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Dominik Kawnik retweeted
Now introducing Office in the new Microsoft Copilot app!
msft.it/6012aSZeq
Thankful for this news as will lead to lower AI costs for business workflows. Happy Thanksgiving! 🇨🇦
Today we are announcing our biggest bet yet on our own silicon.
Starting next calendar year, we will scale our Maia family to multi-gigawatt deployments, making it the primary inference system for our own product and services.
And we’re introducing Maia 300, which delivers 40% more tokens per watt compared to leading GPU-based systems.
We are already deploying Maia 200 across the US, Europe, and Australia, delivering up to 1.7x more tokens per watt across experiences in Teams and Copilot.
Our goal is to build on the full-stack efficiency gains we’ve already seen, while continuing to bring the latest innovations from across the ecosystem into our fleet.
Dominik Kawnik retweeted
💡 Looking for a few Microsoft 365 features to add to your workflow?
We rounded up 7 worth trying, including faster hyperlinks in Word, audio testing in Teams, new Excel Import Functions, Copilot-powered scheduling, and more. Explore all 7. msft.it/6014ap2B6
#Microsoft365 #MicrosoftCopilot #Msft365Insiders
Thank you Tim Cook for your passion for a balanced approach to personal data security and profit.
Putting challenge proved a hit at the inaugural annual 9 hole golf event for the Greater Stouffville Chamber business community. Thanks to Sleepy Hollow GC for hosting us!
#Stouffville #Markham #Uxbridge
Dominik Kawnik retweeted
Microsoft just shipped one of the biggest updates for Windows 11, with a movable taskbar, Windows Search without Bing and Microsoft Store results, and the ability to customize the Start menu!
1. Taskbar: You can now move the taskbar to the top, right, or left side, similar to Windows 10.
You can also enable a smaller taskbar that shrinks the entire taskbar, not just the icons, as it did earlier on Windows 11.
2. You can now entirely disable Bing and Microsoft Store results in Windows Search, which makes it faster and more reliable.
3. You can now customize the Start menu, including the ability to fully remove the Recommended feed (now called Recent), and just have Pinned apps or the All apps list. It is now possible to choose which section appears and hide everything else.
Moreover, you can now make the Start menu smaller if you dislike how it dynamically adjusts.
This is one of the biggest Windows updates of the year, and it shows Microsoft is listening to top feedback. Keep it coming!
Hands on with the new experiences rolling out today: windowslatest.com/2026/08/27…
ALT Windows 11 with movable taskbar
Markham is a tech hub, world-class culinary destination and now an annual IndyCar race host. Let's go Markham!
🎥 Markham is making headlines.
Great to welcome @globalnews more eyes turn to the inaugural @ontario_indy.
In just a few weeks, the world won’t just be watching a race—they’ll be discovering Markham. 🏁
#OntarioIndy #MarkhamIsMore #INDYCAR
Azure AI landing zones are a big deal for data governance and security. Huge win from Microsoft!!
If your AI strategy is moving beyond proofs of concept, your architecture needs to evolve too. Learn how Azure AI Landing Zones can help you deploy AI applications and agents faster, with security and governance built in from the start. xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1jGXgglPN…
Dominik Kawnik retweeted
A tutorial video on the top 10 new features in Microsoft 365 Copilot across Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint. The new Copilot updates having been rolling out at a furious pace and I'll get you up to speed on the latest! Includes:
🧠 New GPT-5.6 and Claude Opus 5 integration
📬 Outlook Copilot taking Inbox Actions
🛠️ Skills in Excel and PowerPoint
🎨 PowerPoint Brand Kit integration
➕ Lots more
YouTube 📺 youtu.be/S3QLx7AVUIY?si=-G5A…
A question our clients are asking too about all the Copilot offerings.
🤔 Copilot, Cowork, Researcher, or Scout... when should you use each?
A key takeaway from Episode 80: Cowork shines when you're working across multiple systems and ready to turn ideas into action.
🎥 msft.it/6014vAW48
📅 msft.it/6015vAW4D
#MondaysatMicrosoft
Dominik Kawnik retweeted
Microsoft’s Copilot Cowork adoption page is actually loaded.
Champion rollout.
Starter scenarios.
Prompt coaching.
Cost controls.
Feedback loops.
Most companies will turn Copilot Cowork on and hope people figure it out.
That won’t work.
If you want people delegating real work to Cowork, use the resources Microsoft already gave you.
- Surveys
- Email templates
- Prompt examples
- and more!
adoption.microsoft.com/en-us…
Dominik Kawnik retweeted
The future of the firm is a learning loop in which human capital and token capital compound.
With our new Frontier Co., our ambition is to help every enterprise build its own AI capability, and to help create a frontier ecosystem where every organization can turn its knowledge, workflows, and judgment into its own AI systems that continuously improve. blogs.microsoft.com/blog/202…
Dominik Kawnik retweeted
✨ Whether you're managing AI policies or building agents, AI model choice helps match the right model to the right task.
Learn how Microsoft 365 brings flexibility together with enterprise governance. msft.it/6018vqgpk
#Microsoft365 #Microsoft365Copilot #ITAdmins
Very nice as a SharePoint refresh needs to happen regularly if possible.
✨ SharePoint has a fresh new look.
The visual refresh delivers a cleaner, more modern experience with improved readability, less visual clutter, and greater consistency across Microsoft 365, while preserving your branding.
🔗 msft.it/6012vWCmk
#SharePoint
Best thing Microsoft could do. Creativity, storytelling and graphic arts don't mix well with corporate longterm. All big studios have lost their way. Profit matters but all these orgs even console folks should have a natural mission to entertain purely the players as goal #1.
Microsoft hasn’t ruled out spinning off Xbox theverge.com/games/949584/mi…
We are finally entering the reality that like all business tools AI will be measured on cost with actual budgets assigned as it's usage methods mature.
Satya Nadella openly saying AI tokenmaxxing is costly is a rare bit of honesty from the top of Microsoft. He even admits he does it himself and calls the habit addictive:
"I'm a tokenmaxxer too, it's addictive. But you have to step back when the novelty wears off to say, 'What is it that I'm trying to create?'" - Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella
It's not shocking, however, that the industry’s AI push comes with real financial weight and that usage patterns inside Microsoft mirror what customers are feeling too. 🔗windowscentral.com/artificia…
Dominik Kawnik retweeted
CEOs are telling workers to embrace AI. Yet more companies are pointing to the technology when they talk about layoffs, restructurings, and hiring slowdowns. bit.ly/4vDywTh
