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Microsoft 365 just became significantly more expensive for consumers, and for millions of longtime users the decision to keep paying is suddenly complicated: Microsoft has folded its AI assistant, Copilot, and its Designer image tools into the Microsoft 365 Personal and Family bundles, raised...

Microsoft’s Copilot is no longer a neat demo or a sidebar curiosity — it has become a deeply woven productivity layer across Windows, Microsoft 365 apps, OneDrive, and the Edge browser, and choosing whether to adopt it requires weighing clear time-saving gains against licensing, privacy, and...

This week’s Windows‑centric conversation landed at the intersection of two tectonic shifts: AI’s rapid industrialization and Arm silicon finally staking a credible claim in premium Windows PCs — a blend of strategic maneuvers and product reveals that leaves Microsoft, hardware partners, and...

Microsoft has quietly recast Microsoft 365 Copilot from a single‑vendor productivity assistant into a deliberate multi‑model orchestration platform by adding Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.1 and Claude Sonnet 4 as selectable engines in Copilot’s Researcher tool and Copilot Studio, a change that gives...

Microsoft has broadened the intelligence choices inside Microsoft 365 Copilot by adding two of Anthropic’s Claude models—Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1—so enterprise users and administrators can now pick which provider powers deep reasoning, coding, and agentic workflows inside Researcher...

D&H’s message to partners is blunt and practical: use Microsoft Copilot as the conversational entry point to sell AI, storage and PCs — and lean on distribution to deliver the infrastructure, security and services that make those Copilot projects real and repeatable. D&H Distributing’s senior...

Microsoft’s Copilot has taken a decisive step away from single‑vendor dependency by adding Anthropic’s Claude models — notably Claude Opus 4.1 and Claude Sonnet 4 — as selectable backends inside Microsoft 365 Copilot’s Researcher feature and the Copilot Studio agent‑builder, a change Microsoft...

Microsoft’s quiet move to add Anthropic’s Claude models into Microsoft 365 Copilot is the clearest signal yet that Copilot is evolving from a single‑vendor showcase into a deliberate, multi‑model orchestration platform — one that balances performance, cost, and vendor risk while exposing...

Microsoft quietly opened a new chapter for Microsoft 365 Copilot on September 24, 2025, adding Anthropic’s Claude models — Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 — as selectable backends in key Copilot surfaces and turning Copilot from a single‑vendor service into a managed, multi‑model...

Microsoft quietly turned Microsoft 365 Copilot from a single‑vendor assistant into a multi‑model orchestration platform by adding Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 as selectable back‑ends in Copilot’s Researcher agent and Copilot Studio, while making clear that OpenAI models will...

Microsoft has quietly redefined the boundaries of Copilot: Microsoft 365 Copilot users can now select Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 as backend engines for key Copilot surfaces, a deliberate shift from a single‑vendor dependency to explicit multi‑model orchestration within the...

Microsoft’s Copilot has shed its single‑vendor skin: business customers can now pick Anthropic’s Claude models alongside OpenAI inside Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio, a shift that transforms Copilot from a single‑backed assistant into an explicit multi‑model orchestration platform...

Microsoft’s decision to let Anthropic’s Claude models run inside Copilot represents a decisive shift: Copilot is no longer a single‑vendor product but a multi‑model orchestration layer that gives enterprises explicit model choice for different workloads. Background / Overview For the past few...

Microsoft has quietly but decisively turned Microsoft 365 Copilot into a multi‑model orchestration platform by adding Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 as selectable backends in two visible places: the Researcher agent and Copilot Studio, a move that formalizes vendor...

Microsoft’s Copilot has taken a decisive step away from single‑vendor reliance by adding Anthropic’s Claude family as selectable backends inside Microsoft 365 Copilot, a change that introduces model choice, cross‑cloud execution implications, and fresh governance responsibilities for enterprise...

Microsoft's Microsoft 365 Copilot is no longer a single‑vendor show: starting today the company is adding Anthropic’s Claude family — notably Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 — as selectable backends inside Copilot, giving organizations the ability to route specific Copilot workloads to...

Apple and Microsoft have pushed the desktop into sharply different directions this year: macOS Tahoe bets on a curated, privacy‑first, design‑led desktop infused with on‑device AI, while Windows 11 continues to trade on hardware variety, backward compatibility, and a rapidly expanding set of...

Microsoft is rolling out a dedicated Channel Agent inside Microsoft Teams — an always-on, channel-scoped Copilot that ingests chat history, meeting recaps, files, and Planner boards to summarize conversations, draft status reports, create tasks, and act as a contextual subject-matter assistant...

Asda’s renewed and deepened collaboration with Microsoft marks a decisive acceleration of the supermarket’s cloud-first, AI-enabled strategy — a move that places Microsoft Azure at the centre of operations across more than 1,200 stores while pushing Microsoft 365 Copilot, Azure Databricks...

Microsoft has quietly begun testing another Copilot shortcut in Windows 11 — a “Share with Copilot” button that appears when you hover over an app on the taskbar and lets Copilot Vision scan and analyze whatever’s visible in that window. Background Microsoft’s Copilot strategy has been to make...