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    Copilot Chat in Microsoft 365: Your In‑App AI Assistant Across Word Excel PowerPoint

    Microsoft’s Copilot Chat has moved from a promising sidebar experiment into a full-featured productivity assistant that lives inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote — and, when used correctly, it can shave hours off repetitive tasks while keeping work anchored to your existing...
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    Copilot Fall Release: Mico Avatar, Groups, Learn Live and Edge Actions

    Microsoft’s Copilot just moved from a helpful sidebar to a full-fledged, personality-driven productivity layer across Windows, Edge and mobile — and the Fall Release is the most aggressive push yet to make that transition real for everyday users and IT teams. Background / Overview Microsoft’s...
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    NHS Copilot Trial Reveals 43 Min Daily Time Save and 400k Hours Monthly

    The NHS has published the results of a large-scale pilot showing that embedding Microsoft 365 Copilot into everyday office tools could reclaim substantial staff time—headline figures include an average reported saving of 43 minutes per staff member per working day and a projected 400,000 hours...
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    Windows 11 AI First: Copilot Takes Center Stage After Windows 10 Ends

    Microsoft’s decision to stop supporting Windows 10 has pulled the company’s full engineering weight behind Windows 11, and the result is an aggressive, cross-cutting wave of updates that position Copilot as the system’s center of gravity while delivering practical improvements across File...
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    NHS Copilot Trial: 43 Minutes Saved Daily Could Reclaim NHS Time

    A major trial of Microsoft 365 Copilot across NHS organisations has produced headline numbers that are hard to ignore: participants reported saving an average of 43 minutes per day, and the trial sponsors modelled that, if scaled, the technology could reclaim around 400,000 hours of staff time...
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    Customize Windows 11 System Sounds: Quick Setup and Startup Tone Tips

    Customizing Windows 11’s system sounds is a fast, high‑impact way to make your PC feel personal and less noisy — and it’s simpler than most users expect. In this guide you’ll get a concise, step‑by‑step walkthrough for changing system and notification sounds, re‑enabling the classic...
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    GPT-5 Powers Microsoft Copilot Across Windows and Microsoft 365

    Microsoft has quietly flipped the switch: GPT-5, OpenAI’s newest flagship model, is now powering Microsoft Copilot across consumer and enterprise surfaces — and Microsoft says you don’t need to change a thing to start using it. Overview Microsoft’s update turns a long-anticipated technology...
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    Windows Copilot Update: Vision Reads Full Office Docs, Connectors and Actions

    Microsoft’s latest Windows Copilot update pushes the assistant from a helpful search-and-summarize sidekick to a far more active participant on the PC: smarter vision that can read entire Office files, opt‑in Connectors that link Copilot to Google and Microsoft accounts, a new “Hey Copilot” wake...
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    Copilot on Windows Preview: Connectors and Document Export for Insiders

    Microsoft has begun previewing two of the most consequential additions to the Copilot on Windows experience for Windows Insiders: Connectors that let Copilot reach into personal cloud services (OneDrive, Outlook email/contacts/calendar, Google Drive, Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Contacts)...
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    ChatGPT Projects: Realistic AI Workspaces and Productivity Risks

    OpenAI’s decision to make ChatGPT “Projects” available to free users is a small-but-significant turning point in how firms and knowledge workers organise AI-driven work — but it arrives at a moment when a growing body of research suggests that generative AI is not the simple, across‑the‑board...
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    Windows Copilot creates Word Excel PowerPoint and PDFs from chat

    Microsoft’s Copilot on Windows has taken a decisive step from chat assistant to document workhorse: the Copilot app can now generate Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations and PDFs directly from a chat session, and it can link to personal email and cloud accounts so it can...
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    OneDrive Copilot: AI Powered Productivity Across Web Windows and Mobile

    Microsoft has pushed OneDrive beyond storage and syncing into a proactive, AI-driven productivity surface by embedding Copilot across web, mobile, and Windows surfaces — introducing a floating Copilot icon, single “hero links” for sharing, AI file summaries and audio overviews, a Photos-first...
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    Microsoft Copilot and 365 Premium: AI automation for everyday productivity

    Artificial intelligence is moving from novelty to necessity, and Microsoft’s latest messaging makes a clear case: Copilot aims to turn everyday tasks into automated, context-aware workflows so users can spend less time on busywork and more time on meaningful work. Background Microsoft positions...
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    Phoenix Software's Lewis Thomson Named Microsoft MVP for Copilot Innovation

    Phoenix Software’s Copilot and Microsoft Programme Lead, Lewis Thomson, has been named a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), an accolade that recognizes exceptional community leadership, technical expertise, and a sustained record of sharing knowledge through speaking, content and...
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    DIY AI at Work: Low-Code Copilots Pair Flexibility with Productivity

    Do-it-yourself AI is not an optional workplace fad; it is fast becoming the single most practical lever for making flexible work both productive and durable. Background The idea that flexibility will be won or lost at the level of architecture and attendance policies is outdated. The decisive...
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    Microsoft 365 Icon Redesign Signals Copilot AI Across Windows Web and Mobile

    Microsoft has quietly — but deliberately — given the 10 core Microsoft 365 app icons their first major visual overhaul since 2018, aligning the suite’s visual language with Copilot and a broader push toward an “AI-first” productivity experience across Windows, web, and mobile. Overview The...
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    Microsoft 365 Premium: AI powered Office suite at $19.99/mo

    Microsoft has rolled its consumer Copilot strategy into a single paid tier: Microsoft 365 Premium, a new AI-first subscription that bundles the company’s most capable Copilot features, desktop Office apps, 1 TB of OneDrive storage per person and consumer-grade Microsoft Defender protections for...
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    Microsoft 365 Premium: AI Powered Office Suite Bundle for $19.99/Month

    Microsoft has bundled its highest‑tier Copilot features, extra AI usage, Defender security, and the familiar Office desktop apps into a new consumer subscription called Microsoft 365 Premium — a $19.99/month plan that consolidates Copilot Pro-style capabilities with Microsoft 365’s...
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    Microsoft 365 Premium: AI Copilot for Home and Work

    Microsoft is taking the bet that mainstream productivity software will be judged by how well it weaves AI into everyday tasks, and today it has pulled those threads into a single consumer subscription: Microsoft 365 Premium, a new individual and family-focused plan that bundles Office apps with...
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    Microsoft 365 Premium: AI first bundle with Copilot, 1TB storage, Defender for $19.99/mo

    Microsoft is repositioning the consumer productivity market with a single, AI-first subscription: Microsoft 365 Premium bundles the company’s Copilot AI assistant across Word, Excel, Outlook and more, adds one terabyte of OneDrive storage and Microsoft Defender advanced security, and replaces...
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