MICROSOFT 365 By Peter Deegan Rent or buy? It’s the question all Microsoft customers face. It’s not a simple comparison, but the hard facts lead to one conclusion for most people. Microsoft stopped supporting Office 2021 on October 13, 2026, with no extension and no paid security updates. If that’s you, or you’re buying Office […]

Outlook search is rolling out changes to be better. I first checked to see if Outlook (classic) will participate in these promised changes (it will). It was interesting to see that Microsoft is specifically calling out Classic Outlook:  “Classic Outlook for Windows Current Channel and Monthly Enterprise Channel with Subscription, Outlook on the web, new […]

PATCH WATCH By Susan Bradley Do you want large or small bug counts? Microsoft released the September updates with 12 Azure vulnerabilities, 22 developer-tool vulnerabilities, 9 Exchange server vulnerabilities, 111 Office vulnerabilities, 16 SharePoint server vulnerabilities, 10 Skype for business vulnerabilities, 62 SQL vulnerabilities, 9 “other” vulnerabilities, and — last but not least — 723 […]

ISSUE 23.33 • 2026-08-17 SOFTWARE By Will Fastie In October, Microsoft will throw the kill switch for Publisher 365, which will prevent Publisher from opening — and thereby orphan Publisher files. In previous articles (see References below), we have discussed what this means and how to deal with it. In this article, I’ll explain in […]

MICROSOFT 365 By Peter Deegan Microsoft recently extended the Windows 10 ESU plan until October 2027. What you might not realize is that neither Microsoft 365 updates nor Office updates are part of the ESU offering. Office 2021 support ends in mere months. Microsoft’s original plan was to offer the Windows 10 Extended Security Updates […]