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 January 29, 2016

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Cushman & Wakefield chooses the Office 365 E5 suite

“I’m thrilled to announce that global real estate services leader Cushman & Wakefield has signed up on Office 365 E5.” —Read the announcement from John Case, corporate vice president for Microsoft.

Published January 27, 2016

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New cloud storage options for Office mobile and Office Online

Today, we’re making Office even easier for customers to use with cloud storage providers by adding real-time co-authoring with Office Online for documents stored in partner cloud services, extending our Office for iOS integration to all partners in the CSPP, and enabling integration between Outlook.com and cloud storage providers Dropbox and Box.

Published January 20, 2016

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SharePoint Server 2016 and Project Server 2016 Release Candidate available

Building on our announcement of SharePoint Server 2016 Beta 2 in November, we’re pleased to announce the SharePoint Server 2016 Release Candidate (RC). —Read on for more details.

Published January 12, 2016

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Boost your productivity with the new Full Screen view feature in Outlook for Mac

We are happy to announce that Outlook for Mac now officially supports Full Screen view for OS X Yosemite and above. —Read more to learn about some of the feature highlights.

Published December 17, 2015

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Matter Center for Office 365 is now available in GitHub

Office Extensibility exists for a single, simple purpose: make Office more useful by unleashing the creativity of developers to craft purpose-driven, relevant experiences for their users. We’re excited about pushing forward our vision of new and better ways for users to be productive. Combining that with the creativity and vision of third-party developers from around the world and companies of all sizes, the possibilities are endless.

Published December 16, 2015

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Access 2016 Runtime is now available for download

The Access team is pleased to announce the release of Access 2016 Runtime!

Published December 15, 2015

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Learn how to unpivot static tables in Excel 2016

With the new Get & Transform capabilities in Excel 2016, you can now import, transform and combine data from different sources—thanks to the integrated Power Query technology in Excel. Today we are going to focus on one of the most useful capabilities that Get & Transform offers—the ability to use Unpivot to transform ANY table in your workbook to make it ready for powerful analysis using PivotTables and PivotCharts.

Published December 14, 2015

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Admins—get ready for Office 365 Planner preview!

We’re happy to announce that today we’ve started rolling out the Office 365 Planner preview to Office 365 First Release customers.

Published December 3, 2015

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Schedule meetings faster with FindTime—a Microsoft Garage project

FindTime, an add-in for Outlook from the Microsoft Garage, makes it easy to schedule meetings with customers and people outside of your company.

Published November 19, 2015

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Updated Office 365 modern authentication

We have made a lot of improvements to the Office 365 modern authentication public preview program recently. —Read on for a summary of the updates.

Published November 18, 2015

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Share slides with your social network

It’s a snap to share presentations with your social network using Social Share, a Microsoft Garage project. This add-in for PowerPoint makes it easy to connect with Facebook and Twitter right from your Office pane.

Published November 18, 2015

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Announcing SharePoint Server 2016 Beta 2 and Project Server 2016 Beta 2

Today marks an important milestone in the development of SharePoint Server 2016 Beta 2. In conjunction with today’s SharePoint release, we’re also making available Project Server 2016 Beta 2.