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Accenture’s Big Bet: Rolling Copilot Out to 743,000 Employees and What It Means for Enterprise AI
Accenture is expanding its use of Microsoft’s Copilot 365 AI assistant across its entire global workforce—about 743,000 people—a move that marks one of the largest enterprise deployments of the tool to date. The companies did not disclose financial terms, but the scale of the rollout sends a clear signal: major consultancies are moving from pilot projects to firmwide adoption, betting
Microsoft’s New Group Policy to Remove Windows 11 Copilot from Managed Devices
Microsoft has quietly given IT teams a precise tool to remove the consumer-facing Copilot app from managed Windows 11 machines. Rolled into the April 2026 Patch Tuesday updates and bundled with Windows 11 version 25H2 (KB5083769 and later), the RemoveMicrosoftCopilotApp policy lets administrators trigger a one-time uninstall of the Copilot app on devices that meet a small set of conditions.
Microsoft Outlook.com Hits Service Degradation: What Happened and How to Prepare
On April 27, 2026, Microsoft acknowledged a service degradation affecting Outlook.com after users across multiple regions reported problems accessing their inboxes. The company’s Microsoft 365 Status account on X confirmed intermittent issues, and Microsoft’s service health dashboard classified the incident as a “Service Degradation” rather than a full outage. For many organizations and individual users, the disruption meant delayed email
PhantomRPC: New Windows RPC Vulnerability Lets Attackers Escalate Privileges Across All Windows Versions
PhantomRPC is an architectural weakness in the Windows Remote Procedure Call (RPC) runtime that allows low-privileged processes to escalate to SYSTEM or Administrator by impersonating privileged clients. Disclosed by Kaspersky’s Haidar Kabibo at Black Hat Asia 2026, the flaw stems from how rpcrt4.dll handles connections to unavailable RPC servers: when a privileged process attempts an RPC call to a server
Hackers Leverage Microsoft Teams to Breach Organizations: Inside UNC6692’s SNOW Campaign
In late 2025 and into early 2026, a sophisticated intrusion campaign used the everyday familiarity of Microsoft Teams to turn routine collaboration into a direct route for enterprise compromise. By posing as IT helpdesk staff and exploiting users’ trust in external Teams invitations, the threat group tracked as UNC6692 moved from a simple chat message to full domain-level access—without exploiting