Retirement of the Sway Windows Desktop App on June 1, 2026

I’m guessing that there will be a number of readers that will have the most important question… What is Sway? For those who don’t know, it’s a Microsoft presentation tool that allows you to present and navigate content in unique ways. However, most people prefer the tried and true PowerPoint approach, and Sway has never really taken off. But for those who have drank the Sway Kool-Aid, they love it. This is a heads up that Microsoft is retiring the Windows desktop app version of Sway, and your only option for ongoing use is the browser version.

Copilot now supports GPT-5.2

In the world of AI, things move fast and furious. Following close on the heels of GPT-5.1 becoming the default in Copilot, you now have the ability to let Copilot use the latest and greatest Large Language Model (LLM)… GPT-5.2. Here’s how you can use that…

Scheduling a meeting from an email thread in Copilot

One thing I really dislike doing is trying to turn a lengthy email thread into a meeting. You have to find all the people who were involved in the thread, try to find a time that works for *most* of the people, try to somehow come up with a summary and agent… But with Copilot, you can let it do most of the heavy lifting for you, turning email threads into cohesive meetings with little effort. Here’s how that works…

Linking to a forwarded message in Microsoft Teams

While you’ve been able to forward messages from Microsoft Teams for some time, there was always a problem in trying to get the context of the message. All you saw was the forwarded message and that was it. Now when you forward a message, the recipient also gets a link to the message so that you can see the surrounding context. Here’s how that works…

Choosing how you record a Microsoft Teams meeting

When you think of “recording a meeting” in Microsoft Teams, you normally envision recording both video and audio. But what if you’re sharing content during the meeting where you don’t want to have data shared via screen share to be part of the recording? Now you can choose to record Video and audio or just Audio only. Here’s how that looks…