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Macworld

Your everyday MS Office apps, minus the monthly bill — 2024 Home & Business is $70 off

Microsoft Office 2024 Home & Business gives you Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote as a one-time purchase for a single Mac ...

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TL;DR: Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019 for Windows is just $29.97 (MSRP $229) for a limited time — one payment, no ...

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Microsoft

Formulas, fandom and an AI-fueled future — Microsoft Excel celebrates 40 years

When Andrew Grigolyunovich first started using Excel more than two decades ago, he never imagined the spreadsheet program would land him in Las Vegas or on ESPN. The Latvian financial consultant ...
IFA Magazine

Microsoft Excel turns 40: CFOs celebrate the technology’s contribution and predict its future role in finance

Microsoft Excel has turned 40 years old today, marking a milestone age for the trusted spreadsheet software. Initially released on September 30 th, 1985, it’s estimated that Excel’s monthly user-base ...
The Verge

Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word

A new Agent Mode comes to Office apps today, alongside an Office Agent in Copilot chat. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 ...
Thurrott

Microsoft is Bringing “Vibe Working” to Office Apps

Microsoft today introduced “vibe working” with Agent Mode in Office Apps and Agent Mode in Copilot Chat. The basic premise will be familiar: These new agents will do work on your behalf, in this case ...
PC Gamer

DreamScene is back: Microsoft's resurrecting video wallpapers, a Windows feature last seen in 2007

If you're new to PCs, you may have wondered at some point why your Windows desktop wallpaper is just so static. After all, since it's being displayed by the GPU, then surely it could be animated in ...
PC Gamer

Microsoft announces it will automatically install the Copilot AI app alongside desktop versions of 365 products like Word, Excel and PowerPoint this October—and it seems like ...

Windows Microsoft rolls out 'experimental' AI mode for the Edge browser you can ask to spy on all your internetting and lend a helping hand. Yikes! AI Preview users have noticed OneDrive's AI-driven ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft rolls out Copilot Chat to Microsoft 365 Office apps

Microsoft is rolling out Copilot Chat to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote for paying Microsoft 365 business customers. Copilot Chat (short for Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat) is the company's ...