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First Ring Daily: AI on the Desktop

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Microsoft killing off the Cortana app on Windows 11, what the new Windows Copilot brings to the table, and more.

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This Week in IT – Get Into the Groove with Microsoft Teams and Jira

This Week in IT, Microsoft source code is leaked by hacking group Lapsus$, HP warns of a serious remote code execution flaw in many of its printers, Nvidia announces a new ARM ‘superchip’ for servers, Jira gets a new app for Microsoft Teams, and there’s more… About This Week in IT This week in IT…

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Lapsus$ Hackers Claim to Leak Source Code of Microsoft Azure, Cortana, and Bing

Last week, the infamous hacker group Lapsus$ claimed that it had breached several Azure DevOps source code repositories. Microsoft is currently investigating claims of this hack, but the source code of Bing, Bing Maps, Cortana, and other internal projects may have been leaked online (via VentureBeat). Over the weekend, the hacker group Lapsus$ posted a…

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How to Disable the Cortana Services in Microsoft 365

With Microsoft 365, Cortana can pose a challenge for unintended data retention – if you are looking to disable Cortana for a single user or across your org, here is how to do that.

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How to Turn Off Cortana Daily Briefing Emails

If you do not want to receive the Cortana Daily Briefing email for yourself, your tenant, or a group of users – this is how you turn that off.

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New Features Coming to Cortana Later This Year

While Cortana may not be the personal assistant Microsoft imagined a few years ago, the truth is that the AI personality has found a home inside of Microsoft 365. The digital assistant has found its niche and at Ignite 2020, the company announced new features coming to Cortana.

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Cortana Daily Briefing Not Wanted by Some Office 365 Tenants

Microsoft Forces More Artificial Intelligence onto Office 365 Tenants On May 13, Microsoft issued Office 365 notification MC212676 to inform tenants that a new Cortana daily briefing email was coming, saying: “The Briefing email from Cortana helps users start their day on track by surfacing information on upcoming meetings and outstanding tasks as well as…

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Teams, Surface Earbuds, and the Microsoft 365 Assistant

Microsoft may be pivoting Cortana but the assistant is gaining features in the hardware space as well as inside of Teams.

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Windows 10 Version 2004 (20H1) – Cortana

Most of the changes in Windows 10 version 2004, which is due to land in the first half of 2020, are under-the-hood. And the Windows 10 November 2019 Update got some of the changes that were in development as part of 20H1, like enhancements to search in File Explorer. This second article in a two-part series looks at the new Cortana experience that is coming as part of Windows 10 version 2004.

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Microsoft Enhances Cortana with Briefings and Scheduler Support

Microsoft’s digital assistant may not always be at the front of the digital-AI conversations but the company is adding new features to the platform at Ignite 2019. Announced today, are new briefing emails and scheduler functionality.

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