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  1. Copilot Becomes an AI Companion Across Windows Edge and Microsoft 365

    Microsoft’s Copilot has moved decisively from a sidebar helper to a full-fledged AI companion across Windows, Edge, and Microsoft 365 — introducing a new expressive avatar, shared group sessions, tenant‑aware connectors, taskbar “companion” mini‑apps, and a raft of features that make Copilot...
  2. DIY AI at Work: Build Copilots with Low Code Tools for Faster Productivity

    The push for “DIY AI” — where employees and small teams build their own copilots, automations, and agents using low-code tools — is rapidly reshaping how organizations think about productivity and flexibility, turning once-experimental automation into a mainstream operational strategy. A recent...
  3. Cyclotron Expands India AI Workforce to Accelerate Copilot and Azure Delivery

    Cyclotron’s announcement that it is expanding offshore hiring in India and launching a dedicated AI Workforce marks a clear acceleration in the company’s strategy to meet surging client demand across AI, Azure, Security, and M&A integration services. The company is positioning a new India hub as...
  4. 2026 AI Agents: The Rise of Persistent Digital Co-Workers in Windows

    Welcome to 2026: AI agents are no longer a novelty you try on for a quarter — they are becoming persistent, identity-bearing software coworkers that plan, act, and execute across apps and services, and that shift will reshape how Windows users, IT teams, and enterprise architects design...
  5. Microsoft Teams December 2025 Update: AI First Governance and Multi Window Workflows

    Microsoft’s December Teams refresh is deceptively simple on the surface — a set of pragmatic usability fixes, admin controls, and AI extensions — but taken together it signals a clear shift: Teams is moving from a feature‑heavy collaboration client to a governance‑aware, AI‑first platform that...
  6. AI Automation for Client Advisory Services: A Six-Step CAS Roadmap

    Practitioner teams delivering client advisory services (CAS) can realize outsized benefits from modest, well-scoped AI automation — freeing staff from repetitive work, improving accuracy, and shifting the practice toward forward-looking advisory that commands higher fees and client loyalty. The...
  7. Enterprise Agentic AI Platforms: Choosing the Right Toolchain for Scalable Automation

    AI agents have moved from speculative demos to production-ready automation in record time, and this surge of capability — from Copilot Studio to drag‑and‑drop agent builders — is changing how organizations structure work, risk, and procurement at scale. Background / Overview The last two years...
  8. Copilot Outage UK Europe: CP1193544 Exposes Enterprise AI Risk

    Microsoft Copilot experienced a regionally concentrated outage in early December 2025 that left many UK and European users unable to access the assistant or receiving generic fallback replies — the interruption was tracked internally as incident CP1193544 and, while Microsoft’s mitigation...
  9. Windows 11 Insider: Reversible Smart App Control Toggle in Build 26220

    Microsoft’s latest Insider update quietly fixes one of Smart App Control’s biggest adoption barriers: beginning with Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7070 (KB5070300), Smart App Control (SAC) can now be toggled on or off from the Windows Security app without performing a clean reinstall of...
  10. Agentic Windows 11: From Copilot to Active Agents—Productivity and Risk

    Microsoft’s preview of agentic features in Windows 11 — where Copilot-style assistants move from “suggest” to “act” — is a technical milestone with meaningful productivity upside and a suite of novel security and governance challenges that administrators and power users must treat as deliberate...
  11. NinjaTech AI Joins AAIF to Advance Open Agentic AI Standards

    NinjaTech AI’s announcement that it has joined the Linux Foundation’s new Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) as a Silver member marks a tactical move by a small but ambitious agentic-AI vendor into the heart of the industry’s push for open, interoperable agent infrastructure. The AAIF launch bundles...
  12. CMS Expands Harvey AI Across 50 Countries to 7,000 Lawyers

    CMS’s decision to expand Harvey across its global footprint — rolling access out to more than 7,000 lawyers and staff in 50+ countries — marks a pivotal moment in law firm adoption of generative AI and intensifies the debate over how large firms scale AI-driven workflows while managing risk...
  13. Microsoft Copilot Across Apps: Licensing and Governance

    Microsoft’s Copilot has moved from a lab experiment and marketing promise into a pervasive feature set that now touches nearly every corner of the Microsoft ecosystem — from Word and Excel to Teams, OneDrive, Windows itself, the Viva suite and enterprise-grade Copilot Studio agents — and the...
  14. Windows 11 Agentic AI Risks: SMB Security, Governance, and Adoption Guide

    Microsoft’s blunt admission that the new agentic features in Windows 11 “may hallucinate and produce unexpected outputs” is the clearest signal yet that AI moving from assistant to actor changes the operating‑system threat model — and small businesses need to treat that change as a security...
  15. Copilot Orbit: Production-Grade SMB Automation with Governance and Cadence

    ESW’s new Copilot Orbit™ aims to turn Microsoft Copilot pilot projects into predictable, production-grade automation for small and mid-sized businesses by packaging governance, tenant grounding, Power Platform orchestration, and a month-by-month agent delivery cadence into a single managed...
  16. Copilot Orbit: Managed Production AI for SMBs

    ESW’s new Copilot Orbit™ promises to take Microsoft Copilot from pilot projects to a steady, managed delivery model for small and mid-sized businesses — packaging governance, tenant grounding, Power Automate orchestration and a monthly cadence of agent rollouts into a single managed service...
  17. Copilot Orbit: SMB Managed AI Agents with Monthly Delivery

    ESW today unveiled Copilot Orbit™, a managed-service program that promises to bring tenant‑grounded Microsoft Copilot agents and continuous, month‑by‑month automation delivery to small and mid‑sized businesses — bundling governance, data grounding, connector integration, and ongoing tuning into...
  18. Microsoft 365 Copilot Business: Enterprise AI for SMBs at $21 per user

    Microsoft’s new Microsoft 365 Copilot Business makes enterprise‑grade AI officially affordable for small teams, and the move reshapes the economics, governance and everyday workflows of thousands of small and midsize businesses by packaging Copilot, agents, and management tools into a focused...
  19. Windows 11 Agentic OS: Copilot Actions, MCP, and Governance Risks

    Microsoft’s own documentation now calls agentic AI in Windows “risky,” yet the company is moving forward anyway — rolling a preview of Copilot Actions and a new Agent Workspace into Windows 11 while asking users and administrators to accept a shifted threat model and new operational...
  20. Securing Agentic AI Browsers: Mitigations for CometJacking and Prompt Injections

    Perplexity’s Comet and the cascade of disclosures this year have exposed a stark truth: agentic AI browsers that act on user behalf dramatically expand the attack surface of everyday web browsing, and the technical and legal fallout shows the industry is still scrambling to catch up. Background...