Microsoft 365 Blog

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New agent capabilities in Microsoft Copilot unlock business value

Microsoft Copilot is already helping individual employees boost productivity, creativity and time savings. With the announcements at Microsoft Build 2024, we’re delivering an entirely new set of capabilities that unlock Copilot’s ability to drive bottom-line business results for every organization.

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Microsoft and LinkedIn release the 2024 Work Trend Index on the state of AI at work

For our fourth annual Work Trend Index, out today, we partnered with LinkedIn for the first time on a joint report so we could provide a comprehensive view of how AI is not only reshaping work, but the labor market more broadly.

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Bringing Copilot to more customers worldwide—across life and work

Continuing our vision for Microsoft Copilot to bring the power of generative AI to everyone across work and life, we’re expanding availability and purchase options for individuals and organizations and bringing new value to Copilot Pro subscribers.

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Introducing Microsoft Copilot for Finance: Transform finance with next-generation AI in Microsoft 365

We’re announcing the public preview of Microsoft Copilot for Finance, a game-changer for finance professionals and the newest role-based extension of Microsoft Copilot. Microsoft Copilot for Finance is a momentous leap forward, specifically crafted to revolutionize the daily grind of well-known financial processes.

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Expanding Copilot for Microsoft 365 to businesses of all sizes

We are updating our Microsoft Copilot product line-up with a new Copilot Pro subscription for individuals; expanding Copilot for Microsoft 365 availability to small and medium-sized businesses; and announcing no seat minimum for commercial plans.

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The right way to AI: what we’re learning from customers

We want to help everyone navigate this new world of work. At Microsoft, we’re taking a learn-it-all approach with Copilot, working alongside our customers and employees to understand what the organizations getting the most value out of Copilot are doing right.

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Microsoft Copilot for Sales and Copilot for Service are now generally available

Microsoft is dedicated to helping organizations transform the way people work using secure, enterprise-grade AI capabilities, no matter which business applications teams depend on. Starting today, you can seamlessly integrate role-specific Copilot capabilities into Microsoft 365 applications and popular customer relationship management (CRM) and contact center systems for sales and customer service professionals.

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Introducing Microsoft Copilot Studio and new features in Copilot for Microsoft 365 

At Microsoft Ignite 2023, we are announcing new innovations across Microsoft Copilot—one copilot experience that runs across all our surfaces, understanding your context on the web, on your PC, and at work to bring the right skills to you when you need them across work and life.

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Announcing Microsoft Copilot Studio: Customize Copilot for Microsoft 365 and build your own standalone copilots

At Microsoft Ignite 2023, we’re excited to announce Microsoft Copilot Studio, a low-code tool to customize Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 and build standalone copilots.

Recent articles

Published May 4, 2016

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SharePoint—the mobile and intelligent intranet

Today, we announced the new SharePoint mobile app, a new SharePoint home in Office 365, modern team sites with Office 365 Groups, responsive page authoring and updates to document libraries and lists, plus a look at SharePoint and integration with Microsoft PowerApps and Microsoft Flow. —Read on for more details.

Published May 4, 2016

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Office Online Server now available

We are excited to announce the release of Office Online Server (OOS), which enables customers to provision browser-based versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote from their on-premises environments.

Published April 26, 2016

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More April 2016 updates for Get & Transform in Excel 2016 and the Power Query add-in

Excel 2016 includes a powerful new set of data import and shaping capabilities available under the Get & Transform section on the Data ribbon. Today, we are pleased to announce on more updates to this powerful feature set.

Published April 20, 2016

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OneNote Class Notebook as an e-Portfolio

OneNote helped me to create a class portfolio where all students and teachers in one class were connected in one place.

Published April 19, 2016

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New Office 365 Project Portfolio Dashboard apps are live

The Project Portfolio Dashboard apps announced last fall are now available in the Apple and Office app stores! These apps come pre-configured with powerful dashboards allowing business leaders, portfolio managers and project managers to gain insights into areas such as resource utilization, project portfolio performance, costs, active risks/issues and key milestones.

Published April 19, 2016

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Learning Tools are a game changer for my special education students

"Microsoft has invested not only money but a great deal of time to make our job as educators easier. They have given us a one-stop shop in Office 365 and a range of lesson tools such as PowerPoint and Sway. However, one of the most incredible tools they have designed is OneNote." —Read more from Lauren Pittman, special education teacher at Holly Springs Elementary School in Georgia.

Microsoft 365

Published April 15, 2016

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Office 365 news roundup

Discover why Office 365 represents an exceptional opportunity for developers, and how that helps individual users and organizations of all sizes. We’ll also catch you up on some of the recent news about Office 365. Enjoy!

Published April 13, 2016

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Introducing a new home page experience for Office 365 users

We’re constantly looking for opportunities to improve the way our users get things done. That’s why we’re excited about a fresh new look and feel for the Office 365 welcome page, and a range of new features for both administrators and users.

Published April 12, 2016

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Outlook on the web makes going on vacations less stressful

Outlook on the web makes it easier to clear your calendar before you head out and will automatically decline meetings—if they are set for a date in which you are gone—while you are away from the office.

Published April 12, 2016

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EPIC Planning in OneNote

The OneNote Notebook not only offers the organizational and collaboration framework we were looking for—it includes some cool value-added benefits.

Published April 7, 2016

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Introducing Wunderlist, Facebook and Evernote in Outlook on iOS and Android

With Calendar Apps, you can connect your apps—Wunderlist, Facebook and Evernote to start with—to see all your tasks, events and notes from your digital life in one place: your Outlook calendar.

Published April 6, 2016

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Take back your time with MyAnalytics

In today’s modern workplace, we have more ways to communicate and collaborate with others throughout the course of our workday than ever before. In Office 365, you email and chat, have audio and video calls and meetings, collaborate on documents and share them with colleagues in the cloud. MyAnalytics delivers you insights about how you work, ultimately helping you to work smarter, not harder.