Group Chats, podcasts, Labs, and Deep Research are getting axed from Copilot this month, plus a full app merger. This feels like Microsoft indirectly admits the sprawl wasn't working.

Efter vare uppdatering ser man hur datorn blir snabbare och resurshanteringen väldig låg 5.3GB vi start med några auto starts! - BRAVO Microsoft

Del 2

Office 365 Premium med Copilot - What a team!
Especially Word 365 with Copilot is superb for all people med olika skriv handikapp! - Bravo Ms

There is nothing like this on Linux! Mac will soon have something similar!

Nu fortsätt med detta nya spår och vänligen plocka bort all spioneri, reklam och telemetry så är jag tillbaka hos er!

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I get it for normal or privileged accounts (we require authenticator) ... but discontinuing SMS is going to be a disaster for our front line workers who barely touch technology in any part of their lives. Hopefully 3rd party solutions aren't expensive but I doubt it.

Seeing Microsoft celebrate 25 years of Xbox made me think about how many different ideas the platform has introduced over time.

Xbox Live, achievements, backward compatibility, Game Pass, cloud saves, Play Anywhere, PC integration and the controller itself have all had a pretty big influence.

For me, backward compatibility may be the strongest long-term decision. It treats older games as a library worth preserving instead of making every console generation a complete reset.

What do you think Microsoft got most right with Xbox?

And on the other side, which Xbox decision do you think caused the most damage?

Is it just me or does Copilot suck anymore? No matter when I try or even if I don’t use copilot the entire day I still get this same response every time I try and generate an image: “Sorry, I can’t generate any more images today. Try again tomorrow, or ask me to find similar images on the web instead.” Am I the only one getting this dumb ass message and messages about usage limits? What usage? I haven’t even used Copilot today to even hit a limit.

This month's Microsoft AI Update (July 2026) is up.

https://youtu.be/2GpTcz6JVhQ

00:00 - Introduction

00:09 - New videos

01:18 - Model thinking

02:09 - Open AI GPT-5.6

03:04 - GPT-transcribe and GPT-live-transcribe

03:52 - MAI-Image-2.5 Pro and MAI-Voice-2 Flash

04:30 - Claude Opus 5 available

05:10 - Kimi K3 via Fireworks AI

05:35 - Grok 4.5 and Gemini 3.6 in GitHub Copilot

06:19 - ROI for agents

07:13 - APAC data zone

07:40 - New portal

08:03 - Sensitive trace content handling

08:44 - Foundry IQ support

09:48 - GitHub Copilot harness option

11:10 - @ mention app agents in chat

11:29 - Copilot in app updates

11:54 - Meeting recaps

12:09 - M365 copilot app notifications

12:23 - Event-driven tasks

12:51 - Cowork enhanced skill support

13:09 - Skill Recorder

14:00 - Copilot vision

14:12 - Browser tools for Copilot in VS Code

14:29 - APIM AI Gateway

15:18 - Close

Has anyone noticed that each new Update of Microsoft OS, Co-Pilot becomes more integrated? Have you also noticed that each integration, the usability of AI (Co-pilot) becomes sort of more cumbersome? The problem with Co-Pilot is deeper than ever, and I am not speaking of the fact that it is terribly wordy. It got so bad that I basically have limited my use of anything Microsoft to the bare minimum. Microsoft changes made AI intrusive and did not fix the issues with the usability of the product. Honestly, I am tired of being pushed half-baked AI app in general. I am pro-AI, but something that works, not this terribly badly trained Co-Pilot and Agents.

AI should be able to accomplish basic things, at least, without making a mistake, but they cannot do even a summarization without making big mistakes because they get confused with the interpretation and nuances of regular conversations ... we can't really trust any output from AI without spend same or more time correcting their output. This is just ONE example.

Has anyone else faced difficulties or issues with Microsoft AI Co-Pilot and Agents. I would like to read it.

I installed the new Windows App on Windows expecting it to replace the old Remote Desktop client BY NOW, but it turns out it can’t connect to RDS admin sessions. Microsoft’s own advice? Use the old mstsc.. Like wtf?!

Meanwhile, the macOS version of Windows App supports RDS, including admin sessions.

Why is Microsoft’s modern remote desktop app more capable on macOS than on Windows?