Grok Bot versus Claude, and Why Your Copilot Model Picker Just Got Interesting
For most of the last couple of years, Grok was something I used occasionally rather than relied on daily. It was the bot people...
Category: AI
Before Anyone Uses Cowork, Set Up Copilot Usage-Based Billing
The question I keep getting from admins right now isn’t “should we turn on Cowork?” It’s “why does Cowork say ‘request access’ for everyone?”...
PowerToys Grew Up While You Weren’t Looking
After my final session at TechCon365 in Dallas last week, an attendee (Yan Nezhinsky) came up and asked if I was familiar with Windows...
The Disappearing Application Layer
I’ve spent a long stretch of my career around one very durable business model — working for ISVs (independent software vendors) building and marketing...
The Model Matters Less Than the Harness
Every few weeks someone asks me which model they should be using for their agents. After running a fleet of 30+ AI bots of...
Pick the Use Case Before You Pick the Agent
Microsoft has made building agents remarkably easy. Between Copilot Studio, the agent builder inside Microsoft 365 Copilot, and a growing catalog of prebuilt and...
AI-Native Companies Move Faster, and Differently
Earlier today, I recorded an episode of my CollabTalk Podcast with longtime technology evangelist and futurist Robert Scoble. We covered a lot of ground,...
Purview DLP Isn’t Just Watching Copilot Anymore
For a while now, Microsoft has been steadily improving the visibility organizations have into how employees are using AI. The Microsoft 365 admin center...
OneDrive Is Becoming the File System for Microsoft’s Agentic Future
I went into today’s OneDrive + Copilot event expecting the usual mix of sync, sharing, search, and Copilot updates. All of those showed up....
Microsoft’s Agentic Push Is Starting to Look Like a Real Operating Model
For the last couple of years, most conversations about AI agents have focused on intelligence: better reasoning, better models, better answers. I think we’re...
