H2 (Home and Pro editions) will reach end of servicing. The November 2025 monthly security update will be the last update available f

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New HybridPetya ransomware can bypass UEFI Secure Boot

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-26 01:18:07

A recently discovered ransomware strain called HybridPetya can bypass the UEFI Secure Boot feature to install a malicious application on the EFI System Partition. HybridPetya appears inspired by the destructive Petya/NotPetya malware that encrypted computers and prevented Windows from booting in attacks in 2016 and 2017 but did not provide a recovery option. Researchers at cybersecurity company ESET found a sample of HybridPetya on VirusTotal. They note that this may be a research project, a p

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Microsoft dodges EU fine by unbundling Teams from Office

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-26 17:02:39

Microsoft has avoided an EU fine after the US tech group offered concessions on how it packages together its Teams and Office products, ending a long-running antitrust investigation by the bloc’s regulators. The probe, which began after a 2020 complaint from Slack, now part of Salesforce, accused Microsoft of abusing its market dominance by tying its video conferencing tool to its widely used suite of productivity applications. Since the initial complaint, Microsoft has unbundled Teams from Of

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Microsoft slips unscathed through EU competition probe after promising to unbundle Teams

techcrunch.com Ram Iyer 2025-09-26 17:09:44

Thanks to a pledge to unbundle its corporate messaging app Teams from its productivity suites, Microsoft has managed to slip unscathed through a major antitrust investigation by the European Commission that could have resulted in massive fines for the tech giant. The Commission on Friday okayed Microsoft’s concessions to address the EU’s competition concerns over the company including Teams along with the rest of its Office productivity suite for free, concluding a multi-year investigation that

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Microsoft escapes EU antitrust fine after unbundling Teams

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-26 21:30:52

Microsoft is no longer in trouble with the European Commission, at least when it comes to Teams. The commission has accepted the changes and commitments the company made in response to its concerns related to Microsoft's bundling of its Teams collaboration platform with its other apps. This particular antitrust saga started years ago when Slack filed an antitrust complaint against Microsoft, claiming that it illegally bundled its work chat competitor with the popular Office suite. The commission

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Microsoft sidesteps hefty EU fine with Teams unbundling deal

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2025-09-27 04:13:31

The Microsoft Teams app on a laptop arranged in New York, US, on Tuesday, June 25, 2024. The European Union on Friday said it has accepted commitments from Microsoft to unbundle its Teams workplace communication platform from its popular productivity apps. The decision essentially exempts Microsoft from receiving a potentially hefty antitrust fine after the company was last year accused by the European Commission — the executive body of the EU — of breaching competition rules with the "abusive

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Microsoft avoids EU fine after Slack complained about Teams bundling

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-09-27 03:46:50

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Microsoft has avoided a fine from the European Commission after it was charged with EU antitrust violations for bundling its Teams app with Office 365 and Microsoft 365 subscriptions. The European Commission says it has accepted commitments from Microsoft to address competition concerns rel

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Microsoft fixes Exchange Online outage affecting users worldwide

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-26 19:43:00

Update September 11, 18:12 EDT: Revised story and title after Microsoft's confirmation that the outage has been mitigated. Microsoft says that it has mitigated an Exchange Online outage affecting customers worldwide, which blocked their access to emails and calendars. "We're investigating an issue affecting a portion of infrastructure in North America, where users may be unable to access their mailbox via any Exchange Online connection method," the company said on Thursday morning. According

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Microsoft and OpenAI announce the 'next phase' of their partnership

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-27 08:52:47

Microsoft and OpenAI have issued a joint statement to say that they have signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding for the "next phase" of their partnership. The companies are still finalizing the terms of agreement and haven't shared the details of what their future would look like exactly. But according to The New York Times, the deal includes hows the parties share technology and and the revenue from those technologies. The new agreement also reportedly modifies the clause in the origi

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Microsoft and OpenAI have a new deal that could clear the way for an IPO

theverge.com Richard Lawler 2025-09-27 09:00:03

is a senior editor following news across tech, culture, policy, and entertainment. He joined The Verge in 2021 after several years covering news at Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. As OpenAI attempts to restructure itself and eventually go public, a hurdle for the startup, recently valued at $500 billion, is its increasingly complicated partnership with Microsoft. On Thursday afternoon, the two companies released this joint state

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OpenAI secures Microsoft’s blessing to transition its for-profit arm

