copilot

Manchester United’s short-form “Snapdragon Copilot preview” of the Old Trafford fixture against Aston Villa appears to have vanished from the club’s AMP news feed, but the disappearance tells a larger story about tech sponsorship, on-device AI, and how modern sports marketing and PC platform...

Microsoft has pushed a small but telling Canary‑channel update to Windows Insiders today: Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 28020.1737 (Canary Channel), a gated rollout that refines pen behavior in Settings and continues Microsoft’s habit of experimenting with device controls and Copilot...

In a compact but consequential episode of First Ring Daily, hosts Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott unpack two related shifts that are now moving from pilot projects into mainstream planning: the everyday use of large language models (LLMs) by pragmatic developers for small code tasks, and Microsoft’s...

Rajesh Jha’s decision to step away from a full‑time executive role at Microsoft after more than three decades has kicked off a significant reshuffle at the top of the company’s productivity and Windows organizations — one that accelerates an already AI‑centred reorganization while leaving...

Rajesh Jha’s announced departure — described in an internal memo circulating this morning — marks what would be one of the most consequential leadership transitions in Microsoft’s modern history: after 35 years at the company, the executive who presided over Office, Windows, Surface and the...

AI is no longer an experiment for many businesses — it is an operational expectation, and Microsoft’s Copilot strategy is forcing MSPs to convert curiosity into chargeable services or risk being reduced to licence resellers. Background / Overview Microsoft 365 Copilot and related agentic...

The AI security gap is no longer a theoretical footnote—it is now a definable risk vector that sits between the workflows enterprises want to automate and the controls security teams need to enforce, and closing that gap is the central challenge Mark Polino addressed on the AI Agent & Copilot...

Microsoft’s March Patch Tuesday landed this week with another heavy set of fixes — security teams should stop what they’re doing, check their inventory, install updates and restart affected machines as soon as practical. The rollout patches dozens of vulnerabilities across Windows, Office, SQL...

Microsoft’s March Patch Tuesday pulled back a small, alarming corner of how modern productivity suites and agentic AI can interact — a cross‑site scripting flaw in Microsoft Excel that, when combined with the new Copilot Agent behavior, can be turned into a true zero‑click data‑exfiltration...

Microsoft’s Copilot is quietly reshaping the way we shop online and in stores, folding price comparison, review summarization, and even in-chat checkout into a single conversational assistant designed to reduce decision friction and — Microsoft hopes — make buying decisively less agonizing...

The recent flare-up over a purported “Windows 12” release—framed by a translated roundup that tied an internal codename, a modular architecture called CorePC, and ambitious on‑device AI requirements together into a neat 2026 launch narrative—has become a useful case study in how leaks, re‑used...

Microsoft’s next-generation operating system — widely circulated as “Windows 12” and internally referenced in some reporting as Hudson Valley Next — has emerged from a swirl of leaks, partner briefings, and rebuttals, producing a high‑stakes debate about where the PC platform is headed and what...

Tshwane University of Technology’s Faculty of Information and Communication Technology (FoICT) used a hands‑on Microsoft Copilot workshop to give first‑year ICT students a practical introduction to generative AI across research, writing, coding and productivity — an experience designed to bridge...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot update marks a clear inflection point: the company is moving from a single‑vendor AI play to a multi‑model, agent‑first strategy — and it’s packaging that strategy into a premium enterprise bundle that will force organizations to rethink procurement, governance, and...

Microsoft’s Copilot has just taken a decisive step away from single‑turn suggestions and toward doing the work for you — Wave 3 of Microsoft 365 Copilot introduces in‑canvas Agent Mode for Word and Excel, a chat‑initiated Office Agent that can draft full documents and slide decks, and a new...

Microsoft’s Wave 3 for Copilot is a clear escalation: the company is not merely adding features to Office apps, it is packaging an ecosystem—Copilot Cowork, Agent 365, and a new Microsoft 365 E7 (Frontier) bundle—to turn agentic AI from experiment into enterprise commodity. This set of...

Microsoft’s latest push to fold generative AI deeper into analytics workflows has produced a headline-grabbing claim: 365 Copilot can shrink the time needed to optimize sluggish Power BI reports from days to minutes. The reality behind that claim is both promising and nuanced. In this feature I...

AT&T’s march into the industrial AI market is no longer experimental — at Mobile World Congress this week the operator rolled out a three‑pronged commercial strategy that stitches together expanded fiber, last‑mile 5G/fixed wireless, hyperscaler interconnects, and edge‑AI stacks aimed squarely...

Microsoft’s Copilot has entered a new, more plural and more commercial phase: the company has formally opened Microsoft 365 Copilot to multiple external model providers by integrating Anthropic’s Claude family into key Copilot surfaces, and it has packaged those capabilities into a new...

Microsoft’s Copilot app for Windows is quietly being reshaped into a built‑in browsing surface — and the way Microsoft is doing it has prompted sharp pushback from users who say the change effectively hijacks their default browser choice. Beginning March 4, 2026, Microsoft began rolling an...