Starting this fall, the U.S. House of Representatives will begin a controlled pilot giving thousands of House staffers access to Microsoft Copilot — a marked reversal from a 2024 prohibition — as leadership frames the move as a pragmatic modernization push that must be matched by strict...
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Microsoft is rolling Copilot from an optional add‑on into a default part of the Microsoft 365 experience — automatically installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on Windows devices that already have Microsoft 365 desktop clients — a background rollout Microsoft says will begin in Fall 2025 and...
The House of Representatives has quietly moved from prohibition to adoption: according to an Axios briefing shared with reporters, the House will begin rolling out Microsoft Copilot for members and staff as part of a broader push to modernize the chamber and integrate artificial intelligence...
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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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Starting in early October and finishing around mid‑November 2025, Microsoft will quietly push the Microsoft 365 Copilot app to many Windows PCs that already have Microsoft 365 desktop apps installed — downloading and installing the app in the background, adding an icon to the Start menu, and...
Microsoft’s Copilot on Windows has quietly picked up a major capability: an integrated GPT‑5 “Smart” mode that appears to give many users free access to the model’s deeper reasoning (“Thinking”) pathways — and early tests suggest the Copilot implementation is less stingy with those powerful...
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Introduction
As the deadline for compliance with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in the European Economic Area (EEA) nears, Microsoft shared an update on their plan to roll out updates to Windows for customers in the EEA. The recent non-security releases, including Windows 10, version 22H2 Build...
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