Microsoft’s most recent results and guidance refinement make one fact unmistakable: the company’s future growth is being driven by an Azure‑anchored, AI‑first platform strategy — and that strategy is increasingly capital‑intensive, partnership‑dependent, and subject to both regulatory and...
Generative AI assistants such as Microsoft Copilot can accelerate data analysis — but only when the person using them understands the code they produce, checks the results, and controls the data fed into the system; used blindly, they’re a fast path to plausible-looking but flawed numbers...
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Microsoft will begin automatically installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot desktop app on Windows machines that already have Microsoft 365 desktop clients installed, a background rollout slated to start in early October and run into mid‑November 2025 — and while enterprise tenants can opt out, most...
Microsoft has confirmed a sweeping change to how Windows devices will receive AI integration: the Microsoft 365 Copilot app will be automatically installed on Windows systems that already have Microsoft 365 desktop apps, with the rollout beginning in early October 2025 and expected to finish...
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Microsoft will begin installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot app automatically on Windows devices that already have the Microsoft 365 desktop apps, a background rollout that starts this fall and is expected to reach completion by mid‑November — but it won’t happen for devices in the European...
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Microsoft will begin automatically installing the standalone Microsoft 365 Copilot app onto many Windows devices this fall, pushing a dedicated Copilot entry into the Start menu on eligible machines unless administrators explicitly opt out — a move Microsoft describes as a background...
Microsoft is weaving its AI assistant deeper into the Office experience by rolling Copilot Chat and agent capabilities directly into core Microsoft 365 apps — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote — bringing a unified, in-context chat pane and a raft of new tools aimed at turning an AI...
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Semarchy’s latest push to embed mastered, governed data into Microsoft’s Fabric stack signals a pragmatic next step in the race to make enterprise data both AI-ready and business-ready — bringing golden records, semantic models, and DataOps workflows directly into OneLake so Power BI, GitHub...
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Microsoft Edge is quietly experimenting with a new Visual Search shortcut inside its floating desktop search box on Windows 11, letting users drop images onto a small camera-enabled UI and get Bing-powered image results — all without opening a full browser window first.
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Firefox’s latest release delivers the kind of practical Windows-focused refinements power users have been asking for — and a high-profile AI tie‑in that will keep privacy wonks and enterprise admins debating for weeks.
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Mozilla’s rapid-release cadence means the browser you...
Microsoft has quietly begun serving a new, highly visual Bing ad that places a full “scoreboard” comparison between Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome above Chrome’s official download links on Windows 11 — a move that reframes a user’s intent at the precise moment they look to switch browsers and...
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Microsoft’s latest push stitches a unified, content‑aware Copilot chat directly into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote — surfacing a persistent side pane that can read the file you’re working on, search other files with an inline “/” picker, accept multiple images, and give wider...
Microsoft’s Copilot is quietly evolving from a conversational assistant into a multi-modal, transactional platform — and recent test-build evidence shows the company is explicitly styling that evolution around three pillars: search that surfaces explicit references, shopping and order...
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Mozilla’s latest stable build, Firefox 143, lands as a pragmatic — and at times polarizing — update: it brings a sidebar shortcut to Microsoft Copilot and the wider AI-chat ecosystem while doubling down on user-facing privacy controls, accessibility fixes, and platform-specific media and web-app...
Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 preview build sharpens Copilot’s presence in daily workflows with new taskbar animations, drag‑and‑drop content handling, and deeper on‑device AI integration — a set of changes that promise faster, more contextual assistance while accelerating Microsoft’s push to...
Microsoft has started seeding an optional Release Preview update — KB5065789 — that previews key parts of the upcoming Windows 11 25H2 enablement package, bringing early access to AI-powered productivity features, accessibility upgrades, new emoji, and a handful of desktop and gaming refinements...
Microsoft will begin automatically installing the standalone Microsoft 365 Copilot app in the background on many Windows devices that already run Microsoft 365 desktop clients, with a notable carve‑out for devices in the European Economic Area — a move that promises faster feature rollout and...
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Apple's macOS Tahoe and Microsoft's Windows 11 now occupy distinctly different strategic positions: Apple is pushing an aesthetic and intelligence-led evolution that treats the desktop as a personal, context-aware companion, while Microsoft continues to fold AI into a broadly compatible...
Microsoft will begin automatically installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on many Windows devices this fall, but the rollout is neither universal nor unstoppable — administrators and privacy-conscious users have documented methods to block installation and disable the feature, and Microsoft...
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The path from AI hype to steady, measurable value is rarely a straight line; New Era Technology’s conversation with UC Today — led by Kristian McCann and Steve Daly — lays out a pragmatic playbook for moving organizations beyond AI disillusionment and into sustained Copilot adoption. The central...
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