copilot

Microsoft has quietly begun a major pivot in the architecture that powers the AI features inside Office apps: Copilot will now route select workloads to Anthropic’s Claude family — notably the Sonnet 4 models — while continuing to use OpenAI models and Microsoft’s own engines where they remain...

Windows 11’s 2025 feature update has arrived in preview form — and if you were expecting fireworks, prepare for a shrug: version 25H2 is being shipped as a lightweight, enablement-style package that doesn’t add brand‑new features beyond what’s already available in 24H2. What Microsoft has...

Satya Nadella’s practical, CEO‑level approach to AI boils down to a simple playbook: use AI to compress routine synthesis and surface decision‑ready evidence, but couple that capability with disciplined governance, measurement, and human oversight. In late August 2025 Nadella published five...

Microsoft’s latest Excel headlines have been dominated by bold AI stunts — Copilot, on-cell generative functions and natural‑language formulaing — but one of the oldest, most reliable features in the spreadsheet deserves a second look: PivotTables. Used judiciously, PivotTables remain the...

Microsoft has confirmed that OneNote for Windows 10—the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app preinstalled on many Windows 10 machines—will be retired on October 14, 2025, and will switch to a read-only state after that date, meaning you will still be able to view content but will not be able to...

Microsoft quietly pulled back the promised ISO images for Windows 11, version 25H2 this week, updating its Release Preview announcement to say the ISOs are “delayed and coming soon” even as the update itself lands in the Release Preview channel as an enablement-package style release...

Microsoft will begin retiring the lightweight Outlook Lite Android app on October 6, 2025, blocking new installs that day as it directs users toward the full Outlook mobile client and consolidates engineering around a single, feature-rich Android email experience. (windowscentral.com)...

Microsoft has pushed a first public look at Visual Studio 2026 — billed internally as Visual Studio 18 and distributed through a new "Insiders" channel — and the headline is simple: Microsoft has folded much deeper AI into the IDE while polishing the look, settings, and model control surface...

Microsoft’s message at the Goldman Sachs Communicopia + Technology Conference was unambiguous: the company sees Copilot — and the broader Copilot/Foundry/agent stack — as the hinge that will turn today’s productivity applications into the operating system for the AI era, but the path from...

Capita’s fast-moving push to embed Microsoft Copilot agents into everyday operations is moving beyond pilot projects into live, measurable service transformation — cutting email response times, automating high-volume tasks, and wiring AI-driven “agents” into end-to-end processes for clients and...

Crimson’s briefing for Housing Digital makes a persuasive case that social housing providers who have already adopted Microsoft Power Platform can—and should—move well beyond simple forms and automations to deliver measurable, tenant-centred improvements across repairs, tenancy management...

Microsoft’s reported decision to license Anthropic’s Claude models into Microsoft 365 — bringing them into productivity features in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook — is the most explicit signal yet that Microsoft plans to move from a single‑vendor AI stack to a multi‑model Copilot strategy...

Visual Studio 2026’s first Insiders build lands as a clear statement: Microsoft intends to make AI the connective tissue of the IDE while simultaneously modernizing Visual Studio’s foundation for the .NET 10 era. At VSLive! San Diego Microsoft unveiled Visual Studio 2026 (internal version 18.0)...

Mustafa Suleyman’s blunt diagnosis — that machine consciousness is an “illusion” and that building systems to mimic personhood is dangerous — has reframed a debate that until recently lived mostly in philosophy seminars and research labs. His argument is practical, not metaphysical: modern...

Tiny11’s refreshed Builder recasts Windows 11 as a lean, privacy-minded alternative for users who don’t want Microsoft’s inbox apps, Copilot, or forced Microsoft Account flows—and it does so at a critical moment, as Windows 10 support winds down and millions of PCs face an awkward upgrade...

Microsoft’s Copilot is being pushed through another iteration of experimental polish: testers have spotted a new voice entry point on the Copilot home screen and a parallel “private chat” mode that promises ephemeral, non‑training conversations—changes that aim to make voice interactions faster...

Microsoft is testing a set of context‑aware AI editing tools that sit directly in File Explorer, letting you right‑click an image or document and invoke tasks such as Bing Visual Search, background blur/removal, generative object erase, and document summarization — and there are documented ways...

Microsoft’s Office productivity stack is entering a new phase: after years of deep reliance on OpenAI, Microsoft will begin routing select Copilot workloads inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook to Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 models, creating a multi‑model Copilot that assigns the “right...

Microsoft’s productivity stack is entering a new, more plural era: after years of deep integration with OpenAI’s models, Microsoft is reported to be adding Anthropic’s Claude — specifically the Sonnet model family — into Office 365’s Copilot workflows, creating a multi‑model orchestration that...

Abdi’s “Brilliant Windows 12” concept doesn’t just re‑dress Windows in a shinier skin — it surfaces a coherent, user‑first playbook for how Microsoft could fix the things people actually complain about in Windows 11, and the timing could not be more consequential as Windows 10 support winds down...