Tuesday, August 18, 2026

7 new posts across 6 Microsoft websites since Friday, August 14, 2026

Microsoft 365 Copilot Blog

Copilot Notebooks now works with Markdown, plain-text, and rich-text files

Add your READMEs, wikis, logs, and transcripts to your notebook Your most useful project knowledge does not always live in a polished document. It might be captured in a README, project wiki, system l . . .

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Thursday, August 13, 2026

Microsoft 365 Insider Blog

I’m excited to announce that you can share direct cloud links to specific locations within a document in Microsoft Word for Windows and for Mac.
What’s new If you work on long, complex documents, y . . .

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Thursday, August 13, 2026

Exchange Team Blog

Where is Exchange SE CU1 anyway?

We are getting questions from our customers on when they can expect us to release Exchange SE Cumulative Update 1 (CU1). After all, in the past we mentioned that it would be released by the end of the . . .

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Thursday, August 13, 2026

Power BI Updates Blog

Using Custom SQL Pools to balance performance and cost in Fabric Data Warehouse

One of the most common questions I hear from customers as they move to an allocation-based billing model is:”What levers do I actually have if I want to control how many resources my workloads consume . . .

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Monday, August 17, 2026

Microsoft Azure Blog

From modernization to AI: Why Gartner named Microsoft a Leader in 2026

Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms , which we believe recognizes the platforms organizations rely on to build, deploy, and op . . .

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Monday, August 17, 2026

Microsoft Foundry Blog

Updates to GPT-chat-latest in Microsoft Foundry

GPT-chat-latest in Microsoft Foundry is built on GPT-5.6 Sol, bringing focused responses, improved factual reliability, and consistent behavior to conversational applications without requiring develop . . .

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Thursday, August 13, 2026

When AI Agents Fail: Engineering Reliable Recovery with Microsoft Foundry

Introduction: The Failure That Demos Do Not Show A user asks an AI agent a simple question:

“Create a procurement request for 10 laptops for the new project team.”

The agent does what it was designe . . .

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Thursday, August 13, 2026