New Year, New Momentum: Here are three Copilot updates to get you started into 2026

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It's a new year, so I thought I'd start the year by mentioning three features already released, or soon going to be released. One of the features improves the workflow of sharing files with comments, the other improves the application specific Copilot, and the last feature makes it easer to find the nest available timeslot for a 1:1 meeting. As with all of my other posts, timelines can shift, and the timelines in this post is as written in the Message Center at the time of posting. AI-Summary experience when sharing files. With this new feature, copilot intent to help users share files with clearer context in just a few steps. Users will get the capability to generate a concise summary of a file and include it when sharing from the File Explorer share dialog or the OneDrive activity center. This will make it easier to share the context of a file and giving the receiver a faster understanding of what a document or file contains before they open it. General Availability announced...

Synchronization from h***

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I recently acquired a HTC Touch phone, with windows mobile. Lucky me, I thought. Now I can sync users and more across pc’s, Windows Live and my account on the exchange server. If only I can find the “avoid duplicates” setting on the sync -tool. I did, and initiated sync with Exchange.

So far, so good. Then I initiated sync with Windows Live… WooooHaa?!? What happened? Almost every contact got duplicated, and I could not tell which contact was from which source. Trying to delete one contact in one system sometimes removed a duplicate, and sometimes didn’t. I also ended up with some contacts in Exchange, not present in WL and vice versa. What a mess!

I ended up with deleting every contact, everywhere. Then fetching my Google contacts and importing them to exchange (It turned out WL contacts are not synchronized to exchange through the HTC, and they use different fields to identify weather a user is a duplicate or not).
Lesson learned:

1. Always have a good backup (I am glad I had mine in place. Recreating 200+ contacts is no small deal)
2. Be careful to initiate replication across platforms. Make sure you understand the limitations and restrictions of the software you use.