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Culford, England
Joined February 2007
Volkswagen Group has brought Microsoft Copilot to more than 330,000 employees, embedding secure AI-powered assistance across its business and enabling teams to focus on higher-value tasks. Learn more: msft.it/6013aazVf
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Copilot Cowork just got a serious upgrade. PROJECTS are here! Give each project its own instructions. Keep the project context together. Find the files created by its tasks under Outputs. Client engagements. App builds. Content production. When you’re handing real work to an agent, the instructions and context deserve as much attention as the prompt. This update was long overdue. LET’S GOO!
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I'm having an amazing day at the Microsoft Frontier Tour in London! If you're here, I'll be talking about Microsoft Agent Framework later this afternoon at 4:40 PM | Lightning Talk 2 | Connection Hub #Microsoft #FrontierTour #London #Keynote
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The GitHub Universe badges are sick 😍
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Good morning from #MicrosoftFrontierTour #London ☀️ Prepped behind the scenes yesterday, today we're live! Join me: 🛠️ 12:45 Optimize agents with Microsoft Foundry & #GitHubCopilot (BRK330) 🧠 14:55 Building context-aware agents with #MicrosoftIQ (BRK240) buff.ly/txatXlE
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Great demo by @marlene_zw at #Frontiertour with #Microsoft #Foundry Autopilots
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Going to @GitHub Universe? Join myself, @pierceboggan, @Jujujuliakasper, @okatiesavage and @JamesMontemagno for a look at how your team can work seamlessly with @GitHub Copilot...pretty much everywhere. reg.githubuniverse.com/flow/…
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Skills are now inside Copilot Brand Kits! 👀 Create a skill or import one directly into your kit, and make it available to everyone who has access. I’d put the team’s presentation playbook here. > How we turn a case study into a customer story. > How we adapt a technical deck for executives. > The review checklist we keep pasting into Copilot. Those workflows can now live alongside the brand assets the team already uses. Build the skill once. Share it through the Brand Kit.
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The PowerPoint Agent is sooo good! You should try it out. I have 0 clue how to use PowerPoint, but now I shine in all my corporate presentations with my sleek AI-generated slides haha! It's such a lifesaver. I don't know how many hours I would have spent creating average slides otherwise.
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Last week we started rolling out interactive slides in PowerPoint, and I wanted to share more about why I think it will transform your presentations when you can explore ideas together with your audience. With interactive slides, you can use Copilot to synthesize context and data to create dashboards, timelines, or other slides you can click through to highlight insights and tell your story. Read more in my blog update: techcommunity.microsoft.com/…
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In @Nature this week, our new research shows how machine learning can improve weather forecasts two to six weeks out, a timeframe that's historically been very difficult to predict. It's exciting to see the potential of this work to help us better prepare for extreme weather, manage natural resources, and make more informed decisions in agriculture. There's a broader lesson here... the future may not just be about ever-more-capable models, but about building intelligent verification systems around them: systems that learn where models are systematically wrong, reason about cause and effect, and continuously calibrate predictions against reality. Read more: microsoft.com/en-us/research…
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Persistent agents open up a whole new way to think about business processes... It is not just about automating the steps we have today but rethinking how work gets done. Excited to see what people build with this in Copilot Studio.
New in Copilot Studio: Agent accounts + agent memory + agent triggers = a big step forward for teams automating business processes. Now agents built with Copilot Studio can get their own identity, use it to interact across many surfaces, remember context and improve across those interactions, and kick off work based on events and schedules, not just chat messages. This goes way beyond a personal productivity assistant. For example: A Budget Coordinator agent can now review every new cost line item overnight, tag the right owner in the spreadsheet on transactions that look like they need more scrutiny, drop a summary into your group Teams chat and respond to three emails about invoices while you're on the train into work. BudgetCoordinator has its own secured access to data and interacts and responds as itself (not a maker or end user). It remembers what it was told and the preferences of people who interact with it. A Project Manager agent can collect status from multiple signals and people, remember it all and update the report accurately, be mentioned in a comment and respond to it, and know to send the right updates to stakeholders every day at 5pm. "ProjectManager are we on track for milestone 3?" "ProjectManager mentioned you in a comment" Check out details and demos here: microsoft.com/en-us/copilot/…
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UMMMMMM Did someone say canvas support in @code?!??! GLORIOUS! Copilot app, CLI, and now code! code.visualstudio.com/update…
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You all are going to love playing with the new Interactive Canvas feature which is a new AI native sheet type in Excel. Check out this video from Wyn. It's currently available in our Insider's channel and will be going broader in the coming weeks. youtu.be/2I6oLGcF13Q?si=2aqm…
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HydraFusion now has an updated model mix pool, reasoning capabilities, and improved orchestration workflows! ... and we heard a lot of asks for a HydraFusion option to throw at your most ambitious work, and introduced a new Max tier to accommodate those tasks! We appreciate all your continued feedback :) github.blog/changelog/2026-1…
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Announcing Today - a team knowledge base, curated by Copilot and agents - powered by SharePoint! Finally, the tech is here to build a feature I've dreamed of for a long time! Excited to see early adopter feedback. techcommunity.microsoft.com/…
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Macro recording for Excel Copilot skills. A lot of us learned to code by recording a macro and reading the VBA it wrote. Now you can do the same with Copilot: do the task you repeat every month the way you always do it, and Copilot turns it into a skill you can reuse with an @mention. Coming to Insiders later this month.
🤖 Made with AI
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SOTA price/perf SOTA non-hallucination rate Microsoft-Decision-1 🤌
Great to see Microsoft-Decision-1 as the smartest model from the most attractive quadrant, with the highest non-hallucination rate among decision models. A strong fit for real customer use cases, which is what we trained it for.
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IMO, this might be the best PowerPoint feature in maybe ever
Transform your storytelling with interactive slides in PowerPoint, starting today and rolling out over the next few days to general availability. Copilot takes your idea and creates an engaging, interactive slide so you can elevate key insights and guide the discussion in the moment. A dashboard that brings critical data forward. A map that reveals regional highlights. A product diagram that lets you explore each innovation. Communicate ideas more effectively with interactive slides and Copilot in PowerPoint.
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