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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Microsoft Word’s Draft view is meant to keep editing simple by stripping away page layout, margins, and headers so you can focus on the words. But a new bug in recent Word 365 builds for Windows and Mac is breaking one of its most useful cues: the faint dotted lines that mark page breaks are […]
The Microsoft 365 Workplace Discount Program (WDP) cuts 30% off Microsoft 365 Premium, Family and Personal for employees of companies and government agencies that buy Microsoft volume licenses with Software Assurance. Formerly the Home Use Program, the WDP is now simple to claim: enter your work email, verify, and link your personal Microsoft account. Even […]
