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RiskFootprint announced on May 22, 2026, in Boca Raton, Florida, that it has launched a Microsoft Copilot-assisted workflow that turns its parcel-level hazard and climate reports into rapid summaries for real estate, lending, underwriting, engineering, and due-diligence professionals. The pitch...

Microsoft began pulling back visible Copilot branding and entry points from parts of Windows 11 and Microsoft 365 in spring 2026, after years of aggressively pushing its AI assistant into Windows, Office, Notepad, Paint, Photos, and dedicated Copilot+ PCs. The retreat is not a full abandonment...

Microsoft has added a Windows 11 policy called “Remove Microsoft Copilot app,” reportedly introduced with the April 2026 update and surfaced in Group Policy under User Configuration, Administrative Templates, Windows Components, Windows AI. The setting gives Pro, Enterprise, Education, and...

Microsoft published a 14-page Windows 11 e-book in May 2026 arguing that the operating system has become the execution layer for enterprise AI, positioning Windows not as a place where Copilot is bolted on, but as the desktop surface where AI-assisted work should actually happen. The claim is...

Microsoft is gradually restoring a dockable Copilot sidebar in Windows 11, letting the AI app snap to the left or right edge of the desktop and resize other windows around it, while administrators gain newer policy paths to remove or block the consumer Copilot app. The move is less a simple...

Microsoft put an OpenAI-powered Bing and Edge in front of the public in February 2023, built around a proprietary orchestration layer called Prometheus, but by May 2026 the search-AI momentum has reportedly swung toward Google’s Gemini because Google has embedded AI more deeply into Search...

Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, and other mainstream AI assistants can produce false “analysis” when left on default model settings, as shown in a May 2026 experiment in which identical datasets were labeled by country and then described as culturally different. The lesson is not that one...

Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft’s executive vice president and consumer marketing chief, reportedly plans to leave the company after its next fiscal year, but will first spend that transition year helping “reimagine Windows for the agentic era” alongside Microsoft 365 services and the company’s One...

Microsoft has added a Windows 11 policy called “Remove Microsoft Copilot app” for managed PCs, giving administrators a supported way to uninstall the consumer Copilot app when Microsoft 365 Copilot is also present and specific usage conditions are met. The change matters less because it removes...

Microsoft has added a Windows 11 policy called “Remove Microsoft Copilot app” that lets administrators uninstall the consumer Copilot app through Group Policy, MDM policy, or an equivalent Registry value on supported editions including Pro, Enterprise, Education, and IoT Enterprise/LTSC. The...

Microsoft’s Yusuf Mehdi, a 35-year company veteran and its head of product marketing for AI and Copilot, plans to work through Microsoft’s next fiscal year on Windows, Microsoft 365 services, and “One Copilot” before leaving the company. His transition lands at exactly the wrong—or perhaps...

On Thursday, May 21, 2026, Microsoft and EY announced a $1 billion partnership that will pair Microsoft Forward Deployed Engineers with EY industry professionals to help large organizations move artificial intelligence projects from pilots into production across core business functions. The...

Microsoft is trying to recover its early AI advantage in 2026 by rebuilding Copilot around agents, loosening its dependence on OpenAI, adding Anthropic models, reorganizing its AI leadership, and spending heavily on data-center capacity. The bet is not that Microsoft will have the single best...

Microsoft is positioning Malaysia’s AI market for a shift from pilots to production by expanding the Malaysia West cloud region, making more than 190 services generally available, adding Microsoft 365 data residency options, and tying infrastructure to a national AI skilling program through...

Malta launched a national AI literacy programme on May 16, 2026, offering residents aged 14 and over a free two-hour online course and, on completion, a one-year subscription to either ChatGPT Plus or Microsoft 365 Personal Copilot. The move is small in geography but large in symbolism: a...

Former Microsoft executive Mat Velloso reportedly said on May 17, 2026, that Microsoft has “missed the AI wave,” arguing that Copilot adoption, Windows 11 integration, and enterprise AI execution have not matched the company’s spending or rhetoric. The charge lands because it does not come from...

Malta’s government announced on May 16, 2026, that citizens and residents who complete a two-hour University of Malta AI literacy course will receive one year of free access to ChatGPT Plus and Microsoft Copilot under partnerships with OpenAI and Microsoft. The island is small enough to make the...

Charles Lamanna, Microsoft’s EVP for Copilot, Agents and Platform, appeared on CNBC’s Fortt Knox on May 15, 2026, to argue that Microsoft’s AI future is not a single giant model but an orchestrated system that routes work across multiple models, agents, data sources, and human workflows. The...

Microsoft is reportedly canceling most internal Claude Code licenses in its Experiences and Devices organization by June 30, 2026, after giving thousands of employees access to Anthropic’s coding assistant in late 2025 and early 2026. The official story, if Microsoft gives one, will probably...

Microsoft Copilot users reported errors, slow loading, failed responses, authentication problems, and unresponsive sessions on Thursday, May 14, 2026, as outage trackers and user reports pointed to a service disruption affecting at least part of Microsoft’s AI assistant stack. The important...