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The latest Copilot coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
LightBeam Unveils Copilot Governance Tools to Combat AI-Driven Data Exposure and Ransomware
LightBeam has released its Summer 2025 update, introducing real-time governance controls for Microsoft Copilot alongside ransomware containment—responding to the breakneck enterprise adoption of...
Azure Tops Gartner’s 2025 Cloud-Native Platform Rankings With Serverless GPU and AI Push
Microsoft Azure took the top spot in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Native Application Platforms, claiming the furthest position on Completeness of Vision. The analyst firm’s recognition...
Windows 11 Copilot Reborn: Semantic Search, Real-Time Vision Sessions Arrive for Insiders
Microsoft is shipping a radically reimagined Copilot app to Windows Insiders this week, replacing the old floating chat box with a full productivity dashboard that pulls in your recent work, launches...
NFL and Microsoft Put AI on Every Sideline: 2,500 Surface Copilot+ PCs, Azure OpenAI, and the Future of Scouting
The NFL is shipping more than 2,500 Microsoft Surface Copilot+ PCs to all 32 clubs, transforming the league’s Sideline Viewing System into an AI-assisted command center. Coaches and analysts will...
Microsoft’s COPILOT Function Turns Excel Cells into an AI-Powered Natural Language Engine
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Build 27928 Shifts Clocks, Language, and Time Server Into Settings While Copilot+ PCs Get Semantic File Search
Microsoft’s Canary-channel release of Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27928 lands with a pair of understated but strategically loud changes: six legacy Control Panel modules covering time, date,...
Another Microsoft 365 Crash: How a Single Config Change Broke Office.com and Copilot
Microsoft's Office.com and Copilot services crashed for North American users on August 20, 2025, after a configuration change went sideways — a rollback reversed the damage after more than four...
Forget Filenames: Copilot's New Semantic Search Finds Files by Meaning on AI PCs
Microsoft has begun rolling out a significant update to its Copilot app for Windows Insiders, introducing semantic file search that understands natural language queries and a redesigned home screen...
Google's Free Gemini Coding Tools Give Solo Developers a Generous Alternative to Paid Copilot — But a 2026 Deadline Lies Ahead
Google’s free, open-source developer tooling now unlocks the same Gemini 2.5 Pro model that Microsoft just added to paid GitHub Copilot tiers – and often with more generous interactive quotas and...
10 Surprising Backports Keep Windows 10 Fresh Ahead of 2025 Support Deadline
Microsoft is quietly backporting a surprising number of features to Windows 10, even as the operating system hurtles toward its October 14, 2025 end-of-support date. A redesigned About page finally...
Microsoft's Copilot App Now Understands 'Chicken Tostada Recipe' — Semantic Search Hits Windows Insiders
Microsoft began rolling out a significant update to the Copilot app in Windows 11 on August 20, 2025, introducing semantic file search and a redesigned home surface to Windows Insiders with Copilot+...
Why Local AI Stacks Still Can't Beat Copilot for Web Summarization – A Hands-On Test
In a practical head-to-head test, a Windows enthusiast attempted to swap Microsoft Copilot’s polished web summarization for a fully local AI stack using Ollama and the Page Assist browser...