Microsoft 365 Blog

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Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2: Pages, Python in Excel, and agents

We are introducing Wave 2 of Microsoft 365 Copilot innovation, with three key updates. From enterprises to small businesses, they help Copilot get better every day. Nearly 1,000 customers have given us direct feedback on Copilot, and we’ve made more than 700 product updates based on that feedback.

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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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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 March 12, 2015

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Sway Use Case series #1: Educator Sways

Sway helps teachers engage their students, parents and other teachers in exciting new ways. In today’s Sway Use Case blog, we’ll celebrate a number of great uses of Sway by educators to enliven the classroom and enhance the quality of their teaching.

Published March 9, 2015

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Managing your work files in the browser keeps getting easier

We’re constantly working on new ways to simplify how business users of OneDrive can manage their files. Over the next few weeks you’ll see a number of enhancements to the user experience in our web client. These small changes all add up to making it even easier to create, share and find the work files

Published March 5, 2015

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The Office 2016 Mac Preview is here!

Today is a big day for the Mac community–we're excited to announce that a preview of the new Office 2016 for Mac is now officially available! Office 2016 for Mac is powered by the cloud so you can access your documents anytime, anywhere and on any device.

Published February 26, 2015

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Catching a comet with Excel Power Map

The recent news that the Rosetta spacecraft made the closest approach ever to the Comet 67P inspired the Power Map team to plot the trajectory of Earth, Mars, Comet 67P and Rosetta—by visualizing their paths through time.

Published February 25, 2015

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3M races forward to enable enterprise-wide collaboration

“Just four months after announcing our Office 365 direction to the company we’ve deployed Office 365 ProPlus to more than 60,000 employees and nearly 6,000 mobile devices”. Read more about 3M’s move to Office 365 in this post by Stephen Magnuson, 3M’s Manager of IT Infrastructure End User Services.

Published February 24, 2015

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From classroom to school–introducing OneNote Staff Notebook for education

Today we are excited to announce the release of OneNote Staff Notebook for Education to cultivate and manage educator collaboration at the district and school level. Now, an entire school or district can enjoy the benefits of OneNote’s organizational efficiency.

Published February 23, 2015

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Students worldwide can now check eligibility for free Office from their school

Today we are announcing that millions of eligible students around the world can now sign up for free Office from their school.

Published February 23, 2015

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Office in Cherokee

Office supports the Cherokee Nation’s commitment to revitalize their language by providing Office productivity software in their language

Published February 20, 2015

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Extended email retention for deleted items in Office 365

We’ve all been there, you search for an email or calendar invite in Outlook only to find that it isn’t there anymore. Until now deleted items were moved into the Deleted Items folder, then they would disappear after being in that folder for 30 days. With this update, the length of time items remain in the Deleted Items folder is extended to indefinitely or according to the duration set by your administrator.

Published February 19, 2015

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Handwriting in OneNote for iPad and OCR everywhere

Today, we're introducing two big improvements for capturing content into OneNote and enriching that content to make it easier to recall.

Published February 17, 2015

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PIN lock and other updates to Outlook for iOS and Android

Just over two weeks ago, we delivered the first version of Outlook for iOS and Android devices. We’ve heard from many of you that enjoy how Outlook brings together the core tools you need to get things done—your email, calendar, contacts and files—helping you get more done even on the smallest screen. We promised to deliver updates to Outlook every few weeks and we’ve been listening closely to your feedback. Today, we are happy to share some of the features we’ve added over the past two weeks.

Published February 16, 2015

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OneDrive

The security of your OneDrive is really important to us. We’re continually working to make it easier for you to both keep your OneDrive secure while also making it easier for you to access. And that’s why I’m excited to share our latest update with you: OneDrive on iOS now works with your favorite password