Microsoft announced three new artificial intelligence models Thursday, marking an expansion of its MAI (Microsoft AI) portfolio with offerings designed to compete directly on price and performance with others, including Google.
Microsoft this week rolled out a set of Microsoft 365 Copilot updates aimed at making the product more useful for enterprise IT departments, with the biggest change centered on Copilot Cowork, a new capability for handling longer, multistep tasks inside Microsoft 365.
Microsoft has been named a leader in The Forrester Wave: Customer Service Solutions, Q1 2026 report, as the firm doubles down on embedding AI across its enterprise software stack.
Two of the bigger authentication announcements to come out of the RSA Conference this week both point in the same direction: organizations need a more flexible, unified approach to identity security, especially as AI agents start acting alongside human workers.
Rubrik unveiled a new integration with Microsoft Defender at RSAC 2026, linking real-time identity threat detection with automated rollback and recovery capabilities.
Microsoft is hitting the brakes on its aggressive Copilot push in Windows 11, promising a sweeping quality overhaul that puts performance and reliability ahead of AI feature expansion .
AI adoption is forcing companies to trade security for speed -- and identity controls are the first casualty.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is urging U.S. organizations to strengthen security around Microsoft Intune and other endpoint management platforms after a cyberattack on medical technology giant Stryker Corp. disrupted operations and contributed to surgery delays at hospitals nationwide.
Microsoft is consolidating its AI efforts under a single banner. CEO Satya Nadella announced on the company's Web site that the Copilot integrated system now supports both commercial and consumer use.
Microsoft used Nvidia's GTC conference this week to roll out a series of enterprise AI announcements spanning agent infrastructure, real-time voice interactions and next-generation GPU deployments.
Microsoft announced Thursday that its Executive Vice President of Experiences + Devices, Rajesh Jha, will retire from the company after more than 35 years.
 
The looming threat of AI of jobs across various sectors has not lost steam. However, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says people should embrace the technology rather than let it make them redundant.  
Microsoft rolled out a trio of AI updates this week, spanning Microsoft 365 Copilot, Security Copilot and Microsoft Foundry.
Microsoft is asking a federal judge to temporarily block the Pentagon's decision to label Anthropic a supply chain risk, a move that puts one of the federal government's biggest technology contractors in opposition to a Trump administration national security action.
- By John K. Waters
- 03/11/2026
Hackers are shifting their focus from "breaking in" to "logging in," according to the inaugural Cloudflare Threat Report, released in early March.
Microsoft's March 2026 Patch Tuesday includes fixes for 83 vulnerabilities affecting Windows, Office, SQL Server, Azure and .NET.
Security researchers are tracking two separate GitHub-related threat campaigns that use the platform's infrastructure in different ways -- one to deliver vishing lures through legitimate GitHub notifications, and another to push Windows users toward malware-infected downloads hosted through deceptive GitHub Pages and repositories.
Microsoft's Defender Security Research Team has identified a series of phishing campaigns in which an unknown attacker used digitally signed malware masked as common workplace applications to deploy remote monitoring and management tools as persistent backdoors on targeted systems.
Microsoft marked SharePoint's 25th anniversary Monday by launching a public preview of agentic building capabilities, a redesigned user experience and expanded content governance tools -- changes the company says are designed to help organizations scale AI deployments with security built in from the start.
Microsoft has released a new research report warning that no single technology can reliably distinguish AI-generated content from authentic media, and that deepening reliance on any one method risks misleading the public.