enterprise productivity

Microsoft’s decision to make Copilot’s agentic features generally available in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint marks an important shift in the company’s productivity strategy. The announcement is more than a feature drop; it signals that Microsoft now believes large language models are reliable...

The March 20 “Rundown AI Office Hours” discussion lands at a moment when AI in office software has moved from novelty to platform strategy, and that shift matters far beyond productivity demos. What began as a race to bolt chatbots onto documents and spreadsheets is now turning into a contest...

Microsoft’s latest push to make AI do work for you — not just suggest it — arrives as Wave 3 of Microsoft 365 Copilot, and it’s a serious statement about where the company thinks productivity software needs to go next. The headline items are clear: Copilot Cowork, built in close collaboration...

ESW’s expansion of ExcelHelp.com into a national Microsoft training and automation brand is a clear bet on one of the most urgent enterprise problems of 2026: organizations have bought into Microsoft 365 and Copilot, but they still need people who know how to use those tools safely...

OpenAI and Anthropic launched dueling model updates on the same day, and the result is a sharpened frontline in the AI wars — one where Microsoft, long enmeshed with OpenAI, now finds itself awkwardly wedged between rival architectures, competing commercial strategies, and a rapidly changing...

Microsoft and Adobe’s long-running collaboration has entered a new phase in the cloud era, with fresh product integrations and AI-driven workflows that tie Adobe’s creative and document services into Microsoft’s productivity stack and Azure infrastructure — a move that expands convenience for...

ESW’s announcement that it is launching Copilot Ascend™ — a role-based Microsoft Copilot and AI training program aimed at turning experiments into everyday productivity — underscores a growing industry focus on practical, workforce-level AI enablement rather than technology-first proofs of...