Microsoft’s Copilot is getting a face — and the move from terse text boxes to animated personalities marks a significant shift in how millions of Windows users may soon experience AI assistance across the desktop, browser and productivity suites. The new visual companions — variously tested as...
Microsoft’s new Copilot avatar, Mico, is Microsoft’s most visible attempt yet to give AI a friendly face — and an explicit rebuke to the memory of Clippy — as the company rolls personality, group collaboration, and “Real Talk” disagreement modes into Copilot while trying to thread a narrow...
The UK’s largest reported healthcare AI pilot has delivered headline figures that read like a productivity manifesto: a Microsoft 365 Copilot pilot across roughly 90 NHS organisations, involving more than 30,000 staff, is being credited with average time savings of 43 minutes per user, per...
Microsoft and Google have built their early AI moats less by producing a single unbeatable “brain” and far more by leveraging the ecosystems, defaults, and billing channels that deliver those brains to people — distribution, not raw model supremacy, is the strategic advantage companies with...
The NHS’s largest AI productivity trial to date reports headline gains that are impossible to ignore: participants in a Microsoft 365 Copilot pilot saved an average of 43 minutes per staff member per working day, and sponsors modelled that a full rollout could reclaim up to 400,000 staff hours...
Title: Best AI Tools for Daily Productivity in 2025 — What Windows users should try (and how to use them safely)
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AI productivity tools moved from “nice to have” to “essential” in 2024–2025. Shortcuts that once required human assistants —...
A major trial of Microsoft 365 Copilot across NHS organisations has produced headline numbers that are hard to ignore: participants reported saving an average of 43 minutes per day, and the trial sponsors modelled that, if scaled, the technology could reclaim around 400,000 hours of staff time...
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Microsoft has quietly — and broadly — flipped Copilot's engine to OpenAI’s GPT‑5, and the change is being billed as a practical leap: smarter routing, much larger context, deeper reasoning for high‑stakes tasks, and better code assistance baked directly into Windows, Microsoft 365, GitHub and...
Microsoft’s pitch that anyone can “learn to design like a pro with AI” is no longer marketing hyperbole—it's a practical, productized reality that places generative design tools directly in the browser and in a free Copilot app, and ties those creative flows into Microsoft 365 for deeper...
The University of Southern Indiana’s AI Advisory Committee will host an in‑person, beginner‑friendly workshop titled “Getting Started with Microsoft Copilot” on Monday, October 20, from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. in Orr Center 2018, presented by Kyle Tharp, IT Business Manager; the session promises an...
Microsoft is taking its biggest step yet to entrench AI inside classrooms in its home state by offering a sweeping package of Copilot-powered tools and training to every Washington public school district, high school and community college — free for a limited time — under a program branded...
Microsoft’s announcement that Microsoft 365 Copilot interactions will be processed in‑country for qualified UAE organizations marks a significant step in the Gulf’s push to reconcile rapid AI adoption with strict data residency and regulatory expectations, and it could materially accelerate...
Microsoft is betting that AI agents — autonomous, collaborative “digital colleagues” that reason, act, and orchestrate workflows — are the next wave of enterprise innovation, and it’s backing that claim with customer stories, research, and new product pushes across Copilot Studio, Azure AI...
QA’s announcement that Microsoft Copilot learning will be embedded across every apprenticeship marks a clear escalation in how vendors, training providers and governments are trying to turn AI from a niche technical capability into a baseline workplace skill.
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QA Ltd — one...
Microsoft’s decision to license consumer-facing content from Harvard Medical School for Copilot marks a calculated bid to graft trusted medical authority onto a mainstream AI assistant—and it exposes both the promise and the peril of pushing generative models deeper into healthcare.
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Microsoft’s consumer-facing post “Unlock productivity with AI automation” frames Copilot as an everyday, approachable assistant designed to remove friction from routine tasks and fold generative AI directly into how people plan, write, and organize their lives. The company positions Copilot as...
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Dayforce’s announcement at Dayforce Discover that it is deepening its collaboration with Microsoft to embed Dayforce AI Agents directly into day-to-day HR and payroll workflows marks a decisive step toward agent‑driven HCM automation—one that pairs Dayforce’s single‑platform data model with...
Preservica has launched a targeted practitioner workshop series to teach archivists, records managers and information professionals how to apply human‑centric AI to archival enrichment, capture, long‑term preservation and discovery — a hands‑on program that promises practical skills, Microsoft...
A sweeping industry analysis released this month warns that Microsoft’s Copilot — the productivity AI now embedded across Microsoft 365 — is touching orders of magnitude more sensitive corporate data than many IT teams realize, with one vendor-backed study reporting nearly three million...
Microsoft’s Copilot ecosystem has quietly entered a new phase: users and administrators can now choose Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 as alternative engines inside Copilot Studio and the Researcher agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot, while Claude Opus 4.1 has also been added to...