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The latest Powerpoint coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Microsoft Pays Anthropic to Add Claude Sonnet 4 as Copilot's Second AI Brain in Office 365
Microsoft is paying Anthropic to integrate its Claude AI models directly into Office 365 applications, marking the first time the productivity suite will officially route user prompts to a large...
Microsoft's Hidden PowerPoint Flaw: Why CVE-2025-54908 Evades Verification but Demands Action
A newly surfaced Microsoft advisory for CVE-2025-54908 warns of a use-after-free vulnerability in PowerPoint that could allow an unauthorized attacker to execute code locally. However, when security...
Copilot’s Word-to-Slides Feature Saves Hours, But Windows 10’s Oct 2025 Deadline Looms
Microsoft has quietly flipped the switch on a Copilot feature that many PowerPoint users have been craving: the ability to generate a ready-to-edit slide directly from a Word document. For anyone who...
Screen Recording on Windows 10 for Free: The Complete Guide to Tools, Tips, and Security
Windows 10 users can capture anything from quick app clips to multi-camera productions without spending a penny—if they know which tool to use and how to avoid the pitfalls. The operating system...
Copilot Deep Research Slashes Literature Review Time to Minutes, Adds Enterprise Controls
Microsoft has unveiled a new Copilot capability that condenses the most grueling phase of literature reviews—the initial discovery and synthesis of sources—into a five-to-ten-minute,...
Microsoft Copilot 3D Converts 2D Photos to 3D Models for PowerPoint in Seconds
Microsoft has quietly introduced a feature that could redefine how Windows users create 3D content—without any modeling skills required. Branded "Copilot 3D," the experimental tool lives inside...
Microsoft 365 Copilot for iOS Ditches Editing, Forces Users to Install Separate Word, Excel Apps
Microsoft is stripping editing capabilities from the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on iOS, transforming it into a preview and AI chat wrapper that pushes users toward standalone Word, Excel, and...
Microsoft Discloses Critical PowerPoint Use-After-Free Flaw, CVE-2025-53761, Enabling Local Code Execution
Microsoft has issued a security advisory for a new use-after-free vulnerability in PowerPoint, tracked as CVE-2025-53761, that allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code locally. The flaw, which...
Handwriting Just Got Real: Microsoft Adds Fountain and Brush Pens to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
Microsoft has quietly ported two of OneNote’s most expressive digital inking tools—the Fountain pen and Brush pen—into Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for Windows, giving users a more natural,...
Microsoft Kills Lens Scanner in December, Stranding OneNote and Accessibility Workflows
Microsoft will disable new scans in its popular Lens mobile app on December 15, 2025, a move that severs direct exports to OneNote, Word, and PowerPoint and removes integrated Immersive Reader...
Microsoft Kills Lens Scanner App: 3 Critical Deadlines and Missing Features You Need to Know
Microsoft's popular Lens mobile scanning app is getting the axe, and the clock is ticking for millions of users. The company announced that Lens will begin its retirement on September 15, 2025, with...
Microsoft Lens App Ends Dec 15, Copilot Takes Scanning Reins but Leaves OneNote and Immersive Reader Behind
Microsoft’s long-standing document scanning app, Microsoft Lens, is heading for retirement in a phased rollout that begins September 15, 2025, and will leave users unable to create new scans after...