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The latest Copilot coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Microsoft’s AI Spending Spree Under Fire: What Windows Users and IT Pros Need to Know
Microsoft’s enormous artificial intelligence investments are facing their most pointed critique yet, and the argument has direct implications for anyone who uses Windows, Office, or Azure. In a...
Microsoft 365 Copilot now taps private Viva Engage chats — permissions still block snooping
Microsoft has quietly flipped the switch on a long-awaited integration: Microsoft 365 Copilot can now ground its responses in content from private Viva Engage communities and events. The change,...
How 100 City Workers Learned to Trust Copilot—And Why That Matters for Your AI Rollout
In July 2026, the city of Raisio, Finland, quietly wrapped up a Microsoft 365 Copilot training program for nearly 100 employees that most organizations would do well to copy. Rather than simply...
Microsoft's SharePoint AI Page Creator Is Coming: How to Stop a Prompt-Fueled Content Flood
Microsoft has firmed up its timeline for letting SharePoint users create and edit pages through an AI chat pane, with a preview targeted for March 2026 and a full rollout starting in August 2026. The...
Microsoft’s Copilot Now Offers a Windows 11 System Health Report, But It Still Can’t Diagnose Problems
Microsoft is giving Windows 11 users a new way to check on their PC’s basic health without digging through menus. A feature called PC Insights has started rolling out to U.S. users, delivering a...
Microsoft 365 Routing Failure Takes Down Outlook Logins and Copilot Access
Thousands of Microsoft 365 users were unable to sign into Outlook or access Copilot on Friday after a routing configuration change triggered a widespread outage. The disruption, which began just...
Paul Thurrott Warns Microsoft's MAI Models Could Miss the AI Shift in Productivity
On July 10, 2026, veteran Microsoft analyst Paul Thurrott published a stark assessment of the company’s AI strategy. In his regular “Ask Paul” column, Thurrott argued that Microsoft’s...
Outlook Login and Sending Failures Spike Friday Morning, Microsoft Yet to Confirm Outage
Outlook users across North America and Europe encountered widespread login failures and email sending problems early Friday, according to a surge of complaints on social media and outage-tracking...
Copilot Cowork Hits General Availability as Microsoft 365 Adds Claude and Auto-Install in July Overhaul
Microsoft’s July 2026 update for Microsoft 365 Copilot delivered over 40 distinct changes, marking one of the platform’s most significant expansion points since its launch. The headline features:...
Meet MAI-Image-1: Microsoft's First In-House AI Image Creator Arrives in Bing and Copilot
Microsoft broke free from its reliance on OpenAI’s DALL‑E technology on October 13, 2025, unveiling MAI‑Image‑1 — the company’s first entirely home‑grown text‑to‑image model. The...
Geotab's New MCP Connector Links Fleet Data Directly to ChatGPT
Geotab on June 17, 2026, released its Model Context Protocol Connector, giving fleet operators a governed way to query live vehicle and operational data through approved AI assistants—starting with...
Windows 11 26H2: Microsoft’s Next Big Update Reveals Early Taskbar and Copilot Changes
Windows 11 26H2: Microsoft’s Next Big Update Reveals Early Taskbar and Copilot Changes Microsoft has officially confirmed Windows 11 version 26H2 as the next annual feature update, with early...