Microsoft has begun rolling out a new feature in Office 365 to help IT staff stop the scourage that is “Reply-All email storms.” ZDNet reports:
The feature started rolling out this week to all Office 365 users worldwide. In its current form, Microsoft says the “Reply All Storm Protection” feature will block all email threads with more than 5,000 recipients that have…
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Beware of Emails Impersonating ‘Microsoft Teams’ Notifications
Researchers at the email security company Abnormal Security have discovered “a multi-prong Microsoft Teams impersonation attack” involving “convincingly-crafted emails impersonating the automated notification emails from Microsoft Teams,” reports Forbes: The aim, simply to steal employee Microsoft Office 365 login credentials. To date, the researchers report that as many as 50,000 users have been subject to this attack as of May 1….
Not Just ‘The Death of IT’. Cringely Also Predicts Layoffs For Many IT Contractors
Last week long-time tech pundit Robert Cringely predicted “the death of IT” in 2020 due to the widespread adoption of SD-WAN and SASE. Now he’s predicting “an even bigger bloodbath as IT employees at all levels are let go forever,” including IT consultants and contractors.
My IT labor death scenario now extends to process experts (generally consultants) being replaced with automation. In…
Microsoft Throttles Some Office 365 Services To Continue To Meet Demand
In response to high demand as a result of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, Microsoft has started taking action to preserve overall performance by throttling some services. ZDNet reports: On March 16, Microsoft posted to Microsoft 365/Office 365 admin dashboardds a warning about “temporary feature adjustments” that it might take. That warning told customers that Microsoft was “making temporary adjustments to select…
Responding to School Closings, Microsoft Offers Free ‘Minecraft Education Edition’
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp spotted this announcement at Minecraft.net:
As COVID-19 concerns prompt school closures around the world, many educators are turning to remote learning to keep students engaged. To help teachers and students stay connected to the classroom, Minecraft: Education Edition is now available through June 2020 for all educators and learners who have a valid Office 365 Education account… We…
Microsoft’s Office App That Replaces Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Hits General Availability
Microsoft today launched Office for Android and iOS in general availability. The unified app means you no longer need to download, install, and switch between the individual Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps. From a report: The company today also announced new features coming to the app this spring: Word Dictation, Excel Cards View, and Outline to PowerPoint. You can use Office…
Microsoft Will No Longer Force Bing By Default For Office 365 ProPlus Customers
Microsoft will no longer forcibly make Bing the default search engine in Chrome for Office 365 ProPlus customers. A tech community post from Microsoft announced the change. From a report: Microsoft states that people will have the choice to opt-in to have the Microsoft Search in Bing browser extension installed. Microsoft was going to install the Microsoft Search Bing extension onto…
Microsoft Starts Showing Non-Removable Ads In Windows 10 Mail, Calendar Apps
As spotted by MSPoweruser, Microsoft has started showing non-removable banner ads in the Windows 10 Mail and Calendar apps. From the report: We last saw these ads in November last year, when Microsoft said they were an experiment. Then the ads only showed for those who were not Office 365 subscribers, but on this occasion, they are present for everyone and…
Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Safari Cracked In China’s White-Hat Hacker Competition
An anonymous reader quotes the International Business Times: At the recent Tianfu cup held in Chengdu, China, Chinese China’s top white-hat hackers have converged to test zero-days against top software available in the market today. During the first day of the event, Chinese security researchers were able to break into major browsers such as Safari, Microsoft Edge, and Google Chrome. Since…
Slack’s Response to New Microsoft Teams Ad? ‘Ok Boomer’
An anonymous reader quotes Business Insider:
Slack tweeted a video on Thursday comparing a Slack ad and a Microsoft ad, showing the similarities between them and implying the Microsoft ad copied Slack’s concept. The video was captioned “ok boomer,” a phrase that has turned into a meme for millennials and Gen Z to voice their gripes with the baby boomer generation… Slack…