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If you were lucky enough to be in Microsoft’s Frontier program over the past three months, you know exactly what I’m talking about. Copilot Cowork was that moment when AI in Microsoft 365 finally felt different. Not a chatbot handing you a draft, suddenly it was something able to take a complex task, runs it end-to-end, and hands you back a finished result, completely unatten...

I skipped the usual Pulse update last week on purpose. I was off with the family, and it didn’t feel right to push something out just to keep the cadence. At the same time, it would have landed right in the middle of Microsoft Build, with a flood of announcements already competing for attention. So instead of adding to the noise, I waited and pulled everything into a single u...

I’m publishing this one just before closing my laptop for a few days off with the family, but I did not want to leave without giving you something to read over the week. This month’s roundups for SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Copilot and Microsoft Viva are all linked below.

One small note on the Viva one. After almost four years of publishing that monthly roundu...

May was honestly one of the harder months to curate. Microsoft dropped an enormous amount of updates for Copilot and narrowing it down to a handful of highlights felt like leaving good stuff on the table. But after going through everything, three features stood out as genuinely moving the needle for how people work day-to-day.

The first is the Calendar Agent

This week I’m back looking at those small Microsoft Teams features that quietly make a big difference, these are my favourite kind of updates. I’m a big believer in marginal gains, and Teams is one of those tools that just keeps delivering them, bit by bit, update by update.

Teams is adding a Quick Share option for images, letting you share or copy ima...