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Microsoft’s Copilot has moved fast from a neat demo into a pervasive, multi‑headed AI assistant that now sits in Windows, in Microsoft 365 apps, in the Edge browser, and on phones — but it’s more than a chatbot: it’s a layered platform with distinct product tiers, on‑device acceleration, enterprise grounding, and a growing set of privacy and governance trade‑offs that every Windows user and IT professional needs to understand. Background Microsoft first introduced the Copilot name to...

Analysts are calling Microsoft a top AI play for 2026 because the company has stitched together a unique combination of hyperscale cloud capacity, seat-based productivity monetization (the Copilot family), and privileged commercial ties to leading model providers — an arrangement many on Wall Street now argue creates a durable AI monetization flywheel that could re-rate the stock if execution stays on track. Background / Overview Microsoft’s late‑2025 and early‑2026 narrative shifted from...

Sony Honda Mobility used CES 2026 to move AFEELA from long‑running concept into a concrete product and roadmap: AFEELA 1 is slated for U.S. deliveries in 2026 (initially in California), priced from roughly $89,900, built under contract at Honda’s Ohio facility, and positioned as an entertainment‑first, cloud‑native software‑defined vehicle that pairs Qualcomm hardware with Microsoft Azure/OpenAI services and Sony’s imaging and media strengths. Background / Overview Sony Honda Mobility...

Hexagon Robotics’ announcement of a strategic partnership with Microsoft marks a major step in the race to industrialize humanoid robotics—pairing Hexagon’s AEON humanoid and sensor-fusion stack with Microsoft Azure, Fabric Real‑Time Intelligence, and Azure IoT operations to deliver production‑ready robots for manipulation and inspection in automotive, aerospace, manufacturing and logistics environments. Background / Overview Hexagon unveiled AEON, its industrial humanoid, in June 2025 as a...

Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) has announced a strategic collaboration with Microsoft to build a cloud‑native, AI‑enabled unified data platform intended to accelerate transmission planning, improve real‑time situational awareness, and help the Midwest grid absorb surging electrification and hyperscale data‑center demand. Background / Overview MISO operates markets and coordinates transmission across a large and diverse footprint that spans roughly 15 U.S. states and a...

Iberdrola Group and Microsoft have deepened a strategic alliance that pairs two long‑term wind power purchase agreements (PPAs) in Spain totaling 150 MW with an expanded technology pact to increase Iberdrola’s use of Microsoft Azure, deploy Microsoft Copilot, and explore industrial applications such as data‑centre waste‑heat reuse, hydrogen, battery storage and other grid‑integration solutions. Background and overview Iberdrola is one of Europe’s largest renewable developers and an active...

Microsoft’s Copilot — the AI assistant embedded across Microsoft 365 and in standalone apps — experienced a high‑visibility regional outage that left many UK and European users unable to access Copilot features, with Microsoft logging the incident as CP1193544 while engineers worked on manual capacity increases and load‑balancer fixes. Background Microsoft Copilot is no longer a novelty: it is a generative‑AI layer woven into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams and dedicated Copilot apps...

Microsoft Copilot promises measurable efficiency gains for housing associations, but unlocking those benefits without exposing tenant data demands deliberate work on data foundations — not a flip of the switch. Background Housing associations are handling increasingly complex workloads: tenant records, repairs histories, vulnerability notes, rent and benefit correspondence, regulatory evidence and long-running case files. The pressure to deliver faster responses, improved tenant outcomes and...

Short answer: yes — on January 7, 2026 there were widespread, short‑lived reports that Microsoft Copilot experienced accessibility and performance problems across multiple regions; crowdsourced monitors registered a spike in failures and status aggregators flagged a potential outage while official Microsoft acknowledgement lagged or remained limited to tenant‑level incident entries. Background / Overview Microsoft Copilot is the embedded AI assistant surface that sits across Microsoft 365...

Synergy Technical’s announcement that it has earned the Microsoft Copilot Advanced Specialization formalizes what many enterprise customers already expect from leading Microsoft partners: the ability to design, secure, deploy and operationalize Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio solutions at scale. The designation is both a signal and a practical gate‑keeper—confirming a partner has the people, processes, customer outcomes and governance artifacts that Microsoft now requires for...

