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In an era when artificial intelligence is rapidly transitioning from science fiction to workplace staple, Microsoft has thrown down the gauntlet with a sweeping enhancement to its Microsoft 365 Copilot ecosystem. The latest game-changers: new AI agents—Researcher and Analyst—engineered to unlock...

Microsoft’s integration of Designer into Copilot comes at a strategic moment, transforming how users approach slide design and presentations within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. Previously, creating an engaging PowerPoint deck or compelling presentation template required at least modest design...

Microsoft Word for Microsoft 365 has long served as the backbone for written communication in business, academia, and everyday life. It constantly evolves, adding new features while sunsetting others, all in the name of keeping up with both the demands of productivity and the ever-quickening...

Python, R, and SQL have reached a crescendo in the modern data science landscape, not through head-to-head competition, but as critical, complementary pillars that together form the backbone of contemporary analytics workflows. Despite the temptation to pit these languages against each other in...

Python, R, and SQL form the cornerstone of modern data science toolkits, each bringing strengths that complement the others rather than forcing any direct rivalry. As we chart the programming language trends moving into 2025, it becomes increasingly clear that organizations wanting to stay at...

In an age where data is as precious as gold, NASA is stepping up its game by introducing the Earth Copilot, a groundbreaking initiative in collaboration with Microsoft that leverages cutting-edge AI capabilities to unlock and democratize access to copious amounts of Earth science data. Let's...

NASA’s partnership with Microsoft marks a pivotal shift in how the world interacts with scientific data about our planet, promising to open the floodgates to information that, until now, was the purview of professional researchers and specialists. A Groundbreaking Collaboration At its core...

Microsoft is ramping up its AI game with jaw-dropping updates to its 365 Copilot, showcasing how the tech behemoth plans to reshape workplace productivity. Announced at the Microsoft Ignite 2024 event, these groundbreaking updates include Copilot Actions, Windows 365 Link, and cutting-edge...

Microsoft just lobbed a glittering upgrade over the Copilot fence, and enterprise IT will never be quite the same (whether anyone actually asked for quite this much “AI” or not—remains to be seen). With the so-called Wave 2 Spring release, Microsoft 365 Copilot is going from clever sidekick to...

In today’s digital bazaar, where every business craves the secret sauce for actionable insights, there’s a new darling in the data science town: Azure Databricks. What does this mean for your team? In the simplest terms, it’s a supercharged workbench where analytics, enterprise-scale AI, and...

If you thought Microsoft Office was just about the endless grind of spreadsheets and the ping pong of Teams messages, think again—a new era is creeping up, and it has a name: ArcGIS for Microsoft. What follows is part mythbuster, part guidebook, and just a sprinkle of techy existentialism for...

Mastering Microsoft Copilot: The Definitive 2025 Beginner’s Handbook Navigating the ever-complex digital workspace has never been more challenging. Meetings threaten to overtake calendars, email inboxes have a gravity all their own, and the ongoing battle with the intricacies of spreadsheets...

The March 2025 update for ArcGIS for Microsoft 365 is stirring up a new era of spatial data analysis and visualization across familiar Microsoft applications. Designed to empower both Excel and SharePoint users, this update transforms spatial workflows with advanced data format support...

Microsoft’s latest innovation in the Power Platform is here to transform how you interact with your data. The new data exploration agent leverages natural language processing and AI-driven insights to simplify record searches in model-driven apps. In this article, we dive deep into what this...

Imagine diving into a cluttered dataset—employee productivity, regional sales, or market trends—and needing clean, interactive visualizations to make strategic decisions. With a few prompts, Copilot can generate dynamic Plotly visuals, saving time and avoiding the common pitfalls of manually...

Black Marble, a member of Microsoft’s HoloLens Mixed Reality Partner Program (MRPP), is one of many agencies creating ground-breaking applications for HoloLens. It has seen the potential benefits that mixed reality brings to the enterprise, by blending virtual and physical worlds, enabling...

Link Removed Dr. Olivier Elemento (left) alongside with his Ph.D students Neil Madhukar and Katie Gayvert, analyze medical network data (photo courtesy of the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine) Welcome! This is Making mixed reality, a series celebrating the passionate community...

This week’s app is all about the Internet of Things. Best For You is a sample fitness UWP app focused on collecting data from a fictional IoT enabled yoga wear and presenting it to the user in a meaningful and helpful way on all of their devices to track health and progress of exercise. In this...

About a week or so ago Nico and Sachin announced a really cool visualization contest where people could win actual money! They were eager for everyone to be successful so they wanted to have an end-to-end demonstration on how one would go about building a visualization from scratch. In this...

Datazen Publisher for Windows 7 allows you to create stunning data visualizations from Excel, SQL Server, SSAS, SQL Azure, SharePoint and other cloud & enterprise data sources. Link Removed