by Dani Brandsema | Aug 7, 2026 | Generative AI, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Copilot
Three small PowerPoint updates that add up to something bigger For a while, Copilot in PowerPoint felt like a separate step in the process. You asked it to draft something, it produced a first version, and then the real work started once you took over. Over the past...
by Dani Brandsema | Jul 10, 2026 | Microsoft 365 Copilot
Copilot knows your day, but not your to-do list Work management has always been scattered. A task lives in Planner, a reminder sits in To Do, a follow-up gets buried in a Teams chat, and a deadline only exists in someone’s calendar invite. Every productivity...
by Dani Brandsema | Jun 19, 2026 | Microsoft 365 Copilot
Copilot Notebooks has quietly become one of my favorite places to work inside Microsoft 365. For a while, the idea was fairly simple. You gather a set of related files, references and chats in one workspace, and Copilot reasons over exactly that content. It is scoped,...
by Dani Brandsema, Femke Cornelissen | May 15, 2026 | Copilot Agents, Microsoft Copilot
Skills in PowerPoint: a first look at what’s available with Anthropic Models A new feature is making its way into Copilot in PowerPoint: Skills. When Anthropic models are active, you will soon start to see a new section appear in the Copilot sidebar with pre-built,...
by Evi Van der Velden, Dani Brandsema, Femke Cornelissen | May 5, 2026 | Copilot Agents, Microsoft Copilot, Team Copilot
The bigger half of AI adoption isn’t the user Most AI-adoption programs are focused on the wrong thing. We keep trying to drive adoption through users, while the real bottleneck sits elsewhere. There is a chart in the new Work Trend Index that I think every...