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Microsoft's COPILOT Function Lets You Write AI Prompts Inside Excel Cells
Microsoft has embedded generative AI into the very fabric of Excel with a new COPILOT function, a move that transforms spreadsheet cells into natural-language prompt boxes. Starting this week,...
Microsoft Hires Covington & Burling to Investigate Azure AI’s Role in Israeli Surveillance Operations
Microsoft has commissioned an external legal review led by the law firm Covington & Burling LLP to investigate allegations that its Azure cloud platform and artificial intelligence tools were...
Free Cheltenham Workshop Shows Gloucestershire SMEs How to Pilot AI in 60 Days
On Thursday, 25 September 2025, senior business leaders from across Gloucestershire will gather at The Site coworking space in Cheltenham for a two-hour breakfast workshop designed to turn AI...
Board’s Enterprise Planning Platform Scores Azure Certified Software Designation, Unlocking Co-Sell and Marketplace Perks
Board International has secured a Microsoft Solutions Partner designation with Certified Software for Azure, adding the company’s enterprise planning platform to a short list of financially focused...
Microsoft's New COPILOT Function Brings AI to Excel's Calculation Engine, Sparking Governance and Licensing Fears
Microsoft has quietly slipped generative AI into Excel’s formula bar. The new COPILOT function, now rolling out to Microsoft 365 Insiders, accepts natural-language prompts and cell ranges, then...
Azure Modernization: Up to 400% ROI and 6-Month Payback for Scaling Agentic AI
Organizations that pair a modern cloud core with agentic AI are already pulling ahead, and new research puts hard numbers behind the shift: cloud modernization on Microsoft Azure can deliver up to...
Microsoft embeds Copilot into Excel's grid with new COPILOT function: quotas, governance, and practical tips
Microsoft has quietly rolled out a game-changing addition to Excel: a first-class function named COPILOT that lets users call generative AI from within spreadsheet cells. The function, which debuted...
Microsoft's New COPILOT Function Puts Generative AI Inside Excel Formulas
Microsoft has taken its deepest plunge yet into AI-assisted productivity by embedding a generative AI function directly into Excel’s formula engine. The new =COPILOT function, now rolling out to...
Microsoft Rolls Back WUSA Bug That Broke .msu Installs from Network Shares and Disrupted WSUS Updates
Microsoft has deployed a targeted Known Issue Rollback (KIR) to fix a Windows Update Standalone Installer (WUSA) regression that caused .msu update packages to fail with ERROR_BAD_PATHNAME when...
Microsoft's $80B AI Infrastructure Push Supercharges Contract Automation for Enterprises
Microsoft is pouring more than $80 billion into AI-capable data centers this fiscal year, a staggering bet that underpins a sweeping strategy to automate enterprise procurement through Azure-based...
Ricoh's APAC Workforce Gets Hands-On with Microsoft Copilot Agents in Week-Long AI Sprint
Microsoft’s Copilot agent-building platform now comes with a clear price tag, and Ricoh Asia Pacific is betting $200 per month per credit pack that its employees can turn that platform into...
Half an Hour Less Email, 12% Faster Docs: First Major M365 Copilot RCT Reveals Real Gains
A massive randomized controlled trial involving more than 6,000 workers at 56 companies has delivered the first rigorous, independent evidence on the productivity impact of Microsoft 365 Copilot. The...