governance

Microsoft has quietly changed one of Word’s oldest habits: new documents created in the Word desktop app on Windows are now automatically saved to the cloud by default, placing files in OneDrive (or a configured “preferred cloud destination”) with AutoSave enabled from the first keystroke — a...

As enterprises race to embed generative AI into everyday workflows, Microsoft Copilot has become one of the most visible vectors for that shift — but the difference between adoption and durable value often comes down to structured, role-focused training that turns promise into performance...

Microsoft’s finance joke about the “hockey stick on wheels” landed in public view this week when veteran engineer Raymond Chen used the phrase on Microsoft’s developer blog to skewer a familiar pattern of optimistic forecasting — and The Register ran with the anecdote as shorthand for what many...

A major trial of Microsoft 365 Copilot across NHS organisations has produced headline numbers that are hard to ignore: participants reported saving an average of 43 minutes per day, and the trial sponsors modelled that, if scaled, the technology could reclaim around 400,000 hours of staff time...

Microsoft’s decision to bake Copilot adoption benchmarks into Viva Insights’ Copilot Dashboard is less a neutral analytics upgrade and more a strategic pivot: it turns a usage signal into a managerial instrument that vendors, procurement teams, and people managers can weaponize — intentionally...

Microsoft’s Microsoft Elevate program has reconfigured how charities can access AI: by pairing no‑cost and discounted technology with tailored training, practical toolkits and a skilling roadmap that aims to put Copilot, Azure and credentialed AI skills into the hands of nonprofit staff and...

Microsoft’s Copilot on Windows has taken a decisive step from chat assistant to document workhorse: the Copilot app can now generate Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations and PDFs directly from a chat session, and it can link to personal email and cloud accounts so it can...

Artificial intelligence is moving from novelty to necessity, and Microsoft’s latest messaging makes a clear case: Copilot aims to turn everyday tasks into automated, context-aware workflows so users can spend less time on busywork and more time on meaningful work. Background Microsoft positions...

Microsoft’s cloud playbook is full of maps, toolkits and incentives — but moving workloads into Azure is only the opening act; turning that infrastructure into measurable business value requires a fundamentally different conversation about modernisation, governance and long-term partner-led...

Grand Traverse County is preparing a cautious entry into generative AI: commissioners are being asked to approve a near‑$400,000 renewal of the county’s Microsoft 365 subscription that includes a proposal to add 100 Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses as a controlled pilot, accompanied by an...

Microsoft’s move from cloud provider to active network operator has quietly shifted the telecom automation conversation from theoretical to tactical, and the company is now inviting service providers to follow its lead. Over the past year Microsoft engineers have designed and deployed Network...

Microsoft's Copilot is quietly evolving from a single-purpose chat assistant into a platform that can reach into multiple clouds, mailboxes, and even new conversational personalities — and recent testing artifacts suggest the next wave of features will make that transformation far more visible...

Microsoft’s productivity stack just took another step toward agentic work: today’s rollout of Agent Mode in Excel and Word, plus a new Office Agent available from Copilot chat, promises to let everyday users build complex, auditable spreadsheets and full documents from simple natural‑language...

The Microsoft AI Tour in Chicago distilled a simple, urgent message: AI is no longer an abstract technology debate — it is a business and human-capability imperative that must be built with people at the center. Across keynote stages, hands-on demos, and corridor conversations at McCormick...

Microsoft’s latest push to put “agents” at the center of work—through a native Agent Store inside Microsoft 365 Copilot and a unified Microsoft Marketplace web destination—moves the company from experimental tooling to a platform play designed to make AI agents discoverable, governable, and...

Saving a useful Copilot prompt once — and being able to find and reuse it later — is one of the simplest productivity multipliers most Copilot users overlook, and it’s now a built‑in part of the Copilot experience in Microsoft 365 apps as well as a workflow you can duplicate with system tools...

Microsoft’s latest push stitches a unified, content‑aware Copilot chat directly into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote — surfacing a persistent side pane that can read the file you’re working on, search other files with an inline “/” picker, accept multiple images, and give wider...

Principled Technologies’ recent press materials argue that adopting a single‑cloud approach for AI on Microsoft Azure can produce measurable gains in performance, manageability, and cost predictability — but those headline claims come with important caveats and require careful validation before...

A recent Principled Technologies (PT) study — circulated via a press release and republished across PR channels — argues that adopting a single‑cloud approach for AI on Microsoft Azure can deliver measurable benefits in performance, manageability, and cost predictability for many enterprise AI...

Microsoft this week expanded Microsoft 365 Copilot from a personal productivity assistant into a suite of context‑aware team agents that live inside Teams channels, SharePoint sites, Viva Engage communities, and meetings — agents that can prepare agendas, take notes, manage projects, tag and...