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Microsoft’s Copilot is no longer just a chat window or an add‑on inside Office — it’s creeping into the places you use Windows every day: the taskbar and File Explorer. A recent set of demos and preview releases show Microsoft pushing Copilot deeper into Windows 11 with contextual file actions...

Microsoft’s latest Planner updates push the app from a lightweight task board into the centre of its Teams-first, AI-assisted work-management story — but they also shift important capabilities behind Copilot licensing and change how organisations must handle comments, compliance, and governance...

King’s College London has quietly spent £35,013 on Microsoft Copilot licences while university disciplinary records show AI use has become a live integrity issue — with 10 students expelled since September 2022 for cases in which AI misuse was cited as a major factor. Background King’s...

Microsoft Teams is gearing up for one of its most consequential update waves yet, with a slate of user-facing improvements and admin-focused controls slated through early 2026 that promise to smooth everyday friction — and, in some cases, raise fresh governance and privacy questions. The...

Microsoft Teams is rolling out two highly requested usability updates — the ability to pop out meeting side panes (Chat, Notes and, for licensed customers, Copilot) and a user-facing option to customize banner notification placement — and both are already available in preview channels for the...

Gannett has quietly expanded its AI playbook, announcing a licensing alignment with Microsoft intended to feed publisher content into Microsoft's emerging Publisher Content Marketplace — a move that positions the USA TODAY Network to monetize AI-driven uses of its journalism while tying Gannett...

Microsoft is preparing to fold curated Harvard Health Publishing content into Copilot so that health-related questions return answers grounded in a trusted medical publisher — a move reported by major outlets that signals both a tactical effort to improve clinical accuracy and a strategic push...

Microsoft’s reported agreement to surface Harvard Health Publishing content inside Copilot marks a clear inflection point in the race to make everyday AI assistants safer, more authoritative, and more commercially mature in healthcare — but it also raises urgent questions about scope, liability...

Word for the web now lets licensed Copilot users fix every spelling and grammar issue in a selected passage with a single action, moving proofreading from a repetitive, click‑through chore to an automated, reviewable pass that applies suggested corrections inline and offers straightforward undo...

Microsoft is quietly folding AI-powered image editing and Bing visual search directly into the File Explorer right‑click menu as part of Insider testing, a move that turns the once‑simple file manager into a micro‑workflow gateway for quick edits and visual lookups. Background Microsoft’s...

Microsoft’s Copilot is getting quietly practical: you can now turn a Word document into a ready-to-edit PowerPoint slide in seconds — and for anyone still running Windows 10 there’s a second, much louder message: upgrade planning is no longer optional. This dual moment — an incremental but...

Microsoft has shipped Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27938 to the Canary Channel, and the headline feature worth immediate attention is the introduction of AI actions in File Explorer — a right‑click context menu that brings image editing, web visual search, and document summarization into the...

Microsoft’s August 2025 servicing wave is the most operationally significant Windows 11 release window in months: it moves day‑one patching into the Out‑of‑Box Experience (OOBE), promotes Windows Backup for Organizations to general availability, extends hotpatching across server and (limited)...

Microsoft's decision to let Excel call a Copilot directly from the formula bar — the new =COPILOT function — marks one of the clearest signals yet that generative AI is becoming a native part of everyday productivity tooling rather than an add‑on sitting in a sidebar or separate app. The...