microsoft 365 copilot

Microsoft Copilot Studio is Microsoft’s low‑code, enterprise‑grade studio for building, customizing, and operating AI‑powered copilots — conversational agents that can read your data, run workflows, and take actions across Microsoft 365, the Power Platform, Azure, and external systems. It’s the...

The University of South Carolina has moved from pilot to programmatic adoption of Microsoft 365 Copilot, using workshops, cohort-based trials, and student-led outreach to fold generative AI into teaching, research, and administrative workflows—reporting measurable time savings for users while...

The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation’s recent agency-wide orientation on Microsoft Copilot represents a pragmatic, low-friction approach to bringing generative AI into a high-risk public-sector workplace — one that balances productivity gains with governance controls, but which also...

Paul Thurrott’s short, wry response in Ask Paul: October 3 crystallizes a tension millions of Windows users are feeling right now — admiration for what AI can do, coupled with reluctance to pay a new recurring premium for features many believe used to be “just part of the product.” His position...

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...

Grand Traverse County is asking commissioners to approve a near-$400,000 renewal of its Microsoft 365 subscription and — crucially — to add 100 Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses as part of a controlled pilot, a move that crystallizes how local governments are balancing productivity gains from...

Windows keeps getting updated, and the quickest way to know what it’s doing on your PC is to check the version — a step that takes seconds but can shape whether your apps run, your data stays protected, and whether features like Copilot are even available to you. This practical guide explains...

Microsoft’s latest update to Microsoft 365 Copilot marks a decisive shift from single‑vendor dependency toward a deliberate, multi‑model orchestration strategy that now makes Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 selectable engines inside Copilot’s Researcher and Copilot Studio...

Microsoft’s Copilot is now at the center of a fast-escalating enterprise privacy debate after a recent industry write-up claimed the assistant can access an average of three million sensitive records per organization — a figure that, if true, reframes the risk surface of deploying generative AI...

Microsoft’s Copilot is no longer a neat demo or a sidebar curiosity — it has become a deeply woven productivity layer across Windows, Microsoft 365 apps, OneDrive, and the Edge browser, and choosing whether to adopt it requires weighing clear time-saving gains against licensing, privacy, and...

Microsoft’s Copilot is no longer a curiosity — it’s a built-in assistant, a paid enterprise tool, and an arms‑length feature in Windows and Office that many users will encounter whether they actively sought it or not. Background / Overview Microsoft uses the single brand name Copilot for a...

Microsoft has quietly re‑engineered a cornerstone of its workplace AI strategy: Microsoft 365 Copilot now supports selectable Anthropic Claude models — specifically Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 — inside two high‑visibility Copilot surfaces, the Researcher reasoning agent and Copilot...

Microsoft’s AI strategy quietly leaped forward this week as the company rolled OpenAI’s GPT‑5‑Codex into Azure AI Foundry at general availability and opened a public preview of the same model for GitHub Copilot inside Visual Studio Code — and, in a parallel move, broadened Microsoft 365...

Microsoft quietly turned Microsoft 365 Copilot from a single‑vendor assistant into a multi‑model orchestration platform by adding Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 as selectable back‑ends in Copilot’s Researcher agent and Copilot Studio, while making clear that OpenAI models will...

Microsoft's Microsoft 365 Copilot is no longer a single‑vendor show: starting today the company is adding Anthropic’s Claude family — notably Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 — as selectable backends inside Copilot, giving organizations the ability to route specific Copilot workloads to...

Microsoft’s Copilot is evolving from a one‑person productivity assistant into a set of embedded, context‑aware AI teammates that live inside Teams channels, SharePoint sites, Viva Engage communities and meetings — agents that proactively run coordination tasks, capture decisions, and keep...

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...

Windows 11 keeps pushing AI onto your desktop — Copilot in the taskbar, Copilot in Office, and now a separate Microsoft 365 Copilot app — and for many users that feels like unwanted bloat. If you’d rather a clean, AI‑free Windows, this article walks through everything you need to know to hide...

Microsoft is rolling out a dedicated Channel Agent inside Microsoft Teams — an always-on, channel-scoped Copilot that ingests chat history, meeting recaps, files, and Planner boards to summarize conversations, draft status reports, create tasks, and act as a contextual subject-matter assistant...

The Capital Area Tech Hub’s upcoming seminar “Unlock Productivity with AI Agents” will bring Microsoft 365 Copilot and the new generation of agentic AI into a Mid-Michigan meeting room on September 24, 2025 — a practical, lunch-hour briefing led by Microsoft Copilot solution engineer Joe...