enterprise governance

Microsoft’s Windows 11 is shipping a new, agentic layer: optional AI agents that can run in the background inside a contained “Agent Workspace,” sign into their own low‑privilege accounts, and — with user permission — read and act on files in common user folders such as Documents, Desktop...

Microsoft Copilot can now reach directly into your Canva workspace and generate editable designs from a single chat prompt — a subtle but significant step that aims to collapse design, copy and layout work into the same conversational flow where teams already do planning and writing. Background...

Microsoft’s Ignite stage delivered more than incremental feature updates — it formalized a blueprint for “agentic” work by folding role‑aware intelligence, in‑app agents, and enterprise governance into Microsoft 365 Copilot, with implications that range from daily inbox triage to fully...

Microsoft is restoring the small but essential “agenda” affordance to Windows 11’s Notification Center — a compact, chronological list of upcoming events that lives in the calendar flyout and links directly to Microsoft 365, meetings, and Copilot actions — a change Microsoft says will appear in...

Microsoft’s Ignite 2025 debut of Microsoft Agent 365 formalizes a control plane for the agent era — a unified governance, identity, and security fabric that treats AI agents as first-class, auditable members of the enterprise workforce rather than ephemeral chatbots or point automations. This...

Windows 11’s new agentic features mark a decisive shift: AI is no longer just a helpful advisor on the screen but a background actor with the ability to open apps, edit files, and perform multi‑step workflows — and Microsoft is explicit that these capabilities come with real security trade‑offs...

Microsoft’s Ignite announcements pushed Security Copilot from a tactical assistant to a full-fledged, agentic security platform — delivering twelve new preview agents across Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Entra, Microsoft Intune and Microsoft Purview, plus an expanding partner ecosystem, a...

Microsoft’s Ignite 2025 keynote framed a simple but seismic pivot: AI agents are no longer experimental helpers — they are becoming first-class, identity-backed members of the enterprise, and Microsoft’s Agent 365 is the control plane designed to manage them at scale. This announcement...

Microsoft’s Power Apps announcement at Ignite 2025 signals a deliberate pivot from traditional low-code tooling toward an agentic, AI-first development model that promises to collapse the time between idea and production while folding governance, identity, and telemetry into the same managed...

Microsoft’s move to bake agentic AI directly into Windows 11 — visible as taskbar agents, Copilot Actions, and a new Agent Workspace — is a decisive pivot from passive assistance toward autonomous, outcome‑oriented automation that can open apps, manipulate files, and complete multi‑step...

Microsoft’s Copilot just picked up one of the fastest-moving — and most controversial — pieces of generative AI: OpenAI’s Sora 2 video model is now accessible inside Microsoft 365 Copilot for commercial Frontier preview customers, bringing studio‑caliber short‑form video generation and cameos...

Microsoft’s Copilot Mode is now being positioned as an enterprise-ready, agentic layer for Edge for Business — a change that converts the browser from a passive rendering surface into a permissioned, action-taking assistant capable of reasoning across tabs, accessing enterprise data stores, and...

Microsoft used Ignite 2025 to push Windows further from “Copilot as a feature” toward a full-fledged, agentic operating system — and with that pivot it shipped two major previews aimed squarely at enterprise scale: Windows 365 for Agents (Cloud PCs tuned to run AI agents under IT policy) and...

Microsoft’s move to give Azure Copilot agentic teeth in a private preview signals a turning point: Copilot is no longer content to be a conversational aide — it’s being positioned as an automated operator inside the cloud itself, able to plan, reason and execute multi‑step cloud tasks under...

Microsoft is rolling AI agents into the Windows 11 Taskbar and search box, turning the desktop’s most-used surface into an agentic control center where Copilot and third‑party assistants can be invoked, monitored, and managed at a glance. Background / Overview Microsoft’s latest Windows 11...

Levi Strauss & Co. and Microsoft have announced a strategic collaboration to build an Azure‑native, Teams‑embedded “superagent” — a hierarchical, multi‑agent orchestration platform that Levi says will route employee queries to specialized subagents and accelerate the company’s direct‑to‑consumer...

Microsoft’s latest Insider preview quietly lays the groundwork for a new class of on‑device automation: an Agent Workspace and an experimental toggle that prepares Windows 11 to let AI agents act on your behalf inside a contained session — a move that shifts the OS from suggestion to action...

Microsoft’s plan to recast Windows 11 as an agentic operating system—one that anticipates needs and takes action via autonomous AI agents—has provoked an unprecedented wave of user and developer backlash, exposing fault lines in trust, privacy, and platform stewardship that Microsoft must...

Microsoft’s November 17 slate reads like an instruction manual for a company that has moved from software-first to full-stack AI infrastructure: new enterprise agent rollouts and Copilot features, tighter cloud‑sovereignty offers in Europe, a public preview for the Exchange admin API, a major...

AI assistants that once lived on the fringes of tech demos are now woven into daily routines — drafting emails, planning trips, summarizing meetings, and even offering a sympathetic ear — and three names dominate the conversation: ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot. Background The...