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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...

Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft’s longtime consumer marketing chief and one of the most visible executives behind Windows, Bing, Surface, Xbox, and Copilot, is leaving the company after 35 years while staying through the next fiscal year to help steer Windows toward Microsoft’s agentic AI vision. That...

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...

Microsoft published a May 14, 2026 customer story describing how Costa Rica’s Dos Pinos dairy cooperative has deployed roughly 80 AI agents across packaging review, legal drafting, risk work, IT service handling, sales reporting, and retail support using Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Chat, and...

Microsoft reported fiscal 2026 third-quarter results on April 29 for the period ended March 31, showing $82.9 billion in revenue, 18 percent year-over-year growth, and new evidence that Copilot, Azure AI, and infrastructure efficiency are becoming one connected business rather than three...

Microsoft Design published “A simplified system” in May 2026, laying out how Copilot is being architected across Microsoft 365 apps as an AI-first design system built around context, focus, and in-app action. The post is not just a design essay; it is Microsoft’s clearest statement yet that...

Microsoft is adding a more persistent Copilot button and revised keyboard navigation to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for Windows and Mac, with general availability expected by early June 2026. The change is framed as a simplification of how users find Microsoft’s assistant inside Office, but it...

BGR’s May 2026 privacy guide argues that Windows 11 users can make the operating system less intrusive by uninstalling the standalone Copilot app, disabling app-level AI features such as Notepad writing tools, and turning off Copilot’s cross-product Microsoft usage data setting. The advice is...

Microsoft Copilot agents can reportedly return incorrect dates and times in generated outputs, with Veronique’s Blog documenting the issue on May 11, 2026, after seeing agents confuse UK-style day-month dates with US-style month-day dates and sometimes produce unexplained future dates. The...

Microsoft Copilot’s consumer AI problem in May 2026 is not that people have failed to hear of it, but that Morning Consult’s latest brand-tracking data shows awareness rising to 57 percent while active monthly use remains stuck near 21 percent among AI users. That is the sort of number that...

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson authorized city employees to use Microsoft Copilot Chat on May 4, 2026, while directing Seattle to block unapproved general-purpose AI tools and build a new governance structure around municipal artificial intelligence use. The move is less a simple green light for a...

Microsoft’s Copilot retreat reached a new inflection point this week after PCMag reported that Copilot executive Jacob Andreou briefly endorsed removing the assistant from Windows and Xbox surfaces where it “doesn’t live up to its promise.” The notable part is not that a Microsoft executive said...