enterprise governance

Microsoft has added a conspicuous, admin‑controlled toggle to Windows 11 that lets AI “agents” run in a contained background workspace on your PC — and at the same time retail outlets are pushing discount Microsoft bundles that promise to give an old machine a “fresh start” with Windows 11 Pro...

A deceptively small UX convenience — allowing Copilot to accept a prefilled prompt from a URL — has been chained into a practical, one‑click data‑exfiltration technique that security researchers call Reprompt, while at the same time enterprise telemetry shows ChatGPT accounts for the lion’s...

Would you trust an AI to read the contract you sign? In three separate developments this month—debates about AI reading legal texts, a growing industry emphasis on “context‑first” enterprise AI, and Alibaba’s Qwen app moving from chat to action—the same tension is visible: AI is becoming vastly...

Microsoft’s Copilot Studio extension for Visual Studio Code has reached general availability, delivering a decisive shift from browser-based, low-code agent design toward a pro-code developer experience that treats autonomous AI agents as first‑class software components inside the IDE. Released...

Microsoft has pushed Copilot Studio deeper into developer workflows by making the Copilot Studio extension for Visual Studio Code generally available (GA), a move that folds agent authoring, versioning, and deployment into the same toolchain teams already use for application code. Background...

Microsoft Copilot’s 2026 evolution turns what used to be tedious, repeatable work—summarizing long PDFs, triaging inboxes, building slide decks and wrestling spreadsheets—into conversational workflows you can start from a sentence or an uploaded file. What felt like futuristic promise in...

Hertz’s early experiments with Microsoft Power Platform show how a global mobility operator can turn frontline friction into measurable automation and AI wins — a pragmatic, low‑code route from tactical fixes to strategic modernization that is already delivering faster support and clearer...

Microsoft is quietly testing a built‑in Copilot chat inside File Explorer, an invisible hover button and resource strings in Windows Insider preview builds hinting that the assistant will soon be able to summarize, analyze, and act on files without forcing you to open them — a move that folds...

A new, faint UI cue in a Windows 11 Insider build suggests Microsoft is testing a tighter Copilot tie‑in inside File Explorer — an invisible button that appears when you hover over a blank spot in the navigation bar and which, according to strings found in preview code, may be labeled "Chat with...

Microsoft’s next push to make AI useful for organizations isn’t another flashy end-user feature — it’s a measurement platform that promises to turn Copilot adoption into boardroom-ready metrics and actionable operational controls for SaaS teams and IT leaders. Background / Overview Microsoft has...

Microsoft’s latest Insider preview lands as a targeted, practical release: Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7535 (delivered as KB5072046) expands Copilot’s accessibility reach by integrating Copilot-powered image descriptions into Narrator across more devices, and it gives IT...

Enterprises reviewing the crowded field of data governance tools in early 2026 face a clear strategic choice: prioritize AI-native velocity, proven regulatory rigor, or cloud-platform alignment — and the current market leaders map to those orientations. Analytics Insight’s roundup places Atlan...

Microsoft’s quiet nudge to developers—“build agents that connect, automate, and act with confidence”—is both a call to arms and an admission: Copilot as a single assistant is not sufficient to realize Microsoft’s vision of an agentic Windows 11, and the company is reshaping the OS to host...

When Microsoft quietly renamed the long‑standing Microsoft 365 (Office) app to the Microsoft 365 Copilot app in mid‑January 2025, few expected the decision to become a defining moment in the company’s broader bet on generative AI. A year on, the change has graduated from an administrative...

Satya Nadella’s short New‑Year note asking the public to “get beyond the arguments of slop vs. sophistication” did more than announce a strategic pivot — it detonated a viral backlash that crystallized into the mocking hashtag “Microslop,” exposed a widening gap between Microsoft’s AI ambitions...

Microsoft’s bet on turning Windows from an operating system into an agentic platform is the company’s boldest strategic pivot in decades: it reframes Windows as the orchestration layer for persistent AI agents that plan, act, and autonomously execute multi‑step workflows on behalf of users and...

There is no single “best” AI chatbot — and that’s the most important takeaway from a year of head‑to‑head testing that put Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Perplexity and others through dozens of real‑world tasks judged by humans. The practical winner is not one model but a tool‑for‑task...

Microsoft’s latest Windows Insider preview quietly pulled a thread that could unravel into one of the biggest platform plays of the AI era: by adding a system-level registry for autonomous software “agents,” Microsoft is trying to make Windows the home for persistent, context-aware assistants —...

Google’s Gemini has moved in months from an experimental chat surface into a visible force reshaping where and how people use generative AI, and the shift matters not because of a single viral feature but because distribution, embedding, and repeated micro‑interactions are turning discovery into...

Microsoft’s PowerToys Awake is useful, simple, and uncontroversial on paper — but the recent Neowin “Closer Look” column arguing that Awake is not its author’s favorite tool touches on wider, real usability and reliability questions that matter for anyone who needs predictable keep‑awake...