I received a call from a friend yesterday morning asking me to remove something from Outlook. It just showed up. “It” was a Copilot icon on the left edge of the message block when writing an email. A grayed-out instruction suggesting using Copilot has been in the message block for some time, but it vanishes […]

PATCH WATCH By Susan Bradley From dropped products to multiple releases, January was a mess. Oops. I’m sorry. Let me try that again. Whoops. That didn’t work either. Let’s see if this other way works, shall we? These words are not what you expect from a software vendor, but during the month of January, that’s […]

ISSUE 23.04.1 • 2026-01-27 By Susan Bradley The January updates present no issues for some, but lots of issues for others. I’m always hopeful of giving everyone some time every month to apply updates after we’ve vetted them. This month, I can lower the MS-DEFCON level to only 2.5. Unfortunately, we don’t have that, so […]