Default Settings Make Microsoft Copilot Agents Less Effective

Build better Microsoft Copilot agents by writing detailed instructions and switching to the Think Deeper LLM instead of the ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Visual Studio 2026 Gives Copilot Built-In Skills -- and Makes Them Prove Their Worth

Microsoft is moving Agent Skills beyond bring-your-own instructions by shipping expert-authored workflows with the IDE, while keeping them off by default until testing shows their benefits justify the ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Microsoft Debuts Custom Copilot Agents for .NET Developers

Microsoft introduced two experimental GitHub Copilot Custom Agents for .NET developers: C# Expert and WinForms Expert. The company frames these as specialized accelerators that analyze codebases, plan ...
Computerworld

Microsoft upgrades M365 Copilot with Agent Mode

A new Agent Mode in Microsoft 365 Copilot will let users collaborate with the AI assistant on multistep tasks in Excel and Word, Microsoft announced on Monday. This will open up more complex ...
Computerworld

The newest Windows Copilot agent can send emails, update documents on its own

Copilot Actions can complete tasks autonomously on behalf of Windows users, with Microsoft promising security and privacy controls to prevent unwanted actions. Microsoft’s Copilot will soon be able to ...
techtimes

SSMS 22.7 Ships: Native T-SQL Formatting and Copilot Agent Mode Now in Preview

Microsoft shipped SQL Server Management Studio 22.7.0 on Wednesday, June 10, 2026, in what the team called one of the bigger point releases in the 22.x cycle. Database developers who have spent years ...