Defender for Endpoint changes
Observed content change
9 removed passages (about 70 words). The changed wording mentions prerequisites, network endpoints. Review the source to confirm the effect.
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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
- New features in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
- Feedback
- Additional resources
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: prerequisites, network endpoints. These matches identify subjects to assess; they do not establish a policy change or applicability.
Observation details · observed 12 Oct 19:19 UTC
- Observed by ChangeIntel
- 12 Oct 19:19 UTC
- Source update metadata
- 4 Oct 12:37 UTC
- First observed on this installation
- 5 Oct 17:20 UTC
- Last successful check
- today 19:44 UTC
- Next check due
- 21 Oct 01:44 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 12 Oct 19:19 UTC · an earlier observation- 12 dates
- 1 undated section
- 2 with conditions
- 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 Now: 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.
- 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
DuckDuckGo
- 2 weeks agomonth window
AI-Readiness
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 2026DuckDuckGoAugust 2026
Requirements, exceptions and scope
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.
Observed history and review priority
Captured 12 Oct 19:19 UTC; extracted 16 Oct 16:10 UTC. Extractor: microsoft-1/9/fc65ebeb286710c0a830833db8a7e5de7e266b79981fe9c7c34479be9369ad3c.
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.
- 19 Oct 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
- 19 Oct 00:53 UTC
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.
- 12 Oct 19:19 UTC · shown above
- 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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