ai productivity

Microsoft’s Copilot rollout has collided with a reality check: promising agentic AI that “goes into” your OneDrive and cleans up duplicates sounds great on a blog post, but the actual user experience can be messy, gated, and maddeningly inconsistent. The PCWorld writer’s test-drive — where...

Microsoft's long-awaited disclosure about how many customers actually pay for Copilot landed like a splash of cold water: the company said it now has 15 million paid Microsoft 365 Copilot seats — an impressive-growth headline on the surface, but one that raises as many questions as it answers...

Anthropic’s new Cowork turns Claude from a conversational partner into a hands‑on desktop assistant that can read, edit, and create files inside a user‑designated folder — a feature that promises real productivity gains for non‑technical users while reopening familiar security, governance, and...

By 2026 the question is no longer whether generative AI will change work — it’s how teams rearrange their days around the outputs these systems produce and the new expectations they create. Background / Overview The quiet revolution of 2024–2026 wasn’t a single breakthrough model or a flashy...

Microsoft’s investor-day numbers paint a picture of fast-growing AI adoption — and a very different picture emerges when you do the math: Microsoft says Microsoft 365 Copilot now has roughly 15 million paid seats, yet that figure represents only a sliver of Microsoft’s installed productivity...

Microsoft Copilot has quietly added a built‑in Reminders feature that can send push notifications to your phone, letting the AI nudge you at a specific time or after a set interval — but for now those alerts land only on mobile devices where the Copilot app is installed, the rollout is gradual...

The Department for Work and Pensions’ controlled trial of Microsoft 365 Copilot delivers a clear — if carefully qualified — signal: when a generative AI assistant is embedded into familiar office apps and introduced with minimal friction, central‑office knowledge workers report measurable time...

Microsoft’s pitch is simple and familiar: Copilot is no longer a separate app you must open — it’s a built‑in, context‑aware assistant in Windows 11 and a resident collaborator inside Microsoft Edge, meant to reduce tab overload, speed routine tasks, and keep you in the flow. That framing comes...

The novelty of AI has faded into the everyday scramble of the blank prompt box — but the practical difference between a wasted Copilot session and one that saves hours is almost never the model and almost always the instruction you give it. Background / Overview Microsoft has firmly positioned...

AI tools are already reshaping what counts as “high-value work” — and the short list in Analytics Insight (ChatGPT Enterprise, GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Copilot, Midjourney, Notion AI, Salesforce Einstein, Tableau GPT, Jasper, Synthesia) maps directly to the platforms hiring managers and clients...

Microsoft’s Copilot is quietly reshaping what Excel can do for everyday users — turning hours of tedium into minutes of work by combining natural‑language commands, automated cleanup pipelines, and cloud‑hosted Python analysis into a single, conversational experience. What started as a sidebar...

Before the coffee finishes brewing, a growing number of Floridians are already asking an AI to organize their day — and that simple anecdote captures a wider shift from search and spreadsheets to conversational, assistant-style tools that promise speed, personalization, and a lower cognitive...

Microsoft has begun a staggered, OS‑level rollout of its AI assistant Copilot across Windows 11, turning what was once a sidebar experiment into a multimodal platform woven into the taskbar, Start menu, File Explorer and core update channels while other Windows 11 components—from Sticky Notes to...

The modern inbox is quietly becoming a battleground for convenience, data, and trust — and Gmail’s newest Gemini-powered features are the latest front line in a wider AI scramble that touches Windows, Microsoft’s Copilot ambitions, developer consoles, and even the consoles you game on...

Microsoft has quietly rolled out a generous, time‑limited package for higher‑education students: 12 months free of Microsoft 365 Premium bundled with LinkedIn Premium Career, giving students a full year of Copilot‑enabled Office apps, advanced security and 1 TB of cloud storage alongside...

A new, faint UI cue in a Windows 11 Insider build suggests Microsoft is testing a tighter Copilot tie‑in inside File Explorer — an invisible button that appears when you hover over a blank spot in the navigation bar and which, according to strings found in preview code, may be labeled "Chat with...

Microsoft says the Office apps themselves — Word, Excel, PowerPoint and the rest — are not being renamed “Copilot,” but a confusing renaming of the Microsoft 365 hub and aggressive Copilot branding across Microsoft’s entry points has left millions of users wondering whether their familiar Office...

The story you’ve seen on social feeds this week — that “Microsoft Office was renamed to Microsoft 365 Copilot” — is true in headline form but misleading in context: Microsoft did rename the Microsoft 365 app to the Microsoft 365 Copilot app, and that change began rolling out on January 15, 2025...

When Microsoft quietly renamed the long‑standing Microsoft 365 (Office) app to the Microsoft 365 Copilot app in mid‑January 2025, few expected the decision to become a defining moment in the company’s broader bet on generative AI. A year on, the change has graduated from an administrative...

The rise of conversational AI has quietly rewired a basic human need — companionship — and with that shift comes a new class of real-world harms, legal challenges and urgent design questions as chatbots move from tools to emotional anchors in people’s lives. Background: from ChatGPT to...