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Several Canadian regions, including parts of British Columbia, Alberta and Manitoba, stopped observing daylight saving changes on November 1, locking into fixed UTC offsets. Microsoft has confirmed that Outlook, Power Automate, Fabric and SharePoint On-Prem have not fully adapted, producing incorrect meeting times and requiring manual fixes from users and administrators.
Apple posted stronger-than-expected fourth-quarter revenue but missed on iPad sales and gave a margin outlook that unsettled investors, sending shares down about 4% in premarket trading. Palantir beat Wall Street's third-quarter estimates, with U.S. commercial revenue surpassing government revenue for the first time, yet its stock fell roughly 6.5% to 6% in premarket trading.
After certain Canadian provinces stopped observing daylight-saving time changes on November 1, Microsoft confirmed widespread time-zone bugs across Outlook, Power Automate, Fabric, SharePoint and Power Pages. Fixes range from manual calendar updates in Outlook to workarounds that have users select unrelated time zones like Saskatchewan, Arizona or Bogota in Power Automate and Fabric, with some permanent fixes not expected until mid-November or December.
S&P Global Ratings lowered Meta Platforms' outlook from stable to negative while keeping its AA- credit rating, citing concerns about heavy capital expenditure and negative free cash flow. Meta posted negative free cash flow of $2.12 billion in the third quarter and projected full-year capex of $135 billion to $145 billion. The company's shares fell 7% after earnings and dropped 15% for October, its worst month in four years.
UPS increased its annual revenue guidance to $92.6 billion, citing continued reduction of lower-margin shipments for Amazon in favor of higher-profit business. The company has been deliberately scaling back its reliance on Amazon, historically one of its largest customers, as part of its broader volume mix strategy.
Microsoft has patched an issue in the classic Outlook desktop client that caused Copilot Chat and Copilot buttons to disappear from the navigation pane and ribbon for some licensed users. The company traced the problem to Outlook failing to retrieve certain account information from users' profiles, and said the fix addresses that root cause. This marks the second time Microsoft has fixed the bug after it resurfaced following recent updates despite an earlier June patch.
Microsoft has acknowledged that its October 2026 Windows Server security updates are causing some on-premises Exchange servers to fail at delivering mail or authenticating Outlook on the web users. Affected systems can show a MapiExceptionMdbOffline error and Event ID 1006, traced to a new default cap on simultaneous Endpoint Mapper lookup calls that proves too low for Exchange under heavy load. Microsoft says the problem stems from the Windows Server update itself, not the separate Exchange security patches, and is advising admins to raise a registry limit rather than uninstall updates.
Microsoft will add .msix and .msixbundle files to Outlook's default blocked attachment list starting early November, rolling out to Exchange Online users with general availability expected by mid-November. Once applied, Outlook on the web and the new Outlook for Windows will block users from sending, receiving, opening or downloading these file types by default. Admins can whitelist the formats via the AllowedFileTypes property if their organization needs them.
Security firm Sublime found that malicious calendar invites sent via email, known as ICS phishing, have surged dramatically, rising 282% in June, 338% in July, and 1,216% in August, with a projected 2,852% jump in September. These fake invites exploit a default feature in Outlook, Gmail, and Apple Mail that auto-adds ICS files to a user's calendar before they accept or decline them.
A virtual event titled Cybersecurity Outlook 2027 will bring together industry analysts, researchers and experts to discuss emerging cyber threats from criminals and nation-states as the new year approaches. The sessions will also cover how AI-driven tools and other technologies can help organizations protect multi-cloud and hybrid environments.
Microsoft confirmed it is still investigating why Copilot and Copilot Chat buttons vanish from classic Outlook for Windows after upgrading to build 20026.20182 or later. The issue affects users with Copilot Chat Basic or M365 Copilot Premium licenses, blocking access to Copilot from the ribbon, app bar, or Add Apps menu.
Microsoft Outlook users encountering the 'Your message can't be displayed right now' error can resolve it by clearing their cache, whether they use the web version or the desktop client. The fix forces Outlook to rebuild fresh copies of emails without deleting any messages, calendar events, or contacts.