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-09-27 08:18:29

OpenAI announced Thursday it reached a non-binding agreement with Microsoft, its largest investor, on a revised partnership that would allow the startup to convert its for-profit arm into a public benefit corporation (PBC). The transition, should it be cleared by state regulators, could allow OpenAI to raise additional capital from investors and, eventually, become a public company. In a blog post, OpenAI Board Chairman Bret Taylor said under the non-binding agreement with Microsoft, OpenAI’s

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OpenAI and Microsoft sign preliminary deal to revise partnership terms

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-27 13:27:53

On Thursday, OpenAI and Microsoft announced they have signed a non-binding agreement to revise their partnership, marking the latest development in a relationship that has grown increasingly complex as both companies compete for customers in the AI market and seek new partnerships for growing infrastructure needs. "Microsoft and OpenAI have signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the next phase of our partnership," the companies wrote in a joint statement. "We are actively wo

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Microsoft is making ‘significant investments’ in training its own AI models

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-09-27 13:21:17

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Microsoft AI launched its first in-house models last month, adding to the already complicated relationship with its OpenAI partner. Now, Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says the company is making “significant investments” in the compute capacity required to Microsoft’s own future fronti

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'We will do better.' Microsoft CEO Nadella admits company has to rebuild trust with employees

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-09-27 17:14:14

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella departs following a meeting of the White House Task Force on AI Education in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Sept. 4, 2025. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told employees in a meeting on Thursday that the company has work to do to smooth relations with employees after announcing several rounds of layoffs and a mandated partial return to in-person work. In the meeting that was held online, an employee asked executives to speak about a perceived lack of

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OpenAI says nonprofit parent will own equity stake in company of over $100 billion

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-09-27 17:49:16

Microsoft Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella (L), speaks with OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman, who joined by video during the Microsoft Build 2025, conference in Seattle, Washington on May 19, 2025. OpenAI on Thursday said its nonprofit parent will continue to have oversight over the company and will own an equity stake of more than $100 billion. The artificial intelligence startup, recently valued at $500 billion, said this structure will make the nonprofit "one of t

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U.S. Senator accuses Microsoft of “gross cybersecurity negligence”

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-28 01:23:41

U.S. Senator Ron Wyden has sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requesting the agency to investigate Microsoft for failing to provide adequate security in its products, which led to ransomware attacks against healthcare organizations. The Senator started the formal asking by saying that Microsoft should be held "responsible for its gross cybersecurity negligence, resulting in ransomware attacks against critical infrastructure, including U.S. health care organizations." The Senat

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Microsoft investigates Exchange Online outage in North America

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-28 01:43:00

Microsoft is working to resolve an ongoing Exchange Online outage affecting customers throughout North America, blocking their access to emails. "We're investigating an issue affecting a portion of infrastructure in North America, where users may be unable to access their mailbox via any Exchange Online connection method," the company explained earlier today. According to user reports on DownDetector, the issue began impacting Microsoft's customers more than six hours ago and is causing server

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Microsoft gives Windows 10 its penultimate update - but saves the best for Windows 11

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-09-28 05:35:19

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways September's Patch Tuesday offers bug fixes for Windows 10 and 11. Windows 11 also received a host of new and improved features. This marks the penultimate Patch Tuesday update for Windows 10. Hey Windows users, it's time once again to install the latest monthly updates on your PC, courtesy of September's Patch Tuesday. Whether you run Windows 11 or are still on Windows 10, you'll find i

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Microsoft adds malicious link warnings to Teams private chats

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-28 09:21:23

Microsoft Teams will automatically alert users when they send or receive a private message containing links that are tagged as malicious. Microsoft will introduce these new warnings for messages containing URLs that have been flagged as spam, phishing, or malware, for all Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (MDO) and Microsoft Teams enterprise customers. The new link protection feature will begin rolling out with a public preview for desktop, Android, web, and iOS users in September 2025 and is

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Xbox Cloud is getting a much-needed upgrade

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-09-28 13:00:00

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Over the past week, I’ve been using Nvidia’s new RTX 5080 GeForce Now tier. Nvidia’s cloud gaming service has been the best on the market for years now, and this upgrade makes it even better. I’ve been playing Cyberpunk 2077, Overwatch 2, and Silksong, and it’s genuinely comparable to my own PC. The upgrade is also a staggering reminder of just how far behind Xbox Cloud Gaming

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Microsoft 365 Copilot bundles sales, service, and finance Copilots in October

