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Microsoft’s Copilot is moving from helpful sidekick to active teammate: the latest wave of updates — built around an in‑canvas Agent Mode, a chat‑first Office Agent, and broader “smart editing” behavior across Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Viva — promise to turn Microsoft 365 into an agentic...

Microsoft’s next big Copilot push is less about a single chatbot and more about purpose-built agents that will live inside Excel, PowerPoint, and Word — and the implications reach far beyond faster drafting or prettier slides. The company’s “Agent Mode” and chat‑first Office Agents aim to turn...

Microsoft’s Copilot moved from promising assistant to practical work partner at Ignite — and the changes are not incremental tweaks but a deliberate shift toward agentic, context-aware AI embedded across Windows, Edge, and Microsoft 365. The announcements—centered on Agent Mode, Work IQ...

Microsoft’s Copilot is no longer an experimental sidebar or a nicety tucked into premium tiers — it has been reworked into a multi‑modal platform of agents that now ship inside Windows, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and the broader Microsoft 365 ecosystem, reshaping how documents, spreadsheets and...

Microsoft’s Ignite keynote this year accelerated the company’s transition from “Copilot as a helper” to Copilot as a platform of agents that can plan, act, and write directly into Office files — introducing Word, Excel, and PowerPoint agents, an in‑canvas Agent Mode that executes multi‑step...

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...

Windows 11’s 25H2 enablement package is now rolling out and — in the same week — Microsoft reshaped Game Pass into a markedly pricier, repositioned subscription service, touching off a fresh round of debate about value, platform strategy, and the consumer cost of cloud-first gaming. The...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot update isn’t a small UI tweak — it’s a deliberate shift toward agentic work inside Office, where multi-step AI agents plan, execute, validate, and iterate inside Excel, Word, and Copilot chat to produce spreadsheets, documents, and slide decks. This “vibe working” push...

Microsoft’s latest expansion of Copilot transforms Office from a suggestion engine into an active collaborator: the company is rolling out an AI-powered Agent Mode inside Word and Excel and introducing an Office Agent within Microsoft 365 Copilot to execute multi‑step tasks, assemble documents...

Microsoft has quietly widened the model roster behind Microsoft 365 Copilot, adding Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 to a new Office Agent in Copilot chat that can produce ready‑to‑use PowerPoint decks and Word documents from a single, high‑level instruction — a move that...

Microsoft is rolling out a built-in, AI-driven "Agent Mode" for Word and Excel—and a companion Office Agent inside Copilot Chat—that promises to turn prompts into finished, auditable spreadsheets, documents, and soon, presentations, fundamentally changing how people interact with Microsoft 365...

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 latest Copilot update pushes Office from suggestion to automation: Agent Mode embeds multi‑step AI agents directly inside Word and Excel, while a chat‑first Office Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot promises end‑to‑end document and slide generation — a packaged vision Microsoft calls...

Microsoft has quietly begun rolling out a new phase in its AI-first strategy for Office: Agent Mode inside Word and Excel, and a cross‑app Office Agent inside Microsoft 365 Copilot — features designed to make complex, multi‑step work feel more like handing a brief to an expert and less like...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot update turns Word, Excel and PowerPoint into agentic workspaces: Agent Mode brings multi‑step, steerable automation directly into Excel and Word on the web, while a chat‑initiated Office Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot can draft full documents and slide decks by...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot update moves Office from a helper that answers questions to a team member that plans, builds and iterates documents for you — a shift Microsoft markets as “vibe working,” delivered through an in‑app Agent Mode for Excel and Word and a chat‑first Office Agent inside...

Microsoft’s new “Agent Mode” for Excel and Word — plus a chat‑first “Office Agent” inside Microsoft 365 Copilot — marks a clear shift from single‑turn assistance to agentic productivity: describe the outcome you want in plain language, hand the task to an AI that plans, executes, checks itself...

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...

Microsoft is moving beyond single‑prompt Copilot chat and into what it calls “vibe working” — a new pattern that stitches multistep, steerable agents directly into Office apps so Copilot can plan, build, validate and iterate on documents, spreadsheets and presentations on your behalf. The...

Microsoft’s Copilot is learning to plan — not just answer — and the company has rolled out a pair of agentic features that push that capability directly into Word and Excel: a new Agent Mode for in‑app, multistep assistance and an Office Agent that creates documents from the Copilot chat surface...