copilot

Microsoft’s Copilot rollout has entered a new, turbulent phase: Microsoft is pulling back specific Excel “app skills” after user feedback, preparing Copilot to launch automatically in Microsoft Edge from Outlook emails, and shipping a Data Loss Prevention (DLP) update intended to stop Copilot...

Microsoft’s latest push to crown Copilot as the flagship productivity experience in Windows 11 has exposed a stark contradiction: a centerpiece the company hails as transformative, yet one that — by several measures — still struggles to win broad, paying adoption or universal user trust...

Microsoft’s enterprise Copilot has silently crossed a line: for a window of weeks earlier this year the assistant’s email summarisation pipeline was incorrectly processing messages it should have left alone — including items in users’ Sent Items and Drafts that had been explicitly labelled...

Microsoft’s February 2026 wave of Excel updates cements the spreadsheet as Microsoft’s primary battleground for embedding AI into everyday knowledge work, with a steady stream of Copilot improvements, new import and data functions, and developer-facing enhancements that push Excel from a...

User reports and public monitoring on February 25, 2026 show scattered, intermittent failures and access errors affecting Microsoft Copilot for some users — but the evidence available at issuance does not support a single, global outage that took the entire Copilot platform offline. ustme.com]...

Microsoft’s Copilot has quietly crossed a threshold: no longer a single chatbot tucked into an office suite, it has become a layered platform that spans Windows, Edge, Microsoft 365, Copilot Labs experiments and — increasingly — government and enterprise deployments. The latest wave of feature...

Microsoft’s latest Release Preview build for Windows 11 gives us a concrete look at the next feature drop — a measured package of quality‑of‑life enhancements that Microsoft says will start reaching production PCs in the coming weeks. The preview includes a curated subset of Emoji 16.0, a...

ESW’s expansion of ExcelHelp.com into a national Microsoft training and automation brand is a clear bet on one of the most urgent enterprise problems of 2026: organizations have bought into Microsoft 365 and Copilot, but they still need people who know how to use those tools safely...

Microsoft’s Copilot is entering a new phase of availability and positioning: Microsoft is actively steering users toward trial and migration paths for Copilot while simultaneously reframing how the assistant is messaged to customers and IT decision‑makers — moves that matter for everyday Windows...

Microsoft’s latest update folds deep C++ understanding into GitHub Copilot’s agent workflows in Visual Studio Code, giving the Copilot agent access to symbol-level code navigation and CMake-aware build/test tools so it can reason about and change C++ code the same way an experienced human...

Microsoft has quietly moved Copilot from a helpful sidebar curiosity to the lead face of Windows 11’s built‑in productivity story — placing the AI assistant at the top of a freshly published list of “best productivity apps in Windows,” ahead of long‑standing staples such as File Explorer and...

Microsoft appears to be turning Notepad into something closer to a lightweight Markdown notebook: Windows Latest reports that Microsoft is testing image support in the Windows 11 Notepad app, with the feature integrated into the app’s existing Markdown/formatting experience, and — importantly —...

Microsoft’s Copilot has quietly moved from a promising assistant into the most prominent productivity name Microsoft is pushing — and a recent headline claiming Copilot is now the top productivity app on Windows 11 has lit a fuse across user communities, IT teams, and privacy advocates alike...

Microsoft’s marketing teams have quietly elevated Copilot from a helpful assistant to the face of Windows 11 productivity — placing Copilot at the top of a promotional list of built‑in Windows tools and claiming it as the go‑to app for thinking, planning and getting stuff done on the desktop...

Microsoft’s Copilot Chat quietly summarized emails labeled “Confidential,” bypassing the data‑loss protections administrators relied on and forcing a hard assessment of how AI features must be governed inside Microsoft 365...

Microsoft’s Copilot has quietly breached its own promise: for the second time in eight months the assistant’s retrieval pipeline processed data explicitly labeled as confidential, and — crucially — no existing DLP, EDR, or WAF in the conventional security stack raised an alert. Background...

Microsoft’s AI pivot isn't a marketing slogan anymore — it’s the architecture of the software you open every morning, the cloud that runs your company's tools, and a major thesis shaping portfolios on Wall Street. Overview Microsoft has moved from incremental AI features to making artificial...

Microsoft’s Copilot is moving from a corner of Windows into the places people actually work: recent Insider previews and Microsoft demonstrations reveal new Copilot entry points on the Windows 11 taskbar and inside File Explorer, including an “Ask Copilot” composer, taskbar-visible AI agents...

Microsoft’s pivot toward building and orchestrating its own foundation models — while simultaneously opening Copilot to third‑party models — has thrust enterprise customers, partners, and regulated industries into a new strategic calculus: hedge your model bets now or risk disruption later...

Microsoft’s latest push folds Copilot from a helpful sidebar into the connective tissue of Windows 11 — the taskbar and File Explorer — turning the OS’s search box into a conversational command center, surface-level AI agents into persistent background workers you can monitor from the taskbar...