cloud automation

Microsoft's new Copilot Tasks flips the script on conversational assistants: instead of waiting for you to ask how to do something, it quietly does the work for you in the cloud and hands you the results. Background Microsoft revealed Copilot Tasks in a research preview at the end of February...

Microsoft’s Copilot has moved from conversational helper to active worker: with the release of Copilot Tasks as a research preview, Microsoft is piloting an autonomous, cloud‑hosted agent that accepts plain‑English goals, builds multi‑step plans, spins up its own browser and compute environment...

Microsoft’s consumer Copilot just moved from “helpful assistant” to “active executor” with Copilot Tasks — a research-preview feature that runs an AI agent in the background using its own cloud-based computer and browser to complete multi-step chores on your behalf. Background Copilot’s...

Microsoft’s newest move with Copilot Tasks signals a clear shift: AI is no longer meant only for conversation and creation — it’s being positioned to quietly do the heavy lifting in the background, planning and executing multi-step work on your behalf while you focus on higher-value activities...

Microsoft’s new Copilot Tasks marks a deliberate pivot from conversational assistants to autonomous, scheduled work — a cloud‑first agent that does rather than just answers. Announced on February 26, 2026, as a research preview, Copilot Tasks runs in its own sandboxed cloud environment with a...

Weatherbys’ move to rebuild the engines that run horse racing and animal genomics on Microsoft’s Power Platform represents one of the clearest examples yet of a heritage business using modern low‑code tooling to resolve decades‑old technical debt while keeping custodial responsibilities — like...

Microsoft has quietly pushed Copilot from the realm of suggestions and drafts into a new category: an AI that actually gets things done for you. With the research-preview rollout of Copilot Tasks, Microsoft is testing a cloud-hosted, browser-driven agent that accepts plain‑English goals, maps...

Microsoft’s next phase for Copilot is less a conversational novelty and more a pragmatic shift: Copilot Tasks promises to be an always‑available, cloud‑powered AI agent that does work for you — composing and sending emails, building study plans, generating editable Office deliverables, and...

Microsoft has quietly moved Copilot beyond conversation and into execution: Copilot Tasks is a new, cloud‑driven capability that accepts plain‑English goals, builds multi‑step plans, spins up its own browser and compute environment, and runs workflows in the background — returning progress...

Microsoft’s Copilot has taken a decisive step beyond chat: with the new Copilot Tasks research preview, the company is offering an agentic AI that will plan, act, and return results on multi‑step work you describe in plain English — and you can now join a public waitlist to try it. Background /...

Microsoft has quietly shifted Copilot from being a conversational helper into an assistant that can act on your behalf: Copilot Tasks is a new agentic capability that accepts natural‑language goals, builds multi‑step plans, and executes them in the background using its own cloud‑based compute...

Wipro’s recognition as the Microsoft Switzerland Partner of the Year 2025 for Azure Migration caps a high-stakes, large-scale cloud transformation that modernized more than 1,000 applications for a major European financial institution and claims measurable business outcomes — notably a 35%...

Auckland startup Spotto has moved its AI-driven cloud optimisation platform out of beta and into general availability, pitching a toolset designed to continuously scan Microsoft Azure estates, translate optimisation signals into engineer-ready tickets, and create a stream of recurring services...

Microsoft Azure Images are the unsung backbone of any large-scale, repeatable cloud strategy — they convert system architecture into deployable, verifiable artifacts that make rapid provisioning, consistent security, and automated lifecycle management possible across development, test, and...

Nerdio today said it will support Microsoft’s newly emphasized hybrid approach for Azure Virtual Desktop, extending Nerdio Manager for Enterprise to manage virtual desktops running on a wider range of on‑premises hypervisors and giving IT teams a single automation plane for cloud, on‑prem, or...

The global technology and services sectors have entered an unambiguous period of workforce contraction: more than 100,000 tech-sector roles have been eliminated so far in 2025 as companies restructure to prioritize artificial intelligence, cloud services, and profitability. What began as...

UiPath’s decision to host UiPath Automation Cloud inside Microsoft Azure datacenters in the United Arab Emirates is both a tactical and symbolic move — it signals a maturing market for agentic AI in the Gulf while forcing enterprises to confront the operational, governance and cost realities of...

ProsperOps’ Autonomous Discount Management (ADM) is now generally available for Microsoft Azure via the Azure Marketplace, bringing the company’s algorithmic commitment‑management engine to Azure compute services and promising automated buys, sells, and portfolio reshaping of Reservations and...

Microsoft’s latest packaging of its agent-building tools — now split into Copilot Studio Lite and the Copilot Studio Full Experience — is less a rename and more a strategic reframe: the company is clarifying who these tools are for, where they run, and how enterprises should govern them. The...

Microsoft has quietly extended Copilot’s reach deeper into the Azure developer workflow by launching a public preview of the GitHub Copilot for Azure extension for Visual Studio 2022, bringing a curated set of Azure tools—exposed via an Azure Model Context Protocol (MCP) server—directly into...