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Microsoft's email and calendaring application, offered as a desktop client and cloud-hosted service across Windows, web, and mobile platforms.
Microsoft will block .msix and .msixbundle attachments by default in Outlook on the web and the new Outlook for Windows from early November. Tenants that still mail app packages need a policy exception before general availability in mid-November.
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The May to July figures come from Microsoft and the competing vendors are unnamed. Miss counts are rising across reporting periods, Defender's included, and the third-party layer caught 0.30% of malicious mail.
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Microsoft fixed 974 flaws in September and two were already under attack, but both need an attacker who is already on the machine, while the twenty bugs Dustin Childs classes as wormable need no login at all.
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Microsoft traced the failure to recent changes it had made to the service and spent the day testing whether reverting them would help. For anyone mapping dependencies, it was a cheap rehearsal.
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Perplexity's Personal Computer feature now runs on Windows 10 and 11 for paying subscribers, and the ZDNet hands-on suggests its output is only as trustworthy as the person who can already check it.
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All ten injected runs in Forcepoint's test produced the manipulated summary. The remedy it recommends puts a human back on the original email, which is most of the work the assistant was bought to remove.
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An employee memo described by BI puts Meta into agentic commerce with a subscription price attached, and before any merchant can price a delegated buyer at checkout, it first has to figure out how to spot one.
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A dev.to team traced four reproducible signature failures to Word's layout engine, a dark-mode color pass, a macOS Mail checkbox and a length limit. Only the checkbox is out of reach of anything you can emit.
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The Hatch tier buys capacity, not intelligence, and the alternative it answers runs free on a user's own machine. Whatever Meta finally charges becomes the ceiling everyone else gets priced against.
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Three separate 2026 releases get discussed as one product. Only the middle one, a sandboxed runtime called Workers, actually moves the line between knowledge tool and automation platform.
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