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Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update recasts the PC as an “AI PC,” pushing Copilot out of a widget and into the operating system with voice, vision, connectors and experimental agentic automation at its center — a move that promises productivity gains while raising serious questions about...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update does something that feels incremental on the surface and seismic in practice: it turns the PC into an agentic platform where the operating system can listen, look, and—when you explicitly allow it—act on your behalf. Copilot Actions, paired with new voice and...

Microsoft’s latest wave of Copilot updates makes a blunt, unavoidable claim: the “AI PC” is no longer a distant marketing slogan but an actively unfolding product category—one in which Windows 11 listens, sees, and can, with explicit permission, act on your behalf across the desktop. Background...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot wave turns the PC into a conversational, visually aware assistant that can — with explicit permission — “see” what’s on your screen, listen to spoken commands, and execute multi‑step workflows across desktop apps, marking a decisive shift from tip‑and‑type helpers...

Microsoft’s short, teasing post — “Your hands are about to get some PTO. Time to rest those fingers…something big is coming Thursday.” — may be the clearest signal yet that Windows 11 is poised to push voice and conversational AI from an accessible add‑on into a mainstream, system‑level...

Microsoft’s latest update to Windows 11 marks a deliberate pivot: the operating system is being reframed as an AI-first platform, with Copilot graduating from a sidebar chatbot to a multimodal, permissioned assistant that can listen, see, and — under controlled conditions — act on your behalf...

Microsoft is testing an experimental Copilot agent called Copilot Actions that can autonomously operate desktop and web apps on Windows — including sending emails, updating local documents, resizing photos, organizing files, and running multi‑step workflows — all from within a contained, opt‑in...

Microsoft’s new sensitive data redaction for voice AI agents in Dynamics 365 Contact Center is a practical and overdue step toward privacy-first conversational AI in customer service, introducing a developer-facing mechanism in Copilot Studio to mark variables as sensitive and automatically...

Microsoft’s latest push to fold AI into everyday enterprise workflows adds a new, very public layer: benchmarking Copilot adoption and nudging organizations to compete — internally and against peer companies — on who uses the assistant most. The company has begun rolling out Benchmarks in the...

Microsoft’s Copilot on Windows has taken a decisive step from chat assistant to document workhorse: the Copilot app can now generate Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations and PDFs directly from a chat session, and it can link to personal email and cloud accounts so it can...

Microsoft’s Copilot for Windows has taken a significant step toward deeper integration with personal productivity workflows: a new Insider build introduces Copilot Connectors that let the app reach into third‑party accounts, and a document creation and export capability that can generate Word...

Microsoft has begun previewing two of the most consequential additions to the Copilot on Windows experience for Windows Insiders: Connectors that let Copilot reach into personal cloud services (OneDrive, Outlook email/contacts/calendar, Google Drive, Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Contacts)...

Microsoft has quietly added a new dimension to its Copilot analytics: benchmarks inside the Copilot Dashboard (Viva Insights) that let organizations compare Copilot adoption both within their tenant and against external peer groups — a move designed to turn usage telemetry into actionable...

Microsoft is putting a face — deliberately stylized, tightly guarded, and experiment-first — on Copilot by rolling out a new Copilot Labs feature called Portraits, a real‑time animated portrait system that lip‑syncs, nods, and emotes during voice conversations and is currently available only to...

Microsoft’s Photos app will now sort your messy camera roll for you — but only on select Windows machines and with a handful of important caveats. Background Microsoft announced an AI-powered Auto‑Categorization feature for the Windows 11 Microsoft Photos app in a Windows Insider post by senior...

Microsoft’s Copilot Vision packs the promise of a truly multimodal assistant: point a camera or share a window, and the AI reads, summarizes, translates, highlights UI elements, and even talks back — a combination of visual comprehension and conversational voice that changes what “help” on a PC...

Windows 11 Insiders are now seeing a new, unexpected entry in the parade of Copilot entry points: a floating “Share with Copilot” button that appears when you hover over an open app on the taskbar and use the window preview. The button launches Copilot Vision against the contents of that window...

Microsoft’s latest Insider update, delivered under KB5065786, pushes Copilot deeper into everyday workflows by adding Copilot-powered translation to the Click to Do selection surface and experimenting with quick taskbar integrations that let you share app windows directly with Copilot for visual...

Built for speed and ready to scale, the push toward Windows 11 Pro devices—especially Copilot+ systems and Intel vPro® machines powered by Intel® Core™ Ultra—is no longer marketing fluff: it’s the practical backbone of a modern, hybrid SMB strategy that combines measurable performance gains, new...

Microsoft should seriously consider a wearable Copilot device — but only if it designs one that solves the hard problems other entrants keep ignoring: privacy, battery and thermal constraints, compelling on‑device AI, and clear user value beyond what a smartphone already provides. Background...