This Week in Tech
Microsoft and technology-related updates for the week of June 20, 2022
This Week’s Stories
- Windows admins get most asked for tools for Microsoft 365 app updates
- “Servicing profiles” let admins automatically deliver monthly Word, Excel, and other Office suite updates for specific users or groups. Microsoft has now delivered tooling that allows admins to align these updates with Windows Patch Tuesday updates.” READ MORE
- Microsoft to retire controversial facial recognition tool that claims to identify emotion
- “Microsoft is phasing out public access to a number of AI-powered facial analysis tools — including one that claims to identify a subject’s emotion from videos and pictures.” READ MORE
- Windows emergency update fixes Microsoft 365 issues on Arm devices
- “Microsoft has released out-of-band (OOB) Windows updates to address a known issue that would cause Azure Active Directory and Microsoft 365 sign-in issues on Arm devices after installing the June 2022 Patch Tuesday updates.” READ MORE
- Meta and other tech giants form metaverse standards body, without Apple
- “Meta, Microsoft and other tech giants racing to build the emerging metaverse concept have formed a group to foster development of industry standards that would make the companies’ nascent digital worlds compatible with each other.” READ MORE
- iOS 16: The six most important iPhone updates coming this fall
- “Apple unveiled iOS 16, the latest version of its operating system for iPhones, during its keynote address at the Worldwide Developers Conference.” READ MORE
- Ransomware attacks: This is the data that cybercriminals really want to steal
- “According to a Rapid7 report, financial services is the sector that is most likely to have customer data exposed, with 82% of incidents involving ransomware gangs accessing and making threats to release this data.” READ MORE
- Learn about the Updates app for Microsoft Teams
- Read about it in this week’s Opal blog! READ MORE