Microsoft blames AI for delayed Exchange update, can’t say when it will arrive

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Dealing with machine-made bug backlog makes it hard to find a moment to deliver promised subscription service

Microsoft has blamed extra work created by AI bug-finders for the delayed release of a major Cumulative Update to Exchange Server Subscription Edition (SE).

Redmond’s Exchange team made that admission last Thursday in a post titled “Where is Exchange SE CU1 anyway?” that reveals the software giant is “getting questions from our customers on when they can expect us to release Exchange SE Cumulative Update 1 (CU1).”

“After all, in the past we mentioned that it would be released by the end of the first half of calendar year 2026, later updated to ‘second half of 2026’. What is the deal? Where is CU1?”

For those of you who came in late, Exchange SE is the subscription version of Microsoft’s email server, and a Cumulative Update (CU) is a new version of the...

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