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Microsoft Deploys Surveys Agent Through Frontier Program: AI Now Designs, Distributes, and Analyzes Feedback in Copilot
Microsoft dropped a new AI-powered surveys agent into its Copilot for Microsoft 365 this week, aiming to collapse the entire feedback lifecycle—from drafting to analysis—into a single chat...
Windows Live Mail Survives on Windows 11 With IMAP Tricks, But Experts Urge Migration
Windows Live Mail refuses to die quietly. Fifteen years after its last major update, the discontinued email client can still be cajoled into sending and receiving mail on Windows 11—but the process...
Copilot Agent Blocking Broken: Admins Discover Policies Fail Across Teams, Outlook
Organizations relying on Microsoft Copilot's agent policies to restrict AI access are confronting a stark reality: the controls have been breaking silently. In recent weeks, multiple independent...
Aptos Takes Over: How to Change Word’s Default Font Back to Calibri (or Anything Else) in 2025
Microsoft’s shift from Calibri to Aptos as the default font in Word has left many users scrambling to adjust their document settings. But the real power move isn’t just changing the font for one...
Chemist Warehouse Cuts 1,950 HR Hours with AI Assistant Built on Azure AI Foundry
Chemist Warehouse’s six-person HR advisory team now has a digital colleague that drafts responses to hundreds of routine queries each week, reclaiming an estimated 1,950 hours of staff time...
Microsoft 365 Copilot for iOS Ditches Editing, Forces Users to Install Separate Word, Excel Apps
Microsoft is stripping editing capabilities from the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on iOS, transforming it into a preview and AI chat wrapper that pushes users toward standalone Word, Excel, and...
Navatar Embeds AI-Powered Deal Intelligence into Outlook, Slack, and Salesforce for M&A Advisors
Navatar on August 19, 2025, launched a fully AI-powered CRM designed to meet merger and acquisition advisory professionals where they already work—inside Microsoft Outlook, Slack, and Salesforce....
New iCloud Setup Guide for Outlook: How to Avoid the ‘Something Went Wrong’ Error
{ "title": "New iCloud Setup Guide for Outlook: How to Avoid the ‘Something Went Wrong’ Error", "content": "You’ve just tried to add your iCloud email to Microsoft Outlook on Windows, and...
Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Will Silently Install Office Apps and Preload Them via Startup Boost
Microsoft has officially acknowledged a pair of changes to how Office apps arrive and launch on Windows 11—and they are stirring both enthusiasm and consternation among users and IT administrators....
5 Windows 11 Built-in Tools That Automate Your Workflow and Reclaim Lost Hours
Windows 11 ships with a surprisingly capable set of productivity tools that many users overlook. Task Scheduler, Clipchamp, Focus Sessions, Microsoft To Do, and Virtual Desktop work together to...
GPT-5 arrives in Microsoft 365 Copilot: a dual-mode AI that scales from quick answers to deep strategy
Microsoft has begun rolling out GPT-5 to licensed Microsoft 365 Copilot users, marking the first time the tech giant has brought OpenAI’s most advanced reasoning model directly into its enterprise...
Microsoft’s Copilot Chat UI Update: Enhancing Productivity and AI Integration in Teams and Outlook
A significant evolution is underway for two pillars of the digital workplace: Microsoft Teams and Outlook. As organizations increasingly adopt artificial intelligence to streamline operations,...