ASM’s security team has moved from triage-driven exhaustion to strategic resilience by embedding Microsoft’s Security Copilot across its global operations, claiming dramatic reductions in investigation time, redeploying staff to higher-value work, and building a blueprint for protecting high‑value semiconductor intellectual property in the age of generative AI. Background ASM—one of the world’s leading semiconductor equipment manufacturers—operates at the center of critical chip supply...

The Terminator was defeated not by guerrilla resistance or a heroic last stand, but by something far more mundane: a tired motherboard battery that refused to hold the BIOS settings long enough for the apocalypse to boot. An image of a vintage Terminator Salvation arcade cabinet stuck on a Phoenix BIOS battery warning — spotted in a New York arcade and reported by The Register — is a small, comic emblem of how modern machines still trip over the simplest pieces of hardware. Background Arcade...

Logitech’s Mac utility ecosystem hit a sudden and disruptive snag this week after an Apple Developer signing certificate expired, leaving Logi Options+ and G HUB unable to start on macOS and knocking advanced mouse and keyboard features offline for countless users worldwide. The outage was confirmed by Logitech and repeatedly diagnosed by users in system logs that flagged a certificate validation error, and while a patched installer was rolled out within hours, the incident exposes a brittle...

HP used its annual technology showcase to sell a single thesis: the future of work will be defined by intelligent, IT‑manageable endpoints that run meaningful AI locally — from a full Windows PC built inside a keyboard to printers that host Copilot workflows — and a new software and lifecycle stack to keep those endpoints secure and serviceable. Background HP framed its strategy as a response to two converging trends: the rapid spread of on‑device neural processing units (NPUs) across PC...

Lenovo used its CES stage to preview Qira, a system‑level, cross‑device AI agent designed to follow users across PCs, phones and prototype wearables — promising continuous context, proactive actions, and a hybrid local‑plus‑cloud architecture that Lenovo says will begin rolling out on select devices in 2026. Background Lenovo’s Qira announcement arrived as part of a broader “Smarter AI for All” and Aura Edition push at CES, where the company coupled new Yoga and IdeaPad hardware with system...

Microsoft’s rumored plan to announce additional job cuts in January 2026 has reignited debate about the company’s strategy as it balances massive AI infrastructure spending with repeated workforce reductions, with initial reporting pointing to potential impact in Gaming, Azure, and Sales and estimates that between 5% and 10% of staff in affected teams could be eliminated — a claim that remains unconfirmed by Microsoft and should be treated cautiously. Background / Overview Microsoft entered...

Qualcomm’s CES 2026 reveal of the Snapdragon X2 Plus brings flagship-grade AI and connectivity to mainstream Windows 11 Copilot+ laptops by pairing the same 80 TOPS Hexagon NPU and high‑end I/O of the X2 Elite series with lower‑power CPU and GPU configurations designed for thin‑and‑light, battery‑friendly systems. Background The Snapdragon X family has been Qualcomm’s strategic play to push Arm‑based silicon into Windows PCs, targeting the “always‑connected, AI‑native” laptop segment. The...

HP’s EliteBoard G1a shrinks an entire Copilot+ Windows PC into a membrane keyboard you can carry between desks, promising instant, secure productivity for hybrid workplaces without the bulk of a laptop or the tinkering of a Raspberry Pi build. Overview HP’s EliteBoard G1a is a deliberate rethink of the desktop: a full x86 Windows PC embedded inside an office keyboard. Announced at CES 2026, the EliteBoard pairs an AMD Ryzen AI 300‑series processor with an on‑board neural processing unit...

Lenovo used its CES stage to unveil Qira, a system‑level, cross‑device AI agent designed to follow users across PCs, phones and prototype wearables—promising continuous context, proactive actions, and hybrid on‑device/cloud intelligence that the company says will begin rolling out on select devices in 2026. Background / Overview Lenovo framed its CES announcements around a unified “Smarter AI for All” narrative, coupling new hardware in the Yoga and IdeaPad lines with a broader software and...

Verifying a downloaded Windows 10 22H2 ISO with its SHA‑256 checksum is the single most reliable way to confirm the file is complete, authentic, and untampered before you burn it to USB, mount it in a VM, or run setup on a live machine. Background / Overview Microsoft distributes Windows ISOs through several channels (public download pages, the Media Creation Tool, Visual Studio subscriptions / MSDN, and Volume Licensing portals). Historically, Microsoft sometimes published SHA‑256 checksums...