Aria Hanson, a product manager at Microsoft focused on commercial AI and Windows updates, offers a practical “untangling AI” tour of what Microsoft provides and how it fits together. She starts with security and compliance as the foundation, then explains why data governance matters even more once users can ask tools like M365 Copilot to instantly surface documents—highlighting sensitivity labels and governance with Microsoft Purview, and organizing data with Microsoft Fabric. From there she moves into building AI-powered apps across client and cloud: Windows Copilot Runtime and Onyx Runtime for running models locally on NPUs (especially on Copilot+ PCs), and Azure AI Foundry for larger cloud-based workloads—often used together. For developers, she calls out GitHub Copilot as a productivity boost. For end users, she breaks down Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat (rebranded on January 15) with Entra ID protections, and Windows experiences on Copilot+ PCs—including improved Windows Search, Windows Studio Effects, Click to Do, live captions, live translations, and Recall, which she notes will be off by default for commercial devices and only enabled if IT chooses.
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The inevitable sequels
Hollywood keeps stretching good ideas into progressively worse sequels. We don’t. These are the related videos—spiritual siblings of the one you just watched—as good or better than this video. Expect callbacks, new plot twists, and maybe even a scene-stealing cameo from a lower third.
