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PowerPoint Live Attendees Can Now Ask Copilot to Explain Any Slide Text
Microsoft has quietly rolled out a new Microsoft 365 Copilot feature that lets attendees in PowerPoint Live sessions select any text on a shared slide and instantly get an AI-generated explanation....
Microsoft Teams Will Soon Sync Your Last-Minute PowerPoint Edits in Real Time During Live Presentations
Microsoft is preparing a sweeping update to Teams that will finally solve a decades-old presentation headache: the frantic last-minute slide edit that forces a presenter to stop sharing, update the...
Centralized Email Signature Governance in Microsoft 365: The Overlooked Compliance Shield
Email signatures are the digital equivalent of a business card handed out millions of times a day—yet for most organizations, they remain a chaotic, ungoverned afterthought. ITPro’s newly...
Potter County Adopts AI Policy Requiring IT Approval: A Wake-Up Call for Windows Admins
Potter County commissioners in Amarillo, Texas, voted unanimously on June 22, 2026, to adopt an AI Appropriate Use Policy that puts the county IT department in charge of approving and implementing...
Hong Kong's AI Frontier: 18% of Workers Lead Adoption While Employers Stall, Microsoft Reports
Microsoft's latest Work Trend Index has uncovered a widening chasm in Hong Kong's workplaces: employees are sprinting ahead with artificial intelligence, but their organizations are barely jogging...
Microsoft 365 Copilot Becomes Auto-Install for Windows Users in June 2026: Admin Opt-Out and EEA Exemptions Explained
Microsoft is set to automatically deploy its Microsoft 365 Copilot app to millions of business and enterprise Windows devices between mid-June and mid-July 2026, marking another aggressive push to...
Microsoft Scout: The Always-On AI Agent Set to Transform Microsoft 365 Workflows Arrives in Enterprise Preview
Microsoft has taken the wraps off Scout, an always-on AI agent designed to operate autonomously across the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. Revealed at Build 2026, Scout promises to fundamentally change how...
Microsoft’s June 2026 Outlook Roadmap Exposed: Mail Merge Returns, Unified Inbox Arrives, and Admins Sound the Alarm
A newly surfaced internal roadmap for the new Outlook for Windows has pinned June 2026 as the delivery window for several headline features that business users and IT administrators have been...
Microsoft to Force-Install Copilot on Enterprise Windows PCs by July 2026 – Here’s How to Block It
Microsoft will resume automatically installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on millions of managed Windows devices across commercial environments beginning in mid-June 2026, a move that demands...
Microsoft Copilot Cowork Embraces Azure DeepSeek Amid Australia's Expanding Ban
Microsoft has quietly begun evaluating DeepSeek's large language model for integration into its forthcoming Copilot Cowork enterprise agent, according to internal documents and people familiar with...
Word’s Reuse Files Is Dead: How to Reuse Content with Search, Quick Parts, and Office Clipboard
In August 2023, Microsoft quietly pulled the plug on the Reuse Files feature in Word for Microsoft 365. The pane that once let you search across documents and insert snippets with a single click...
Copilot Everywhere: Microsoft’s 2026 AI Gamble Collides with Windows 10 Holdouts and Office Backlash
Microsoft’s roadmap for 2026 reads like a company betting its entire ecosystem on generative AI. New Windows 11 builds will bake Copilot deeper into the taskbar, File Explorer, and even legacy...