The NFL and Microsoft have dramatically expanded a partnership that has already reshaped sideline technology, upgrading the league’s Sideline Viewing System with Copilot-powered Surface devices, integrating Azure AI services into scouting and operations workflows, and rolling out new tools...
Microsoft’s Copilot is moving from meeting rooms to locker rooms, as a renewed NFL partnership elevates Windows-powered tools from simple sideline devices to full-blown, AI-augmented decision systems that promise faster insights, richer scouting, and—most provocatively—assistive playcalling...
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Microsoft and the NFL have turned a long-running sideline hardware deal into a full-scale, AI-first operational platform: Copilot assistants are being delivered to coaches’ Surface devices, Azure AI Foundry-powered tools are being piloted for scouting and operations, and a hybrid cloud‑plus‑edge...