From Chatbot to Workhorse: How St. Lawrence College Is Teaching Staff to Build Real Copilot Agents
On July 15, 2026, St. Lawrence College disclosed that it had just completed a second full-day bootcamp aimed at turning Microsoft Copilot from a curiosity into a practical tool. The hands-on session,...
Sir, You Are Being Hunted Xbox Port Hints at Imminent Launch—But Key Details Are Missing
A product page for the cult British stealth-survival game Sir, You Are Being Hunted appeared on Microsoft’s Norwegian Xbox Store on July 16, 2026, seemingly out of nowhere. The listing describes...
Microsoft Debuts MAI Reasoning and Code Models While OpenAI Partnership Becomes Non-Exclusive
Microsoft has quietly assembled a family of seven in-house AI models that now span reasoning, code generation, speech, voice, and image creation—all while its foundational deal with OpenAI has been...
Samsung Flex Titanium Promises a Less Visible Crease on Galaxy Z Fold 8: What You Need to Know Before July 22
Samsung will publicly reveal its next-generation foldable phones on July 22 at a Galaxy Unpacked event in London, and alongside them a new display structure called Flex Titanium that the company says...
Your Excel and Outlook Copilot Are Now Running on Microsoft’s Own AI—Here’s Why
If you’ve used Copilot in Excel or Outlook recently, you might have interacted with a model you didn’t expect—one built by Microsoft itself, not OpenAI or Anthropic. That’s the key revelation...
Copilot’s Legal Productivity Claims Are Light on Data—Here’s What IT Admins Need to Know
A July 15 opinion piece by Matthew Stringer, founder and CEO of Microsoft 365 services provider Stridon, is making the rounds in legal tech circles with a bold claim: UK law firms using Microsoft 365...
GitHub Copilot’s Usage-Based Pricing Has Landed: What Windows Dev Teams Must Know
On June 1, 2026, GitHub flipped the switch on a pricing model that fundamentally changes what it costs to use Copilot’s most powerful features. While code completions remain unlimited on paid...
Your Government Cloud DLP Alerts Are Getting a Power Automate Upgrade in 2026
Microsoft has set a September 2026 target for bringing automated workflow responses to Data Loss Prevention (DLP) incidents in its most locked-down cloud environments. Government Community Cloud...
Microsoft 365 Archive Now Lets You Freeze Individual SharePoint Files to Cut Costs—With Some Strings Attached
Microsoft has quietly rolled out file-level archiving in SharePoint to all worldwide standard multi-tenant tenants. Marked as launched on July 15, 2026, the feature under Roadmap ID 477371 lets...
SharePoint Lists Enter Copilot Agent Builder: One List, 20,000 Items Max
Microsoft has added a long-awaited capability to its Copilot Agent Builder: makers can now ground AI agents in SharePoint list data. The feature, listed as launched on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap under...
Microsoft 365 Copilot Can Now Dig Through Meeting Transcripts to Find That One Conversation You Forgot to Title
Microsoft shipped a quiet but consequential update to Microsoft 365 Copilot: the AI assistant can now search your meetings by what was _discussed_ inside them, not just by the subject line on your...
Copilot Power User Insights Are Coming: What IT Needs to Know About the August 2026 Update
Microsoft is preparing a new Copilot Dashboard feature that shifts the focus from who has a license to who actually uses Copilot daily — and it’s targeting a general release in August 2026. The...