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 August 6, 2015

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What’s new in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac?

PowerPoint 2016 for Mac is now available and we want to show you how it can help you better present your ideas. While PowerPoint 2016 for Mac includes hundreds of improvements and changes, today we are going to look at some of the features that improve the look of your presentations and discuss new presentation and collaboration features.

Published August 6, 2015

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Wearable productivity—new apps for you to wear

Over the past months, we’ve delivered a number of experiences on wearables: OneDrive, OneNote, PowerPoint, Skype, Yammer, as well as some from our newly joined Sunrise and Wunderlist teams. Today we are launching a new round of wearable productivity apps, as part of our quest to reinvent productivity on all platforms.

Published August 4, 2015

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Introducing the Waterfall chart—a deep dive to a more streamlined chart

Last month, we introduced six new chart types that will be available as part of Office 2016. Today, we will show you how to take advantage of the Waterfall chart, one of the most popular visualization tools used in small and large businesses.

Published August 4, 2015

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New features coming to Outlook on the web

Today, we are happy to announce exciting updates coming to the web version of Outlook in Office 365. We are rolling out an improved user interface and new features to help you stay on top of your inbox and manage your calendar. Formerly known as the Outlook Web App (or OWA for short), our browser-based Outlook experience will now simply be referred to as “Outlook on the web.”

Published July 29, 2015

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Office Mobile apps for Windows 10 are here!

It’s a big day for Microsoft and we are excited to be part of it! Today, we’re pleased to announce the availability of the Office Mobile apps on Windows 10—bringing us one step closer to our vision of reinventing productivity. Customers can immediately download and install the apps from the new Windows Store in 190 countries.

Published July 22, 2015

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Introducing Send—designed for in-and-out email

We’re launching a new app through the Microsoft Garage that is built specifically for brief, snappy communications—Send, designed for in-and-out email.

Published July 21, 2015

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Explore the built-in Mobile Device Management (MDM) feature for Office 365

Earlier this year, we started the rollout of built-in Mobile Device Management (MDM) for Office 365, and now that it has been available for a while, we want to give you some tips on how to get the feature up and running in your organization. —Read more on how to get started using MDM in Office 365.

Published July 17, 2015

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Top 10 back-to-school features in the new Office for Mac

Just in time for teachers, students and families preparing to head back to school—the all new Office for Mac is here.

Published July 16, 2015

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Document collaboration in Yammer just got better with Office Online!

Whether it’s drafting a proposal, updating the quarterly budget, or putting the finishing touches on a presentation, creating great content requires teams to stay on the same page. —Read more about Yammer from Juliet Wei.

Published July 15, 2015

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6 updates in Power Query for Excel

This month’s Power Query for Excel update is now available to you and is packed with lots of new features including improvements to the ODBC Connector and the Navigator dialog, the ability to download queries faster, expanded support for Salesforce Custom environments, and improvements to date and time parsing and the Unpivot column features.

Published July 13, 2015

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Announcing the 2015 Office App Awards winners

After weeks of judging, the Office Developer team picked the best SharePoint, Office, Office 365 and Mobile apps of 2015.

Published July 13, 2015

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DORMA delivers access to innovation for 7,000 global employees with Office 365

Premium access solutions provider DORMA has adopted Unily cloud intranet as a service built on Office 365, SharePoint Online, Yammer and Azure. This mobile and social intranet solution is supporting greater collaboration and productivity, and is delivering access to innovation for 7,000 global employees.