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The City of Raisio, Finland, began a Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption program in autumn 2025 with Sogeti, part of Capgemini, to prepare municipal employees for broader AI use before the city’s 2026 strategy cycle. The notable part is not the licensing or the tooling. It is that Raisio treated AI...

ICON plc said on June 22, 2026, that it has selected Microsoft as a preferred technology partner, pairing a company-wide Microsoft 365 Copilot deployment with Azure, Microsoft Fabric, and AI services to expand Orbis, ICON’s governed agentic AI platform for clinical development. The announcement...

Microsoft made Copilot Cowork generally available worldwide on June 16, 2026, bringing the Anthropic-powered work delegation experience out of its Frontier preview and into Microsoft 365 Copilot for eligible enterprise customers with new usage-based pricing, admin budget controls, plugins, and...

ICON plc announced on June 22, 2026, in Dublin that it has selected Microsoft as a preferred technology partner for a three-year digital innovation and AI investment plan spanning Microsoft 365 Copilot, Fabric, Azure data services, and clinical-trial AI infrastructure. The deal matters less as...

Microsoft’s June 17, 2026 Hong Kong findings from its 2026 Work Trend Index say local AI users are more likely than global peers to be “Frontier Professionals,” but also more likely to say daily targets are crowding out real work redesign. That is the tension at the heart of the report: Hong...

Microsoft removed or hid the in-app Copilot button for many Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote users without a qualifying Microsoft 365 Copilot license beginning April 15, 2026, while separately resuming automatic deployment of the Microsoft 365 Copilot app to eligible commercial Windows...

NHS England said in June 2026 that 505,000 clinicians and support staff across England will receive Microsoft 365 Copilot by October 2026, after a 30,000-person trial across 90 NHS organisations reported average administrative time savings of 43 minutes per user per day. The announcement is not...

Microsoft’s 2026 Work Trend Index says Hong Kong AI users are adopting AI faster than their organizations are redesigning work around it, with 18 percent classified as “Frontier Professionals” versus 16 percent globally, even as local employees report weaker leadership alignment and fewer...

Microsoft on Tuesday, June 16, 2026, expanded Copilot Cowork, an enterprise AI agent for Microsoft 365, with usage-based pricing that charges companies for each task according to the compute consumed while still requiring a paid Microsoft 365 Copilot subscription. The move turns Microsoft’s...

The Copilot AI button disappeared from many Office apps because Microsoft changed Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat availability on April 15, 2026, removing the in-app Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote entry point for many users without a paid Microsoft 365 Copilot license. That is the simple...

Microsoft is resuming automatic installation of the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on eligible Windows devices with commercial Microsoft 365 desktop apps between mid-June and mid-July 2026, unless administrators opt out through the Microsoft 365 Apps admin center. The move is not a Windows Update in...

Microsoft’s Singapore findings for the 2026 Work Trend Index, released on June 16, say local workers are adopting AI faster than their organisations are redesigning work around it, with 88 percent of Singapore AI users saying they still own the thinking behind their output. That is the neat...

xAI has launched Grok as Microsoft 365 add-ins for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in 2026, putting Elon Musk’s AI assistant inside Office documents through a sidebar panel while positioning its X-connected, real-time data pitch against Microsoft’s native Copilot experience. The move is less an...

Small businesses can now turn ordinary spreadsheet exports into interactive dashboards in minutes by uploading clean sales data to tools such as Claude, Microsoft Copilot, or ChatGPT and asking, in plain English, for charts, summary cards, and filters. That is the practical promise behind...

Corporate Finance Institute published a June 19, 2026 guide listing 15 artificial-intelligence prompts for finance professionals, organizing them across strategic finance, FP&A, modeling, treasury, data analysis, and stakeholder communication. The useful story is not that finance teams now have...

The City of Raisio in Finland began a Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption program in autumn 2025 with Sogeti, part of Capgemini, preparing nearly 100 municipal employees to use generative AI safely ahead of its 2026 strategy cycle. The notable part is not that another public-sector organization...

On June 19, 2026, the University of Manchester said Teaching and Research staff and Postgraduate Researchers had begun receiving Microsoft 365 Copilot access, backed by live training, guidance, feedback channels, and dedicated support as part of its wider institution-wide AI rollout. The...

Microsoft made Copilot Cowork generally available worldwide in June 2026 as a Microsoft 365 Copilot feature that can execute multi-step business tasks across enterprise apps, files, calendars, browsers, and plugins rather than merely returning chat-style recommendations. That makes this launch...

On June 15, 2026, Varonis Threat Labs disclosed SearchLeak, a now-patched vulnerability chain in Microsoft 365 Copilot Enterprise Search that could have let an attacker exfiltrate emails, files, meeting data, and security codes after a victim clicked a crafted Microsoft link. The uncomfortable...

Wix announced on June 15, 2026, that it has integrated its Wix Harmony website-building system into Microsoft 365 Copilot, letting eligible Copilot users create, customize, and manage Wix-hosted websites from inside Microsoft’s AI chat interface using natural-language prompts. The move is not...