Microsoft is restoring the small-but-crucial Windows 10–style Agenda to Windows 11’s Notification Center — and this time it’s stitched directly into Outlook/Microsoft 365 with one-click meeting actions and Microsoft 365 Copilot hooks, a preview Microsoft says will begin rolling out to Windows...
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Zendesk’s latest move to embed its AI-first Resolution Platform into Microsoft’s Copilot and Agent 365 ecosystem promises to change how IT, HR and Finance teams deliver employee service — bringing ticketing, knowledge and action workflows directly into the apps employees use every day while...
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IBM Consulting’s decision to surface Consulting Advantage inside Microsoft 365 via Microsoft Copilot marks a concrete step toward “agentic” enterprise work—putting IBM’s repository of assistants, assets, and industry templates directly into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams and Outlook so...
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Microsoft is finally restoring the practical, timeline-style calendar experience many Windows users missed: an “Agenda view” will appear in Windows 11’s taskbar calendar (Notification Center) in preview for Windows Insiders next month, bringing a quick chronological list of upcoming events and...
Cohesity’s announcement that its partnership with Microsoft has driven “exceptional growth and innovation” is more than marketing rhetoric — it reflects a deliberate, product-level deepening of integration across Azure, Microsoft 365, and Microsoft Security, paired with measurable go‑to‑market...
Visual Studio 2026’s Insiders release is a careful, pragmatic step forward — a familiar IDE with a sharpened UI, faster underpinnings, and AI more tightly woven into everyday workflows rather than a radical reinvention of how developers write and ship code. The experience I tested reads like...
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Cornerstone’s new integration puts personalized, skills‑based learning and instant knowledge discovery directly inside Microsoft 365 Copilot, promising to move upskilling “in the flow of work” rather than off in separate portals or LMS silos—an important shift at a time when employers and...
Interact’s Autumn 2025 release pushes the company beyond a traditional intranet vendor role and into the fast-moving world of agentic AI for employee experience, combining a Microsoft 365 Copilot connector, always‑on listening agents that surface sentiment shifts and recognition, and prebuilt...
Microsoft has shipped Visual Studio 2026 — a major IDE revamp that folds GitHub Copilot into the core workflow, refreshes the UI, and rethinks extension compatibility and update delivery to make upgrades less disruptive and more iterative. Background
Visual Studio’s evolution over the last...
Today Microsoft issued a formal apology to its Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscribers in New Zealand, acknowledging that the company “fell short” in how it communicated a pricing and product change introduced in October 2024 — a change that bundled limited access to its Copilot AI...
CAEVES says its new AI-powered Deep Storage™ platform for Microsoft Azure will turn long-forgotten archives from cost centers into “AI-ready” assets — promising up to 70% lower TCO, semantic search across millions of files, and integration with Microsoft 365 Copilot so archived content can be...
Microsoft’s MAI‑Image‑1 — the company’s first fully in‑house text‑to‑image model — is now available inside Bing Image Creator and rolling into Copilot, and early tests show it competes with the best photoreal generators on public leaderboards while emphasizing speed, lighting fidelity and...
Microsoft’s October 28, 2025 preview cumulative—KB5067036 (OS Builds 26200.7019 for 25H2 and 26100.7019 for 24H2)—has started landing for Windows 11 devices and brings a dense mix of visible shell changes, on‑device and cloud‑assisted AI actions, accessibility improvements, and a broad set of...
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Microsoft has begun turning on a rebuilt Start menu for Windows 11 users via the October non‑security preview update (KB5067036), delivering a single, scrollable app surface, three new All apps view modes, deeper Phone Link integration, and several Taskbar and File Explorer refinements — but the...
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Microsoft has started rolling out the October 2025 non‑security preview for Windows 11 to the Release Preview channel: builds 26100.7015 (24H2) and 26200.7015 (25H2) are available now under KB5067036, bringing a sizable collection of user‑facing refinements — a redesigned Start menu, deeper...
Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 preview fundamentally reshapes the Start menu into a single, scrollable hub that promotes the All apps list to the main surface, adds two new browsing modes (Category and Grid), folds a Phone Link pane into the Start chrome, and ties Copilot and File Explorer more...
Microsoft and M‑Files’ newly deepened alliance promises to attack one of the oldest productivity drains in modern business — fragmented information and “content chaos” — by embedding metadata-driven document management directly into the Microsoft 365 fabric and bringing AI into the center of...
Microsoft’s official Windows account has dropped a short, teasing line—“Your hands are about to get some PTO. Time to rest those fingers…something big is coming Thursday”—and it landed amid the end-of-support milestone for Windows 10, instantly sparking speculation that Microsoft is about to...
Microsoft’s short, playful tease — “Your hands are about to get some PTO. Time to rest those fingers…something big is coming Thursday.” — landed the same week the company officially closed the chapter on Windows 10, and the timing is as deliberate as it is provocative: Microsoft signaled a major...
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Microsoft’s new MAI‑Image‑1 landed as a surprise — not for the novelty of another image generator, but because it’s a fully in‑house text‑to‑image system from Microsoft AI that already ranks among the top models on public leaderboards and is being lined up for integration into Copilot and Bing...