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.
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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...
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...
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...
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...
Microsoft just restructured its consumer productivity lineup around AI: Microsoft 365 Premium bundles the full desktop Office apps with the company’s most advanced Copilot features, expanded usage allowances, one terabyte of OneDrive storage per person and built‑in Defender protections — all for...
Microsoft has folded its consumer-facing Copilot AI into a new Microsoft 365 Premium tier priced at $19.99 per month, bundling advanced chat, image generation, expanded Copilot usage limits and extra security and storage into a single consumer product aimed squarely at competing with OpenAI’s...
Microsoft 365 just became significantly more expensive for consumers, and for millions of longtime users the decision to keep paying is suddenly complicated: Microsoft has folded its AI assistant, Copilot, and its Designer image tools into the Microsoft 365 Personal and Family bundles, raised...
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Microsoft has taken a decisive step toward “agentic” productivity with the rollout of Agent Mode for Word and Excel and a separate Office Agent inside Microsoft 365 Copilot chat — a suite Microsoft calls vibe working that promises conversational, multi‑step AI workflows to build documents...
Microsoft’s Office suite has entered a new phase: an AI-driven, multi‑step “Agent Mode” inside Word and Excel plus a chat‑first “Office Agent” in Microsoft 365 Copilot are rolling out as part of a broader push Microsoft calls vibe working, designed to let users describe complex tasks in plain...
The migration from Windows 10 to Windows 11 is no longer a distant IT project — it is a definable strategic opportunity that, when handled correctly, can deliver measurable security, productivity, and competitive gains for businesses across sectors. The recent CAJ News Africa briefing framing...
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Microsoft’s productivity stack just took another step toward agentic work: today’s rollout of Agent Mode in Excel and Word, plus a new Office Agent available from Copilot chat, promises to let everyday users build complex, auditable spreadsheets and full documents from simple natural‑language...
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Windows 11 promises to be more than a cosmetic refresh for enterprises — it’s being framed as a strategic platform upgrade that combines a tighter security baseline, cloud-native management, and built-in AI productivity tools that together can reduce risk, lower operational overhead, and...
Fast Company’s recent dispatch lands like a corrective: despite the torrent of vendor claims, glossy demos, and executive mandates, AI tools are not yet producing the broad, measurable productivity lift companies expected. That headline — that AI copilots, chat assistants, and generative models...
Perplexity’s new Email Assistant promises to turn an overflowing inbox into a working assistant that schedules meetings, drafts replies in your voice, and auto-prioritizes messages — but it arrives as an exclusive, high-cost feature with real privacy and reliability trade‑offs that every Windows...
Perplexity’s newest feature quietly shifts the company from an “answer engine” toward a potential inbox concierge: an autonomous Email Assistant is rolling out in alpha, offering automatic scanning, labeling, auto-drafts, and configurable scheduling behavior that aims to reduce the day-to-day...
Google has quietly turned the Chrome toolbar into a direct gateway for Gemini — rolling out what the company calls the “biggest upgrade in its history,” a sweeping set of AI features that embed Gemini natively into the browser, surface an AI Mode in the address bar, and promise future “agentic”...
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The clock is already ticking: Windows 10 reaches end of support on October 14, 2025, and for small- and mid-sized businesses the decision to upgrade is rapidly shifting from optional maintenance to strategic opportunity. Upgrading isn’t just about avoiding security gaps; it’s about harnessing a...
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Microsoft released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.6682 (KB5065782) to the Dev Channel on September 12, 2025, and the flight brings a focused set of AI-driven productivity updates, accessibility refinements, and a broad collection of stability fixes — while also surfacing a few noteworthy...
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Microsoft's Copilot app for Windows 11 just received a redesign that does more than tidy the chat window — it reorganizes Copilot into a Start menu–style hub that surfaces recent files, apps, and ongoing work, and hints at a deeper future in which the AI assistant becomes the central navigation...
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