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Unlocking Efficiency: Microsoft’s Bing Chat Enterprise and Copilot Licensing Announced  Okay, this is big. Microsoft announced last month they have paired the formidable capabilities of ChatGPT with the newly renovated AI-powered Bing released earlier this year. Microsoft is calling this new giant Bing Chat Enterprise.  Microsoft has not been timid or indirect with their goals. […]

Power BI is joining the Microsoft Fabric offering and gaining its own Copilot experience. By building on Microsoft Fabric, reporting will change significantly with the single copy experience of OneLake and the direct, real-time reporting. Power BI will even support Git repositories to help centralize report elements. Copilot then extends these capabilities with natural language

Microsoft is bringing its data tools together into a SaaS service called Microsoft Fabric. Microsoft Fabric is a significant shift in the data platform and will transform how organizations work with data. Microsoft Fabric is built on the foundation of the OneLake storage system that streamlines storage and eliminates data copies. This layer uses the

Microsoft’s first Azure region in Central and Eastern Europe is now open in Poland. The new region, called Poland Central, is in the Warsaw area of Poland and includes three Availability Zones. The new Poland region is designed to address specific data residency needs while offering more localized cloud capabilities. Details on this new Azure

Recent generative AI advancements are powering a new wave of capabilities in Microsoft Designer. Designer is a visual generation tool, leveraging models like DALL-E, to help people quickly create designs, templates, and documents. The latest updates to Microsoft Designer now allow natural language be used to create captions, hashtags, social media content, automatic sizing for

The Microsoft Viva suite is now gaining the Copilot capabilities as well as another new member of the suite. Microsoft’s acquisition of Glint is now merging into Viva and will be called Microsoft Viva Glint. Viva Glint is designed to summarize and analyze employee comments and feedback experiences while using natural language. Microsoft announced plans

Microsoft’s AI capabilities are now coming to SharePoint and OneDrive within Microsoft 365. The initial Copilot release for SharePoint will use AI to automatically build site pages from existing content or inputs, apply branding and page design, add animations, and use video. OneDrive will get a new user interface and design. Copilot in OneDrive will

Microsoft is bringing the power of the Windows 365 platform to frontline workers. Windows 365, Microsoft’s cloud-based desktop and application virtualization solution, is being updated to better support frontline and shift-based employees. The solution first adds new licensing options to only licensing an individual while they are working. Second, Windows 365 Frontline is being adjusted

Microsoft Loop is now gaining its own app. Microsoft Loop is the service that is part of Microsoft 365 and allows content editing and creation to flow between apps and services. For example, an Excel table can be copied into an email. Rather than respond to the email attaching yet another Excel document, edits can

Microsoft is reimagining the Teams app and has begun a public preview allowing organizations to experience the new Teams client. The new Teams app includes major updates to the user interface to streamline and simplify the experience while the backend of the app has been overhauled making it significantly faster and using less system resources.