Microsoft’s move to add Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro to GitHub Copilot for paying customers is a notable escalation in the cross-cloud AI arms race — but for many individual developers the better value may already be free, open-source tooling from Google that gives surprisingly broad access to the...
Microsoft has begun quietly testing Copilot-related recommendations inside the Windows 11 Start menu’s Recommended area — a move that places Microsoft’s AI assistant directly at the moment users choose what to do next and that, in practice, functions like a promotional surface for both the...
Microsoft has quietly begun embedding bite‑sized Microsoft 365 “companion” apps into the Windows 11 taskbar — compact People, File Search, and Calendar helpers designed to surface contacts, documents, and meeting controls without launching full Office or Teams windows — a shift that promises...