enterprise governance

  1. Copilot Studio Lite vs Full Experience: Microsoft’s Two-Track Agent Studio

    Microsoft’s latest packaging of its agent-building tools — now split into Copilot Studio Lite and the Copilot Studio Full Experience — is less a rename and more a strategic reframe: the company is clarifying who these tools are for, where they run, and how enterprises should govern them. The...
  2. ISDI and Microsoft Unleash AI Agents in Executive MBA for Job-Ready Skills

    ISDI’s new partnership with Microsoft turns generative AI from classroom theory into a tangible career asset for Executive MBA students, embedding agent-building and Copilot-powered workflows directly into the school’s flagship MIB program so graduates leave with a trained, exportable AI agent...
  3. Copilot Studio Enables Inline Real-Time Enforcement via External Monitors

    Microsoft’s Copilot Studio has moved from built‑in guardrails to active, near‑real‑time intervention: organizations can now route an agent’s planned actions to external monitors that approve or block those actions while the agent is executing, enabling step‑level enforcement that ties existing...
  4. Windows 11 Canary Build 27938: AI Actions in Explorer, Seconds Clock, and AI Activity

    Microsoft’s latest pre-release whisper to the Windows Insider Program’s most experimental ring landed with a thud of déjà vu: the Canary channel recently received a new build — reported as Build 27938 — that mainly repackages features already seen elsewhere in the Insider ecosystem, notably...
  5. Cerence-Microsoft Tie Expands Copilot into Cars with Azure OpenAI

    Microsoft’s work to move Copilot and Azure AI out of the office and into the vehicle cabin has taken a concrete step through an expanded relationship with Cerence — a partnership that stitches together in‑car voice assistants, Azure OpenAI capabilities, and the emerging third‑party agent...
  6. Copilot Studio Runtime: Near Real-Time AI Protection for Actions

    Microsoft is putting a second line of defense around AI agents: Copilot Studio now supports advanced near‑real‑time protection during agent runtime, a public‑preview capability that lets organizations route an agent’s planned actions through external monitoring systems — including Microsoft...
  7. GPT-5 in Microsoft 365 Copilot: Context and Governance Trump Upgrades

    On August 7, 2025, OpenAI unveiled GPT‑5 and Microsoft announced the model would be powering Microsoft 365 Copilot the same day — a high‑visibility release that quickly turned into a cautionary case study about how model upgrades matter far less to most business users than context, integration...
  8. Gemini vs Copilot: Which AI Companion Fits Your Ecosystem?

    Google and Microsoft have built two very different — and increasingly capable — AI companions, and choosing between Gemini and Copilot now means weighing ecosystem fit, multimodal power, privacy defaults, and pricing structure rather than just raw “intelligence.” The battlefield has shifted from...
  9. Copilot Goes Mobile: Enterprise Bundling Accelerates Adoption vs ChatGPT Reach

    Microsoft’s Copilot is not just growing — it’s accelerating faster on mobile than many expected, and recent Comscore data shows that the shift is reshaping the consumer and enterprise AI landscape in ways that matter for Windows users, IT teams, and marketers alike. The numbers tell two...
  10. Copilot+ Accessibility on Windows: 4 Features for a More Conversational PC

    Microsoft’s short explainer on the four headline accessibility features for Copilot+ PCs reads like a manifesto for making Windows more conversational, readable, and usable — and it’s worth unpacking what those promises mean in practice, what’s already here, and where the trade‑offs lie...
  11. Copilot now reasons across multiple files for free (GPT-5 rollout)

    Microsoft has quietly extended Copilot’s document-smarts: the web and Windows 11 Copilot surfaces can now reason across multiple uploaded files at once, bringing a ChatGPT-style multi-file analysis workflow to Microsoft’s assistant for free. The change — reported in a recent Windows Latest...
  12. Copilot Deep Research: AI-Powered Literature Reviews in Minutes with Citations

    Microsoft’s Copilot now promises to do the heavy lifting of a first‑round literature review: produce multi‑page, citation‑backed Deep Research reports in minutes that synthesize web content, documents, images and PDFs into a structured deliverable you can drop into Word, PowerPoint or a...
  13. Copilot Free Tier Upgrades to GPT-4 Turbo: Bigger Context, Fresher Knowledge

    Microsoft's Copilot has quietly received one of the most consequential behind-the-scenes upgrades since its rollout: the free tier now runs on OpenAI's GPT-4 Turbo, bringing a much larger context window, a fresher knowledge base, and a set of performance fixes that address earlier complaints...
  14. Macrohard: Elon Musk's AI-First Software Factory and the Grok Ad Play

    Elon Musk’s recent unveiling of Macrohard—a deliberately cheeky name for what he calls a “purely AI software company”—is more than a viral post: it’s a formal signal of intent from xAI that mixes trademark filings, infrastructure scale, legal maneuvering, and an explicit plan to monetize with...
  15. Surveys Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot: AI-powered survey workflow in Frontier

    Microsoft’s latest push to fold everyday feedback workflows into its AI assistant stack landed this week with the public preview of Surveys Agent, an AI-powered agent inside Microsoft 365 Copilot that promises to let teams design, launch, monitor, and analyze surveys from a single conversational...
  16. Copilot for Windows 11: Web Actions, Settings AI Skills, and Pro Upgrades

    Microsoft’s latest update to Copilot for Windows 11 pushes the assistant farther into the OS — adding third‑party extensions that let Copilot act on your behalf across the web, new “settings” skills that can change system options for you, and AI enhancements in core apps like Photos and...
  17. Visual Studio 17.14: Debounced, On-Demand Copilot Controls

    Microsoft’s latest Visual Studio update tightens the reins on GitHub Copilot, giving developers explicit control over when suggestions appear, how much of a suggestion to accept, and whether predictive edits should interrupt their flow—changes that reshape Copilot from an always‑on assistant...
  18. Windows Copilot Adds Semantic File Search and New Homepage for Insiders

    Microsoft has begun rolling out an update to the Copilot app on Windows that brings semantic file search to Copilot+ PCs and a redesigned Copilot homepage to Insiders, delivering tighter, AI-driven file discovery and faster access to recent apps, files, and guided help directly inside the...
  19. COPILOT in Excel: AI as a native recalculating formula

    Microsoft has quietly moved generative AI from the Copilot side‑pane into Excel’s calculation engine itself, with a new COPILOT function that lets you call Copilot from any cell, pass natural‑language prompts and cell ranges as context, and receive live, recalculating outputs that behave like...
  20. Spark + Codespaces: Rapid, Governed SPA Deployment to Power Pages

    GitHub Spark plus Codespaces now makes it practical to generate a modern single‑page application (SPA) and deploy it directly into Microsoft Power Pages using the Power Platform CLI — a workflow that compresses days of setup into a few web-driven steps while keeping the final code and deployment...