copilot

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 plans to bring Ask Copilot to the Windows 11 taskbar and Start menu in mid-2026, turning the optional taskbar search experience into a Copilot Composer entry point for Microsoft 365 Copilot, AI agents, local files, apps, and work content. The move is not a sudden reversal of...

Microsoft is testing a new Windows 11 Copilot interface that can dock the AI assistant to the left or right edge of the desktop, resizing open apps around it, according to a May 24 report from Windows Latest based on hands-on testing. The move matters because it effectively brings Copilot back...

Microsoft put an OpenAI-powered Bing and Edge in front of the public in February 2023, built around a proprietary orchestration layer called Prometheus, but by May 2026 the search-AI momentum has reportedly swung toward Google’s Gemini because Google has embedded AI more deeply into Search...

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 longtime consumer marketing chief and one of the most visible executives behind Windows, Bing, Surface, Xbox, and Copilot, is leaving the company after 35 years while staying through the next fiscal year to help steer Windows toward Microsoft’s agentic AI vision. That...

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...

Microsoft announced on May 13, 2026, that it is rolling new Copilot-powered Edge features across Windows, Mac, Android, iPhone, and iPad, while retiring the separate Copilot Mode branding and moving those AI experiences directly into the browser. The change is less a retreat from AI than a...

Microsoft is reportedly preparing another Windows 11 Start menu overhaul in 2026, with new settings that would let users disable major sections, choose smaller or larger layouts manually, and reduce the clutter that has made Start feel less like a launcher than a promotional dashboard. The move...

Microsoft executives were debating in 2017 and 2018 whether to give OpenAI hundreds of millions of dollars in discounted Azure computing, according to emails shown in federal court during the Musk v. Altman trial in May 2026. The emails matter because they puncture the clean origin myth of the...

Microsoft’s reported Windows K2 initiative is an internal effort, surfaced by Windows Central and echoed by XDA, to refocus Windows 11 in 2026 on performance, reliability, gaming, and fewer forced Copilot touchpoints rather than another wave of conspicuous AI branding. That matters because...

Microsoft’s consumer-app problem is newly visible because Satya Nadella told investors in late April 2026 that Microsoft is doing “foundational work” to win back fans across Windows, Xbox, Bing, and Edge. The trouble is that Windows users do not experience a strategy deck; they experience the...