Microsoft Copilot
The latest Microsoft Copilot coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Microsoft Expands Student Copilot Offer: Free 12-Month Access with Enrollment by October 31
On September 4, Microsoft dropped one of its most aggressive student offers yet: a full 12 months of Microsoft 365 Personal with Copilot at zero cost for any eligible U.S. college student who signs...
The Great AI Assistant Divide: Google Gemini for Creators, Microsoft Copilot for the Enterprise
The AI assistant wars have entered a new phase, and raw intelligence no longer crowns the winner. Google Gemini and Microsoft Copilot—two of the most advanced AI companions on the market—are now...
How Microsoft's $4B Elevate Program Aims to Turn AI Training into Platform Lock-In
Microsoft is placing a $4 billion bet that the fastest route to AI dominance is not through better algorithms, but through better-trained users. The Redmond giant this year unfurled Microsoft...
Microsoft Gives Every U.S. College Student Free Access to Copilot-Infused Microsoft 365 for 12 Months
Microsoft is putting its AI assistant directly into the hands of millions of U.S. college students, free of charge. At the September 4, 2025, White House AI Education Task Force meeting, the company...
Right-Click to Summarize: Microsoft 365 Copilot Lands in File Explorer and OneDrive on Windows
Microsoft’s generative AI assistant is now a right-click away in Windows File Explorer. Microsoft 365 subscribers can invoke Copilot actions—summarize, compare, ask questions—directly from the...
Microsoft Plans Copilot Price Cut: Bundling Role-Based AI at $30 Per User
Microsoft is poised to overhaul how it charges businesses for Copilot, scrapping the $20 per-user monthly add-on for role-based AI assistants and folding them directly into its core Microsoft 365...
Samsung Vision AI Companion Brings Microsoft Copilot and Multi-Agent AI to 2025 Smart TVs
Samsung chose the IFA 2025 stage to unveil Vision AI Companion, a sweeping AI upgrade that transforms its 2025 televisions and smart monitors into conversational hubs capable of answering on-screen...
Satya Nadella Reveals 5 Copilot Prompts That Turn AI Into an Executive Chief of Staff
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently peeled back the curtain on a set of five specific prompts he uses inside Microsoft 365 Copilot, offering a rare, practical blueprint for how next-generation AI...
Microsoft Debuts In-House AI Models MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-Preview, Redrawing Copilot Strategy
Microsoft has quietly shipped two first-party foundation models—a high-throughput speech generator called MAI-Voice-1 and a mixture-of-experts language model styled MAI-1-preview—marking a...
Microsoft Excel’s New Copilot Function Brings AI to Cells, But Comes With a Stark Accuracy Warning
Microsoft has quietly embedded a generative AI function directly inside the Excel formula bar, enabling users to summarize text, classify feedback, or draft content with a simple =COPILOT() command....
Samsung's Vision AI Companion Brings Copilot, Perplexity to TVs in Multi-Agent Push
Samsung is turning its Televisions and smart monitors into multi-agent AI hubs, with the announcement at IFA 2025 that Microsoft Copilot and Perplexity will join Google Gemini as onboard assistants...
How Montréal Built a 24/7 Virtual Agent with 95% Accuracy Using Microsoft Copilot Studio
Montréal has turned a classic municipal pain point—citizens struggling to find timely information about services, schedules, and rules—into a 24/7 conversational surface. The city deployed a...