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Microsoft on June 2, 2026 announced an early preview of Microsoft Execution Containers, a cross-platform SDK meant to contain AI agents on Windows and WSL while tying local agent activity into Agent 365, Defender, Intune, and Windows 365 for Agents. The move is not just another developer-tooling...

Microsoft is reportedly building a single Copilot “super app” for release by the end of summer 2026 that would combine GitHub Copilot, Copilot chat, Copilot Cowork, and an internal agentic workflow system called Autopilot into one central interface. The move is less a moonshot than a cleanup...

Microsoft is reportedly building a centralized “One Copilot” app that would combine GitHub Copilot, Copilot chat, Copilot Cowork, Microsoft 365 Copilot services, and an agentic workflow feature called Autopilot, with Fortune reporting on May 29, 2026, that Jacob Andreou is leading the effort...

Microsoft is facing a widening Federal Trade Commission antitrust investigation, begun in 2024 and still active in 2026, that is examining whether the company used Azure, software licensing, bundling, and AI-related product strategies to unfairly disadvantage cloud and software rivals. The...

Satya Nadella became Microsoft’s chief executive on February 4, 2014, inheriting a company still dominant in Windows and Office but increasingly peripheral to the industry’s fastest-moving conversations around mobile, cloud, developers, and consumer platforms. Twelve years later, Microsoft is...

Jensen Huang’s “five-layer cake” frames artificial intelligence in 2026 as an industrial stack built from energy, chips, cloud infrastructure, models, and applications, with Nvidia’s CEO arguing that each layer must expand together for AI to become economically useful. That metaphor matters...

Microsoft announced its 2025 Designed for Surface Partner Awards on its Surface accessory site, naming The Joy Factory as Partner of the Year, STM’s Dux Rugged Case for the 13-inch Surface Laptop as Product of the Year, and JCPal’s VerSkin language keyboard covers as Innovative Solution of the...

Microsoft is reportedly building a unified “super app” for Copilot that would combine coding assistance, workplace chat, collaborative agents, and internal automation tools into one product experience, with elements potentially referenced around Build and a launch target by the end of summer...

Microsoft is reportedly building an unreleased Copilot “super app” that would combine chat, GitHub Copilot coding help, Copilot Cowork, and a new agentic Autopilot layer, with a leaked Sources screenshot dated May 30, 2026 showing a proactive Scout agent inside the interface. The immediate story...

Microsoft on May 28, 2026, announced a redesigned Microsoft 365 Copilot app and refreshed in-app Copilot experiences across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, including a larger prompt surface, faster app performance, and a less intrusive approach to the floating Copilot entry point. The...

Microsoft is replacing the original 2011 Secure Boot certificate chain across Windows PCs and servers before certificates begin expiring in June 2026 and continue expiring into October, affecting supported Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server systems that still trust those aging boot...

Microsoft has added a Windows 11 policy called “Remove Microsoft Copilot app” that lets administrators uninstall the consumer Copilot app through Group Policy, MDM policy, or an equivalent Registry value on supported editions including Pro, Enterprise, Education, and IoT Enterprise/LTSC. The...

Digitate said on May 19, 2026, that its ignio platform has earned Microsoft’s Solutions Partner with certified software designation for Azure, including certified software recognition across Azure, Retail AI, Manufacturing AI, and Financial Services AI categories. The announcement is not merely...

Microsoft said on May 13, 2026, that it is retiring Copilot Mode in Microsoft Edge and moving its AI browsing features directly into Edge on desktop and mobile, including multi-tab reasoning, Voice and Vision, Journeys, study tools, writing help, and tab-to-podcast features. The important word...

Microsoft is reportedly canceling most internal Claude Code licenses in its Experiences and Devices organization by June 30, 2026, after giving thousands of employees access to Anthropic’s coding assistant in late 2025 and early 2026. The official story, if Microsoft gives one, will probably...

Microsoft released new Windows 11 Release Preview builds on May 14, 2026, covering Windows 11 versions 24H2 and 25H2 with builds 26100.8514 and 26200.8514, plus the hardware-targeted Windows 11 version 26H1 with build 28000.2173. The announcement itself is brief, but the release notes are not...

Microsoft announced on May 13, 2026, that it is retiring Copilot Mode in Microsoft Edge and moving its core AI browsing features directly into the standard Edge experience across desktop, iOS, and Android. That is the official story of simplification: one less named mode, fewer visible seams...

Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott testified Wednesday in federal court in Oakland that a 2018 email questioning OpenAI’s commercial plans was about Microsoft’s diligence and competitive risk, not proof that Microsoft knew OpenAI was betraying its nonprofit mission. That distinction is now central to...

Microsoft’s multibillion-dollar OpenAI investment is now producing revenue through Azure usage, revenue-sharing payments, and AI software subscriptions, with recent reporting saying Microsoft may receive up to $38 billion from OpenAI under a capped arrangement running through 2030. The important...

Microsoft released KB5089591 on May 12, 2026, as a Safe OS Dynamic Update for Windows 11 version 26H1, delivering improvements to the Windows Recovery Environment while repeating its warning that Secure Boot certificates on most Windows devices begin expiring in June 2026. The update itself is...