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  1. Will Windows 12 Arrive in 2025–26? AI, Copilot+, and Windows 11 Evolution

    With Microsoft continuing to push AI into the heart of Windows while simultaneously shipping iterative Windows 11 updates, the question most users and IT managers are asking is simple but pressing: will Windows 12 arrive in late 2025 or early 2026 — and if so, what will it actually change? The...
  2. Paint, Snipping Tool, and Notepad Gain AI Features in Windows Insider Builds

    Microsoft’s long‑running habit of quietly modernizing its smallest apps reached a clear milestone this week as Paint, Snipping Tool, and Notepad received coordinated feature updates in Windows Insider builds — features that push these familiar utilities from convenience tools toward real...
  3. Microsoft Fabric expands Oracle/BigQuery mirroring and adds Graph on OneLake

    Microsoft’s Fabric platform just widened its berth for enterprise data: Fabric now supports mirroring from Oracle and Google BigQuery into OneLake, and it adds a native graph database built on technology from LinkedIn to model relationships at scale. The mirroring capability creates a Delta...
  4. Workday and Microsoft: Unified AI Agents with Entra ID and ASOR

    Workday and Microsoft’s new integration aims to let organisations manage human employees and AI agents from a single, auditable plane — registering Copilot Studio and Azure AI Foundry agents into Workday’s Agent System of Record (ASOR) and giving each agent a verifiable Microsoft Entra Agent ID...
  5. Workday–Microsoft AI Agents: Identity-First Governance for Enterprise Automation

    Workday’s alignment with Microsoft marks a pragmatic shift from pilot-era AI experiments toward a governed, identity-first model for scaling agentic automation inside the enterprise, giving organizations a single plane to register, manage, and measure both human workers and AI agents across HR...
  6. Workday–Microsoft AI Agents: Identity-Driven Enterprise Governance

    Workday’s announcement at Workday Rising of a joint technical alignment with Microsoft marks a decisive step in making AI agents first-class, governable entities inside the enterprise — not just ephemeral bots stitched together by line-of-business teams. The new integration links Microsoft’s...
  7. Windows 11 SCOOBE: Full-Screen Renewal Prompt in Insider Builds

    Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Insider builds are shipping a new, full-screen renewal prompt aimed at lapsed Microsoft 365 subscriptions — an eye-catching SCOOBE (Second‑Chance Out‑of‑Box Experience) screen that insiders and early reports describe as a full‑screen nag to renew rather than a...
  8. AnywhereNow Bets on Tendfor’s Teams-native CCaaS for North American CX

    AnywhereNow’s renewed bet on Tendfor marks a clear acceleration in the race to deliver Microsoft-native contact‑center experiences across North America, combining Teams‑centric voice capabilities with deep Azure and Copilot integrations to chase larger enterprise CX deals and channel partners...
  9. Workday and Microsoft Unite to Govern AI Agents in the Enterprise

    Workday and Microsoft quietly stitched together a practical bridge between identity, runtime, and business context for AI agents—an integration that promises to make digital workers first-class citizens in enterprise HR, finance, and security systems while raising new questions about governance...
  10. KPMG Joins Microsoft AI Business Solutions Inner Circle for 2025-2026

    KPMG’s ascent into Microsoft’s AI Business Solutions Inner Circle for 2025–2026 confirms what clients and partners have already suspected: the Big Four firm has cemented its role as one of the most influential system integrators shaping how enterprise AI is delivered on the Microsoft stack. This...
  11. Google Windows AI Spotlight-style Search: Local Files, Drive & Web in One

    Google has quietly begun testing a new desktop search experience for Windows that looks and feels like macOS Spotlight but with Google’s distinctive multimodal and generative-AI capabilities layered on top, bringing web search, Google Drive, local files, installed apps, and Google Lens into a...
  12. Azure and AI: Microsoft's Growth Engine in a Capital-Intense Era

    Microsoft’s most recent results and guidance refinement make one fact unmistakable: the company’s future growth is being driven by an Azure‑anchored, AI‑first platform strategy — and that strategy is increasingly capital‑intensive, partnership‑dependent, and subject to both regulatory and...
  13. Workday and Microsoft Launch Agent System of Record for AI Agents

    Workday and Microsoft have quietly stepped into the next phase of enterprise automation: they’re building the plumbing to let agentic AI workers — digital agents created in Microsoft’s developer ecosystem — obtain verified identities, join a corporate directory, and be managed alongside human...
  14. Windows 11 Preview: Copilot on Taskbar, Drag‑and‑Drop AI, and On‑Device NPUs

    Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 preview build sharpens Copilot’s presence in daily workflows with new taskbar animations, drag‑and‑drop content handling, and deeper on‑device AI integration — a set of changes that promise faster, more contextual assistance while accelerating Microsoft’s push to...
  15. Microsoft Rebuilds Trust: Nadella’s Call Amid Layoffs and RTO Tensions

    Satya Nadella’s blunt admission that Microsoft must “rebuild trust” with its workforce landed at the center of a turbulent week for the company, as months of large-scale workforce reductions and a newly tightened return-to-office policy collided with employee activism and questions about...
  16. Dynamics 365 Goes AI-Native: Activating Outcomes with Embedded Copilot and Agents

    Microsoft’s quiet pivot to make artificial intelligence a native, operational layer inside Dynamics 365 marks a decisive shift: AI is no longer an optional add-on but a set of embedded capabilities designed to activate business outcomes, and the success of that activation now hinges as much on...
  17. AI on the NFL Sideline: Copilot, Governance, and the Lynch Call

    Artificial intelligence would have told Pete Carroll to hand the ball to Marshawn Lynch. The verdict — blunt, repeatable and nearly universal among modern analysts — is now being echoed by the same generative models that pundits and teams are experimenting with at the edge of NFL operations. Yet...
  18. Agentic Collaboration in Teams: AI Agents, Copilot Studio, and SharePoint for Enterprise

    Microsoft’s internal account of how Teams has evolved into an AI-first collaboration platform reads less like a product update and more like a blueprint for how large organizations will work in the next decade: Teams as the connective tissue, AI agents as the operational workforce, and Copilot...
  19. ISDI and Microsoft Unleash AI Agents in Executive MBA for Job-Ready Skills

    ISDI’s new partnership with Microsoft turns generative AI from classroom theory into a tangible career asset for Executive MBA students, embedding agent-building and Copilot-powered workflows directly into the school’s flagship MIB program so graduates leave with a trained, exportable AI agent...
  20. Microsoft's AI‑First Pivot: Layoffs, RTO, and Rebuilding Trust

    Satya Nadella’s blunt admission — “we can do better, and we will do better” — landed in the middle of a turbulent week for Microsoft, one in which leadership is publicly reinforcing an “AI‑first” execution tempo even as tens of thousands of employees and broad swathes of the tech press ask...