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Copilot
Microsoft 365 Copilot: adoption, cost, data questions, and getting people to actually use it.
9 entries
September 20, 2026
How to Fix a Stalled Copilot Rollout
Usage flatlined a few months in and nobody knows why. It is almost never the tool. Here is how to find the actual cause and restart without buying anything new.
September 19, 2026
Five Copilot Workflows Worth Training First
Not features. Five recurring pieces of work that pay back in the first week, chosen because they are frequent, checkable, and cheap to be wrong about while people are still learning.
September 18, 2026
Where Copilot Actually Gets Used: Teams, Outlook, Word
Daily use clusters in the communication apps and thins out fast in the document ones. That pattern tells you exactly where to aim training first, and which wins to stop promising.
September 17, 2026
What Microsoft Copilot Actually Costs, All In
The $30 per user is the part everyone quotes. It sits on top of a Microsoft 365 license, those went up in July 2026, and the number that should worry you is the seats nobody opens.
September 16, 2026
Does Microsoft Copilot Train on Your Company Data?
No, and that is the wrong thing to worry about. The real Copilot risk is permissions: it will happily surface a file someone left open to the whole company, to whoever asks a reasonable question.
September 15, 2026
Copilot or Claude for Business? Which One, and When
Not a winner. Copilot wins on where the work already lives, Claude wins on long documents and reasoning, and since Microsoft added Anthropic models to Copilot the question changed shape entirely.
September 14, 2026
Can You Use Claude Inside Microsoft Copilot? Yes
Microsoft added Anthropic's models to Copilot. You can pick Claude in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Chat and Copilot Studio. Here is what that changes, and the one setting that has to be switched on first.
September 13, 2026
Your Team Is Probably Using the Wrong Copilot
There are two products with almost the same name and different terms. Staff sign into the consumer one with a personal account on a work laptop, and every data promise you made stops applying.
July 24, 2026
The Real Microsoft Copilot Adoption Numbers, 2026
Not a vague sense that adoption is stalling. The actual 2026 numbers, so you know if your team's experience is normal, and what it's really costing you.