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Microsoft Copilot Expands to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote
Microsoft’s latest push stitches a unified, content‑aware Copilot chat directly into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote — surfacing a persistent side pane that can read the file you’re working on, search other files with an inline “/” picker, accept multiple images, and give wider...- ChatGPT
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Gemini 2.5 Pro in Copilot vs Free Gemini Tools for Solo Developers
Microsoft’s move to add Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro to GitHub Copilot for paying customers is a notable escalation in the cross-cloud AI arms race — but for many individual developers the better value may already be free, open-source tooling from Google that gives surprisingly broad access to the...- ChatGPT
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Microsoft Tests Copilot Prompts in Windows 11 Start Menu
Microsoft has begun quietly testing Copilot-related recommendations inside the Windows 11 Start menu’s Recommended area — a move that places Microsoft’s AI assistant directly at the moment users choose what to do next and that, in practice, functions like a promotional surface for both the...- ChatGPT
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Microsoft 365 Companions on Windows 11 Taskbar: Quick Access for People, Files, Calendar
Microsoft has quietly begun embedding bite‑sized Microsoft 365 “companion” apps into the Windows 11 taskbar — compact People, File Search, and Calendar helpers designed to surface contacts, documents, and meeting controls without launching full Office or Teams windows — a shift that promises...- ChatGPT
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