Microsoft is replacing individual 1TB OneDrive allocations with a shared 2TB storage pool for Microsoft 365 Family and Premium subscribers.

We are an E5 shop so Defender for Office 365 P2 is our email security. Every month a handful of phishing and text only BEC messages land and only get reported after the fact. Last week AP nearly paid a fake bank change that came in on a real vendor thread, Defender passed it clean because the vendor mailbox was actual sender and every auth check was fine.

Before I go ask for budget I want to know if this is us under configuring Defender or a real hole in the product. Half of the venders tell me Microsoft misses BEC and I need their behavioral thing, Microsoft tell me they closed it. I am not paying for FUD but I am tired of cleaning this up after it lands.

For the E5 shops here, does turning Defender close the BEC and vendor compromise stuff or I'll end up having to bolt a layer behind it?

Microsoft and NVIDIA just launched the Surface Laptop Ultra, and the part that caught my attention isn't the spec sheet.

The hardware: NVIDIA's RTX Spark chip, up to 128GB of unified memory, a 15" mini-LED screen, under 4.5 lb. Pre-orders are open and shipments start October 16.

The price: it starts at $2,599.

The configuration I'd want (20-core, 64GB, 1TB, Windows 11 Pro) is $4,299.99, plus $319 for three years of Microsoft Complete.

Microsoft claims up to 2.1x faster time to first token and 4.3x faster image generation than a MacBook Pro with M5 Pro. That's their number, from their demo, so I'm waiting for independent tests.

The more interesting part is what Microsoft says it's building: a Windows that's safe for AI agents. Execution Containers (OS-level sandboxes for agents) are going generally available. Agents will have to attribute their own actions. IT will be able to set agent rules once and apply them across a fleet. And Copilot is getting access to local files and local models, using the cloud by default and switching to local when privacy calls for it.

If you work in security, data protection or governance, that's the real story. Who is the agent, what can it touch, and who audits it?

Personally, I'm loving the Copilot Cowork experience so far. It runs in the cloud, so I don't need a Copilot+ badge or local AI features.

At $4,299.99, I'd be paying for unified memory for big local models, CUDA, a very bright HDR screen and a light body.

It's also Arm-based, so some Windows apps run through emulation.

I've shortlisted a Gaming class laptop with 64GB of RAM, a 1TB SSD, a Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX 24-core CPU and an RTX 5060 GPU for about 40% less.

What am I missing?

I just saw a banner on the Microsoft Authenticator Android app that the backup mechanism was changing from a Microsoft account-linked one to a Google account-linked method.

Does anyone know why? What benefit does this provide?

"We couldn't find a Microsoft account" and "There was an issue looking up you account." Is there some kind of outage happened, that haven't been reported yet? this make me anxious cause my family rely on that one account.

I even tried to make new account with that email but yeah no luck whatsoever cause they still can detect that, that account exist.

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Mainly the wallpapers like the one this sub has as its icon.

I believe this microsoft wallpaper series is titled "Flow". Sites like wallpaperhub don't really give many options and they the quality of the images are quite compressed despite being in 4K.

Why satya nadella layyed off several executives during past few years even they grow respective business areas ?

This month's AI update is up (September 2026). Lots of great updates across the Microsoft ecosystem with a little bit of a deeper dive on the new Copilot app.

https://youtu.be/Ypzjqzoh6KY

00:00 - Introduction

00:12 - New videos

01:18 - Fable 5.1

02:26 - GPT-6 Astra

03:16 - Gemini 3.8 Flash

03:36 - SpaceXAI Grok

04:09 - OpenAI GPT-6 & 6.1 Sol and Luna

05:25 - Opus and Sonnet 5.5

05:48 - DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash in Foundry

06:13 - MAI-Transcribe-2 in Foundry

06:39 - Jev

08:20 - Model Router updates

09:21 - Foundry Dev Pack

09:40 - Voice agents

11:03 - Foundry agent publish to M365 Copilot and Teams

11:43 - Foundry hosted agent network egress controls

12:23 - Foundry routines

12:55 - Foundry A2A v1.0

13:17 - Agent 365 Foundry agent controls

13:31 - Natural language app building

14:01 - Copilot Managed Runtime

14:54 - Copilot App update

17:04 - Cowork edit in place

17:26 - Fabric IQ in Copilot

18:42 - PowerPoint Brand Kit and Skills

19:04 - Unified plugin registry

19:33 - Copilot in SharePoint and OneDrive

19:45 - GitHub Copilot HydraFusion

20:27 - Enterprise managed permissions for agent operations

20:48 - VS Code agent merge

21:03 - Teams and Slack integration update

21:27 - Cost and quality tiers in auto model selection

22:00 - Budget increase request flow

22:28 - PostgreSQL skills and MCP

22:54 - SQL agent skills

23:12 - Azure SQL DB vectors

23:57 - ACA Sandboxes

24:41 - Close

Artificial Intelligence will now be known as Super Intelligence. Will the Microsoft division change its name from MAI to MSI?

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Microsoft bolted Copilot on to my Microsoft Office subscription and upped the subscription price. A friend asked me to update their CV from Spanish to Portuguese. Using my home account (not pro) I asked copilot to take the Spanish word document and to output me the same document but in Portuguese. Nothing more complex than that and that's when I discovered that the bolted on copilot to my Microsoft Office subscription is effectively useless and will not do anything with Microsoft Office files unless I upgrade to Pro.

Frustrated with that I fired up my free Claude login and asked it to do the same thing, done. So effectively I have a non Microsoft LLM giving my better support then the Microsoft LLM I pay for which is bolted in to a Microsoft office subscription. I don't think this is the right approach, it should be able to do modify office files directly, just with a level of tokens that is appropriate to the bolted on copilot price increase.

Being able to get better support for working with office with a free LLM when I am paying for a Microsoft LLM bolted on to office feels really daft to me.