Google is expanding Gemini Daily Brief to more free U.S. users, bringing its personalized morning briefing beyond paid subscriptions. The feature scans Gmail, Calendar, and Gemini conversations to identify what needs attention, but access requires users to enable Memory and connect personal Google data.

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Microsoft is investigating two separate Microsoft Teams desktop problems: some Windows users cannot launch the client or face startup delays of up to two minutes, while some Mac users cannot join calls or meetings. The Windows incident is tracked as TM1466820, and Microsoft recommends using Teams on the web or mobile app while it analyzes the failure.

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Microsoft Teams is preparing a QR-code phishing defense that will obscure QR-code images sent by people outside an organization. Users must deliberately reveal the image before viewing or scanning it, with rollout planned from October 2026 for Android, iOS, Windows desktop, and Mac.

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A new Exchange Online incident is delaying mail sent to and received from external domains, with users seeing intermittent “Server busy” errors across multiple mailboxes. The disruption follows a broader Microsoft 365 outage that affected Outlook, Teams, the Microsoft Store, and Azure through an Azure network edge failure, but Microsoft has not yet linked the new Exchange problem to that cause.

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Microsoft’s Power Platform Community Conference 2026 will focus on turning AI experiments into governed, secure business processes that can operate in production. The October 27–29 event at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas will offer more than 200 sessions and 24 hands-on workshops covering Copilot, Work IQ, AI agents, apps, workflows, data, security, and cost management.

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Amazon Quick now connects directly to Microsoft Outlook, allowing users to summarize threads, draft contextual replies, manage messages, and schedule meetings without leaving the mailbox. The extension can also trigger broader workflows, but its ability to take actions makes permissions, data handling, and response verification important considerations for IT teams.

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Google is rolling out Gmail Live, Docs Live, and Keep Live, allowing users to search email, create documents, and manage notes through spoken conversations with Gemini. The English-language features are now generally available on mobile for eligible Google AI subscribers, while Google Workspace business customers are still waiting for access.

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Microsoft is adding a human-approval gate to Copilot Studio, allowing organizations to require explicit permission before an AI agent or one of its tools takes action. The safeguard is aimed at preventing autonomous agents from sending emails, closing tickets, processing payments, or changing sensitive data without human oversight.

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Microsoft will retire Project Online Essentials on October 1, 2026, giving administrators a final deadline to move affected users to supported Planner-based licensing. The lightweight Project Online add-on is no longer sold, so organizations should identify dependent users and provision replacements before their workflows stop working.

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Google Pics is rolling out to eligible Google Workspace customers with Gemini-powered image generation and object-level editing enabled by default. Rapid Release domains began receiving the tool on September 1, while Scheduled Release domains start on September 15, giving administrators a short window to review access and governance settings before users gain it.

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Microsoft is moving the Teams web client from `teams.microsoft.com` to `teams.cloud.microsoft`, with the redirect rollout expected to finish by the end of September 2026. Existing bookmarks and Teams links should continue working, but administrators need to check enterprise access controls and integrations before the old address is retired.

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Microsoft is turning the end of Power BI Premium agreements into a forced move to Fabric, and the biggest risk for customers may be a higher bill rather than migration complexity. Because Fabric is sold through Azure-based F SKUs and bundles capabilities many Power BI customers may not need, administrators should treat renewal as a contract negotiation before accepting Microsoft’s proposed capacity and pricing.

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Microsoft is making the code-based Power BI Project (PBIP) format generally available while switching Power BI Report (PBIR) to the default report format in Power BI Desktop and the Power BI service. The change gives Power BI teams a more practical path to source control, CI/CD, and programmatic report development without removing support for existing PBIX files.

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Teams is adding scheduled notification pauses that temporarily silence all alerts without changing a user’s saved preferences, expanding on the one-click notification pause previously announced for the collaboration app. The feature gives users a defined focus period and automatically returns Teams to its normal notification behavior when that period ends.

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Firefox 155 and Thunderbird 155 are the first products to arrive under Mozilla’s new two-week release cadence, landing only days after the previous builds. The change follows Thunderbird’s move to fortnightly releases after version 153 became the ESR baseline, giving administrators a choice between rapid features and slower, security-focused maintenance.

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Microsoft is preparing Excel Canvas, a Copilot-powered workspace that converts workbook data into interactive charts, metrics, and insights without requiring users to build each visualization manually. The feature is expected to reach general availability for Excel on Windows and the web this month, with the resulting views staying synchronized as the underlying workbook changes.

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Microsoft will begin automatically limiting federated Teams chats for tenants that use only their default MOERA domain. MOERA stands for Microsoft Online Exchange Routing Address and refers to the default onmicrosoft.com domain Microsoft assigns when it creates a Microsoft 365 tenant. From mid-September 2026, Teams may temporarily block users from messaging external contacts when Microsoft detects excessive or abusive activity, while internal chats continue normally. Unlike the fixed Exchange Online limit of 100 external recipients per day, Teams has not disclosed a specific threshold.

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Microsoft is expanding the SharePoint Online and OneDrive sharing upgrade built around a reusable “hero link,” with broader tenant rollout scheduled from mid-September through late October 2026. New links default to “Only people added to the file,” so possessing a URL alone does not grant access, while existing links and permissions continue working unchanged.

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The European Commission is gathering information from Oracle customers and other market participants over licensing practices that may make it harder to switch providers. Brussels has not opened a formal antitrust investigation, but the information-gathering phase could either develop into a case or end without action.

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