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Microsoft’s Copilot push entered a new, more automated phase this month as the company confirmed a staged rollout of PowerPoint Agent Mode, a feature that can autonomously build presentations by pulling content from SharePoint, OneDrive, email, and Teams conversations—part of a wider wave of...

Conditional Access in large tenants is often a map of good intentions and accidental complexity, and idPowerApp promises to redraw that map into clear, printable slides so teams can see, reason about, and remediate policy interactions at a glance. Overview Conditional Access (CA) is one of the...

Microsoft’s PowerPoint is getting a practical, Copilot-powered addition named Explainer that promises to make dense, jargon-filled slides instantly readable without leaving the app — a contextual “explain this” tool that runs in the Copilot side pane and is now rolling out to Copilot-licensed...

AI chart generators have moved from curiosity to core workflow tools for anyone who turns numbers into slides — the apps I tested in this round deliver everything from one-click, in-slide native charts to one-click, whole-deck exports, but they do so with markedly different trade-offs around...

Microsoft has quietly told admins it will remove PowerPoint’s long‑standing Reuse Slides pane from the desktop apps, and the retirement is already being rolled out — leaving many users who relied on the in‑app slide browser suddenly without their fastest way to pull selective slides from other...

Microsoft is removing Microsoft Defender Application Guard (MDAG) for Office from Microsoft 365 desktop apps, with the feature scheduled for phased removal beginning in early 2026 and complete removal by December 2027—documents that once opened inside a Hyper‑V backed, containerized Application...

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...

Microsoft’s mobile productivity strategy has taken another turn: the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on iOS will stop being an all‑in‑one editing surface and will become a preview-first Copilot hub, pushing users to the standalone Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps whenever they need to edit a document...

Microsoft is redesigning the mobile Copilot experience on iOS: beginning this fall the Microsoft 365 Copilot app will act primarily as an AI-powered viewer and conversational hub, offering in-context file previews, summaries and Q&A — while editing for Word, Excel and PowerPoint files will be...

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...

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...

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...

Visier’s Vee has been named a Top HR Product of the Year by Human Resource Executive, a recognition that crystallizes how people analytics and generative AI are moving from dashboards into the everyday flow of work—now embedded inside Microsoft 365 Copilot to bring workforce intelligence...

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...

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...

Microsoft’s Office productivity stack is entering a deliberate, workload‑focused transformation: Redmond will begin routing select Copilot and Office 365 features to Anthropic’s Claude models — notably the Sonnet 4 family — alongside continued use of OpenAI and Microsoft’s own models, a...

Microsoft’s advisory link for CVE-2025-54908 points to a PowerPoint use‑after‑free that “allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code locally,” but that specific CVE number could not be corroborated in public vulnerability trackers at the time of verification; when attempting to load the...

Microsoft’s Copilot can now pull text out of a Word document and drop it into PowerPoint as a ready-to-edit slide — a small-seeming change with outsized implications for productivity, licensing, and IT planning, especially for organizations still on Windows 10 and watching Microsoft’s support...

Microsoft has quietly added a practical new trick to Copilot in PowerPoint — it can now generate a ready-to-edit slide directly from a Word document (or create a full presentation from a Word file), and that feature arrives at the exact moment organizations must face the hard deadline for...

Microsoft’s Copilot has quietly crossed a threshold: it can now turn sections of a Word document into fully formed PowerPoint slides — not as a rough sketch, but as editable, presentation-ready slides that include layouts, speaker notes, and suggested imagery. This is a practical, day-to-day...