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    Microsoft Windows App Pruning: IE, Paint 3D, and Mail Transition to Outlook

    Microsoft’s quiet pruning of long‑standing Windows apps has accelerated into a visible strategy: the company is retiring or removing familiar built‑ins — from the browser that once ruled the web to niche creative tools and the lightweight Mail client — and asking users and organizations to...
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    2025 ChatGPT Alternatives: Pricing, Features, and a Practical Playbook

    When a single AI service becomes central to millions of workflows, a short outage stops more than casual conversation — it exposes systemic fragility and forces users to choose alternatives they may previously have ignored. Recent market shifts and intermittent service interruptions have pushed...
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    Nadella's Five Prompts: Copilot + GPT-5 Transform Executive Workflows

    Satya Nadella has publicly shown how he uses five short, repeatable ChatGPT-style prompts inside Microsoft Copilot to “supercharge” his executive workflow — calling Copilot “a new layer of intelligence spanning all my apps” and framing the assistant less as a drafting tool and more as a...
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    Copilot Library Expands to Podcasts, Documents, and Quizzes

    Microsoft’s Copilot library is quietly morphing from a simple media drawer into an all‑in‑one content workspace, and recent test builds suggest the company is adding dedicated categories for podcasts, research documents, and quizzes—placeholders that hint at a future where Copilot won’t just...
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    Google Gemini: Agent Mode, Gemini Go, Immersive View Redefine AI Workspace

    Google’s Gemini is quietly testing a set of new experimental modes — Agent Mode, Gemini Go, and an Immersive View — that together signal a deliberate shift from single‑turn chat toward agentic, creative, and visually driven workflows inside the Gemini workspace. Early UI discoveries reported by...
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    COPILOT in Excel: On-Grid AI Formulas, Quotas, and Governance

    Microsoft has added a first‑class Excel function named COPILOT — an equals‑sign‑style formula that lets users call Copilot directly from the grid, pass natural‑language prompts and ranges as context, and surface AI‑generated arrays and single‑cell results that recalculate with the workbook. The...
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    Microsoft Tests Copilot Prompts in Windows 11 Start Menu

    Microsoft has begun quietly testing Copilot-related recommendations inside the Windows 11 Start menu’s Recommended area — a move that places Microsoft’s AI assistant directly at the moment users choose what to do next and that, in practice, functions like a promotional surface for both the...
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