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Cerence’s new in-car agent, built with Microsoft cloud services, has just crossed the line from concept demo to a usable — and commercially tempting — feature set: your car can now read and reply to Outlook and Teams messages, summarize what you missed, pull calendar locations and route you...

Microsoft is weaving its AI assistant deeper into the Office experience by rolling Copilot Chat and agent capabilities directly into core Microsoft 365 apps — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote — bringing a unified, in-context chat pane and a raft of new tools aimed at turning an AI...

Microsoft confirmed a regional outage that left Outlook and Exchange Online users in North America struggling with login failures, server-connection errors and delayed mail delivery, then rolled back changes and applied optimizations to restore service — while choosing not to publish full...

Tiny11’s refreshed Builder recasts Windows 11 as a lean, privacy-minded alternative for users who don’t want Microsoft’s inbox apps, Copilot, or forced Microsoft Account flows—and it does so at a critical moment, as Windows 10 support winds down and millions of PCs face an awkward upgrade...

Microsoft’s Office productivity stack is entering a deliberate, workload‑focused transformation: Redmond will begin routing select Copilot and Office 365 features to Anthropic’s Claude models — notably the Sonnet 4 family — alongside continued use of OpenAI and Microsoft’s own models, a...

Satya Nadella’s short, repeatable prompt playbook — presented as a set of AI templates for Microsoft 365 Copilot users — has crystallized a practical way for leaders to reclaim time, reduce cognitive load, and turn dispersed work signals into decision-ready outputs; however, the public record...

Windows 11’s 24H2 is now shipping support for Emoji 16.0 — but there’s a catch: the system emoji panel doesn’t yet expose the new icons, and rendering remains inconsistent across apps and web services. What looks like a late-but-welcome Unicode update has instead exposed a long-standing Windows...

Satya Nadella’s short thread on X showing five ChatGPT-5 prompts has done more than spark social-media conversation — it offers a practical blueprint for how Microsoft expects Copilot to reshape executive workflows, compress decision cycles, and push generative AI from “drafting tool” to a...

I've got an old Office 2010 package that has been working perfectly fine on my laptops for all years, running up to (and including) Windows 10, when connected to a local Exchange server. But when I upgrade to Windows 11 I now have to repair the installation once every 3 days as emails get stuck...

Microsoft’s quiet pruning of long‑standing Windows apps has accelerated into a visible strategy: the company is retiring or removing familiar built‑ins — from the browser that once ruled the web to niche creative tools and the lightweight Mail client — and asking users and organizations to...

Windows 11’s “inbox app” problem just got a new, pragmatic weapon: NTDEV’s updated Tiny11 Builder — a PowerShell-driven ISO rebuilder that now explicitly strips Copilot, the new Outlook client, and Teams from fresh Windows 11 installs while adding image-size and anti‑reinstall improvements aimed...

Windows 11’s inbox app pile just got a new nemesis: Tiny11’s updated builder can now strip Copilot, the new Outlook client, Teams, and a long roster of built‑ins from a Windows 11 image — and the change is explicitly framed as a “25H2‑ready” rebuild that shrinks install size and prevents much of...

The tiny11builder project has received a significant refresh: the PowerShell-based builder now supports Windows 11 version 25H2 builds, adds explicit removal of Copilot and the new Outlook for Windows client, switches to more efficient recovery compression for smaller ISOs, and introduces...

Satya Nadella’s short public playbook — five repeatable prompts he says he uses inside Microsoft 365 Copilot — is more than a CEO productivity trick: it’s a clear demonstration of how next‑generation copilots can become an executive’s persistent, context‑aware chief‑of‑staff. (ndtv.com)...

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...

Navatar’s new release promises a purpose-built, AI-powered CRM designed for M&A advisory teams that automatically captures emails, meetings, messages and documents, surfaces relationship intelligence inside the tools bankers already use (Outlook and Slack), and runs generative AI workflows on...

Microsoft’s Copilot is quietly reshaping how millions of Outlook users handle email, and ZDNET’s “7 Copilot tricks to supercharge your classic Outlook — even if they’re not for me” highlights practical shortcuts that can convert inbox slog into focused action. The headline gestures at an...

Microsoft is moving on two fronts this month: shipping a steady stream of Microsoft 365 enhancements — many driven by Copilot and Loop technologies — while quietly chasing a recurring set of audio regressions that have frustrated Windows 11 users since the 24H2 rollout. The company’s push to...

I avoided Copilot for years, but after forcing myself to try specific features I quietly use them every day — not because the assistant is flawless, but because a handful of targeted tools actually save time and reduce friction in common tasks. The move from novelty “chatbot” to practical...

Microsoft’s latest push to fold routine feedback workflows into its Copilot agent stack arrived this week with the public preview launch of Surveys Agent — an AI-powered assistant that promises to let teams design, distribute, monitor, and analyze surveys from a single conversational flow inside...