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Microsoft’s new federal bargain is one of those rare deals that looks simple on paper and seismic in practice: deep, governmentwide discounts on Microsoft 365, Azure, Dynamics 365, security tooling and — critically — up to 12 months of Microsoft 365 Copilot for qualifying G5 agency customers...

Generative AI has arrived in the boardroom and the break room alike — but the difference between headlines and hard outcomes is leadership, disciplined execution, and the work of adoption that too many organizations still underestimate. A recent event preview and podcast discussion that...

Microsoft is offering U.S. college students a full year of Microsoft 365 Personal — with Copilot built into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote — at no cost if they verify eligibility and enroll by October 31, 2025, a limited-time element of the company’s new Microsoft Elevate...

Microsoft’s latest back-to-school push hands U.S. college students a full year of Microsoft 365 Personal — including the integrated Copilot AI — at no cost, a move that promises to reshape student workflows while raising immediate questions about privacy, billing mechanics, and academic...

Microsoft has announced that eligible U.S. college students can claim a free, 12‑month subscription to Microsoft 365 Personal — which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, 1 TB of OneDrive storage and the Copilot AI assistant — as part of its new Microsoft Elevate education...

Microsoft’s push to fold generative AI into everyday file management just moved a major step closer to most Windows users: Microsoft 365’s Copilot is now integrated with OneDrive inside Windows, letting subscribers invoke Copilot actions from File Explorer and the OneDrive Activity Center on the...

Microsoft’s announcement at the White House AI Education Task Force marks a major consumer- and education-facing push: the company is offering Copilot built into Microsoft 365 Personal free for 12 months to every U.S. college student (including community college students) for sign-ups through...

Microsoft’s latest education push folds generative AI into the everyday toolkit of U.S. college students by making Microsoft 365 Personal with Copilot available free for eligible students—an aggressive expansion of earlier trial offers that places Copilot, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook...

Google and Microsoft have built two very different — and increasingly capable — AI companions, and choosing between Gemini and Copilot now means weighing ecosystem fit, multimodal power, privacy defaults, and pricing structure rather than just raw “intelligence.” The battlefield has shifted from...

Microsoft’s AI unit has shipped two first‑party foundation models — MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview — marking a clear acceleration of in‑house model development even as the company continues to integrate and promote OpenAI’s frontier models such as GPT‑5 across its product stack. The launches are...

Today’s White House meeting of the AI Education Task Force produced one of the most consequential coalition-building moments yet between the federal government and a major tech vendor: Microsoft unveiled a broad package of commitments — from free access to Copilot-infused Microsoft 365 for U.S...

Microsoft Word for Windows has quietly shifted the default lifecycle of new documents: starting with Insider builds identified as Version 2509 (Build 19221.20000), a freshly created document will be saved to the cloud with AutoSave enabled by default, unless the user or administrator changes the...

Satya Nadella’s short public playbook — five repeatable prompts he says he uses inside Microsoft 365 Copilot — has done more than offer productivity tips; it has shown, in blunt practice, how an enterprise copilot can change the mechanics of leadership, reduce busywork and compress decision...

Microsoft’s new OneGov agreement with the General Services Administration promises to make Microsoft 365 Copilot effectively free for qualifying federal customers while folding deep discounts across Azure, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 and security tooling into a government‑wide purchasing vehicle...

Microsoft’s iOS Microsoft 365 Copilot app is being stripped of advanced OneDrive file-management capabilities, redirecting users to the OneDrive app for folder browsing, permission changes, and downloads — a move that finalizes the app’s transition from an all-in-one Office hub into a focused AI...

Microsoft’s Copilot is not just growing — it’s accelerating faster on mobile than many expected, and recent Comscore data shows that the shift is reshaping the consumer and enterprise AI landscape in ways that matter for Windows users, IT teams, and marketers alike. The numbers tell two...

Satya Nadella’s five short Copilot prompts are less a CEO flex and more a practical playbook for turning generative AI into repeatable executive work — from meeting readiness and project rollups to launch probabilities and time audits — and the implications for Windows and Microsoft 365 admins...

Microsoft’s August wave of Microsoft 365 updates pushes a clear signal: productivity is being re-engineered around AI-first workflows, tighter security controls, and admin-grade manageability — and many of the features arriving this cycle are designed to reduce friction for everyday users while...

Microsoft and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) have struck a OneGov agreement to deliver steep discounts on Microsoft cloud services for federal agencies — including no‑cost access to Microsoft 365 Copilot for eligible G5 users for up to 12 months — a package GSA and Microsoft say...

Microsoft is quietly preparing a broader rollout of Copilot Appearance — an animated, voice-enabled avatar for Copilot — while testing UI shifts and expanded memory controls that bring Microsoft’s assistant closer to the interaction patterns already familiar from ChatGPT, Gemini and other modern...