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Microsoft 365 Copilot can now tap enterprise file shares without forcing a wholesale migration to the cloud: NetApp’s new connector brings on‑prem and cloud NetApp data into Copilot while preserving item‑level security, offering containerized deployment options, and promising high performance...

Microsoft has embedded a new AI formula, =COPILOT, directly into Excel’s grid, promising natural‑language automation for summarizing text, classifying feedback, and generating content—while simultaneously cautioning users not to rely on it for “any task requiring accuracy or reproducibility.” In...

Louisville is betting that a pragmatic, tightly scoped burst of artificial intelligence pilots can squeeze more value from every public dollar, and it’s backing the bet with a $2 million line item, a new Chief AI Officer, and a first wave of 5–10 short projects aimed squarely at measurable time...

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...

Microsoft has quietly changed one of Excel’s oldest conventions: now you can call an AI assistant from inside a worksheet cell the same way you call SUM or VLOOKUP — with a new COPILOT function that accepts plain‑language prompts, references ranges and tables, and returns dynamic, spillable...

Microsoft has postponed the rollout of the much‑anticipated Copilot feature that would let Microsoft 365 Copilot “see” and analyze what’s being shared on a Teams meeting screen — the Microsoft 365 Roadmap entry for the feature was updated to push the release into August 2026, and Microsoft says...

Microsoft's latest change to the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile experience on iOS—which converts the app into a file preview and Copilot chat wrapper that redirects editing tasks to standalone Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps—represents a deliberate shift in how the company structures mobile...

Microsoft has begun rolling out a targeted update to the Copilot app on Windows that brings semantic file search to Copilot+ PCs and introduces a redesigned Copilot homepage for Windows Insiders, marking a clear step toward tighter on‑device AI integration in Windows. rr channel updates over the...

Microsoft has moved a generative AI assistant from the sidebar into the spreadsheet grid itself: the new COPILOT function turns plain‑English prompts into live Excel formulas and structured outputs that behave like any other formula in your workbook. (techcommunity.microsoft.com) Background /...

Microsoft has quietly moved one of Excel’s most persistent friction points — knowing the exact function syntax you need — into the spreadsheet itself by introducing an in‑cell Copilot capability that turns plain‑English prompts into live formulas and structured outputs, effectively treating a...

Microsoft has put generative AI directly into the cell grid: the new COPILOT function lets users type plain‑English prompts into Excel formulas and returns live, spillable outputs — summaries, classifications, tables and more — that update automatically as the underlying data changes. This...

Microsoft has folded generative AI directly into Excel’s calculation engine with a native =COPILOT() formula that lets users type natural‑language prompts into cells, reference worksheet ranges for context, and receive live, spillable outputs that recalculate automatically when the source data...

Microsoft has quietly moved generative AI from the Copilot side‑pane into Excel’s calculation engine itself, with a new COPILOT function that lets you call Copilot from any cell, pass natural‑language prompts and cell ranges as context, and receive live, recalculating outputs that behave like...

Microsoft has added two new reasoning agents, Researcher and Analyst, to the Microsoft 365 Copilot family — purpose-built AI assistants that lean on OpenAI’s latest o3 model family to perform multi-step research and data analysis across both web and enterprise data sources, and that will be...

Microsoft Federal's announcement that U.S. government cloud customers can now access a suite of AI capabilities — notably Microsoft 365 Copilot in the Office 365 DOD IL5 environment and the Copilot Studio Agent Builder for GCC tenants — marks a consequential step in bringing generative AI into...

Microsoft has flipped a switch that changes how the company—and millions of its customers—will think about productivity, development, and cloud AI: OpenAI’s newly announced GPT‑5 family is being rolled out across Microsoft’s Copilot portfolio, GitHub, Visual Studio, and Azure AI Foundry in what...

Microsoft’s day‑one switch to OpenAI’s GPT‑5 across Copilot, Microsoft 365, GitHub, Visual Studio, and Azure AI Foundry represents the most comprehensive AI product overhaul in the company’s history — a coordinated, ecosystem‑wide move that folds a new family of reasoning models into the fabric...

Microsoft’s latest quarterly report confirms what investors and enterprise customers have been sensing for months: cloud and AI are not just growth drivers — they are the engine reshaping Microsoft’s business and the broader enterprise landscape. In the fiscal fourth quarter ended June 30, 2025...

Microsoft Copilot is now a practical, multi-platform AI companion that can draft documents, summarize threads, generate images, read your screen, and act on your behalf — but getting the most from it takes more than a casual prompt. This guide explains what Copilot is, how to sign up (including...

OpenAI’s ChatGPT‑5 has arrived as a clear pivot from incremental “smarter chat” upgrades toward models built to reason—and the shift is already reshaping how Microsoft, developers, and everyday Windows users experience AI assistants on the desktop and in the cloud. Background: what landed and...