AI & Machine Learning

New! Microsoft IQ Enables Enterprise Intelligence, But at What Cost? September 21, 2026 Enterprise intelligence is shifting from stored information to metered services consumed by AI. Microsoft IQ...more Microsoft 365 AI Governance Features: A Dog’s Breakfast September 14, 2026 Aspects of AI governance are addressed by many features across Microsoft 365’s compliance, identity, security,...more GitHub Copilot Brings Another AI Consumption Unit to Track September 14, 2026 Microsoft has revised the metered usage units for GitHub Copilot and added a new “Max”...more The Hidden Costs of M365 Copilot September 10, 2026 Microsoft injected unpredictable consumption costs into user subscription licensing with Copilot Cowork, and there’s more...more Power Platform’s Final Release Wave and How Updates Will Now Be Delivered September 8, 2026 Power Platform is no longer delivering updates in “waves” and is moving to a continuous...more Azure Copilot Agents Simplify Azure Operation, Optimization Updated: August 31, 2026 The Azure portal has had a Copilot for more than a year, but it has...more Microsoft 365 E7 Suite Available: It’s All About AI Updated: August 27, 2026 Unlike the E3 and E5 tiers of Microsoft 365, E7 is likely of very limited...more Should Your Organization Buy Agent 365? August 21, 2026 Agent 365 brings substantial governance, security, and identity capabilities to agent deployments, but certain organizations...more Avoid Overspending on GitHub Copilot With Governance and Training August 16, 2026 GitHub Copilot’s billing scheme employs a Per-User license plus metered usage based on what a...more Fabric IQ: The Long Road to Smarter Data August 10, 2026 Fabric IQ enhances OneLake data with additional business context to help AI, agents, and other...more Cut Service Consumption Costs with Pre-Purchase Plans August 7, 2026 There are now four Pre-Purchase Plans that provide savings over PAYG on consumption-based services, such...more Copilot Cowork: Delegated Work – with Usage Charges July 28, 2026 Cowork performs complex multistep work across Microsoft 365 for users, such as scheduling meetings rather...more Agent 365 Not Necessarily Required for Agent Governance July 27, 2026 Agent governance features existed before Agent 365 became available, and they’re still available outside of...more Agent 365: What’s There, What’s Missing July 16, 2026 Agent 365 provides a unified platform for AI agent governance, identity management, and security oversight....more AI Drives Enterprise Integration July 10, 2026 To maximize return on AI, organizations need to build new business processes that combine AI...more Restricted SharePoint Search Limits Copilot Results Updated: July 1, 2026 Update: Restricted SharePoint Search (RSS) in SharePoint Online will retire by Jan. 31, 2027, and...more

Microsoft’s Units for Metered AI Consumption Costs September 14, 2026 Navigating Microsoft’s Copilots Updated: September 1, 2026 Reporting and Analytics Tools for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Agents April 7, 2026 GitHub Copilot Tier Comparison June 3, 2025

  Product Reference HDInsight Azure HDInsight is a cloud database service based on Apache’s Hadoop open-source software framework.   Product Reference Synapse Analytics Azure Synapse Analytics is a multipurpose analytics and data warehouse service designed for organizations with...more   Product Reference Databricks Azure Databricks is an Azure cloud service based on Databricks technology, a third-party offering that...more   Licensing Reference Databricks Azure Databricks provides a “lakehouse”—a single governed environment that combines the structured data and query...more   Licensing Reference HDInsight Azure HDInsight is a managed cluster service for running Apache Hadoop ecosystem technologies on Azure...more   Licensing Reference Synapse Analytics Azure Synapse Analytics is purchased as an Azure consumption service, and each of the engines...more   Licensing Reference Fabric Fabric is primarily licensed through a combination of computational capacity-based fees (that can be applied...more   Product Reference Fabric IQ Fabric IQ is a Fabric workload in preview that adds reusable business context to data...more   Product Reference Copilot Cowork Copilot Cowork is the delegated-work capability that is part of M365 Copilot   Licensing Reference Copilot Cowork Copilot Cowork requires the M365 Copilot license but breaks the per-seat pricing model   Product Reference Power Apps Power Apps is a visual application development environment for makers (also called citizen developers) to...more   Product Reference Power Automate Power Automate is a visual application development environment for makers to develop simple to moderately...more   Product Reference Power Pages Power Pages allows the creation and hosting of some types of Web sites (typically externally...more   Licensing Reference Azure Machine Learning Machine Learning charges for Azure resources consumed, including compute, storage, networking, model training, inference, and...more   Product Reference Azure Machine Learning Azure Machine Learning is Microsoft’s enterprise AI engineering and MLOps platform   Product Reference Functions Functions is Microsoft’s serverless platform for running code for business events, schedules, API calls, and...more

Database, Analytics, and AI/ML Roadmap

Copilot   Fabric