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Microsoft’s August 2026 Patch Tuesday landed on Tuesday August 11 and it was another monster: 421 security bugs fixed across Microsoft products, including some serious bugs that work just by previewing an Office document. Overall, Microsoft’s own tally lists 98 vulnerabilities in Office and another 98 in Office 2016, across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access […]
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Publisher 365 stops working on 13 October 2026. If you are moving to an older Microsoft Office to keep Publisher alive, you do not have to install the whole suite. Here is how to install only Publisher from Office 2019 or Office 2021, leaving Word, Excel, Outlook and the rest off your computer. It takes […]
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Microsoft Publisher is ending in October 2026, and what happens to you depends entirely on how you bought it. If you use Publisher 365 from a Microsoft 365 plan, the app will simply stop opening. That is a kill switch, not a polite end of support notice. If you have Publisher 2019 or Publisher 2021 […]
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The choice of AI models in Copilot changes regularly, in fact it changed while researching this article. Any specific advice will be quickly out of date. In organizations, admins might limit the AI model selection. Copilot model choices in PowerPoint 365 Copilot in PowerPoint 365 is a little more complicated than in Word, Excel or […]
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If you run Microsoft 365 on Windows 10, your Word, Excel, and Outlook just got locked in place. Microsoft’s version 2608 update, released August 2026, is the last one bringing new features to Windows 10. Your apps keep working and keep getting security patches, but nothing new is coming unless you move to Windows 11. […]
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