Microsoft has rebuilt Copilot around three parts: Home with Chat, Cowork and Office, Code for building apps in plain English, and Autopilot, an always-on agent formerly called Scout. We explain what is in the new Copilot, when it arrives, how the licence and Copilot Credits pricing works, and what IT teams should set up first.
Google released the Gemini app for Windows on 10 September 2026, built around an Alt + Space shortcut that opens Gemini over any window. We read Google’s download page, Help Center and Spark support pages alongside Microsoft’s and OpenAI’s shortcut documentation and the first hands-on reviews, and found six claimants on the same keys, three Mac features Windows does not get yet, and a Spark agent Google’s own support page does not list for Windows or offer in the UK.
Enterprise AI rollout figures are the easiest numbers in banking to misread, and the coverage of M&T Bank published on 4 September 2026 is a clean example of why. The headline said the bank was expanding enterprise AI after years of technology overhaul. The flagship figure attached to it — more than 15,000 employees with […]
Microsoft Copilot and a custom AI assistant are not rivals for the same job — one is a £13.80-a-seat licence inside Office, the other is software built around your data, your customers and your process. This guide puts verified UK figures on both: Copilot’s real pricing and the measured government trial results, what a custom build actually costs at £1,100 a day, a 50-person worked example run down both routes over three years, the hybrid pattern that uses each for what it is best at, and a five-question decision framework that settles the choice for most businesses in an afternoon.
Copilot reads whatever each user can already reach, so every permission mistake your tenant has accumulated becomes searchable the day you switch it on. This guide covers the hardening work that belongs before the licences arrive — finding oversharing and EEEU sprawl, tightening identity, applying sensitivity labels, using Restricted SharePoint Search as a temporary brake, clearing stale content, enabling DLP and audit, auditing guests, and proving it all with a red-teamed pilot and a 90-day plan.
Microsoft 365 Copilot installs in an afternoon; the conditions that make it useful take considerably longer. This checklist works through the six dimensions a real readiness assessment measures — data estate, permissions and oversharing, compliance and retention, licensing and cost, technical prerequisites, and people — then shows how to score the findings red/amber/green, which mistakes cost the most, and how to turn the result into a 90-day rollout plan.
Autonomous ERP represents the next stage of enterprise resource planning: a business system that does more than record transactions, enforce workflows, and produce reports. It can understand operational context, detect exceptions, recommend decisions, and allow governed AI agents to complete bounded work across finance, procurement, supply chain, projects, and administration. Microsoft is increasingly describing Dynamics […]
AI Comparison has become one of the most searched topics in artificial intelligence as organizations and individuals increasingly depend on AI assistants to write content, generate software, conduct research, automate workflows, solve technical problems, and improve daily productivity. With multiple frontier AI models now competing for leadership, selecting the right assistant is no longer a […]
Microsoft Announces New Copilot Skills for Financial Professionals in Excel Microsoft Copilot financial professionals Excel now have powerful new AI capabilities. Microsoft has announced new Copilot skills for financial professionals in Excel, marking a significant expansion of Microsoft Copilot capabilities specifically designed for finance teams. These new skills represent a major step forward in how […]
Almost every organisation has bought business AI and almost none has changed how the work is actually done, which is why the numbers on the board slide still describe usage rather than outcome. This guide sets out the four stages a business AI programme passes through — assistance, workflow redesign, agents, and orchestration — what has to change at each one, and why the constraint is the operating model rather than the model. It covers use case selection, the data and permission foundations that agents expose, agent identity and control planes, security threats specific to agentic deployments, the regulatory position after the EU’s Digital Omnibus delay, what business AI actually costs once consumption and oversight are included, and the metrics that survive a finance review.
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