automation

Microsoft appears to have completed the global rollout of Scheduled Copilot prompts to Microsoft 365 Copilot users in Teams and related surfaces — but the story is less a single “flip-the-switch” moment than a staged, admin-controlled deployment that brings real automation power to everyday...

Mustafa Suleyman’s blunt timeline — that most white‑collar tasks could be “fully automated” within the next 12–18 months — has jolted boardrooms, policy tables, and workforces because it compresses a decades‑long debate about AI’s impact into an acute, actionable window. Background The comments...

OnePlan’s February 2026 release pushes the company’s Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) platform toward deeper automation, tighter schedule governance, richer collaboration inside Microsoft Teams, and early native language support for French and Spanish — a set of changes intended to reduce...

Microsoft has quietly given the Microsoft Store a power-user face-lift: a native command-line interface (Store CLI) that lets you browse, install, and update Store apps directly from a terminal without firing up the graphical Store app. Released in February 2026, the Store CLI is aimed at...

Microsoft has quietly added a first‑party command‑line client for the Microsoft Store to Windows 11: a built‑in Store CLI surfaced as the store command that lets you browse, search, install and update Store content from the terminal without opening the GUI. This is a small change on the surface...

If you want a reliable, secure file share on your LAN, Windows Server can do the job quickly — whether you're running a single home server or a small‑office file server. This guide walks through creating and managing shared folders and entire volumes on Windows Server 2022 (GUI), explains the...

Microsoft’s January preview update for Windows 11 — identified as KB5074105 (OS Build 26200.7705) — quietly hardens access to the Storage settings by invoking User Account Control (UAC) when you open Settings > System > Storage, and that change has a direct, practical side effect: the Temporary...

The Department for Work and Pensions’ controlled trial of Microsoft 365 Copilot delivers a clear—if carefully qualified—signal: when a generative AI assistant is embedded into familiar Office applications and introduced with governance and training, central‑office knowledge workers report...

Automation is the simplest way to turn repetitive toil into measurable business value — and the TechTarget roundup of “21 tasks to automate today to streamline IT operations” gives IT teams a practical, prioritized map for where to start. Background The pressure on IT operations teams to deliver...

Dynatrace’s latest push to tighten multi-cloud observability landed squarely on the industry stage at Perform, as the vendor unveiled expanded integrations with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform designed to unify telemetry, accelerate remediation, and surface cost...

Jeffrey Snover has quietly closed a long chapter in enterprise IT: the architect best known as the father of PowerShell is reported to have retired, leaving behind a technical legacy that reshaped systems administration and automation for Windows and the broader datacenter era. The news, first...

Microsoft’s Copilot is no longer just a chat window — it’s quietly woven into Windows as a pocket-sized system administrator, document editor, image creator, and on-screen troubleshooter, and most users are still treating it like a search box. What looks like a conversational assistant on the...

If you’ve ever wished Windows handled app installs and updates the way Linux does — predictable, scriptable, and fast — you already have the tool you need built into modern Windows: the Windows Package Manager, aka WinGet. This command-line utility removes the repetitive clicking and guesswork...

Anthropic’s new Cowork pivot turns Claude from a developer-focused coding assistant into a desktop “AI coworker” for everyday tasks — a move that accelerates agentic AI into mainstream workflows while reopening familiar trade-offs between productivity gains, security exposure, and long-term...

Hertz’s experiments with Microsoft Power Platform show how a global mobility business can turn frontline pain points into measurable automation and AI wins — a pragmatic, low-code pathway from tactical fixes to strategic modernization that’s already delivering employee productivity gains and...

Core Keeper’s underground keeps growing — and the next big expansion, Void & Voltage, arrives with a thump on January 28, 2026, bringing a new biome, heavy new weaponry, and a full suite of automation gear that reshapes late‑game goals and cooperative base design. The update also coincides with...

The AI showdown that matters for millions of knowledge workers has settled into a pragmatic split: in 2025, Microsoft Copilot and OpenAI’s ChatGPT no longer compete on novelty alone — they compete on where and how they fit into real work. Microsoft sells baked‑in Office automation, tenant...

Windows lets you open the Settings app in more ways than most users realize — and the fastest, most reliable method remains the keyboard shortcut Windows key + I — but there are also command-line, Run‑URI, File Explorer, Start menu and Power User menu approaches that are useful in specific...

Samsung SDS used CES 2026 to stake a clear claim: the next battleground for corporate competitiveness will be agentic AI — autonomous, task-oriented software agents that can reason, act and coordinate across enterprise systems without constant human direction. Background / Overview Samsung SDS...

Google’s and Microsoft’s AI assistants have stopped being curiosities and have become furniture in the modern workflow — but they are very different pieces of furniture, designed for distinct rooms and purposes. Google’s Gemini has surged to mass-market scale and prowess in multimodal research...