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Culford, England
Joined February 2007
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Many apps on iPhone Duo are broken right now and it requires real work to get right. When we first got the @MSFTCopilot app running on Duo, so much was in a broken state. We had too much “if iPad” in our layout code instead of adapting to size classes and the space available. iPhone Duo has a lot of postures. Fully open, rotated, the little front screen, partially open, the front screen rotated...we kept finding new ones we didn't anticipate, and every one needed its own fixes, layouts, and design decisions. Good luck designing this by hand in Figma...way better to flip it around in the sim and design it right in code. All of the AI apps have converged on a sidepanel to show the list of conversations behind a burger menu that slides in from the left. But on the iPhone Duo front screen, the tab bar and the navbar controls sit vertically on the right. Just moving the existing burger icon to the right doesn't make that interaction intuitive. So we dropped the burger icon on Duo. There's now a chevron on the right (which is common across the OS). This is great because it's so natural to hit the back button with your right thumb. Tap it and you get a full page view with all your conversations and everything else that would've been in a peak view side panel. Then you open up the device and it all just carries over with smooth continuity. Using the native split view allows side panels to be open by default on the big screen. This is where productivity feels awesome. Kick off real work with Cowork, check on running tasks, or build full apps on the new Copilot Code (coming soon). It's rare to get a new iPhone form factor to experiment and express yourself with. Software feels fun again on Duo.
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Every quarter gives us an opportunity to step back and look at the progress we are making with our customers and partners around the world. What continues to strike me is not simply the pace of change, but the ambition we see from organizations using technology to achieve aspirations that simply weren’t possible before. I encourage you to read my pre-earnings blog for some of our favorite stories from the past quarter that highlight the three durable traits that are required for Frontier Transformation and our platform approach that enables the same. blogs.microsoft.com/blog/202…
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What a way to kick-off day 1 of the 5th annual Power Platform Community Conference! We sold out this year, with over 9,000 people joining from all around the world. There’s never been a better time to be a maker. The tools are getting more powerful, more people can build than ever before, and the kinds of problems we can solve keep expanding. My Autopilot (Apollo) even made a cameo in the keynote. Loved seeing what this community is building and sharing some of what we’ve been working on. And the week is just getting started here at #PPCC26. 🙌
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The agent I demoed is a Microsoft Foundry hosted agent/autopilot. Messages arrive from Teams & Outlook (or locally), then it uses gpt-6-luna for reasoning and Decision 1 for fast decision making. If you're in the Microsoft ecosystem WorkIQ is probably the most important tool you can give your agent! A memory store to let your agent scope memories depending on who its talking to or the channel its in is also very useful. Made a high level diagram for more context💜
Last week in Cologne I showed how you can use the GitHub Copilot App and Foundry to build an agent you can deploy across Teams, Outlook or an app of your choice. I also showed how you can integrate our new Decision 1 model for intent classification. I'm interested in agents that can recognise intent and then take action independetly if they decide they can be helpful, so this was fun to show!
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🚀 Build your first Copilot plugin with WorkIQ Developer Tools! 📅 Oct 28 | 9 AM PT 🔗 msft.it/6011aLTud Go hands-on from setup to a working extension, using a WIQD Cookbook recipe to get there faster. #Microsoft365Dev #WorkIQ #Copilot
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Microsoft has taken steps to protect customers following an issue involving eMudhra certificate authority keys. Learn about the protections in place and recommended actions for customers: msft.it/6014aL3Ri
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I rebuilt my Power Apps canvas time tracker in Microsoft Copilot Code in under an hour, on the same Dataverse tables. The trick wasn't a clever prompt. It was a detailed spec. Video: youtu.be/PRYtmYJcZHU Blog: readyxrm.blog/2026/10/24/usi… #PowerPlatform #Copilot
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⚡ Incredible things are being built with #Copilot, #Microsoft365 & #PowerPlatform But too many stories stay hidden Let’s fix that 👇 • Share your solution 🫵 • Help others learn from you • Grow through teaching 🧠 • Reach more in YouTube Sign up → msft.it/6017aIKIL
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Volkswagen Group has brought Microsoft Copilot to more than 330,000 employees, embedding secure AI-powered assistance across its business and enabling teams to focus on higher-value tasks. Learn more: msft.it/6013aazVf
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Copilot Cowork just got a serious upgrade. PROJECTS are here! Give each project its own instructions. Keep the project context together. Find the files created by its tasks under Outputs. Client engagements. App builds. Content production. When you’re handing real work to an agent, the instructions and context deserve as much attention as the prompt. This update was long overdue. LET’S GOO!
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I'm having an amazing day at the Microsoft Frontier Tour in London! If you're here, I'll be talking about Microsoft Agent Framework later this afternoon at 4:40 PM | Lightning Talk 2 | Connection Hub #Microsoft #FrontierTour #London #Keynote
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The GitHub Universe badges are sick 😍
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Good morning from #MicrosoftFrontierTour #London ☀️ Prepped behind the scenes yesterday, today we're live! Join me: 🛠️ 12:45 Optimize agents with Microsoft Foundry & #GitHubCopilot (BRK330) 🧠 14:55 Building context-aware agents with #MicrosoftIQ (BRK240) buff.ly/txatXlE
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Great demo by @marlene_zw at #Frontiertour with #Microsoft #Foundry Autopilots
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Going to @GitHub Universe? Join myself, @pierceboggan, @Jujujuliakasper, @okatiesavage and @JamesMontemagno for a look at how your team can work seamlessly with @GitHub Copilot...pretty much everywhere. reg.githubuniverse.com/flow/…
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Skills are now inside Copilot Brand Kits! 👀 Create a skill or import one directly into your kit, and make it available to everyone who has access. I’d put the team’s presentation playbook here. > How we turn a case study into a customer story. > How we adapt a technical deck for executives. > The review checklist we keep pasting into Copilot. Those workflows can now live alongside the brand assets the team already uses. Build the skill once. Share it through the Brand Kit.
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The PowerPoint Agent is sooo good! You should try it out. I have 0 clue how to use PowerPoint, but now I shine in all my corporate presentations with my sleek AI-generated slides haha! It's such a lifesaver. I don't know how many hours I would have spent creating average slides otherwise.
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