For small business owners, staying on top of the latest technology trends can feel like an endless game of catch-up. Between managing daily operations, serving customers, and keeping the books balanced, who has time to learn about new technologies like blockchain, augmented reality, or AI? Yet, ignoring technological change altogether puts your business at risk of falling behind competitors. The question then becomes not whether to pursue digital transformation, but how to do so strategically and pragmatically.

Microsoft Bookings and Calendly are both extremely popular meeting scheduling automation apps. Bookings is built right into Microsoft 365, while Calendly is fully integrated with users' Microsoft 365 calendars.

Microsoft Power Platform, including Power Apps, Power Automate, and the rest of the tools, can be transformational for businesses that adopt them, and are best-in-class tooling.

Microsoft offers a selection of fundamentals certifications as the beginner level of its certification program. These are not prerequisites for any other certifications, so what's the point of them and who should do them? Are they really worthwhile? In this video we look at all the fundamentals certifications to find out.

Have you been waiting for Windows Copilot since it was announced at Microsoft Build? You can now try it in the Windows Insider Program using the latest Dev channel build.

Learn how to get access to Windows 11 Copilot, join the Windows Insider Program, and deploy a VM in Azure to try this out. There isn't much to see with Windows Copilot yet, but it's an interesting start.

Technical and pseudo-technical content related to new AI tools is everywhere; but these innovations concern everyone as they will touch every corner of organizations. If you're a non-technical leader in your business, or you're an HR professional supporting change, you have an important role to play in understanding and guiding the adoption of AI tools within your business.

Microsoft 365 Copilot is on its way, and to help us get ready, Microsoft has released more information on how we can prepare to start rolling out Microsoft 365 Copilot as soon as possible.

Teams Apps can be a great way to add new functionality into Teams, either for 3rd-party services you already use outside of Teams, or new capabilities that you want to add to your Teams experience. As well as being able to build them yourself, there is an app store filled with different apps, offering a rich set of different types of capabilities.