Microsoft's three-day-a-week return-to-office mandate starts Monday, Feb.

Microsoft patches CVE-2026-20841, a high-severity Windows Notepad flaw that could allow code execution via malicious Markdown files.

Microsoft said the bug meant that its Copilot AI chatbot was reading and summarizing paying customers' confidential emails, bypassing data protection policies.

The company says it has addressed the issue and it "did not provide anyone access to information they weren't already authorised to see".

Tech giant uses renewable power purchase agreements to offset energy purchases, but critics say it is still burning fossil fuels from the grid.

Borosilicate glass offers extreme stability; Microsoft’s accelerated aging experiments suggest the data would be stable for over 10,000 years at room temperature. That led Microsoft to declare, “Our results demonstrate that Silica could become the archival storage solution for the digital age.”