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Microsoft Build 2026 begins Tuesday, June 2, 2026, at 12:30 p.m. Eastern / 9:30 a.m. Pacific with a Satya Nadella keynote streamed online, while Microsoft runs the two-day developer conference from San Francisco and online through June 3. The simple answer is that viewers can watch through...

Microsoft is expected to use Build 2026, held June 2–3 at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco and online, to unveil Windows 11 developer updates, local AI tooling, new Microsoft AI models, Copilot consolidation, and GitHub reassurance aimed at developers. The headline is not simply that Microsoft...

Microsoft is preparing a OneDrive web feature called Copilot Suggested Rename for June 2026 that will analyze supported files and offer three clearer name suggestions when users rename or upload them. The feature sounds tiny, almost comically so, beside Microsoft’s louder AI ambitions. But it...

Microsoft is preparing to make the Windows 11 taskbar the main entry point for Copilot through an Ask Copilot experience expected around mid-2026, while reducing scattered AI buttons elsewhere in the operating system and pairing the change with its broader Windows K2 quality push. That is not...

Microsoft is preparing MAI-Image-2.5, MAI-Transcribe-1.5, and MAI-Voice-2 for its Build 2026 developer conference, which opens June 2 at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, with the new models aimed at Copilot, Teams, Azure Speech, Microsoft Foundry, and MAI Playground. The interesting part is...

Microsoft is reportedly building an unreleased Copilot “super app” that would combine chat, GitHub Copilot coding help, Copilot Cowork, and a new agentic Autopilot layer, with a leaked Sources screenshot dated May 30, 2026 showing a proactive Scout agent inside the interface. The immediate story...

ZDNET’s Lance Whitney says he replaced Copilot with Anthropic’s Claude in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint after testing Claude’s Microsoft 365 add-ins, which are available to paid Claude subscribers and can operate across multiple Office apps through Microsoft’s add-in framework. The story matters...

Microsoft is preparing to launch Ask Copilot for Windows 11 in mid-2026, turning the taskbar search box into an optional Copilot-powered entry point for local search, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and enterprise AI agents. The important word is not “Copilot.” It is “optional.” After years of treating...

Microsoft is rolling out a Copilot app update for Windows 11 that adds a docked sidebar mode, letting the AI assistant pin itself to the left or right edge of the desktop while open windows resize around it. The feature, first reported by Windows Latest and amplified by TweakTown, is not a full...

Microsoft’s February 2023 AI offensive put a custom OpenAI-powered Bing and Edge in front of users just as Satya Nadella publicly challenged Google’s search dominance, but by May 2026 Google’s Gemini-powered Search has become the more unavoidable consumer AI layer. That reversal is not just a...

Microsoft said in late May 2026 that Word, Excel, and PowerPoint users will be able to move the Copilot Dynamic Action Button out of its floating position and back to the ribbon, after complaints that the AI control was interfering with ordinary Office work. The change is small in pixels but...

Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft’s executive vice president and consumer chief marketing officer, plans to leave Microsoft on June 30, 2027, after spending his final year helping steer Windows 11, Microsoft 365 services, and Copilot toward what he calls the “agentic era.” That is not a quiet retirement...

Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft’s executive vice president and consumer chief marketing officer, plans to leave Microsoft after the 2026–27 fiscal year, after spending his final year helping reshape Windows for what the company calls the agentic era. That phrasing matters more than the retirement notice...

Microsoft is preparing to let Word, Excel, and PowerPoint users move the new floating Copilot button back into the ribbon after complaints that the Microsoft 365 interface change was intrusive, with web app updates expected to begin rolling out in late May 2026 and desktop updates likely to...

FlyOOBE, a free open-source Windows utility from developer builtbybel, now offers a guided way to identify and disable many Windows 11 AI components, including Copilot-related experiences, through an “AI Experiences” workflow available from its GitHub release downloads. Microsoft’s problem is...

Microsoft is rolling out a floating Copilot button in Excel for Microsoft 365 users in May 2026, placing the AI assistant inside the spreadsheet canvas where some users say it blocks cells, screenshots, and even scrollbar access. The controversy is not that Copilot exists in Excel; Microsoft has...

Microsoft’s May 2026 Power Platform update, published May 14, makes Power Fx user-defined types generally available, expands Copilot-connected app experiences, adds context-aware generative pages, introduces AI-assisted InfoPath migration, and advances several modern Power Apps controls from...

Microsoft’s May 2026 Edge update brings Copilot-powered tab summaries, browsing-history recall, AI-generated podcasts, quizzes, writing help, and mobile Vision features to Edge on iOS and Android, moving several desktop-only browser AI tools onto phones. The update is not just another Copilot...

Microsoft is backing away from bringing its Copilot gaming assistant to Xbox consoles and broader PC game environments after months of user resistance, while still expanding its gaming reach through a May 2026 Discord partnership that bundles a starter version of Xbox Game Pass with Discord...

Microsoft has added a Copilot feature to Edge that can read across a user’s open browser tabs, compare information, and produce a consolidated answer from the current browsing session, with optional use of history and past chats for added context. The feature sounds like a small convenience...