Data Governance
The latest Data Governance coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Microsoft Pledges to Train 30,000 Australian VET Educators in AI Through New FSO Accelerator
Microsoft and the Future Skills Organisation (FSO) have kicked off a 12-month pilot that aims to inject job-ready artificial intelligence skills directly into Australia’s Vocational Education and...
Dow Cuts SOC Investigation Time, Upskills Analysts with Microsoft Security Copilot
Inside Dow’s Cyber Security Operations Center (CSOC), a simple question has become routine: “Have you asked Copilot?” The 125‑year‑old materials science giant—better known for industrial...
GPT-5 Powers Microsoft Copilot's Next Act, But Enterprise Price Hits $30
Microsoft has started rolling out GPT-5—the latest OpenAI model—across its Copilot services, marking the most significant upgrade to the AI assistant since its debut. The model landed in early...
Microsoft's Cloud-Based Copilot Actions Automates Web Tasks, But Verification Walls Limit Autonomy
I asked Microsoft’s Copilot to book a dinner reservation for two at a Japanese restaurant on OpenTable. It spun up a cloud browser, searched, filled forms, and clicked through the site—getting...
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke Exits Amid Microsoft’s Plan to Absorb the Platform into CoreAI
Thomas Dohmke confirmed today he will step down as GitHub’s CEO at the end of 2025, closing a chapter that saw the platform morph from a code‑hosting utility into the nerve center of...
Windows 11 Taskbar Gains Microsoft 365 Companions This Month — Enterprise Readiness Guide
Microsoft is quietly rolling out a trio of lightweight Microsoft 365 companion apps directly into the Windows 11 taskbar, starting this month for business users. The People, File Search, and Calendar...
Microsoft Copilot Decodes Complex Excel Formulas Right on the Grid
Microsoft is embedding Copilot directly into the Excel spreadsheet grid, giving users plain-English breakdowns of formulas without hopping to a separate pane. The new "Explain this formula" feature...
Microsoft's Silent Shift: Why Your New Voice Clips Are Now De-Identified and Invisible on the Privacy Dashboard
Microsoft stopped tying newly collected voice clips to individual user accounts more than four years ago, and the move has reshaped what Windows users can see—and can’t see—on the company’s...
Employee Directory 365 Debuts on Microsoft AppSource with AI Search and 10-Minute Setup
Apps 365 & HR365 have launched Employee Directory 365 on Microsoft AppSource, delivering an AI-enhanced employee directory that lives inside SharePoint and Teams. The product promises deployment...
GitHub CEO Resigns as Microsoft Ends Platform Independence, Folds It Into CoreAI Division
GitHub will no longer operate as an independent subsidiary, ending a nearly seven-year experiment in corporate autonomy, as Microsoft folds the platform into its CoreAI division and CEO Thomas Dohmke...
Microsoft Lens Retires Dec 15: Copilot Scanner Misses OneNote, Immersive Reader
Microsoft Lens will stop accepting new scans on December 15, 2025, and the mobile scanning app that tens of millions of users have relied on for nearly a decade will vanish from app stores a month...
GitHub CEO Departs as Microsoft Integrates Platform into CoreAI, No Successor Named
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke is stepping down, and Microsoft will not appoint a successor—instead folding the world’s largest code-hosting platform directly into its CoreAI organization. The move,...