AI & Machine Learning

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 Enterprise Agents at Scale: Control Improves, Costs Follow June 26, 2026 Enterprise AI agents represent an operating model shift, with implications for governance, costs, and accountability....more Agent 365: Microsoft Attempts to Herd Your AI Agents Updated: June 20, 2026 Microsoft’s Agent 365 seeks to help organizations increase the manageability, security, and compliance of their...more Microsoft 365 E7 Suite Available: It’s All About AI Updated: June 20, 2026 Unlike the E3 and E5 tiers of Microsoft 365, E7 is likely of very limited...more M365 Copilot Adds Choice (and Risk) with Anthropic’s Claude Updated: June 12, 2026 Microsoft has partnered with Anthropic, adding its Claude models to Microsoft 365 (M365) Copilot. Claude’s...more Foundry IQ: Know Your Risks May 21, 2026 Foundry IQ addresses the challenge of harnessing fragmented, inconsistent, and ungoverned enterprise data so that...more Four Ways to Pay for Copilot Studio Agents: Which to Use? Updated: May 18, 2026 Copilot Studio agent pricing is consumption-based in many cases, and it depends on the type...more Windows 365 for Agents: Cloud PCs for AI Automation May 15, 2026 Customers can use  the Windows 365 for Agents service to set up virtual desktops for...more Enhancements Could Break Down Agent Adoption Barriers Updated: May 15, 2026 Copilot Studio continues to receive frequent significant updates. The latest round arrived in Nov. 2025,...more Dynamics 365 MCP Servers Show Strategic Development Shift May 11, 2026 Dynamics 365 Model Context Protocol servers are a new development option that provides standardized access...more

Reporting and Analytics Tools for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Agents April 7, 2026 GitHub Copilot Tier Comparison June 3, 2025 Navigating Microsoft’s Copilots Updated: May 11, 2025

  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   Licensing Reference Functions Azure Functions offers multiple hosting plans that address cost, performance, governance, and operational requirements.   Licensing Reference Foundry Tools Foundry Tools pricing is fragmented across AI services and tools.   Product Reference Foundry Tools Foundry Tools helps organizations build AI solutions faster by providing ready-made capabilities   Product Reference Copilot Studio Copilot Studio is a service that allows makers to create, edit, and run agents, which...more   Licensing Reference Microsoft Foundry Microsoft Foundry is an Azure platform service, consolidating agents, models, and tools with enterprise capabilities   Product Reference Foundry Control Plane Foundry Control Plane is the management layer within Foundry for AI agents, models, and tools.   Licensing Reference Azure AI Search AI Search is an always on service using a capacity-based cost model   Licensing Reference GitHub Copilot GitHub Copilot is a natural language-based assistant AI tool that can generate code for developers...more

Database, Analytics, and AI/ML Roadmap

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