Governance
The latest Governance coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Microsoft 365 Copilot Gets Finance, Sales, and Service Assistants – Here’s What Changes in October
Microsoft will start embedding specialized AI assistants directly into the Office apps that finance, sales, and service teams already use all day. In October 2025, the company plans to release...
81% of Aussie SMBs Paste Confidential Data Into Free AI Tools, HP Study Warns
A survey commissioned by HP and Microsoft has found that 81% of Australian small and medium businesses using free generative AI tools regularly submit confidential company information through them,...
KPMG's Microsoft Inner Circle Streak Hits Eight Years: What Enterprise Buyers Need to Know
KPMG has been named to Microsoft’s AI Business Solutions Inner Circle for 2025–2026, marking the consulting giant’s eighth consecutive year in the exclusive partner tier. The invitation-only...
September Windows 11 Insider Builds Add AI to File Explorer, Cameras, and Dictation on Copilot+ PCs
Microsoft dropped a batch of Windows 11 Insider previews in early September 2025 that weave on-device AI more deeply into daily tasks—correcting your speech as you dictate, enhancing video from any...
Microsoft pledges £22 billion for UK AI future, building largest supercomputer with 23,000 GPUs
Microsoft has unveiled a £22 billion ($30 billion) investment plan for the United Kingdom — the largest single-country commitment in the company’s history. Running from 2025 to 2028, the package...
Microsoft’s Copilot Quietly Gets a Memory Setting and Google Drive Link—Here’s How to Take Control
Microsoft has begun rolling out a ‘Manage memory’ toggle inside Copilot and revealed early preparations for a Google Drive connector, according to testers and UI references first reported by...
Google's Alt+Space Overlay Brings Lens, AI Search to Windows. Here's How It Works and What to Watch For.
What’s New Google has released an experimental Windows app that places a compact, floating search bar at your fingertips. The tool, hosted in Google’s Search Labs, can be summoned anytime by...
Microsoft Delivers AI-Grade Data Governance: Purview Adds DLP, Labels, and Insider Risk Controls to Fabric
Microsoft has shipped a major round of governance and security updates for its Purview platform inside Fabric, putting automated data protection, loss prevention, and insider risk detection directly...
SymphonyAI Connects Plant Floors to Microsoft Teams via MCP
SymphonyAI announced on September 16 that its IRIS Foundry industrial AI platform now surfaces insights directly inside Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot, using the Model Context Protocol to...
Visier’s Vee Wins Top HR Product Award—and It’s Now Inside Word, Excel, and Teams
Human Resource Executive named Visier’s Vee the Top HR Product of the Year on June 12, less than two months after the company stitched its generative AI assistant into the fabric of Microsoft 365....
Azure Revenue Surges 39% to $75B Run-Rate as Microsoft Bets $30B+ on AI Infrastructure
Microsoft closed its fiscal year 2025 with a thunderclap: $76.4 billion in quarterly revenue, an 18% year-over-year leap, driven almost entirely by an AI-fueled cloud strategy. Azure’s annualized...
AI Agents Get Corporate IDs: Inside Microsoft and Workday’s Landmark Integration
Enterprise AI agents are about to get their own set of corporate credentials. Microsoft and Workday have quietly stitched together a system that assigns verified, directory-backed identities to...