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-09-29 05:22:06

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. I exclusively reported last week that Microsoft was about to shake up its Microsoft 365 Copilot pricing, and now the company has officially revealed that its sales, service, and finance Copilots are being bundled into Microsoft 365 Copilot. Microsoft currently offers business Copilot acces

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Senator blasts Microsoft for making default Windows vulnerable to “Kerberoasting”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-30 09:38:13

A prominent US Senator has called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Microsoft for “gross cybersecurity negligence,” citing the company’s continued use of an obsolete and vulnerable form of encryption that Windows uses by default. In a letter to FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson, Sen. Ron Wyden (D–Ore.) said an investigation his office conducted into the 2024 ransomware breach of the health care giant Ascension found that default use of the RC4 encryption cipher was a direct cause. The b

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Microsoft waives fees for Windows devs publishing to Microsoft Store

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-30 13:21:30

Microsoft announced that, starting today, individual Windows developers will no longer have to pay for publishing their applications on the Microsoft Store. The company said that developers can now submit Win32 (including .NET WPF and WinForms), UWP, PWA, .NET MAUI, or Electron apps to the Microsoft Store without paying any registration fees. Redmond will also handle each app's hosting and signing, eliminating the need for developers to pay for these services. "Package your app as an MSIX and

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Windows developers can now publish apps to Microsoft’s store without fees

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-09-30 17:38:54

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Microsoft is allowing developers to submit apps to its Windows store without having to pay any onboarding fees. Individual developers in nearly 200 countries can now sign up to publish apps on the Microsoft Store with just a personal Microsoft account, and no more one-time fees. Microsoft

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, September 2025 Edition

krebsonsecurity.com Unknown 2025-09-30 02:21:14

Microsoft Corp. today issued security updates to fix more than 80 vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and software. There are no known “zero-day” or actively exploited vulnerabilities in this month’s bundle from Redmond, which nevertheless includes patches for 13 flaws that earned Microsoft’s most-dire “critical” label. Meanwhile, both Apple and Google recently released updates to fix zero-day bugs in their devices. Microsoft assigns security flaws a “critical” rating when malware

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Microsoft said these 400 readers couldn't upgrade to Windows 11. They did it anyway

zdnet.com Ed Bott 2025-09-30 21:25:49

IgorNelson/iStock / Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Hundreds of readers have completed upgrades using ZDNET's help. In general, they report the upgrade is easy, with few issues. For those who had problems, there were typically simple fixes. Microsoft's warnings about the end of support for Windows 10 are becoming more strident as the October deadline approaches. For anyone who owns a PC that's more than five years old, those mes

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Microsoft taps Anthropic for AI in Word and Excel, signaling distance from OpenAI

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-09-30 21:26:00

Elyse Betters Picaro/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Microsoft will pay Anthropic for access to its AI models. They'll go toward new features in Office 365 platforms. Microsoft and OpenAI are distancing themselves from one another. Microsoft will slacken its dependence on OpenAI through a new partnership with Anthropic, The Information reported on Tuesday. The deal will enable Microsoft to embed Anthropic's AI systems into Microsoft 365 (fo

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Microsoft ends OpenAI exclusivity in Office, adds rival Anthropic

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-01 01:41:42

Microsoft's Office 365 suite will soon incorporate AI models from Anthropic alongside existing OpenAI technology, The Information reported, ending years of exclusive reliance on OpenAI for generative AI features across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. The shift reportedly follows internal testing that revealed Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4 model excels at specific Office tasks where OpenAI's models fall short, particularly in visual design and spreadsheet automation, according to sources fam

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Kerberoasting

news.ycombinator.com Matthew Green 2025-10-01 08:01:30

I learn about cryptographic vulnerabilities all the time, and they generally fill me with some combination of jealousy (“oh, why didn’t I think of that”) or else they impress me with the brilliance of their inventors. But there’s also another class of vulnerabilities: these are the ones that can’t possibly exist in important production software, because there’s no way anyone could still do that in 2025. Today I want to talk about one of those ridiculous ones, something Microsoft calls “low tech

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This free tool installs Windows 11 on unsupported PCs - without any bloatware

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-10-01 23:00:16

Lance Whitney / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Flyoobe can upgrade an unsupported Windows 10 PC to Windows 11. You can install Windows 11 without the usual apps and bloatware. The tool is easy to configure and use. Looking to upgrade your Windows 10 PC to Windows 11 before the OS loses Microsoft support in October? That's a good idea. But what if your computer doesn't meet Microsoft's stringent requirements for versi

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OpenAI says nonprofit parent will own equity stake in company of over $100 billion

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