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More Anthropic Models coming to Microsoft Copilot
Read more: More Anthropic Models coming to Microsoft CopilotMicrosoft is making a major change to how AI models are integrated into Copilot experiences. From 7 January 2026, Anthropic’s models will be enabled by default for Microsoft 365 Copilot…
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Microsoft 365 Price Changes: Preparing for July 2026
Read more: Microsoft 365 Price Changes: Preparing for July 2026With over a 1,000 new features and updates across the Microsoft 365 stack in the last couple of years, Microsoft has confirmed that the commercial Microsoft 365 suite will undergo…
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Microsoft Ignite 2025 – “The Agentic Shift”
Read more: Microsoft Ignite 2025 – “The Agentic Shift”Microsoft used Ignite 2025 to tell the world that “agents are now the primary interface for enterprise work“. The focus throughout Ignite was about evolution from chat-bots to multi-discipline teams…
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What is Work IQ?
Read more: What is Work IQ?Microsoft Ignite 2025 focus this year saw Microsoft fully committed to Agentic AI as the next platform layer. Across all of the briefings, keynotes, technical sessions, and partner announcements, Microsoft repeatedly…
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Windows at 40: Milestones that changed computing for ever
Read more: Windows at 40: Milestones that changed computing for everIt was Forty years ago (now that makes me feel. Old) that Microsoft launched Windows 1.0. This was a graphical shell that was layered over MS-DOS. Whilst it was clunky,…
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With Security Copilot now part of Microsoft 365 E5 – what do you actually get?
Read more: With Security Copilot now part of Microsoft 365 E5 – what do you actually get?At Ignite this week, Microsoft announced that Security Copilot will now be included in Microsoft 365 E5 (and E5 Security) at no additional cost. Security Copilot delivers “AI-powered, integrated, cost-effective,…
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Sora-2 now in Microsoft 365 Copilot
Read more: Sora-2 now in Microsoft 365 CopilotAt Ignite 2025 this month, amongst a long list of AI and Security updates, Microsoft announced that OpenAI’s Sora 2 text-to-video model is now integrated into Microsoft 365 Copilot in…
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Microsoft 365 Copilot for small and medium businesses
Read more: Microsoft 365 Copilot for small and medium businessesMicrosoft has just announced a much more affordable aka cheaper (but fully featured license) for small and medium businesses. From December 1st, Microsoft 365 Copilot Business becomes available to organisations…
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Windows 365: What, Where and Why?
Read more: Windows 365: What, Where and Why?As Windows 365 settles well into its forth year, there have been huge advancements in capability, connection methods, endpoint innovation, and licensing options – with even more expected as Microsoft…
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AI Explained: 9 Key Concepts You Need to Know in 2025
Read more: AI Explained: 9 Key Concepts You Need to Know in 2025Artificial intelligence, whilst a phrase used in most of our daily lives, can feel huge, strange, unknown, scary, exciting and sometimes even intimidating. In this post I decided I would…
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Cisco 360 Partner Program: Driving Partner and Customer Value in in the AI Era
Read more: Cisco 360 Partner Program: Driving Partner and Customer Value in in the AI EraThis blog summarises the key updates from Cisco Partner Summit 2025 regarding the Cisco 360 Partner Program and its impact on partner profitability, customer value, cross-selling, AI specialisations, and new…
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Cisco Partner Summit 2025: The Infrastructure Behind the Digital and AI Era
Read more: Cisco Partner Summit 2025: The Infrastructure Behind the Digital and AI EraLast night I tuned into aspects of the Global Cisco Partner Summit on demand, (the live event taking part in San Diago this week). Day one messaging to partners was…
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Copilot Researcher Agent gets “Computer Use”
Read more: Copilot Researcher Agent gets “Computer Use”Yes, the Copilot Researcher Agent, once focused purely on gathering and summarising information, can now take action on your device through a capability called Computer Use. This provides secure interaction…
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Windows 11 bringing new “Ask Copilot” to the taskbar
Read more: Windows 11 bringing new “Ask Copilot” to the taskbarWindows Insiders in the Dev and Beta channels can start testing a new Copilot search experience which is available through the Windows Search bar. To get started go to Settings…
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No Agenda? No Excuse. Copilot can now help with agenda creation.
