automation

Mustafa Suleyman’s blunt admission that Google’s Gemini 3 “can do things that Copilot can’t do” punctures the usual corporate spin: it confirms a practical truth about today’s AI race — different assistants are engineered for different jobs — and it forces Windows users and IT buyers to evaluate...

Free auto‑clicker tools for Windows 11 promise to remove repetitive mouse work with a single toggle, but they also bring a mix of convenience, security nuance, and policy risk that every Windows user should understand before downloading and running one. This feature unpacks what modern...

ImageMagick’s command-line approach turns repetitive, batch image work from a chore into a single, reproducible command — and when you test it on hundreds of files it routinely finishes tasks far faster than point‑and‑click editors. Background / Overview ImageMagick is a mature, open‑source...

NielsenIQ has turned a labor‑intensive warehouse of packaging photos and Excel sheets into a near‑real‑time product‑intelligence engine by automating “item coding” with Microsoft Foundry — cutting per‑item coding time by roughly 90%, coding 32,000 products in 10 hours instead of 300 hours, and...

AIRoute Technology’s recent profile in industry press positions the startup as a new entrant in the “agentic AI” era — a US‑based company building vertical AI agents that claim to deeply understand domain data, workflows, and decision processes and to run production‑grade automations on top of...

The AI Agent & Copilot Summit is shaping up as the pivotal industry event for organizations and professionals who want to move from curious pilots to production-grade agentic automation — and Avanade’s Global D365 CRM practice lead, Nancie Calder, is one of the practitioners pushing attendees to...

Agentic AI has moved from research lab curiosity to an enterprise operating imperative: organizations are deploying autonomous, goal-driven agents that plan, act, and learn across systems, and early adopters are already reporting material gains — but also new and complex governance, security...

A single clever Shortcut can alter a tiny habit — or give you a hollow sense of control — and a recent roundup breathlessly recommending a Shortcut called Brainsaver has sparked both excitement and confusion about what iOS Shortcuts can actually do to stop doomscrolling. Background Apple’s...

Microsoft’s PowerShell is no longer an arcane tool for sysadmins alone — it’s the modern command-line and automation engine that replaces many Command Prompt habits while offering far richer control, scripting and safety nets for everyday Windows users. The Tom’s Hardware primer the user...

Running AlmaLinux on Microsoft Azure is an increasingly pragmatic choice for organizations that want a RHEL-compatible, long‑support Linux base without the vendor licensing tax — and when paired with Azure’s global infrastructure and native services it becomes a flexible, enterprise‑grade...

Kanerika’s new Microsoft specialization signals a growing trend: systems integrators are converting product familiarity into auditable, partner‑program credentials that buyers should value — but also verify. Kanerika announced it has been awarded the Data Warehouse Migration to Microsoft Azure...

Plansom’s new Teams-native agent folds goal-setting, delegation, and real-time progress tracking directly into Microsoft Teams by building on Microsoft’s Foundry SDKs, Azure OpenAI, Copilot Studio, and Model Context Protocol — a move designed to make delegation measurable, visible, and automated...

The latest hands‑on head‑to‑head testing that compares Google’s Gemini 3 and Microsoft’s Copilot finds a clear practical winner for everyday, web‑grounded tasks — and it isn’t even close in several categories. The hands‑on review that sparked the debate ran seven real‑world desktop prompts...

Microsoft’s security update for CVE-2025-54100 does more than patch a vulnerability — it changes the behavior of a widely used PowerShell cmdlet in a way that will be immediately visible to users and consequential for automation: after installing the update, Invoke‑WebRequest will present an...

We’re at the point where change management — the slow, paper-and-email-laden backbone of manufacturing — is getting a practical, agentic overhaul: Microsoft today opened public preview of the Product Change Management agent template, a Copilot Studio–built solution that promises to automate...

What if you could cut hours of tedious spreadsheet work down to minutes by letting Excel do the heavy lifting for you? Microsoft’s Copilot Agent Mode for Excel promises exactly that: an agentic layer that plans, executes, validates, and iterates multi-step spreadsheet workflows inside the...

Microsoft’s blunt admission that the new agentic features in Windows 11 “may hallucinate and produce unexpected outputs” is the clearest signal yet that AI moving from assistant to actor changes the operating‑system threat model — and small businesses need to treat that change as a security...

UiPath sits at an inflection point: a company that once helped define the robotic process automation (RPA) category is now wrestling with a transformed AI landscape, shifting investor expectations, and renewed strategic choices about growth versus profitability. The core facts are clear — UiPath...

Kepware’s twin releases — a new Linux, container-first runtime called Kepware Edge and a consolidated Windows product rebranded as Kepware Server — mark a deliberate shift in how industrial connectivity vendors are responding to the demands of edge-first, data-driven manufacturing. The changes...

Microsoft’s shift from single‑user assistants to coordinated, enterprise‑grade agents is no longer a roadmap prediction — it’s a production reality IT teams must plan for now. Copilot Studio’s multi‑agent orchestration and the growing “Agent Store” transform Microsoft 365 from a suite of...