Microsoft 365 Copilot
The latest Microsoft 365 Copilot coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Microsoft Report: Singapore Workers Racing Ahead With AI, But Employers Stuck in Neutral
Singaporean employees are adopting artificial intelligence tools into their daily work lives at a pace that dramatically outstrips the ability of their organisations to redesign workflows and...
xAI Unleashes Grok Add-ins for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in Direct Challenge to Microsoft Copilot
In January 2026, xAI shipped Grok add-ins for Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, embedding Elon Musk’s AI directly into the world’s most popular productivity suite. The launch positions Grok...
AI Turns Excel Exports Into Live Dashboards in Minutes—No Coding Required
A quiet revolution is reshaping how small businesses handle data: instead of staring at endless rows of spreadsheet exports, owners are now transforming them into sleek, interactive dashboards with...
Corporate Finance Institute’s 15 AI Prompts Turn Finance Chatbots Into Workflow Command Centers
On June 19, 2026, the Corporate Finance Institute (CFI) published a practical guide containing 15 artificial intelligence prompts for finance professionals. The prompts, organized across core...
Manchester Researchers and Grad Students Gain Microsoft 365 Copilot, with Policy and Live Training in Tow
The University of Manchester has flicked the switch on one of the UK’s most carefully choreographed higher‑education AI deployments. On 19 June 2026, the institution confirmed that teaching and...
Finnish City Raisio Arms 100 Municipal Workers with Microsoft 365 Copilot Skills via Sogeti Partnership
The City of Raisio, a municipality in southwestern Finland, has kicked off a structured Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption program that, by the end of 2025, will have put the AI assistant into the daily...
Microsoft Pulls Free Copilot from Office: What IT Admins Must Do Before 2026
Microsoft has quietly begun restricting Copilot access inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote for millions of business and education users, confirming that the era of free, broadly available AI...
Microsoft Unleashes Copilot Cowork: Agentic AI Delegation Redefines Workplace Automation
Microsoft has officially made Copilot Cowork generally available to organizations worldwide as of June 16, 2026. The launch brings an end to a three-month Frontier preview and transforms the...
Can Microsoft 365 Copilot Really Reclaim 10 Hours a Week? A Reality Check on Its AI Promises
Microsoft’s bold claim that its Microsoft 365 Copilot can save users up to 10 hours per week has sparked both excitement and skepticism across the enterprise world. Integrated directly into Word,...
Microsoft Shifts Copilot Cowork to Usage-Based Pricing, Charging per Compute-Consuming Task
Microsoft has officially abandoned the per-seat licensing model for its enterprise AI agent, Copilot Cowork, announcing on Tuesday, June 16, 2026, that organizations will now pay only for the compute...
Harvey Legal AI Debuts as Agent and Plugin in Microsoft 365 Copilot
On June 16, 2026, legal AI startup Harvey announced a deep integration into the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, bringing its advanced legal reasoning and document analysis directly to millions of...
Inside Microsoft 365 Copilot Licensing: Base Plans, USL Seats, and the True Cost of Agents
Microsoft quietly dropped the enterprise seat minimum for Microsoft 365 Copilot in January 2024, opening the AI assistant to businesses of any size—but the licensing model remains layered with...