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The latest Efficiency coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Microsoft Taps Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4 to Power Copilot in Office 365, Breaking OpenAI Exclusivity
Microsoft is quietly engineering the most significant shift in its Office AI strategy since Copilot launched: the company is adding Anthropic's Claude models to the backend mix, specifically routing...
Microsoft 365 Copilot Saves 1.3 Hours Per Document, Yet UK Department Finds No Net Productivity Lift
Staff at the UK's Department for Business and Trade (DBT) shaved over an hour off document drafting tasks with Microsoft 365 Copilot, but the department itself saw no measurable productivity...
Geekom QS1 Pro Leaks Hint at First Snapdragon X Elite Mini PC, But Spec Discrepancies Raise Red Flags
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Transform Your Windows 11 Workflow: ZDNET’s 45+ Shortcuts Guide Sparks Productivity Revolution
Windows 11 is packed with keyboard shortcuts, but few users tap their full potential. ZDNET’s latest guide—a curated set of 45+ high‑impact keystrokes—offers a pragmatic playbook that swaps...
Microsoft’s MAI-Voice-1 Generates a Minute of Audio in Under a Second, Debuts in Copilot Today
Microsoft has quietly shipped two in-house AI models into consumer-facing Copilot experiences, marking a dramatic pivot from pure producer of cloud infrastructure for OpenAI to a builder of its own...
Microsoft Debuts In-House AI Models MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-Preview, Shifting Dependence from OpenAI
Microsoft has officially entered the in-house foundation model arena, unveiling MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview, two AI models built to power Copilot and Azure services while reducing the company’s...
Microsoft Ships In-House AI Models, Moving Copilot Beyond OpenAI Dependency
Microsoft has quietly deployed its first fully in-house AI models for consumer-facing Copilot experiences, a strategic pivot that reduces the company’s reliance on OpenAI’s technology and charts...
Microsoft’s In-House AI Revolution: MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-Preview Redefine Speed and Scale for Copilot
Microsoft has officially shipped its first two in-house foundation models—MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview—marking a decisive pivot from pure reliance on external AI providers toward a homegrown...
San Francisco’s Copilot Chat Rollout Gives 30K Staff 5 Hours Back Weekly—at No Extra Cost
San Francisco has quietly executed one of the largest municipal deployments of generative AI in the United States, rolling out Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat—powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o—to roughly...
SEFE's Oracle Migration to Azure Yields 10% Faster Apps and Early ROI
Energy company SEFE (Securing Energy for Europe) has completed roughly half of a planned migration of 17 applications and 37 environments from on-premises Oracle databases to Oracle Database@Azure,...
48 Windows 11 Keyboard Shortcuts to Supercharge Your Productivity: A Real-World Guide from ZDNET
Keyboard shortcuts have long been the secret weapon of power users, but a new guide from ZDNET distills 48 Windows 11 keystrokes into a practical productivity system that promises to save you hours...
Windows 11 Insider Preview Adds Dark Mode to File Copy, Delete, and Permission Dialogs for the First Time
Microsoft has quietly begun rolling out one of the most long-awaited visual refinements for Windows 11: dark-themed file operation dialogs. In recent Insider Preview builds, the stark white copy,...