governance and security

Microsoft’s newly announced Agent 365 Skills let developers bring locally built AI agents into Microsoft Agent 365 through guided workflows that add setup, identity, observability, Microsoft 365 data access, Teams messaging, and local testing controls before enterprise rollout. The move matters...

X-ELIO moved more than 350 employees across nine countries and four continents into a Microsoft 365-based digital workplace with NTT DATA, using a phased migration that cleaned 6TB of Google Drive data and paired technical deployment with adoption support. The case is small enough to sound...

As of June 2026, the best AI agent builder is no longer a single product category but a crowded stack of developer frameworks, cloud-native platforms, enterprise copilots, and no-code automation tools competing to turn large language models into working software. The important question is not...

Microsoft Build 2026 runs June 2–3 at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco and online, with Microsoft expected to focus less on a hypothetical Windows 12 reveal and more on AI agents, GitHub Copilot, Azure AI Foundry, Windows AI tooling, and the developer plumbing behind its next software cycle...

Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft’s longtime consumer marketing chief and one of the most visible executives behind Windows, Bing, Surface, Xbox, and Copilot, is leaving the company after 35 years while staying through the next fiscal year to help steer Windows toward Microsoft’s agentic AI vision. That...

Microsoft’s high‑profile test of “Copilot everywhere” — a staged, headline‑friendly showcase intended to prove that AI could be the next durable revenue and product moat — is running into the messy realities of systems engineering, enterprise procurement, and human expectations. The Barron’s...