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 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 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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Microsoft has confirmed that OneNote for Windows 10—the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app preinstalled on many Windows 10 machines—will be retired on October 14, 2025, and will switch to a read-only state after that date, meaning you will still be able to view content but will not be able to...
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The last Windows Weekly episode landed like a mixtape of outrage, optimism, and technical quibbling — a brisk tour through Microsoft’s week that touched on a campus lockdown, Windows 11 change-management headaches, Microsoft 365 and OneNote transitions, a sweep of AI news, several...
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Microsoft has confirmed that OneNote for Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14, 2025, becoming a read‑only app on that date and requiring users to migrate to the new OneNote on Windows app to continue editing, syncing, and receiving feature updates and security fixes. This change...
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Microsoft OneNote’s humble tables are quietly becoming one of the smartest productivity weapons for 2025 — a lightweight way to turn scattered meeting notes, research scraps, and fleeting ideas into structured, actionable knowledge without pulling in a spreadsheet app. What used to be a handful...
Hello, I’m an university student working on a project with my friends. I’m looking for an app in which we can collaborate on a screen to jot down notes. Note that I want an app that will allow us to type as well as handwrite notes and works on cross platforms because in our group we have iPads...
Microsoft has confirmed that OneNote for Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14, 2025, after which the app will become read‑only and will no longer receive updates, fixes, or sync functionality — Microsoft is directing all users to migrate to the unified OneNote on Windows (the...
Microsoft is pulling the plug on the legacy OneNote app that shipped with Windows 10: beginning October 14, 2025, OneNote for Windows 10 (the UWP “legacy” client) will reach end of support and be placed into a read‑only state, and Microsoft is actively steering users and organizations toward the...
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Microsoft is retiring the OneNote for Windows 10 app and is asking users and organizations to migrate to the newer OneNote on Windows app, with the classic UWP-style OneNote becoming read-only on October 14, 2025 — the same date Microsoft ends mainstream support for Windows 10. This move...
Microsoft has confirmed that OneNote for Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14, 2025, and the legacy app will be left in a read‑only state — users will still be able to view notebooks but will no longer be able to edit, sync, or receive updates from that client after the cutoff...
Microsoft has confirmed that OneNote for Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14, 2025, and Microsoft is urging users and organizations to migrate to the newer OneNote on Windows app now to avoid losing editing and sync functionality when the legacy app becomes read-only...
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Microsoft 365 has quietly moved one of OneNote’s most praised inking features — the Fountain pen and Brush pen — into the core productivity apps, bringing a richer, more natural inking experience to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on Windows devices.
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Microsoft introduced the Fountain pen...
After more than twenty years of evolution, OneNote finally ships a simple — but genuinely consequential — productivity fix: a built‑in option to paste without formatting, accessible via the standard Ctrl+Shift+V (Windows) and Cmd+Shift+V (Mac) shortcuts, plus the familiar right‑click “Keep text...
Microsoft’s decision to retire the standalone Microsoft Lens mobile scanner marks a decisive step in its product consolidation around Copilot — a move that preserves core capture and OCR capabilities but abandons several of Lens’s most convenient and accessibility-driven workflows, forcing...
Microsoft is winding down Microsoft Lens — the compact, no-frills mobile document scanner that began life as Office Lens — and consolidating its scanning capabilities into the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app as part of a broader product rationalization around AI-first experiences. The change is...
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Microsoft’s decision to retire the popular Microsoft Lens (formerly Office Lens) mobile scanning app marks a significant change for millions of casual and enterprise users who rely on its fast, reliable capture and OCR workflows — the retirement begins on September 15, 2025, the app will be...
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