Microsoft’s marketing teams have quietly elevated Copilot from a helpful assistant to the face of Windows 11 productivity — placing Copilot at the top of a promotional list of built‑in Windows tools and claiming it as the go‑to app for thinking, planning and getting stuff done on the desktop...
Microsoft’s Copilot Chat quietly summarized emails labeled “Confidential,” bypassing the data‑loss protections administrators relied on and forcing a hard assessment of how AI features must be governed inside Microsoft 365...
Microsoft’s Copilot has quietly breached its own promise: for the second time in eight months the assistant’s retrieval pipeline processed data explicitly labeled as confidential, and — crucially — no existing DLP, EDR, or WAF in the conventional security stack raised an alert.
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Microsoft’s AI pivot isn't a marketing slogan anymore — it’s the architecture of the software you open every morning, the cloud that runs your company's tools, and a major thesis shaping portfolios on Wall Street.
Overview
Microsoft has moved from incremental AI features to making artificial...
Microsoft’s Copilot is moving from a corner of Windows into the places people actually work: recent Insider previews and Microsoft demonstrations reveal new Copilot entry points on the Windows 11 taskbar and inside File Explorer, including an “Ask Copilot” composer, taskbar-visible AI agents...
Microsoft’s pivot toward building and orchestrating its own foundation models — while simultaneously opening Copilot to third‑party models — has thrust enterprise customers, partners, and regulated industries into a new strategic calculus: hedge your model bets now or risk disruption later...
Microsoft’s latest push folds Copilot from a helpful sidebar into the connective tissue of Windows 11 — the taskbar and File Explorer — turning the OS’s search box into a conversational command center, surface-level AI agents into persistent background workers you can monitor from the taskbar...
Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 preview builds are quietly reshaping how conversational AI sits inside the operating system, replacing isolated assistants with a set of contextual, task-focused entry points — most notably a new “Ask Copilot” experience that can live directly in the taskbar and...
Microsoft’s latest Insider experiments make one thing clear: the company is no longer treating generative AI as a separate app or a marketing banner — it’s designing AI to live where people actually do their work, starting with the taskbar and File Explorer.
Background
Microsoft introduced...
PepsiCo’s move to standardize on Microsoft Teams and layer Microsoft 365 Copilot across its global workforce marks a decisive moment in corporate IT strategy: a consumer-giant with hundreds of thousands of employees is betting that a single collaboration platform, paired with generative AI, can...
Microsoft’s flagship productivity assistant, Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, briefly read and summarized emails that organizations had explicitly labeled “Confidential,” exposing a gap between automated AI convenience and long‑standing enterprise access controls...
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For weeks this winter, Microsoft’s enterprise assistant, Microsoft 365 Copilot, quietly read and summarized email messages that organizations had explicitly marked Confidential, bypassing established Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and sensitivity‑label protections — a logic bug Microsoft has tracked...
Microsoft just demonstrated a major step in making Windows 11 feel less like a static desktop and more like an agentic workspace: a new Ask Copilot experience that surfaces AI agents directly from the taskbar and deeper Copilot integration inside File Explorer, letting small, long‑running AI...
For weeks this winter a server‑side logic error in Microsoft 365 Copilot quietly undermined a core pillar of corporate data governance: emails explicitly labeled “Confidential” were indexed, read and summarized by Copilot Chat’s “Work” experience, bypassing organizations’ sensitivity labels and...
Microsoft’s latest push to make Windows 11 feel less like an operating system and more like a personal assistant arrived in force this week with the rollout of Ask Copilot, system-wide AI agents, and deeper File Explorer integration—features that reshape how users will interact with files...
Microsoft is moving Windows 11 from a reactive desktop into an assistant-driven workspace by embedding interactive AI agents directly into the taskbar and deepening Copilot’s presence inside File Explorer—an evolution that aims to reduce clicks, speed common workflows, and make the OS feel more...
Microsoft's latest demos show artificial intelligence moving out of a sidebar and straight into the places Windows users open every day: the taskbar and File Explorer — a practical, system-level push that folds Microsoft 365 Copilot and a new class of long-running agents into the Windows 11...
Microsoft’s flagship productivity assistant, Microsoft 365 Copilot, briefly looked inside emails organizations had explicitly marked “Confidential,” summarised them in the Copilot “Work” chat experience, and — in doing so — highlighted a stubborn truth: embedding cloud AI into everyday...
Microsoft has confirmed that a code error in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat allowed the assistant to read and summarise confidential emails from users’ Sent Items and Drafts for weeks — a failure that bypassed sensitivity labels and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) protections organizations rely on to...
Microsoft's enterprise AI assistant, Microsoft 365 Copilot, briefly processed and summarized emails that organizations had explicitly marked as confidential — a behavior the company has attributed to a server‑side code error — exposing a troubling gap between AI convenience and established...