lewis richards

CTO for Energy @Microsoft. #AI #Data #Sustainability Chip in my hand not on my shoulder #PowerPlatform evangelist #Azure #crossfit

[Laura Rogers, Microsoft MVP @WonderLaura]

🚀 Frontier Tuning is a big shift for AI in the enterprise.

It’s not just about giving AI your data—it’s teaching it how your business actually works using reinforcement learning.

💭Think: agents that learn your workflows, not just answer questions.
#Copilot
https://t.co/JE54zYU4R7

[Mike Tholfsen @mtholfsen]

Check out the just-announced Microsoft Scout 🧭

[Sumit Chauhan @sumit_c]

The suite of MAI models will start rolling out to Word, Excel, PowerPoint & Outlook soon alongside the other foundation models. Giving customers more choices between capabilities, performance and efficiency for the job that need to be done. (@mustafasuleyman - Great job MAI team)

https://t.co/bGA4YA0Tbp

[Microsoft AI @MicrosoftAI]

MAI-Code-1-Flash is here! Built and optimized for GitHub Copilot. From quick fixes to complex engineering challenges, write better code with more return on token. Rolling out to GitHub Copilot individual users in Visual Studio Code in the model picker and under the default auto picker now.

[Burke Holland @burkeholland]

Introducing MAI-Code-1-Flash

Microsoft's latest small coding model.

51.2% on SWE-Bench Pro.

Rolling out now to @GitHub Copilot Free, Pro, Pro+ And Max users.

https://t.co/vQTuCTQTnF

[Peter Steinberger 🦞 @steipete]

Such a privilege to work with Microsoft to bring claws to enterprises!

[Omar Shahine @OmarShahine]

Introducing Microsoft Scout, the first autopilot agent from Microsoft - 57 days after starting my new job, we are launching Microsoft Scout to our Frontier customers. Big day for the team and for @openclaw #MicrosoftBuild https://t.co/ZGl47ADnCg

[Laura Rogers, Microsoft MVP @WonderLaura]

https://t.co/cjE7NkW2HS

[Sumit Chauhan @sumit_c]

Copilot in Excel can pull trusted data from LSEG and Moody’s—including market data, credit ratings, and research—directly into your workbooks. This is the first set of trusted data providers we’re bringing into Excel via MCP, with more coming soon.
Learn more: https://t.co/BDBcfDXepx

[lewis richards @stroker]

@BradGroux Less snot as well

[lewis richards @stroker]

@BradGroux @burkeholland

[Microsoft Tech Community @MSTCommunity]

Explore what’s next with Finance Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot. https://t.co/82bUdC2dRJ

[Sumit Chauhan @sumit_c]

Over the next month, we are rolling out new updates to Copilot Notebooks that help you bring work context from Teams meetings, emails and webpages into your notebook so you can make sense of complex projects and topics information. You’ll also be able to create new grounded outputs like Excel spreadsheets and Infographics straight out of your notebook.
https://t.co/Eb0rK8bEcl

[lewis richards @stroker]

@OmarShahine Rage used to make some epic games too

[Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin]

Missed the GitHub Copilot CLI Hands-On sessions? No worries - the recordings are available! 🚀

Learn how to use GitHub Copilot directly from the terminal - from first commands to custom agents, skills, and MCP integrations. ✨

🎥 Session 1 (intro + commands + modes): https://t.co/ayGDV0JJ3c
🎥 Session 2 (dev workflows + agents): https://t.co/1uKnLktvA7
🎥 Session 3 (skills): https://t.co/prrG1M7GHB
🎥 Session 4 (MCP): https://t.co/gF1XED5aYU

👉Access the FREE GitHub Copilot for Beginners course here:

https://t.co/o9nBihhW6K

[Pierce Boggan @pierceboggan]

OpenTelemetry in @code keeps getting better!

We heard your feedback you wanted ready-made dashboards for visualizing agent metrics. We partnered with the Azure Managed Grafana team to provide some dashboards to get you up and running quickly.

https://t.co/7XugiEIrBy

[Pierce Boggan @pierceboggan]

GitHub Copilot gives you access to SOTA models from leading labs.

Auto mode ensures you use the best for each task!

[Dave McCollough @davemccollough]

Picking an agent platform shouldn’t start with “which tool is coolest? It should start with who owns it, how risky is it, and how much control do we need?
- Copilot Studio / Agent Builder: Fast, M365-native, low-code
- Azure AI Foundry: More control, evaluation, governance, and custom architecture

https://t.co/tlsFU0tdCi

[Microsoft Tech Community @MSTCommunity]

Our redesigned Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption hub, based on customer feedback and ongoing industry innovation is available now! Learn more! https://t.co/M9ombFK9tn

[lewis richards @stroker]

#testify

[Nicolas Bustamante @nicbstme]

For what it's worth, I love using M365 & Copilot. Before working at Microsoft, I had the same perspective as my San Francisco startup friends, aka Copilot is a clunky, confusing product. But today I use it all the time.

1/ Copilot is everywhere. When I have a question and I'm on Teams, PowerPoint, Outlook, the icon is always there. It’s even a key on my computer keyboard! It's deeply integrated with all the software I use (which are all made by MSFT).

2/ Copilot is integrated to everything. I'm new, so I often have questions about the org chart, some documents on SharePoint I can't find but Copilot can, some acronyms I don't understand but Copilot has our company knowledge, etc.

There is also the multi-model part. This is especially true for coding with Copilot-cli, where depending on the task, I might use GPT 5.5 or Opus 4.7. Same when I use the Excel/Powerpoint/Word agents.

Now, the elephant in the room, why does Copilot have a bad reputation on X? My own view, and I might be wrong:

1/ We often mess up. We are a 51-year-old large company moving at the speed of AI, and sometimes we ship inconsistent product experiences or product experiments that we unify later.

2/ Deployment takes a long time, so users often have older versions of Copilot. Also some great features are first available in our Frontier program and will be generally available later.

3/ Privacy and compliance are very important for us, so sometimes IT admins haven't unlocked all the Copilot features yet.

4/ Microsoft is often compared to the world’s most advanced AI labs (some didn’t even exist five years ago and are the fastest-growing businesses in history!). IMO that comparison is a compliment. It pushes us to hold ourselves to an even higher standard in how we serve our customers.

Voila, just my 2 cents! (talking about cents, it's wild that you can have elite AI deeply integrated everywhere in all the software stack for $30/month)

ps: I'm French, so I’m very direct and extremely low BS. I wouldn't have written that if it weren’t my reality.