Microsoft’s confirmation that Microsoft 365 Copilot now counts 15 million paid seats crystallises both a major milestone and a fresh set of questions for enterprise IT teams, investors, and product strategists: the product is clearly monetising, but penetration into Microsoft’s massive installed...
Microsoft’s Copilot is no longer sailing unchallenged: recent reporting and independent measures show the assistant losing ground on key user metrics, encountering operational friction in production environments, and ceding consumer mindshare to rivals — a pattern that raises urgent questions...
Microsoft’s Copilot push promised a simple narrative: embed generative AI across Office and Windows, charge a premium, and convert vast installed bases into a recurring, high-margin revenue stream—yet the early returns look far more complicated than the marketing storyboard suggested. rosoft...
Microsoft has pushed back the rollout of a contentious Microsoft Teams feature that would automatically set employees’ reported work location when their device connects to a corporate Wi‑Fi network or mapped desk peripherals, moving the general availability window to early March 2026 with...
Microsoft has finally given administrators a supported way to remove the consumer Microsoft Copilot app from managed Windows 11 devices — but the escape hatch is tightly controlled, limited to Insider Preview builds, and intentionally designed as a one‑time, surgical cleanup rather than a...
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Microsoft’s latest Group Policy approach for removing Copilot from Windows 11 solves some immediate problems but creates new operational headaches: the policy frequently behaves like a one‑time uninstall rather than a durable block, leaves multiple Copilot entry points unaddressed, and pushes...
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Microsoft’s Teams roadmap is pointing at two practical, user-facing additions that will change how many organizations run spontaneous collaboration: Loop-powered meeting notes in instant calls and chats, and tenant-branded meeting reactions. Both items are listed for rollout in early 2026 and...
Muroran Institute of Technology’s rapid, campus‑wide adoption of Microsoft 365 Copilot marks a significant milestone in how a mid‑sized engineering university can translate a strategic “Digital Campus” vision into measurable operational change and new service delivery models for students...
Microsoft is quietly dialing back one of the most persistent UI irritants in Edge: users will soon be able to hide the Copilot icon from the browser toolbar, and a set of related Copilot and Microsoft 365 changes—ranging from a modern New Tab Page to faster PDF review tools and tenant‑level...
A new regional snapshot of American curiosity about artificial intelligence shows the Pacific Northwest deepening its attachment to AI tools — and prompts a necessary re‑examination of what search-volume studies actually tell us about adoption, readiness, and risk. Washington state sits high on...
Germany’s federal digital authority has admitted it cannot say how many federal workstations still run Windows 10, who will pay for the Windows 11 migration, or when that migration will finish — a stark symptom of deeper breakdowns in inventory, license management, and IT governance across the...
Microsoft’s Copilot is no longer an experiment tucked behind a corporate curtain — it has arrived in the mainstream of productivity software, and a wave of vendor-led training is racing to teach organizations how to use it safely and effectively. ONLC Training’s free 90‑minute session...
The University of Southern Indiana’s AI Advisory Committee will host an in‑person, beginner‑friendly workshop titled “Getting Started with Microsoft Copilot” on Monday, October 20, from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. in Orr Center 2018, presented by Kyle Tharp, IT Business Manager; the session promises an...
Microsoft’s Copilot on Windows has taken a decisive step from chat assistant to document workhorse: the Copilot app can now generate Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations and PDFs directly from a chat session, and it can link to personal email and cloud accounts so it can...
The short answer is: no — not yet. Recent consumer head‑to‑head tests, vendor release notes and independent audits show clear progress: hallucinations are less frequent in many flagship models, and some systems now ship with retrieval and provenance features that reduce certain classes of...
Microsoft Word is changing a fundamental assumption of how the desktop app handles new documents: in current Insider builds Word now creates new documents directly in the cloud (OneDrive by default) with AutoSave enabled from the first keystroke, rather than leaving a new document in an unsaved...
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Apple’s new eight‑minute “The Underdogs: BSOD” spot lands like a theatrical mic drop: a trade‑show full of laptops goes blue while a single Mac booth keeps working, and the ad uses a real‑world security fiasco from 2024 as its setup to sell macOS as the safer, calmer choice. The commercial is...
If your Windows 10 PC is being told it’s “ineligible” for Windows 11, the fix may be a single BIOS/UEFI switch — enabling your machine’s TPM (Trusted Platform Module) support — and in many cases that alone will make the system eligible for the free Windows 11 upgrade before Windows 10 support...
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Windows 10 will stop receiving free security fixes on October 14, 2025 — and if your PC can’t take the free Windows 11 upgrade, you have five realistic paths forward: enroll in Extended Security Updates (ESU), buy or rent a new Windows 11 PC (including cloud PCs), perform an unsupported upgrade...
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Satya Nadella’s blunt message to Microsoft employees — that the company must undergo a “messy” and relentless transformation to survive the AI era — captures a high-stakes strategy that is already reshaping products, teams, and internal culture across the company.
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