Windows Weekly’s latest episode arrives like a two‑ton reminder that tech transitions rarely happen on a polite schedule: “Coding Makes Me Cry” (Episode 950) drills into the real-world fallout of Windows 10’s imminent end-of‑support, Microsoft’s evolving recovery and Copilot features, and the...
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AI upskilling has moved from an HR talking point to a workplace imperative as employees across industries race to learn generative AI tools, enterprise copilots, and the human skills needed to use them responsibly.
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The latest industry data shows a striking surge in demand for...
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Semarchy’s latest push to embed mastered, governed data into Microsoft’s Fabric stack signals a pragmatic next step in the race to make enterprise data both AI-ready and business-ready — bringing golden records, semantic models, and DataOps workflows directly into OneLake so Power BI, GitHub...
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Microsoft’s latest push to make AI the fabric of the developer experience landed with bold claims and a mixed reception: a new Insiders Channel debut, a purported Visual Studio 2026/18.0 milestone that folds GitHub Copilot into the IDE in deeper, agentic ways, and a feature set tuned for speed...
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Visual Studio 2026’s first Insiders build lands as a clear statement: Microsoft intends to make AI the connective tissue of the IDE while simultaneously modernizing Visual Studio’s foundation for the .NET 10 era. At VSLive! San Diego Microsoft unveiled Visual Studio 2026 (internal version 18.0)...
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Microsoft has quietly paused the rollout of its in‑app Copilot for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) as it rethinks how AI should sit inside one of the most conservative, security‑sensitive tools in the Microsoft stack.
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Microsoft shipped a preview of Copilot in SSMS as...
CSOP’s push to turn hours of manual, error-prone work into seconds-long automated workflows shows how Azure AI and GitHub Copilot can reshape asset management — but the numbers, governance demands, and hidden costs behind that transformation deserve as much scrutiny as the glossy case study...
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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...
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CSOP’s move from a 10-minute, manual ETF reporting routine to a 30-second, AI-driven workflow is not a minor productivity tweak — it’s a clear example of how cloud-scale generative AI, paired with no-code tooling and developer acceleration, can transform asset management operations overnight...
Across lecture halls, founder hubs, and busy offices from Lagos to Lokoja, Nigerians are quietly reshaping how work and study get done: they’re offloading routine writing, automating repetitive formatting, turning stacks of PDFs into flashcards, and squeezing multimedia edits into minutes — and...
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Microsoft’s push to fold OpenAI’s latest models into Windows and Office has hardened an uncomfortable choice for many users: do you pick the deeply integrated productivity assistant (Microsoft Copilot) that lives inside Word, Excel, Outlook and the Windows taskbar, or the more general-purpose...
GitHub Copilot for Azure has landed inside Visual Studio 2022 as a public preview, bringing a curated set of Azure management tools directly into Copilot Chat — Agent Mode and enabling developers to inspect resources, pull logs, run Azure CLI/azd commands, and even deploy applications from...
Microsoft has quietly extended Copilot’s reach deeper into the Azure developer workflow by launching a public preview of the GitHub Copilot for Azure extension for Visual Studio 2022, bringing a curated set of Azure tools—exposed via an Azure Model Context Protocol (MCP) server—directly into...
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Microsoft’s Copilot has just taken a major step: OpenAI’s GPT‑5 is now embedded across the Copilot family—consumer Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot, Copilot Studio and Azure AI Foundry—bringing real‑time model routing, deeper reasoning for complex tasks, and notably larger context...
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Microsoft’s rapid move to fold OpenAI’s GPT‑5 into Copilot is this week’s defining platform shift — but it arrived alongside a cluster of AI-driven developments that matter to every IT leader: workforce disruption from automation, a surge in deepfake executive‑impersonation scams, contract...
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Elon Musk has a new shot across Microsoft’s bow, and this time it has a name tailor‑made for memes and search engines alike: Macrohard—a “purely AI software company,” as he described it in a post on X, pitched to simulate the work of a software giant entirely with autonomous AI agents. He framed...
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Microsoft has quietly handed developers more control over how much assistance GitHub Copilot asserts in the editor, adding several practical toggles and workflow options in the August 2025 Visual Studio update so that suggestions appear on developers’ terms rather than at every keystroke...
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OpenAI’s GPT‑5 has landed inside Microsoft’s Copilot family, but the change feels more like a careful upgrade than a dramatic reinvention — a set of real-world refinements that tilt Copilot toward deeper reasoning, longer context, and smarter routing rather than a radical, immediately...
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Microsoft and the National Football League have announced a multiyear extension of their partnership that moves the long-running Surface sponsorship into a new phase: deploying Microsoft Copilot and Azure AI across the sideline, scouting desks, and back-office operations to deliver real-time...
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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...