What Actually Happens to Your Data Inside Copilot Cowork Runtime
One of the things I love most about being a Microsoft MVP is the behind-the-scenes conversations that happen within the community. Plenty of those...
Category: AI
How to Build Custom Skills for Your SharePoint Site
If you use Microsoft 365 and have Copilot turned on, you have probably noticed a chat panel inside your SharePoint site. That chat can...
A New Blueprint for Productivity in the AI Era
In Part 1 of this series, I wrote about competence debt—the hidden cost of rushing to teach AI prompts and agentic workflows while letting...
The Competence Debt: What We’re Losing in the Rush to Become AI-First
I’ve spent a lot of my career talking about productivity. For much of that time, that meant talking about Microsoft Office, and later Microsoft...
Open vs. Closed AI: What It Means for Everyday Business
[Updated] If you follow technology news, you have probably heard people debating open-source versus closed-network artificial intelligence (AI). It’s one of those topics that...
AI App Stores Are Coming. Will You Be Ready?
Remember when the App Store turned enterprise software on its head? This is where my mind is going on a Sunday evening, sitting in...
Thought Leadership in the Age of AI
I keep coming back to a question that’s more interesting to me than most of the AI-and-content debates I see online. It isn’t whether...
What Daily AI Users Keep Getting Wrong About Prompting
I listen almost every day to Armstrong & Getty, a syndicated radio show that I consume primarily through their podcast. I’ve been a longtime...
AI Is Changing Security, But Fundamentals Still Matter
Remember when moving to the cloud was the big disruption? Suddenly, work wasn’t tied to an office network. We had to rethink file sharing,...
Stop Judging AI by the Answer
I recently read an interesting article on the Microsoft Tech Community that discussed how organizations should evaluate agentic AI. While it focused on the...
