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The homebuilding industry faces a stark — and urgent — choice: keep treating artificial intelligence as an optional marketing trick, or embrace it as a practical toolkit that can cut weeks from workflows, tighten margins and make small builders more competitive against national players. Recent...

The Regional District of Okanagan‑Similkameen (RDOS) is moving from experiment to policy: after a month‑long Copilot pilot in summer 2025, staff are being asked to adopt a draft AI policy that would allow only Microsoft Copilot for specific, low‑risk internal tasks — with mandatory disclosure...

As artificial intelligence moves from experimental novelty to everyday assistant, retirement plan and wealth advisers face a simple, high-stakes choice: adopt carefully or cede ground to competitors. The path for getting started is neither mystical nor expensive — it’s practical, governed, and...

Boeing has turned a mainstream flight‑sim engine into an enterprise training product: the company’s new Virtual Airplane Procedures Trainer (VAPT) uses Microsoft Flight Simulator technology and Microsoft Azure cloud services to deliver high‑fidelity, 3D cockpit procedure training to laptops and...

Boeing has quietly rebranded consumer-grade, photoreal 3D simulation into a formal training product by launching the Virtual Airplane Procedures Trainer (VAPT), a cloud‑backed procedures‑first pilot training system built on Microsoft Flight Simulator technology and hosted on Microsoft Azure—a...

Boeing has quietly moved a mainstream consumer technology into the professional training pipeline: the company announced the Virtual Airplane Procedures Trainer (VAPT), a cloud-first platform powered by Microsoft Flight Simulator and Microsoft Azure that promises to put high-fidelity, 3D cockpit...

Boeing’s new Virtual Airplane Procedures Trainer (VAPT) — a cloud-powered, Microsoft Flight Simulator–driven tool billed as a way to bring high-fidelity flight‑deck procedure practice to laptops and tablets — was unveiled at the European Aviation Training Summit in Cascais and immediately...

Boeing has launched a cloud‑first pilot training product called the Virtual Airplane Procedures Trainer (VAPT), built on Microsoft Azure and powered by Microsoft Flight Simulator, that promises high‑fidelity 3D procedural rehearsal on laptops and iPads — starting with the Boeing 737 MAX and...

Microsoft and Boeing’s new pilot-training partnership flips a familiar headline into a substantive shift: consumer-grade simulation technology — specifically Microsoft Flight Simulator running on Microsoft Azure — is being packaged and validated as a scaled, procedures-first training tool that...

Boeing has formally launched the Virtual Airplane Procedures Trainer (VAPT), a cloud‑first pilot training platform built on Microsoft Azure and powered by Microsoft Flight Simulator, aimed at letting pilots rehearse cockpit procedures on laptops and iPads — starting with the Boeing 737 MAX and...

Boeing has quietly shifted a long-standing hobbyist technology into the mainstream training pipeline by unveiling the Virtual Airplane Procedures Trainer (VAPT) — a cloud-first, Microsoft Azure–backed platform that uses Microsoft Flight Simulator as its visual and simulation foundation to let...

Boeing has taken a striking step that collapses a cultural divide long cherished by flight-simming hobbyists: it is now officially using Microsoft Flight Simulator technology, hosted on Microsoft Azure, as the backbone of a professional pilot-training product called the Virtual Airplane...

Boeing has introduced a new cloud-powered training product called Virtual Airplane Procedures Trainer (VAPT), a pilot-focused application the company says is designed to deliver immersive, on-demand procedural practice outside traditional full-flight and fixed-based simulators. Built on...

Law firms that once greeted generative AI with skepticism are being won over not by flashy demos but by a pragmatic combination of clear governance, focused pilots, executive sponsorship, and internal “champions” who translate promise into defensible practice. Background The legal profession’s...

Microsoft’s timing is deliberate: with Windows 10’s end-of-support deadline looming, Redmond is using the upgrade window to reposition Copilot+ PCs — and in particular Arm-powered machines such as the Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7 — as not just optional refresh buys but a strategic...

The clock is already ticking: Windows 10 reaches end of support on October 14, 2025, and for small- and mid-sized businesses the decision to upgrade is rapidly shifting from optional maintenance to strategic opportunity. Upgrading isn’t just about avoiding security gaps; it’s about harnessing a...

House leaders announced this week that the U.S. House of Representatives will begin a controlled rollout of Microsoft Copilot to congressional staffers, marking a sharp policy reversal from the chamber’s 2024 prohibition and launching a one‑year pilot that will place Copilot‑powered tools inside...

The House of Representatives has quietly moved from prohibition to adoption: according to an Axios briefing shared with reporters, the House will begin rolling out Microsoft Copilot for members and staff as part of a broader push to modernize the chamber and integrate artificial intelligence...

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...

Pennsylvania is moving from pilot to purchase order: Governor Josh Shapiro told more than 900 technology, academic and business leaders at the AI Horizons Summit in Pittsburgh that the commonwealth will expand access to advanced generative AI tools for qualified state employees — adding...