Automation
The latest Automation coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Meet Flyoobe, the 334 KB Toolkit That Bends Windows 11’s OOBE to Your Will
Flyoobe 1.11.361 lands with a singular promise: slide past Windows 11’s TPM, Secure Boot, and CPU generation checks while reshaping the out-of-box experience into something you actually control....
Spotify Lossless Finally Arrives: Windows Audio, iPhone Air eSIM, and Copilot AI Agents Redefine Workflows
Spotify has flipped the switch on lossless audio streaming for Premium subscribers in over 50 markets, ending a four-year wait and bringing CD-quality and better fidelity to the desktop at no extra...
Microsoft Store Insider Build Overhauls Downloads, Adds External App Update Detection
Microsoft has begun testing a significant overhaul of the Windows app store that, for the first time, allows the Microsoft Store to detect and surface updates for programs installed from outside its...
PwC's Agent OS: The Integration Backbone for Enterprise AI That Delivers Real ROI
Matt Hobbs, PwC’s cloud, engineering, data and AI platforms leader, has laid out a stark reality for enterprises: the gulf between a working AI proof-of-concept and durable, enterprise-scale value...
AuditDashboard 8.0 Embeds Microsoft 365 and Copilot to Revolutionize Audit Document Review
AuditDashboard has launched Version 8.0, a platform rebuild that tightly integrates Microsoft 365 and Copilot into audit workflows, allowing accounting firms to preview Office documents in the...
Windows 11 25H2 Cuts PowerShell 2.0 and WMIC: An IT Migration Blueprint
Microsoft has quietly excised two decades-old administration tools—Windows PowerShell 2.0 and the WMIC command-line utility—from new Windows 11 and Windows Server 2025 images starting with the...
Copilot Studio Gains AI-Powered Approvals to Automate Invoices, Expenses, and Contracts—with a Human Safety Net
Microsoft has quietly released one of its most practical AI upgrades to date: Copilot Studio agents can now autonomously approve or reject routine business requests. The new AI Approvals feature,...
How ENGIE Impact Achieved 13x Better Risk Detection with Azure AI and Databricks—and the Governance Lessons Along the Way
ENGIE Impact now says it can identify account risk 13 times more accurately than before, a leap the sustainability consultancy credits to a tightly integrated stack of Microsoft Azure AI services....
Capita Slashes Email Response Times 60% with Microsoft Copilot Agents, Saving 19,000 Hours Monthly
Capita, one of the UK’s largest business-process outsourcing firms, has deployed Microsoft Copilot agents that cut email enquiry response times by 60 percent and saved an estimated 19,000 employee...
Office 2508 Bakes VBScript RegExp into VBA as Microsoft's Deprecation Clock Ticks Louder
Microsoft has officially begun the countdown to VBScript’s permanent removal from Windows, and in a move that surprised many, the company slipped a compatibility lifeline into Office Version 2508:...
FlyOOBE Turns Unsupported PCs into Lean, Customized Windows 11 Machines
An open-source tool called FlyOOBE is rewriting the rules of Windows 11 deployment by enabling installations on hardware Microsoft deems incompatible—and stripping out unwanted apps from the...
The Trade Desk's Kokai AI Handles 13M Impressions Per Second, But Google and Microsoft Threaten Its Open Web
The Trade Desk’s AI-powered buying platform, Kokai, now processes over 13 million ad impressions per second, applying thousands of signals to bid decisions in milliseconds. The company says the...