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Microsoft Scout: What It Is, and What It Is Not

On June 2, 2026, at Build, Microsoft pulled the wrap off Scout a product it describes as an “always-on personal agent” living inside Microsoft 365. The announcement came packaged with bigger ambitions than a single feature: Microsoft used the moment to declare an entire new category of software. That framing is doing a lot of […]

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Microsoft IQ Explained: The Enterprise Intelligence Layer Behind Your Agents

If you have looked at a Microsoft keynote slide in the last six months, you have probably seen the word “IQ” attached to half a dozen products. Work IQ, Fabric IQ, Foundry IQ, and now Web IQ. It is easy to assume these are four new SKUs you need to buy. They are not. Together

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Work IQ: Microsoft’s New Intelligence Layer Built for Agents (Not People)

Microsoft just announced something that quietly reframes how enterprise AI agents will get their intelligence. It’s called Work IQ, and the one-line version is this: it’s a workplace intelligence layer that lets agents access and reason over your organization’s data, context, and tools across Microsoft 365 and external systems with permission-aware governance baked in. If you

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Copilot Studio Best Practices for Building Agents That Actually Work

Building an agent in Copilot Studio has never been easier to start and never been easier to get wrong. The platform has shifted from hand-crafting rigid conversation trees toward generative orchestration, where an AI planning layer decides which topics, tools, knowledge, and child agents to use at runtime. That’s powerful — but it means the quality of your

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