Microsoft has quietly begun the most consequential recalibration of its productivity‑AI stack since Copilot’s debut: Office 365 will now route select Copilot workloads to Anthropic’s Claude family—most notably the Sonnet 4 lineage—alongside continued use of OpenAI models and Microsoft’s own...
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Microsoft’s push to fold OpenAI’s latest models into Windows and Office has hardened an uncomfortable choice for many users: do you pick the deeply integrated productivity assistant (Microsoft Copilot) that lives inside Word, Excel, Outlook and the Windows taskbar, or the more general-purpose...
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Microsoft Federal's announcement that U.S. government cloud customers can now access a suite of AI capabilities — notably Microsoft 365 Copilot in the Office 365 DOD IL5 environment and the Copilot Studio Agent Builder for GCC tenants — marks a consequential step in bringing generative AI into...
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Microsoft is rolling Copilot deeper into Excel with an inline “Explain this formula” experience that breaks down complex formulas directly on the worksheet, letting users read a contextual, step‑by‑step explanation without leaving the grid — a change that promises to speed audits, improve...
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) isn't just a buzzword anymore—it's the 10-lane superhighway driving innovation, efficiency, and competitive edge in the tech industry. And Microsoft, one of the most decorated players in the space, is now under a bright spotlight as new insights into its AI strategy...