Microsoft has quietly moved a full-fledged, free Copilot chat assistant into the daily work surface of Microsoft 365—embedding a persistent, content-aware AI sidebar inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote for qualifying business subscribers, while simultaneously expanding...
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Microsoft’s move to embed a free, in‑app Copilot Chat across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote marks a turning point: conversational AI is no longer an optional plugin for a few power users, it’s being positioned as a default productivity layer for Microsoft 365 business customers...
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Microsoft has rolled a persistent, context‑aware Copilot Chat pane directly into the canvas of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote for qualifying Microsoft 365 business customers — a free, in‑app conversational assistant intended to make AI assistance a native part of everyday...
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Microsoft has begun embedding a persistent, context‑aware Copilot Chat pane directly inside the Microsoft 365 apps people use every day — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote — and is making that conversational AI experience available to qualifying Microsoft 365 subscribers at no...
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Microsoft has begun rolling out a free, in‑app Copilot Chat experience across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote—embedding a content‑aware AI assistant as a right‑hand sidebar inside the Office apps millions of people use every day. This shift makes conversational AI a native part of...
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Microsoft has quietly moved a conversation-style Copilot into the places people actually work: a persistent, context-aware Copilot Chat sidebar is now rolling out inside the desktop versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote for Microsoft 365 customers — a free, in-app assistant...
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Microsoft has begun rolling out a free, in‑app Copilot Chat experience inside the desktop versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote for Microsoft 365 business customers — a strategic shift that embeds a web‑grounded AI assistant directly into the places people do their daily work...
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Microsoft has quietly moved Copilot from a separate app and demo stage into the daily work surface: a persistent, context‑aware Copilot Chat sidebar is now rolling out inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote, giving Microsoft 365 users a free, in‑app conversational assistant while...
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Microsoft’s decision to place a free, in‑context Copilot Chat and a new family of AI agents directly inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote is the clearest signal yet that generative AI is being baked into the everyday productivity experience — not sold as an optional add‑on...
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Microsoft’s move to embed a free, in-context Copilot Chat pane inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote marks the clearest sign yet that AI assistants are no longer an optional add‑on — they’re becoming a built‑in layer of the Office experience that every organization must reckon...
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Microsoft is weaving its AI assistant deeper into the Office experience by rolling Copilot Chat and agent capabilities directly into core Microsoft 365 apps — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote — bringing a unified, in-context chat pane and a raft of new tools aimed at turning an AI...
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Visual Studio 2026’s first Insiders build lands as a clear statement: Microsoft intends to make AI the connective tissue of the IDE while simultaneously modernizing Visual Studio’s foundation for the .NET 10 era. At VSLive! San Diego Microsoft unveiled Visual Studio 2026 (internal version 18.0)...
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The free-AI chat landscape in 2025 looks like a crowded toolbox: established giants, specialist niche services, open-source experiments, and aggregator front-ends all compete to deliver the best free AI chat experience for work, study, creativity, or companionship. A widely circulated roundup—an...
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Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat is now appearing in more campus environments — including announcements from higher‑education IT teams — but at least one university link meant to explain the rollout is returning a 404, underscoring how fast the product is moving and how fragile institutional...
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San Francisco has quietly pushed one of the largest municipal deployments of generative AI in the United States, rolling Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat—powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o—out across tens of thousands of city employees with promises of measurable productivity gains, faster resident service...
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Microsoft is reshaping the mobile Copilot experience on iOS: beginning September 15, 2025 the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on iPhone will become a preview-first viewer with Copilot Chat capabilities while in-app editing for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint will be redirected to the standalone Office...
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Microsoft's latest change to the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile experience on iOS—which converts the app into a file preview and Copilot chat wrapper that redirects editing tasks to standalone Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps—represents a deliberate shift in how the company structures mobile...
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A major update is on the horizon for Microsoft Teams and Outlook, as Microsoft signals a new phase of user interface refinement for its Copilot Chat feature, closely aligning the tools’ look and feel while making incremental—but not revolutionary—improvements. This latest change, recently...
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Microsoft’s ongoing campaign to solidify Edge as the browser of choice for both enterprise and everyday users gains new momentum with the release of version 138.0.3351.77. This update, while compact in scope, delivers two noteworthy enhancements: an immediate fix for a widespread audio issue...
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Microsoft Edge users this week may have noticed their browser updating to version 138.0.3351.77, a release aimed at resolving a frustrating audio playback issue impacting specific websites. This seemingly minor update drew widespread attention—not only because of the browser glitch it addressed...