Nathan Nugget: What is Microsoft up to? unaired segment

O Microsoft we have a few stories here so let’s start right away.

1. Microsoft is giving employees a $1,500 pandemic bonus
   1. Most non-executive employees are eligible
   2. Microsoft is gifting its employees a $1,500 pandemic bonus. In an internal memo seen by The Verge, the software giant says this one-time bonus “is in recognition of the unique and challenging fiscal year that Microsoft just completed.”
   3. Microsoft’s chief people officer, Kathleen Hogan, announced the gift to employees this week, and it will apply to all eligible employees in both the US and internationally.
      
2. Microsoft Keeps Failing to Patch the Critical ‘PrintNightmare’ Bug
   1. For the second time in a month, the company issued an update that doesn’t fully address a severe security vulnerability in Window
   2. AN EMERGENCY PATCH that Microsoft issued on Tuesday fails to fully fix a critical security vulnerability in all supported versions of Windows that allows attackers to take control of infected systems and run code of their choice, researchers said.
   3. The threat, colloquially known as PrintNightmare, stems from bugs in the Windows print spooler, which provides printing functionality inside local networks. Proof-of-concept exploit code was publicly released and then pulled back, but not before others had copied it. Researchers track the vulnerability as CVE-2021-34527.
   4. Despite Tuesday’s out-of-band patch being incomplete, it still provides meaningful protection against many types of attacks that exploit the print spooler vulnerability. So far there are no known cases of researchers saying it puts systems at risk. Unless that changes, Windows users should install both the patch from June and from Tuesday and await further instructions from Microsoft.
      
3. Pentagon cancels $10 billion cloud contract given to Microsoft over Amazon
   1. The Department of Defense is canceling a controversial $10 billion cloud computing contract that had been awarded to Microsoft (MSFT) over Amazon (AMZN) under the Trump administration.
   2. The department announced Tuesday that it is canceling the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract that was previously awarded to Microsoft. It will instead seek new solicitations for an updated Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) contract from Amazon and Microsoft.
4. Microsoft Teams update will stop you overloading your cloud storage – Auto recorded Teams meetings will soon be deleted automatically
   1. Remembering what was said in a Microsoft Teams meeting has become a lot easier since Microsoft released its auto-record feature last month but recording multiple meetings per day can take up a lot of storage.
   2. This is why in a new update to the Microsoft 365 roadmap, the software giant has revealed that it’s currently working on a new feature that will prevent recorded Teams meetings from using up all of your cloud storage capacity. Going forward, meeting recordings will be automatically deleted once they reach their expiration date unless the meeting owner decides to push it back. Meeting owners won’t have to worry about losing meeting recordings as well as Microsoft will notify them before a recording expires.