enterprise governance

Microsoft’s November update to Visual Studio 2026 pushes the IDE further from “AI-enhanced” toward genuinely agentic development: a raft of Copilot-driven features lands in the product, centered on offloading repetitive work, surfacing context-aware suggestions, and folding Copilot into the...

Artificial intelligence is moving fast from scripted automation to autonomous, goal-driven systems that plan, act, and adapt across enterprise silos — a shift that turns passive assistants into coordinated digital workers capable of real-world outcomes. The recent industry coverage and vendor...

Microsoft quietly shipped an experimental “agentic” layer into Windows 11 and, unusually for a vendor, warned up front that those agents may hallucinate and introduce novel security risks — including a new class of attacks Microsoft calls cross‑prompt injection (XPIA). Background / Overview...

Microsoft’s own documentation now admits what security researchers have long feared: the new agentic features in Windows 11 — agents that can act on your behalf, click and type inside apps, and read and modify local files — come with real, material security risks, including the possibility that...

Microsoft’s Windows 11 is moving from “suggest and assist” to “do for you”: a new Agent Workspace preview lets AI agents run in their own contained desktop session and—if granted permission—open apps, read and write files, and perform UI-level actions on behalf of the user, a shift Microsoft...

Microsoft’s roadmap entries this month confirm two small but significant pivots in how Copilot will behave on Windows and in browsers: a tested “semantic goodbye” — essentially a voice phrase like “Bye, Copilot” to end a voice session in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on Windows — and a planned...

Microsoft’s product roadmap at Ignite has quietly but unmistakably moved the enterprise conversation from “what a chatbot can answer” to “what an autonomous worker can do.” The new battleground is not a better prompt or a faster LLM; it is a model-and-policy stack that treats AI agents as...

Microsoft’s own documentation for Windows 11 now contains an unusually blunt security caveat: the new experimental “agentic” AI features that let the OS act on your behalf are powerful, but they also create novel attack surfaces that administrators and consumers must treat as security decisions...

Microsoft’s attempt to make Windows “agentic” — an operating system that runs persistent AI assistants capable of taking actions on behalf of users — triggered one of the most intense waves of user criticism Microsoft has faced in years, exposing a deep gap between Big Tech product narratives...

Microsoft’s Ignite 2025 marked a decisive moment: the company moved from talking about Copilot as a helpful sidebar to positioning Copilot and agents as the operational fabric of modern enterprise, unveiling an integrated stack of agent tooling, governance controls, and lower‑cost commercial...

Microsoft’s latest play at Ignite formalizes a shift that has been quietly building for two years: Copilot is no longer just a personal productivity assistant — Microsoft is positioning AI agents as team members, able to join chats, run workflows, and act on behalf of teams inside Microsoft...

Microsoft’s blunt security warning about Copilot Actions collapses two conversations into one: the promise of a desktop that can do for you, and the reality that giving an AI the ability to act — not just advise — fundamentally changes the operating system’s threat model. The previewed Copilot...

Chemist Warehouse’s experiment with an AI‑driven HR shared‑inbox is quietly crossing the line from pilot to repeatable template — and that matters for any organisation thinking about scaling Copilot‑style agents across business functions. The retailer’s AI Human Resources Advisory (AIHRA)...

Microsoft's plan to make Copilot truly hands‑free on Windows has taken a small but notable step: Microsoft is testing a semantic goodbye — a natural-language phrase such as “bye” or “goodbye” that will close an active Copilot voice session after it was summoned with “Hey, Copilot.” This...

OpenAI’s ChatGPT may be the household name that brought conversational AI into the mainstream, but recent user‑focused tests and a rapidly diversifying market show that “best” depends heavily on what you value: truthfulness, follow‑through across a changing conversation, up‑to‑date knowledge, or...

In 2025 the productivity-app landscape is dominated not by a single runaway winner but by three competing design philosophies: ChatGPT as the flexible, all‑purpose assistant; Google Gemini as the multimodal researcher and creator that lives inside Google Workspace; and Microsoft Copilot as the...

Years after dozens of head‑to‑head tests, the productivity-suite contest still comes down to a simple trade-off: Google Docs (and Workspace) prizes instant, browser‑first collaboration and low friction, while Microsoft 365 keeps winning the hard cases — heavyweight documents, mission‑critical...

Microsoft 365 and Google Docs are no longer just “word processors plus spreadsheets” — they’re full productivity ecosystems that now hinge as much on AI, security, and platform integration as on the basics of typing and formulas. The debate that once split users into neat camps — cloud-first...

This week’s AI headlines read like a map of the enterprise pivot from lab experiments to production-grade systems: vendors pushed deeper into agentic AI, hardware and software partners doubled down on GPU‑accelerated stacks, and data and governance tools raced to keep pace with agents that...

Microsoft’s push to fold Copilot into every nook of Windows 11 has reached a new low in clarity: File Explorer now exposes two different Copilot affordances that look and feel nearly identical but route to distinct AI experiences, creating real-world confusion for users and real risks for IT...