Microsoft’s latest wave of updates pushes Microsoft 365 Copilot from an assistant into a platform: new Copilot Actions, domain-aware agents, a Copilot Control System for IT, and analytics that promise to measure real business impact — all designed to make AI-driven workflows both more powerful...
Microsoft is moving rental operations from peripheral add‑ons into the core of Dynamics 365 ERP, outlining a roadmap of native rental capabilities — quoting and reservations, contract and pricing management, inspection orchestration, and billing — that the company says will debut as a connected...
Southern Nuclear’s recent rollout of internally developed Microsoft Copilot agents — anchored by a Fleet Operating Experience (OE) agent, a Safety Advisor Copilot, and an Organizational Effectiveness & Performance Improvement (OR/PI) agent — marks a clear pivot from exploratory pilots to...
Microsoft’s Ignite 2025 marked a decisive moment: the company moved from talking about Copilot as a helpful sidebar to positioning Copilot and agents as the operational fabric of modern enterprise, unveiling an integrated stack of agent tooling, governance controls, and lower‑cost commercial...
Microsoft’s Ignite announcements pushed Copilot from a helpful sidebar into the center of everyday work — introducing an intelligence layer called Work IQ, built-in agents inside Word, Excel and PowerPoint that can act (not just answer), deeper Outlook triage and voice features, and a major...
Microsoft’s Ignite keynote this week repositioned Copilot from a conversation widget into the operational spine of a new “agentic” enterprise architecture, with a trio of intelligence layers — Work IQ, Fabric IQ and Foundry IQ — and a governance control plane called Agent 365 intended to make...
Microsoft’s Copilot is morphing from a helpful sidebar into a full-fledged, agent-driven layer across Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook — an evolution Microsoft unveiled at Ignite that promises faster content creation, smarter data work, and deeper automation, but brings renewed emphasis on...
Microsoft’s new Copilot agents bring a long-awaited shift from “ask and receive” AI to agents that act inside the apps people use every day, automating repetitive work, coordinating multi-step workflows across Microsoft 365, and—if configured—taking pre-authorized actions on behalf of teams and...
Ontinue’s announcement that its Posture Advisor Agent Core will be available through Microsoft’s new Security Store marks another tangible step in the rapid commercialization of security AI agents—promising easier deployment of identity-hardening tooling for Microsoft Entra ID tenants while...
Microsoft has rolled out AI agents inside Microsoft 365 Copilot — introducing Agent Mode for Word and Excel and an Office Agent in Copilot Chat for PowerPoint — bringing agentic, multi‑step AI assistance directly into the apps users rely on every day.
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Microsoft’s Copilot is evolving from a one‑person productivity assistant into a set of embedded, context‑aware AI teammates that live inside Teams channels, SharePoint sites, Viva Engage communities and meetings — agents that proactively run coordination tasks, capture decisions, and keep...
The Capital Area Tech Hub’s upcoming seminar “Unlock Productivity with AI Agents” will bring Microsoft 365 Copilot and the new generation of agentic AI into a Mid-Michigan meeting room on September 24, 2025 — a practical, lunch-hour briefing led by Microsoft Copilot solution engineer Joe...
Microsoft’s Copilot promises to turn the hours you spend wrestling with emails, spreadsheets, and slide decks into a few focused minutes — and the differences between “promise” and “product” matter. The Geeky Gadgets primer supplied by the user captures that enthusiasm, laying out Copilot’s...
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Microsoft’s decision to place a free, in‑context Copilot Chat and a new family of AI agents directly inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote is the clearest signal yet that generative AI is being baked into the everyday productivity experience — not sold as an optional add‑on...
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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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Ukraine’s customer‑service teams face a simple fact in 2025: the volume, velocity, and multilingual nature of support requests make AI tools less of a luxury and more of an operational necessity — but picking the right tools, piloting them against real KPIs, and protecting data and jobs must...
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Spotify, Apple and Microsoft all pushed meaningful updates this week that matter to Windows power users: Spotify has finally switched on lossless audio for Premium subscribers across more than 50 markets (including New Zealand) at no extra cost, Apple unveiled the ultra‑thin iPhone Air that...
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Microsoft’s latest Microsoft Store update for Windows Insiders quietly widens the gateway between the Store, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and publishers’ app ecosystems—adding Microsoft 365 Copilot Agents to the Store’s AI Hub and making it easier to launch and manage apps that are “provided and...
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Microsoft has pushed a coordinated set of Windows 11 Insider Preview builds into the Dev, Beta, and Release Preview channels, bringing the near‑final 25H2 activation and a raft of AI, accessibility, and usability tweaks that IT teams and power users should validate now. Background / Overview...
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Baylor’s Career Center has quietly handed the passenger seat to artificial intelligence — deploying Microsoft Copilot agents to streamline resume building, interview practice and career discovery — and the move raises as many practical benefits as it does governance questions for higher...
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