We’re just a few weeks into the new year and already there’s a tonne of exciting new developments in the Microsoft space. Here’s a couple of our favorties.
The gift of Copilot Workspace
If you thought all the gift giving ended with the holidays, Microsoft has started the new year with an absolute gift for developers in the shape of GitHub Copilot Workspace.
GitHub Copilot Workspace is an AI-native development environment where developers can brainstorm, plan, build, test, and run code using natural language.
Not only can it enhance productivity and improve accuracy, it also makes coding more accessible to beginners and aids collaboration.
And the best thing? It’s available right now in technical preview.
New to SharePoint
Coming soon to SharePoint is the new Editorial Card web part, allowing users to manually customize content presentation to maximize their visual appeal.
Benefits include:
- Advanced customization options for backgrounds, text formatting, and layout.
- Eye-catching content improving engagement.
- Flexibility for highlighting key announcements, feature articles, or any content requiring a unique layout.
- Enhanced control over how content is displayed.
The SharePoint Editorial Card is ideal for SharePoint designers, internal communications teams, marketing campaigns, and anyone looking to create SharePoint pages that pop.
It’s due for targeted release at the end of this month, with general release from mid-February.
In with the new, out with the old
Amidst the buzz of new product launches, a reminder to Viva Topics users that February signals the end of the road for the AI-powered, knowledge-management tool.
Here’s what it means for users:
- Existing topic pages will become standard SharePoint pages.
- Topic pages generated entirely by AI will no longer be available.
- The Topic Center site will become a standard SharePoint site.
- The knowledge management and analytics around topics will no longer be available.
- The ability for topics to appear automatically across Microsoft Search, Office apps, Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint modern pages will be discontinued.
In Viva Engage, topics will return to a simplified public topics model, and the integration with Viva Topics will be retired.
Community matters
Are you interested to learn more about Microsoft, its products, services and best practices? Then why not join the Microsoft Global Community Initiative?
THE MGCI is a program aimed at tech enthusiasts and professionals, community leaders and event organizers. It’s designed to support and enhance the global Microsoft community, providing a platform to connect, learn, and share best practices through events, training, and resources.
Our CEO and MVP Pat McGown is a Regional Leader for the program and a strong advocate for the community.
For more news and insights from the Microsoft technosphere, take a look at Pat McGown’s personal blog, Pat’s M365 Horizons.
And don’t forget, as a Microsoft Gold Partner, we make it our business to provide innovative enterprise solutions for your business.
Reach out to the Cloudwell team today.