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    Unifying AVD and Microsoft 365 for a Modern MSP Cloud Practice

    Modern MSPs are being pushed to stop treating Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) and Microsoft 365 as separate silos and instead build a unified, multi-tenant cloud practice that treats identity, endpoints, collaboration, and virtual desktops as a single, interconnected Microsoft ecosystem...
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    Microsoft 365 Multi Geo In Region Routing GA: Control Inbound Mail Geography

    Multi‑Geo In‑Region Routing has moved out of preview and reached General Availability in December 2025, giving Microsoft 365 customers with Multi‑Geo deployments a long‑anticipated control point over where inbound email actually enters Exchange Online for geographically distributed users. This...
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    Was Copilot Down on Feb 13 2026? Not a Global Outage, Overlapping Issues Explained

    On Friday morning, February 13, 2026, a fresh wave of community posts—like the DesignTAXI thread asking “Is Microsoft Copilot down?”—restarted an old question: is the Copilot family experiencing a service-level outage, or are users witnessing regional or feature-specific degradations and...
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    MissionReady365: Accelerating Government Microsoft 365 Staffing with Vetted Experts

    ESW’s MissionReady365™ arrived on February 12, 2026 as a purpose-built staffing offering that promises to shorten the time it takes federal, state, and local agencies — and their prime contractors — to field experienced Microsoft 365 talent for mission-critical programs. Background / Overview...
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    MissionReady365: Fast, Secure Microsoft 365 Staffing for Government

    ESW’s new MissionReady365™ promises to remove one of the thorniest bottlenecks in government IT modernization: getting experienced Microsoft 365 professionals into mission-critical programs quickly and with the right operational and security posture. The announcement, published via GlobeNewswire...
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    In-App Copilot in Microsoft 365: Boosting Productivity and Governance

    Microsoft appears ready to deepen Copilot's role inside Microsoft 365, moving from a sidebar helper to an in‑app assistant across Office apps — and the implications for productivity, security, and IT governance are substantial. Background Microsoft's AI strategy has been evolving rapidly: what...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot Goes Enterprise: Agents, Governance, and Scalable Rollout

    Microsoft's push to make Microsoft 365 Copilot measurably smarter and more actionable is moving from stagecraft to mass rollout, and the impact will be felt across how organizations create, manage, and govern work. Over the last several months Microsoft has layered new capabilities — agent...
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    7 High Impact Copilot Tactics in Microsoft 365 to Save Time

    Microsoft 365 Copilot is already changing how teams prepare slides, wrangle spreadsheets, and run meetings — and not by automating everything, but by automating the right things. The practical walkthrough popularized by David Fortin’s Geeky Gadgets piece condenses that shift into seven...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption: 15M Paid Seats vs 450M Base

    Microsoft’s investor-day numbers paint a picture of fast-growing AI adoption — and a very different picture emerges when you do the math: Microsoft says Microsoft 365 Copilot now has roughly 15 million paid seats, yet that figure represents only a sliver of Microsoft’s installed productivity...
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    Microsoft Copilot Reminders: Mobile Push Alerts, Quotas, and Rollout

    Microsoft Copilot has quietly added a built‑in Reminders feature that can send push notifications to your phone, letting the AI nudge you at a specific time or after a set interval — but for now those alerts land only on mobile devices where the Copilot app is installed, the rollout is gradual...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot Reaches 15 Million Paid Seats: IT Strategy and AI Growth

    Microsoft’s confirmation that Microsoft 365 Copilot now counts 15 million paid seats crystallises both a major milestone and a fresh set of questions for enterprise IT teams, investors, and product strategists: the product is clearly monetising, but penetration into Microsoft’s massive installed...
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    Windows 11 January 2026 Patch Chaos: Reliability Over New Features

    Microsoft’s public concession that Windows 11 has slid past “annoying” into a systemic quality problem is the most consequential signal yet: engineers are being redirected into tactical “swarming” teams to triage a wave of regressions that culminated in emergency out‑of‑band patches and, for a...
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    Microsoft Copilot at a Crossroads: Reliability, Governance, and Enterprise Monetization

    Microsoft’s flagship AI assistant is at a crossroads: once the central plank of a multi‑billion‑dollar platform play, Copilot is now wrestling with reliability failures, adoption friction among paying customers, data-governance anxiety, and intensifying competition — problems that together...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot Reaches 15 Million Paid Seats: Enterprise AI Growth and Risks

    Microsoft’s claim that Microsoft 365 Copilot has reached 15 million paid seats is more than a momentary milestone — it’s a data point that crystallizes the company’s strategy, its strengths, and the hard questions that remain about enterprise AI economics, governance, and practical value...
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    Microsoft Copilot Adoption Surges Across 365, Windows and GitHub

    Microsoft’s latest earnings narrative offered more than the usual revenue and margin talk: it doubled as a status report on the company’s ambitious Copilot strategy. In prepared remarks and on the January 28, 2026 earnings call, Microsoft executives painted a picture of surging adoption across...
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    Microsoft Copilot Reminders: Mobile AI Task Scheduling and Alerts

    Microsoft Copilot’s mobile app is gaining a practical new capability: a built-in Reminders feature that can schedule one‑time or recurring alerts and deliver them to your Android or iOS device — a direct answer to similar “Tasks” and “Scheduled Actions” features that OpenAI’s ChatGPT and...
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    Microsoft Copilot: From Hype to Afterthought — Can This Quarter Change the Narrative?

    Microsoft’s Copilot: From Hype to “Afterthought” — Can the Story Change This Quarter? By [Your Name] — January 2026 Summary: Over the last 18 months Microsoft poured people, product and capital into a sweeping strategy to make “Copilot” the AI layer across Windows, Microsoft 365, GitHub and...
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    Microsoft Clarifies Office Data Isn’t Used to Train AI

    Microsoft's latest public clarification about how it handles customer data in the age of generative AI is meant to calm a widespread user backlash — but the episode underlines how fragile trust has become when cloud productivity, AI training, and default settings collide...
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    Elavon Live Payments: Embedded Invoicing in Outlook and Teams

    Elavon’s new Elavon Live Payments app brings invoicing and payment collection directly into Microsoft 365 — embedding payments into Outlook and Teams to let professionals send invoices, accept PCI‑compliant payments, and track receipts without switching applications. Background / Overview...
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    Entra Agent IDs: The AI Identity Perimeter for Microsoft 365

    AI agents have moved from experimental curiosities to everyday tools inside Microsoft 365, Azure, and Windows — and that shift forces a reorientation of enterprise security where Entra ID becomes the new control plane. Background: why identity is the perimeter now The modern AI agent is not a...
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