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Microsoft Copilot Mobile Growth Outpaces ChatGPT by 10-to-1 in Q2, Comscore Data Shows
Microsoft Copilot added 5.6 million mobile users in the U.S. between March and June 2025, a 175% surge that crushed ChatGPT’s 3.9 million adds and 17.9% growth rate over the same period, according...
Satya Nadella’s 5 Copilot Prompts: The Executive AI Toolkit Windows & M365 Admins Must Govern
On September 3, 2025, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella went public with the exact five prompts he feeds Copilot daily to run his executive life — and in doing so handed IT departments a crisp, practical...
Microsoft Offers Free Copilot to Feds in $3B OneGov Deal—But Critics Cry Lock-In and Security Risks
The U.S. General Services Administration has struck a deal with Microsoft that makes Microsoft 365 Copilot free for eligible federal agencies for the first year—the latest in a string of...
Windows 10 Still Dominates Half of PCs as End-of-Support Deadline Looms
With just weeks remaining before Microsoft pulls the plug on free support for Windows 10, roughly half of all PCs worldwide are still running the aging operating system. That’s the stark assessment...
GPT-5 Arrives in Microsoft 365 Copilot as August Update Delivers On-Device AI and Admin Wins
Microsoft has begun rolling out its most ambitious Microsoft 365 update of the year, embedding the GPT-5 model family into Copilot across Windows, Office apps, and Teams, while simultaneously...
Microsoft Inks $3 Billion AI Deal with U.S. Government: Free Copilot, Azure Discounts, and the Risks Agencies Can't Ignore
Microsoft and the U.S. General Services Administration have finalized a landmark OneGov agreement that arms federal agencies with deeply discounted—and in some cases, free—access to the...
Microsoft Promises $3 Billion in Federal Cloud Savings with OneGov, Copilot Free for a Year
Microsoft and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) have finalized a sweeping OneGov agreement that delivers deep discounts on Microsoft cloud services to federal agencies, headlined by 12...
Nadella's 5 GPT-5 Prompts Transform Copilot into an AI Chief-of-Staff for Executives
Satya Nadella ended August 2025 not with a product roadmap but with a tweet that gave every knowledge worker a concrete playbook. On August 27, the Microsoft CEO posted a short video and five prompt...
Microsoft Expands Testing of Animated Copilot Avatar, Voice Mode, and Memory Controls
Microsoft is quietly broadening its internal testing of Copilot Appearance, an experimental layer that adds an animated, voice-enabled avatar to its AI assistant. The push, spotted in recent insider...
Windows 10’s October 2025 Deadline: Why Procrastinating on Windows 11 Migration Will Cost You
Microsoft will pull the plug on Windows 10 security updates on October 14, 2025. After that date, no more patches, no more free technical support, and no more feature improvements will reach devices...
Microsoft's Copilot Free Tier Now Runs on GPT-4 Turbo, Offering 128K Context and April 2023 Cutoff
Microsoft has silently shifted the free tier of its Copilot AI assistant onto OpenAI's GPT-4 Turbo model, a move that brings a dramatically larger context window, more recent training data, and...
Windows 11 Insiders Get Android-to-PC App Resume, Long-Awaited Dark Explorer Fixes, and AI Table Conversion
Microsoft’s August 2025 Insider builds bring a trick that Windows users have wanted for years: the ability to seamlessly resume an Android app on a PC from exactly where you left off on your phone....