Microsoft has pushed a major productivity pivot into the heart of workplace social networking with the general availability of Microsoft 365 Copilot in Viva Engage, delivering context-aware AI summaries, smarter search, and integrated writing assistance designed to help employees “catch up”...
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Microsoft has pushed Microsoft 365 Copilot deeper into the employee experience by making Copilot for Viva Engage generally available to eligible customers, embedding a context-aware generative AI assistant that summarizes conversations, surfaces trends, improves discoverability, and provides...
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Satya Nadella’s public showcase of five Copilot prompts crystallizes a new moment in executive work: AI is not just a drafting tool anymore but a context-aware, predictive chief of staff that reasons across calendars, emails, chats and documents to surface priorities, probabilities and prep for...
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has publicly shared the five AI prompts he now relies on inside Microsoft 365 Copilot — a short, practical blueprint that reveals how a top executive turns generative AI into a daily decision engine and meeting prep assistant.
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Microsoft’s offer to make Copilot available at no charge to U.S. government workers marks a significant shift in how enterprise AI is being positioned for public-sector users, promising quick adoption benefits while raising immediate questions about procurement, security, and long-term costs...
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Satya Nadella has publicly shown how he uses five short, repeatable ChatGPT-style prompts inside Microsoft Copilot to “supercharge” his executive workflow — calling Copilot “a new layer of intelligence spanning all my apps” and framing the assistant less as a drafting tool and more as a...
Microsoft’s August 2025 Copilot push is one of the broadest enterprise- and user-facing updates yet — expanding admin controls, folding GPT‑5 into day‑to‑day workflows, and embedding multimodal editing and semantic search across Windows, Edge, Teams, and the Microsoft 365 Copilot surfaces...
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Microsoft’s Windows lead has just sketched a future in which the operating system becomes ambient, multimodal and agentic — able to listen, see, and act — a shift powered by a new class of on‑device AI and tight hardware integration that will reshape how organisations manage and secure Windows...
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Microsoft’s Copilot now promises to do the heavy lifting of a first‑round literature review: produce multi‑page, citation‑backed Deep Research reports in minutes that synthesize web content, documents, images and PDFs into a structured deliverable you can drop into Word, PowerPoint or a...
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Windows 11 ships with a crowd of first‑party apps that many users never open — and in 2024–2025 Microsoft itself has begun pruning that list, retiring or de‑prioritizing several built‑ins while leaving others as optional annoyances you can safely remove to reclaim space and clarity.
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OpenAI’s GPT‑5 is not a simple story of triumph or collapse; it is a complex product moment where measurable technical gains collided with human expectations, sparking both applause from analysts and a loud user backlash that left the company revising defaults and restoring legacy options...
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Microsoft’s Copilot is quietly reshaping how millions of Outlook users handle email, and ZDNET’s “7 Copilot tricks to supercharge your classic Outlook — even if they’re not for me” highlights practical shortcuts that can convert inbox slog into focused action. The headline gestures at an...
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Microsoft’s internal use of AI to “recap” meetings has moved from experiment to everyday practice, with Microsoft Teams Premium now delivering a suite of AI-powered recap tools — Intelligent Recap, Audio Recap, the Interpreter agent, and the Facilitator — that together change how employees catch...
Ohio University’s yearlong pilot of Microsoft 365 Copilot delivered a pragmatic, measured verdict: the tool can help with routine drafting and information retrieval, especially for communication-heavy administrative work, but the headline productivity payoff is modest and highly role-dependent —...
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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...
Satya Nadella says he now runs parts of his day with GPT‑5 inside Microsoft 365 Copilot, sharing five concrete prompts that have moved the assistant from a helpful tool to a strategic layer in his schedule, meeting prep, project assessment and risk spotting.
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Microsoft’s rapid roll‑out...
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Microsoft’s latest push to fold everyday feedback workflows into its AI assistant stack landed this week with the public preview of Surveys Agent, an AI-powered agent inside Microsoft 365 Copilot that promises to let teams design, launch, monitor, and analyze surveys from a single conversational...
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Brighton Hill Community School has begun what its leaders call a “reinvention” of everyday teaching by rolling out a campus-wide fleet of Acer TravelMate laptops equipped with Intel processors and Microsoft Copilot, in a partnership involving Acer, Intel and Microsoft that aims to embed...
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Microsoft has quietly folded generative AI into Excel’s calculation engine with a native worksheet function — =COPILOT(...) — that accepts plain‑language prompts, reads cell ranges as context, and returns live, spillable outputs directly into the spreadsheet grid. Early previews show it can...
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Microsoft’s Viva Insights will soon put Copilot analytics directly into the hands of frontline managers, delivering team-scoped dashboards, out-of-the-box Copilot reports, and a publishing pipeline for analysts to surface tailored insights — a change Microsoft says will begin rolling out in late...
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