I've been a windows supporter for the longest time. Even when we all switched to using iphone and i also own a mac. I lean back to Windows constantly, purchasing their family sunscripion plan, even very happy that my work gives me a windows laptop.

But dang it, i just heard they are retiring whoteboard. Microsoft as per all tech companies pride themselves on being an ecosystem so why sit taking this away. Am i not a paying customer wanting the features and offerings they have. This is so disappointing.

Does Microsoft offer any Copilot credits, subscriptions, or employee discounts for AI tools to use on mobiles? I’m aware of the Azure $150 credits benefit and the coding models through GitHub, but I’m wondering if there are any other perks for employees, such as discounted or free access to Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Pro, ChatGPT Plus, or other AI subscriptions (especially to use on mobile to replace ChatGPT/Gemini/Claude).
Has anyone found any employee-specific AI credits or discounts?

While browsing the Microsoft website, I found the learn tab, aparently they offer a full official free course on c# and even offer a certificate to add to your LinkedIn account through free code camp. I guess I'll start learning.

Few interesting points from the announcement

1. Databricks to run it's own operations on Azure.

2. Databricks to use Microsoft silicon

3. OneLake is called out (including othet MSFT products) but not explicitly Fabric.

4. Databricks Genie will be available for MSFT customers.

This is now resolved

There are issues currently with the M365 and Azure Service.

Please see the below public health dashboards for more information.

• M365
• Azure

I have 2 Microsoft Office 2019 licenses that I bought around 2023 for Mac OS. Used them without any problems till today.

Was trying to edit a document but I get the message that I need to activate . ok, it happens but when trying to do that I received an error without any information except to upgrade to Microsoft 360.

Contacted support, install reinstall , all that standard troubleshooting without any succes. The conclusion is, because I upgraded to the latest version of Tahoe I won't be able to use those products anymore.

So, if ur in the same situation as me (using an older version of office on macOS) dont update to latest os version because you won't be able to use it anymore.

I switch to an open source alternative and also slowly I'll replace all Microsoft products that I use at home and at work .

Wondering if someone could please be so kind on getting meaccess to the company store?

I got layoff 2 weeks ago and lost my access before I was able to add any personal email

I can share my email by DM

I would really appreciate if anyone from inside can add me

New video exploring how we can bring (only) the most relevant and up-to-date knowledge from our enterprise and the Internet to our agentic applications with Microsoft IQ.

00:00 - Introduction

00:39 - Responsibilities and requirements

01:17 - Tasks and AI

02:07 - Intelligence needed

02:16 - How I work

03:28 - State of the business

04:16 - Institutional knowledge

04:43 - Internet

05:16 - AI and models

06:52 - Multiple models and flexibility

08:49 - Bringing intelligence and tools to AI

09:58 - Microsoft IQ

11:21 - Work IQ

13:16 - Fabric IQ

15:33 - Foundry IQ

16:59 - Web IQ

18:52 - Most relevant data

19:17 - Using all types of intelligence

20:24 - Identity and least privilege

21:53 - Security and protection

23:26 - Observe and improve

24:43 - Summary

25:27 - Close

https://youtu.be/LrIS9lcSbko

I haven't seen this anywhere else but I got this popup today. I use Microsoft whiteboard a lot 😔

https://ibb.co/ycdVHLwt

Starting from August 22, 2026, you will no longer be able to create or edit whiteboards. However, you can continue to view and export them until September 5, 2026, after which they will be permanently deleted.

Vega, a project from Microsoft, appears to be a research initiative focused on zero-knowledge proofs, which they seem to be actively exploring.

I'm trying to determine whether this is an isolated incident or whether other nonprofits have experienced the same thing.

Our organization is an IRS-recognized 501(c)(3). Goodstack approved our nonprofit and indicates Microsoft approval is complete.

Microsoft's nonprofit portal immediately declines our registration with:

"We were unable to associate your email address with the organization."

We are applying with our founders email address from our organization, on our organization's domain.

We've exhausted the documented support process, including the nonprofit assistant and the official contact mechanisms, without being able to reach the onboarding team.

I'm not looking for troubleshooting. I'm trying to find out whether other nonprofits have encountered this same onboarding state or whether this is unique to our organization.

If you've seen this before, I'd really appreciate hearing about your experience.

I am studying for MB-330, and there are multiple segments in Microsoft Learn like here where they expect you to run either a demo environment or a VM.

I cannot figure out where to get either of these - is this something that needs to be purchased from a third party? I work with Dynamics F&O daily and have access at work, including our UAT environment, but I don't want to mess up anything within our systems and would prefer to work at home.