Microsoft’s October 2025 Visual Studio update (v17.14) moves Copilot from a contextual helper to a more autonomous, repository‑aware collaborator — adding Memories that persist project preferences, a built‑in Planning workflow for multi‑step tasks, instruction files for repo‑scoped rules...
Microsoft’s free, 12-lesson GitHub course on building AI agents offers a practical, hands-on primer that packages Microsoft tooling, agent design patterns, and runnable code into a single, modular learning path—making it one of the most accessible entry points for developers and IT professionals...
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Bath and North East Somerset Council used Microsoft Copilot to read and summarise more than 5,500 public comments submitted on the planning application for an 18,000‑seat stadium at the Recreation Ground — a development that has reignited debates about AI in local government, public consultation...
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Azure’s new “Agent Factory” argument reframes the enterprise AI conversation: move beyond retrieval and chat to agents that reason, act, reflect, and collaborate—and use that capability to complete end-to-end business outcomes, not just return answers. The announcement and technical framing...
Date: Thursday, June 27, 2019 Time: 02:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time Duration: 1 hour The threat of a cyberattack is so eminent, organizations can no longer simply put up defenses and hope either they aren’t attacked, or defenses will hold should one
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This guide contains comprehensive information about how to plan, install, configure, customize, and maintain Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online and Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015.
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This Advisory Services scenario is designed to assist customers who are in the proactive planning stages of an operating system deployment and would like to work through their plans with our team and address questions they have encountered in the...
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Star Trek fans should be happy. Latest media reports indicate that a new series has been in a planning phase since at least 2006. The new series is reportedly being developed by David Foster and will totally ignore the J.J. Abrams movie Star Trek made in 2009.
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One area that people simply don’t talk often enough about is Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools for Visual C++ development teams. ALM tools are critical for planning, development, testing, and maintenance of native code bases of every size. Visual Studio Ultimate offers many “out of...
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Microsoft’s early planning documents for Windows 8 suggested that the company was creating its own Windows App Store — a central place to find, buy, download, update and manage software. Now, an apparent leak from a preliminary version of Windows 8 gives a sense for what Microsoft’s own Windows...
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Decisions are easy, jobs are hard Deciding to move to Windows 7 is the easy bit. The crunch comes in planning and executing the migration. Should it be a big bang or incremental? How much new hardware and software is needed? What can go wrong?…
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"Movalys Dashboard" allows the user to view dashboards with data of our other product "Movalys Intervention". This product manages maintenance interventions and optimizes the associated planning.
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Research and Markets has announced the addition of Info-Tech Research Group's new report "Plan, Select, and Deploy Windows 7 the Right Way" to their offering.
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You've made the decision to move the company to Windows 7, so now is the time to make plans for the migration itself ( ZDNet UK - IT At Work )
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