Read more: No Agenda? No Excuse. Copilot can now help with agenda creation.Let’s talk about one of my biggest pet peeves: the agenda-less meeting invite. You know the type. A calendar ping lands in your inbox with a vague title like “Catch-up”…
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Microsoft “App Builder” & “Workflow” Agents
Read more: Microsoft “App Builder” & “Workflow” AgentsMicrosoft is expanding its Copilot Frontier Programme with two powerful new agents. These are the App Builder and Workflows Agents. These put “app creation” and automation directly into the hands…
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Cyber Resilience – the new Trust Currency
Read more: Cyber Resilience – the new Trust CurrencyTL;DR – UK Cyber Threats Surge The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has published its annual threat review, and the numbers are staggering but not surprising as we have…
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Teams Mode for Microsoft 365 Copilot is here.
Read more: Teams Mode for Microsoft 365 Copilot is here.Microsoft Teams continues to evolve at a rapid pace. Known as “Teams Mode for Microsoft 365 Copilot” this essentially means Copilot is coming to Teams Group Chats as a participant…
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Microsoft introduces Mico – Copilot’s new face and voice
Read more: Microsoft introduces Mico – Copilot’s new face and voiceIn a live YouTube stream on 24th October, Microsoft unveiled a wave of new consumer features for Copilot (dubbed fall update) – headlined by the official debut of Mico, a…
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Cisco and Microsoft top 2025 UC Gartner Magic Quadrant
Read more: Cisco and Microsoft top 2025 UC Gartner Magic QuadrantTL:DR As a Cisco and Microsoft leading partner, it’s great to see that, yet again, both Microsoft and Cisco remain Leaders in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for collaboration platforms with…
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MAKING EVERY WINDOWS PC AN AI PC
Read more: MAKING EVERY WINDOWS PC AN AI PCOn October 14th 2025, Windows 10 officially reached end of support. If you still have a PC/Laptop running Windows 10, it will not suddenly stop working – but unless you…
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IDC – Cisco lead in Enterprise Wireless LAN technology.
Read more: IDC – Cisco lead in Enterprise Wireless LAN technology.Cisco has again been recognised as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape for Enterprise Wireless LAN – with Cisco “helping organisations rise to this moment by delivering smarter, more secure…
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Windows 10 End of Support – What it means for Office Apps
Read more: Windows 10 End of Support – What it means for Office AppsAs of yesterday, 14 October 2025, Windows 10 has officially reached its end of support. Of course, Windows 10 will not just stop working, but after yesterdays monthly security updates,…
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Excel’s new “Agent Mode”
Read more: Excel’s new “Agent Mode”Agent Mode in Excel is a new “preview” feature Excel (online) for Microsoft Copilot Subscribers (Microsoft 365 Commercial, Personal, Family and Premium) that enables users to build and edit workbooks along side…
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What’s new in OneDrive + Copilot?…. Lots.
Read more: What’s new in OneDrive + Copilot?…. Lots.This week was Microsoft’s third annual OneDrive digital event (October 8th, 2025), where their key message was that OneDrive is much much more than “just” file storage. Whether you are…
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What is ‘Bring Your Own Copilot’ to Work (BYO-Copilot) ?
Read more: What is ‘Bring Your Own Copilot’ to Work (BYO-Copilot) ?AI tools being used in the workplace is no longer a question of if but how and what. The question is what if you could allow this in a safe…
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It’s Agent Mode the new way to do human-agent collaboration?
Read more: It’s Agent Mode the new way to do human-agent collaboration?Microsoft Copilot development just doesn’t sleep… This time they have just announced “agent mode” which they claim could be game changer in the way we (humans) work with AI agents…
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Cisco Webex One 2025 – Chatbots to Agents
Read more: Cisco Webex One 2025 – Chatbots to AgentsWarching this year from the sofa, #Cisco #WebexOne showcased just how far their open ecosystem, agentic AI and plarform integrarion has come. This is my short reflection from the Webex…
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What is the SharePoint Knowledge and what does it do?
Read more: What is the SharePoint Knowledge and what does it do?The responses and workflows you get back from AI is only as good as the content it can reason over or leverage. If your content (data) is not in good…
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Beyond OpenAI: Microsoft Copilot add Claude support
Read more: Beyond OpenAI: Microsoft Copilot add Claude supportMicrosoft has started to broaden their AI horizons by adding their first (not Open AI) model into Copilot. Microsoft are integrating Anthropic’s Claude models into Microsoft 365 Copilot which marks…