Published on: 2025-04-22 23:30:01
Microsoft has reminded customers that Office 2016 and Office 2019 will reach the end of extended support six months from now, on October 14, 2025. Office 2019 reached the end of mainstream support in October 2023, while Office 2016 reached its end date three years earlier, in October 2020. "After that date, no further updates, security fixes, or technical support will be available for these versions of Office," the company said in a Microsoft 365 Admin Center update. "While the applications
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-27 03:57:22
Microsoft announced it will begin disabling all ActiveX controls in Windows versions of Microsoft 365 and Office 2024 applications later this month. Introduced almost three decades ago, in 1996, ActiveX is a legacy software framework enabling developers to create interactive objects embedded in Office documents. After this change rolls out, ActiveX will be blocked entirely and without notification in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio to reduce the risk of malware or unauthorized code executio
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-29 18:46:04
If you want to avoid paying every month with Microsoft 365, Microsoft Office 2024 Home & Business is the way to go. StackSocial is currently offering a lifetime license for just $159, which is the absolute best deal in its history compared to its usual $249. See at StackSocial Unlike Microsoft 365, where you’ll pay more over time due to its subscription model, Office 2024 is a one-time, upfront purchase that allows you lifetime access to fundamental tools like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-03 23:14:24
Microsoft is investigating a potential licensing issue blocking access to Microsoft 365 services for some customers with Family subscriptions. After a massive wave of user reports on social media and the company's community website, Microsoft confirmed that some customers could no longer access Microsoft 365 using subscriptions that have yet to expire. As customers affected by the licensing issues reported, those impacted are being warned that their subscription has expired and prompted to ren
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-12 15:17:00
In context: The "thin client" concept is almost as old as computing itself, dating back to the first terminals used to access mainframe computers in early multi-user systems. Today, thin clients are primarily used in the enterprise market to simplify the management of employees and off-site operations – and Microsoft clearly wants a piece of that. Microsoft announced the Windows 365 Link in November and is now beginning to offer the new device to customers in select markets. Link is the first c
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-15 15:56:08
is a news writer fond of the electric vehicle lifestyle and things that plug in via USB-C. He spent over 15 years in IT support before joining The Verge. Microsoft’s business-oriented “Link” mini-desktop PC, which connects directly to the company’s Windows 365 cloud service, is now available to buy for $349.99 in the US and in several other countries. Windows 365 Link, which was announced last November, is a device that is more easily manageable by IT departments than a typical computer while a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-26 03:21:34
Microsoft has released the KB5053656 preview cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2 with 38 changes, including real-time translation on AMD and Intel-powered Copilot+ PCs and fixes for authentication and blue-screen issues. The KB5053656 update is part of the company's "optional non-security preview updates" schedule, which pushes updates at the end of each month to let Windows admins test bug fixes, improvements, and features that will roll out during next month's Patch Tuesday release. Howe
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Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET Millions of working professionals rely on the Microsoft 365 suite of applications for their daily workflows. To speed up some of these everyday business processes, the company is now adding two new AI agents to its Microsoft 365 Copilot offering. Also: Google releases 'most intelligent' experimental Gemini 2.5 Pro - here's how to try it On Tuesday, Microsoft unveiled its Researcher and Analyst deep-reasoning agents for work capable of conducting higher-level research and d
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Microsoft has published guidance for users of Microsoft Publisher as it will no longer be supported after October 2026 and removed from Microsoft 365. Specifically, the products to be deprecated are Publisher for Microsoft 365, Publisher 2021, 2019, 2016, 2013, 2010, and 2007, and also 2010 and 2013 Developer. Microsoft Publisher is an Office application designed for layout-focused projects and visually rich print materials. Compared to Word, it provides better layout control, an extensive set
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-01 21:00:18
Getty Images / SOPA Images / Contributor AI agents are revolutionizing the workplace by performing actions autonomously for workers and, in turn, streamlining operations. Microsoft has sprinkled agents throughout its offerings to help workers across different industries, and the newest addition includes sales. Sales Agent and Sales Chat On Wednesday, Microsoft unveiled Sales Agent, which can help sales teams close more deals faster by researching leads, setting up meetings, reaching out to cu
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At Microsoft, we are dedicated to providing our customers with the tools they need to achieve what matters, in their work and life. In order to focus on new benefits, we occasionally remove features and products. In October 2026, Microsoft Publisher will reach its end of life. After that time, it will no longer be included in Microsoft 365 and existing on-premises suites will no longer be supported. Microsoft 365 subscribers will no longer be able to open or edit Publisher files in Publisher. U
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Microsoft is investigating a new Microsoft 365 outage that is affecting Teams customers and causing call failures. Since the incident started more than one hour ago, outage monitoring service Downdetector has received hundreds of reports, with affected users saying they're also experiencing authentication problems. "Users may not be able to receive calls placed through Microsoft Teams-provisioned auto attendants and call queues," the company said in a new service alert (TM1022107) in the Micro
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-07 13:37:00
Microsoft says a coding issue is behind a now-resolved Microsoft 365 outage over the weekend that affected Outlook and Exchange Online authentication. According to an incident report published in the Microsoft 365 admin center on Saturday at 09:29 PM UTC, the incident also triggered Teams and Power Platform degraded functionality and caused Purview access issues and errors. These issues were addressed by reverting the buggy code change tagged as the preliminary root cause of the widespread ou
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-07 22:35:01
A Microsoft store in New York, US, on Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. Microsoft said Saturday evening that service was restored following an outage that left tens of thousands of users unable to access their Outlook email accounts and other programs. "We're investigating an issue in which users may be unable to access Outlook features and services," Microsoft 365 Status, the official Microsoft account for 365 service incidents, said in a post on X. Services such as Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Exchang
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Microsoft said late Saturday that "a majority" of users were recovering from an outage after tens of thousands of users were reportedly unable to access their Outlook email accounts or other programs. "We're investigating an issue in which users may be unable to access Outlook features and services," Microsoft 365 Status, the official Microsoft account for 365 service incidents, said in a post on X. "Additional details can be found under MO1020913 in the admin center." The number of reports th
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