privacy governance

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...

Curated for You and Microsoft have quietly activated a first-of-its-kind, lifestyle‑led AI fashion experience inside Microsoft Copilot, delivering visually composed, shoppable outfit recommendations in response to natural‑language styling prompts and linking those looks directly to participating...

Bauducco’s decision to adopt Microsoft Copilot — implemented through a strategic engagement with Cloud Target — marks a pragmatic, metrics‑driven push to modernize business processes across HR, finance and IT while explicitly measuring the financial impact of AI adoption with a purpose‑built...

Ralph Lauren’s new conversational stylist, Ask Ralph, is rolling out to U.S. app users today — a generative-AI feature built with Microsoft on the Azure OpenAI platform that promises brand-curated, shoppable outfit suggestions delivered through natural-language conversation and visual laydowns...

Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday brings a substantial, feature‑heavy cumulative update to Windows 11—KB5065426—delivering a mix of visible UI polish, staged Copilot+ AI capabilities, privacy controls for on‑device generative features, and a set of bug and security fixes that administrators...

Microsoft's Copilot app for Windows 11 just received a redesign that does more than tidy the chat window — it reorganizes Copilot into a Start menu–style hub that surfaces recent files, apps, and ongoing work, and hints at a deeper future in which the AI assistant becomes the central navigation...

Microsoft’s Copilot on Windows 11 is shedding its “chat-first” skin and opening a new, dashboard-style Home tab that behaves less like a conversational window and more like an AI-centric Start menu — surfacing recent files, apps, conversations, and guided help in one place. Background Microsoft...

Microsoft’s AI unit has shipped two first‑party foundation models — MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview — marking a clear acceleration of in‑house model development even as the company continues to integrate and promote OpenAI’s frontier models such as GPT‑5 across its product stack. The launches are...