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Microsoft is preparing another refresh for Office icons, including Word and Excel, according to screenshots seen by Windows ...

Microsoft Office could get a fresh coat of new paint with new 3D icons that were spotted recently in a survey.

Microsoft announced it will begin disabling all ActiveX controls in Windows versions of Microsoft 365 and Office 2024 applications later this month.

Microsoft warns CVE-2025-29824 lets attackers with user access escalate privileges to deploy ransomware via a flaw in Windows CLFS.

Microsoft says the RansomEXX ransomware gang has been exploiting a high-severity zero-day flaw in the Windows Common Log File System to gain SYSTEM privileges on victims' systems.

Microsoft hasn’t redesigned its Office app icons since 2018, when it launched a modern look for apps like Word, Excel, ...

Microsoft’s earliest employees went on to become freelance journalists, volunteer firefighters and cattle ranch owners.

From a New Mexico startup to the "lost decade" and now an admired prominence, Microsoft put the Seattle region on the Big ...

Microsoft celebrates its 50th anniversary this week, and to mark the occasion the company hosted a special Copilot-focused event at its headquarters in Redmond. It's notable that Microsoft marked its ...

The discovery was first reported by Windows Central, which received details about the survey from a reader who shared the email.