On August 7, 2025, OpenAI unveiled GPT‑5 and Microsoft announced the model would be powering Microsoft 365 Copilot the same day — a high‑visibility release that quickly turned into a cautionary case study about how model upgrades matter far less to most business users than context, integration...
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Microsoft Digital’s Employee Productivity Engineering (EPE) team faced a deceptively simple-sounding question with outsized implications: should we build on Microsoft Dataverse — the low-code data platform native to the Power Platform — or rely on Microsoft SQL Server and its mature relational...
Microsoft is quietly shifting a fundamental part of the Word for Windows experience: new documents created in Word will now default to being saved in the cloud (OneDrive or another configured cloud destination) with AutoSave enabled, and the change begins with Word for Windows version 2509 and...
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The Web3 infrastructure story that has been quietly brewing for years reached a new inflection point this cycle: large cloud providers are no longer passive hosts for blockchain experiments — they are active strategic partners, builders, and gatekeepers whose technical choices and compliance...
ChatGPT is not a Microsoft product — it was created and is operated by OpenAI — but the relationship between the two companies is deep, strategic, and increasingly intertwined, which explains why ChatGPT often feels like a Microsoft feature inside Windows, Edge, Bing, and Microsoft 365. tl agent...
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Indian‑origin Microsoft engineer Ritvika Nagula’s account of earning four promotions in five years has become a practical primer for career acceleration inside big tech: explicit goals, frequent manager check‑ins, mapping to internal role rubrics, and volunteering for end‑to‑end projects — a...
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Microsoft’s Snipping Tool is being readied to let you draw directly on the live screen before you capture it — a change that would flip the traditional screenshot workflow and bring the app closer to dedicated third‑party capture utilities and inking-first workflows already familiar to tablet...
A Southern California resident has filed a lawsuit seeking to force Microsoft to continue issuing free security updates for Windows 10 beyond the company’s published end‑of‑support date of October 14, 2025, arguing the vendor’s lifecycle decision amounts to forced obsolescence and an...
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Microsoft's most sweeping Windows redesign in years has arrived: a roomy, AI-aware Start menu, deeper Phone Link integration, and File Explorer that begins to act like an assistant — changes Microsoft bills as a major evolution of the Windows desktop and that industry outlets are calling the...
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A single‑plaintiff lawsuit filed in San Diego has transformed what many assumed would be a routine product lifecycle milestone into a high‑stakes public debate about security, competition, and planned obsolescence—claiming Microsoft’s decision to end Windows 10 support on October 14, 2025...
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A Southern California resident has asked a court to stop Microsoft from pulling the plug on Windows 10, arguing the company’s October 14, 2025 end-of-support decision is intended to coerce hardware upgrades and accelerate adoption of Windows 11’s AI features — a legal gambit that spotlights the...
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Sam Altman shrugged off Elon Musk’s latest public broadside over OpenAI’s GPT-5 and its tight relationship with Microsoft, casting the feud as noise while Microsoft moved to embed the new model across its core products and OpenAI doubled down on productized, agentic AI delivery. (cnbc.com)...
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OpenAI's latest advancement in artificial intelligence, GPT-5, is now accessible to users of Microsoft's Copilot platform at no cost. This integration marks a significant milestone in making cutting-edge AI technology widely available across various Microsoft applications and devices.
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Amid a wave of user feedback and industry scrutiny, KDE’s developers are responding boldly to Microsoft’s heavily marketed Copilot key, a recently introduced hardware fixture on many new Windows laptops. Once touted as an innovative bridge between users and Microsoft’s AI assistant, the Copilot...
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Microsoft has made a significant stride toward the future of deeply personalized AI assistants with the quiet rollout of its new Copilot “Connected apps” feature, currently enabling seamless access to files stored in OneDrive directly through the Copilot web interface. This development marks a...
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Microsoft has recently announced the comprehensive integration of OpenAI's latest language model, GPT-5, across its entire product ecosystem. This strategic move aims to enhance the capabilities of Microsoft's AI-driven tools, including Copilot, Microsoft 365, GitHub, and Azure AI Foundry, by...
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Microsoft has set the stage for a transformative second half of the year with the announcement and rollout of new Windows Insider Preview updates across the Canary, Dev, and Beta channels. These fresh builds bring a wealth of fixes, enhancements, and feature experiments that not only sharpen the...
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The unveiling of GPT-5 in Microsoft Copilot Studio marks a defining moment in generative AI’s evolution, seamlessly combining OpenAI’s most advanced language model with the robust, secure, and enterprise-friendly environment of Microsoft’s premier agent development platform. For organizations...
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Microsoft’s sweeping integration of OpenAI’s GPT-5 model across its entire product suite marks a watershed moment in the evolution of enterprise and consumer AI. Announced with immediate effect, this bold rollout embeds what is currently touted as the most advanced AI system into everything from...
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For months, speculation swirled about the integration of OpenAI's next-generation GPT model into Microsoft’s flagship AI assistant. Now, it’s official: GPT-5 is available for free within Microsoft Copilot, marking a watershed moment not only for Windows enthusiasts, but also for productivity...
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