Defender for Endpoint changes
Observed content change
2 new passages (about 90 words), 1 edited passage (81 words changed). The changed wording mentions dates and deadlines, supported platforms. Review the source to confirm the effect.
May need admin actionCheck the dates against your plans; check the platforms and versions you run.
[added: Type Feature Preview/GA Description Feature Vulnerability assessment for Microsoft Store applications GA Vulnerability assessment for applications installed via the Microsoft Store is now generally available.] …
… enhancements and features for this release.[removed: Feature Vulnerability assessment for Microsoft Store applications Preview You can now monitor vulnerabilities on devices running Microsoft Store applications, including Microsoft Teams, Mozilla Firefox, WhatsApp,]… Release - macOS Build 101.26062.0011 GA …
Short quotes of Microsoft's changed wording from Microsoft source, © Microsoft Corporation. Read the page for the full text.
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Sections to inspect
Up to 12 section headings from retained before/after evidence. The current source may have changed again.
Why this was flagged
The changed words, with a few words around them, matched these rule categories: dates and deadlines, supported platforms. These matches identify subjects to assess; they do not establish a policy change or applicability.
Observation details · observed today 00:53 UTC
- Observed by ChangeIntel
- today 00:53 UTC
- Source update metadata
- 15 Oct 12:40 UTC
- First observed on this installation
- 5 Oct 17:20 UTC
- Last successful check
- today 00:53 UTC
- Next check due
- today 06:53 UTC
Observation time is not publication time, and a comparison does not establish an effective date. Full source bodies are not published; this page holds generated summaries, section headings and, as the page's license allows, Microsoft's changed wording. A documentation edit does not confirm feature availability in an environment.
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Timeline
From the capture of today 00:53 UTC- 13 dates
- 1 undated section
- 2 with conditions
- 1 recorded change
- September 2025
- October 2025
- November 2025 Published timing is qualified; effectiveness is not confirmed.
- December 2025
- February 2026 Published timing is qualified; effectiveness is not confirmed.
- March 2026
- April 2026
- May 2026
- AnnouncedJune 2026 Planned; nothing changes yet
- July 2026 Published timing is qualified; effectiveness is not confirmed.
- August 2026 Published timing is qualified; effectiveness is not confirmed.
- September 2026 Published timing is qualified; effectiveness is not confirmed.
- October 2026 Now:
- 12 months agomonth window
- 11 months agomonth window
- 10 months agomonth window
- 9 months agomonth window
- 7 months agomonth window
- 6 months agomonth window
- 5 months agomonth window
- 4 months agomonth window
- 3 months agomonth windowAnnounced
- 2 months agomonth window
- 7 weeks agomonth window
- 2 weeks agomonth window
AI-Readiness
- this window includes todaymonth window
Type: Feature; Feature: Vulnerability…
Settings and overrides named on this page
Registry values, policies and cmdlets the source mentions, with the dated steps that name them. Read the source for the values to set.
AI-ReadinessSeptember 2026
Requirements, exceptions and scope
For recent releases of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, including build numbers, improvements, and fixes, see Microsoft Defender for Endpoint release notes.…
Extracted automatically from Microsoft's wording. Confirm dates, conditions and whether they apply to you in the source before acting; a month or quarter is a window, not a day.
How this timeline changed
Changes between ChangeIntel's readings of the page, between commits of its source file where Microsoft publishes it, in Internet Archive copies of pages that keep no other history, and entries from Microsoft's own change log (dated as Microsoft dates them). Edits between readings that neither records are unknown.
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October 2026
Observed history and review priority
Captured today 00:53 UTC; extracted today 00:54 UTC. Extractor: microsoft-1/9/fc65ebeb286710c0a830833db8a7e5de7e266b79981fe9c7c34479be9369ad3c.
Review priority. Previously extracted guidance is missing from a later capture · Extracted assertions require review · Applicability or exceptions require review · A published date window is near
0 date changes and 0 condition changes across 2 compared revisions. Suggested check interval: 6 hours.
Earlier unavailable versions and edits between checks are unknown. A missing statement requires review; it does not mean the policy was cancelled. Recovered historical statements are not original revision snapshots.
Retained observations · 4
Compact evidence remains available after full document bodies expire. Earlier extractions can have different vocabulary or capture limitations.
- today 00:53 UTC · 45 candidates
- 12 Oct 19:19 UTC · 45 candidates
- 6 Oct 17:27 UTC · 31 candidates
- 5 Oct 17:20 UTC · 31 candidates
Related public evidence
No related evidence found in this installation's recent collection. This does not establish that no announcement exists.
Retained observations
- today 00:53 UTC · shown above
- 12 Oct 19:19 UTC
9 removed passages (about 70 words). The changed wording mentions prerequisites, network endpoints. Review the source to confirm the effect.
- 6 Oct 17:27 UTC
Source metadata changed; retained article content is unchanged.
- 5 Oct 17:20 UTC
Baseline for retained history; no earlier retained text to compare.
What changed
First observed 18 Oct 2026- 19 Oct 2026 Settings namedAI-Readiness, DuckDuckGo → AI-Readiness
- 19 Oct 2026 Feature (12)October 2026
- 19 Oct 2026 SummaryMicrosoft's guidance publishes 12 dates, from September 2025 to September 2026 (Feature). → Microsoft's guidance publishes 13 dates, from September 2025 to October 2026 (Feature).
The most recent 100 field changes are listed. Complete recorded revisions are kept separately.
Cite this recorded revision to keep the same title, summary, facts and links when the page changes.
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