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New Outlook’s 5 “Productivity” Features: What Microsoft Isn’t Telling You
Microsoft’s June 2026 blog post pitches five new Outlook for Windows productivity features as reasons to abandon classic Outlook. The reality is less impressive. Two of the five already exist in classic Outlook, often in a stronger form, a third has a close equivalent. Three only work properly on Microsoft hosted mailboxes like Microsoft 365 […]
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Microsoft’s MAI Playground: Test Microsoft’s Own AI Models Free
Microsoft now has a free Microsoft AI Playground where you can test its own in-house AI models with no Azure account and no credit card, just a Microsoft login. The MAI Playground opens up three models to try: MAI-Voice-2 for text to speech, MAI-Image-2.5 for text to image, and MAI-Transcribe-1.5 for audio to text. These […]
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Office 2021 Support Ends October 13: Your 5 Options Before the Deadline
Microsoft stops all security updates for Office 2021 on October 13, 2026, with no extension and no paid reprieve. After that date, every newly discovered flaw in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook stays unpatched forever, leaving home users and businesses more exposed to attackers each month. You do not need to act today, but you […]
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Microsoft 365 UK Discounts: What Students, NHS and Armed Forces Really Get
Microsoft UK promotes a single “Student, NHS and Armed Forces discount” banner, which makes the Microsoft 365 UK discounts look identical for everyone. They are not even close. Students can get Microsoft 365 free for years, while NHS staff and armed forces members get only a small hardware discount and no money off Office software […]
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