copilot

Microsoft’s official Copilot Discord server was quietly enforcing a one-word ban — “Microslop” — and when the community pushed back by testing and evading the filter, moderators effectively locked large parts of the server to stop the escalation, leaving members unable to read or post while the...

Microsoft’s latest Office update changes the conversation about productivity assistants: instead of answering single prompts, Office now ships with agentic AI that plans, executes, checks, and delivers finished Word and Excel artifacts — and a new chat-first “Office Agent” in Microsoft 365...

Microsoft sold a future for Windows 11 that promised elegance, cohesion, and an OS remade around people and pocket-sized AI — what arrived instead is a mixed bag of incremental polish, baffling regressions, and several once‑promised features that either disappeared or never delivered the user...

Microsoft appears to be preparing the next big step in its enterprise AI playbook: internal discussions and media reports say the company is weighing a premium Microsoft 365 “E7” enterprise SKU that would fold together Microsoft 365’s highest-tier productivity, security and analytics features...

Microsoft’s internal deliberations over an “E7” Microsoft 365 bundle — a premium, AI-packed suite that could combine Microsoft Copilot, a forthcoming “Agent 365” hub, and other advanced services — have surfaced in multiple market reports this week, and the implications for enterprise IT...

Microsoft’s Copilot is moving from helpful sidekick to active teammate: the latest wave of updates — built around an in‑canvas Agent Mode, a chat‑first Office Agent, and broader “smart editing” behavior across Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Viva — promise to turn Microsoft 365 into an agentic...

Microsoft’s Copilot may feel like a pop‑up co‑worker: sometimes helpful, sometimes intrusive, and for many users it raises questions about control, privacy, and billing. If you want Copilot out of your Microsoft 365 apps—or off for your whole organization—there are now documented, supported ways...

Microsoft’s most recent Edge experiment — automatically opening the Copilot side pane when you click links from Outlook — is a small UI change with outsized implications for privacy, user control, and how Microsoft positions AI inside everyday workflows. The feature is being tested on the Edge...

Windows 11’s next big milestone is shaping up to be less about flashy visual rewrites and more about a strategic, AI-first consolidation: version 26H2 looks set to be delivered as an enablement package in late 2026, turning on months of work already rolled into preview and cumulative updates...

Microsoft’s Copilot rollout has entered a new, turbulent phase: Microsoft is pulling back specific Excel “app skills” after user feedback, preparing Copilot to launch automatically in Microsoft Edge from Outlook emails, and shipping a Data Loss Prevention (DLP) update intended to stop Copilot...

Microsoft’s latest push to crown Copilot as the flagship productivity experience in Windows 11 has exposed a stark contradiction: a centerpiece the company hails as transformative, yet one that — by several measures — still struggles to win broad, paying adoption or universal user trust...

Microsoft’s enterprise Copilot has silently crossed a line: for a window of weeks earlier this year the assistant’s email summarisation pipeline was incorrectly processing messages it should have left alone — including items in users’ Sent Items and Drafts that had been explicitly labelled...

Microsoft’s February 2026 wave of Excel updates cements the spreadsheet as Microsoft’s primary battleground for embedding AI into everyday knowledge work, with a steady stream of Copilot improvements, new import and data functions, and developer-facing enhancements that push Excel from a...

User reports and public monitoring on February 25, 2026 show scattered, intermittent failures and access errors affecting Microsoft Copilot for some users — but the evidence available at issuance does not support a single, global outage that took the entire Copilot platform offline. ustme.com]...

Copilot is no longer best understood as a single chatbot, a ribbon button, or even a Microsoft 365 add-on. It is becoming infrastructure: a layer that spans Windows, Edge, Microsoft 365, mobile clients, the web, and enterprise agent frameworks, with the browser increasingly serving as the front...

Microsoft’s latest Release Preview build for Windows 11 gives us a concrete look at the next feature drop — a measured package of quality‑of‑life enhancements that Microsoft says will start reaching production PCs in the coming weeks. The preview includes a curated subset of Emoji 16.0, a...

ESW’s expansion of ExcelHelp.com into a national Microsoft training and automation brand is a clear bet on one of the most urgent enterprise problems of 2026: organizations have bought into Microsoft 365 and Copilot, but they still need people who know how to use those tools safely...

Microsoft’s Copilot is entering a new phase of availability and positioning: Microsoft is actively steering users toward trial and migration paths for Copilot while simultaneously reframing how the assistant is messaged to customers and IT decision‑makers — moves that matter for everyday Windows...

Microsoft’s latest update folds deep C++ understanding into GitHub Copilot’s agent workflows in Visual Studio Code, giving the Copilot agent access to symbol-level code navigation and CMake-aware build/test tools so it can reason about and change C++ code the same way an experienced human...

Microsoft has quietly moved Copilot from a helpful sidebar curiosity to the lead face of Windows 11’s built‑in productivity story — placing the AI assistant at the top of a freshly published list of “best productivity apps in Windows,” ahead of long‑standing staples such as File Explorer and...