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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 July 15, 2014

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Announcing the Onetastic sort feature

Omer Atay is a developer on the OneNote team, and he created Onetastic in his free time. An update to sort your content is now available for Onetastic, an add-in to enhance OneNote functionality with a set of built-in features and an extensible macro processor that allows you to download and modify macros and add

Published July 14, 2014

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Playing to win—GameStop ups customer service with Office 365

“When we are more consistent and coherent in our communications, we better reflect our brand and increase our level of service across the board. We can do that with Office 365.” Read more from Jason Cochran, vice president of Store Operations, GameStop.

Published July 2, 2014

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Get the Most Out Of Yammer With These #YamTips

No matter how long you've been Yamming, there are always new tricks you can pick up to increase your effectiveness. We've gotten a great response from our first and second collections of short #YamTips, so we put together a third. Here are six more Yammer tips for you. Remember you can get all of our…

Published June 30, 2014

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Creating custom data graphics in Visio

Visio has a rich set of built-in graphics to represent data visually. To help you get started quickly, Visio Professional 2013 provides 4 kinds of data graphics: text, data bar, icon set and color by value. With these, you can build data graphics, create multiple data graphics with a single shape and link your data

Published June 23, 2014

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Massive increase to OneDrive storage plans: 15 GB free for everyone, 1 TB for Office 365 subscribers

With OneDrive, we want to give you one place for all of your stuff: your photos, videos, documents and other files. Of course, to do this, we need to make sure you actually have enough storage space for everything, particularly given that the amount of content everyone has is growing by leaps and bounds. It’s

Published June 18, 2014

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Yammer and Salesforce.com Integration Sample Code Solution is Now Available

Yammer is introducing a new sample code solution that allows customers to easily integrate Yammer with salesforce.com (Salesforce). With the Yammer and Salesforce integration sample code solution, companies can work like a network to track the progress of accounts, opportunities, leads, and campaigns within Salesforce and collaborate with coworkers from any department using Yammer. The Yammer…

Published June 4, 2014

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Work Wonders: Making music dreams come true

Guest contributor Mike Kaminsky is passionate about music, which led him to his dream job in the music industry. A successful artist manager, everything he does is centered on making, supporting and promoting music. His office is wherever he happens to be, so he turned to Office 365 to keep everything he needs right at his fingertips, from any device. Get inspired by how he does it.

Published June 2, 2014

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From Inside the Cloud: Who has access to your data within Office 365?

Perry Clarke is the corporate vice president in Office Server and Services. Vivek Sharma is the director of program management in Office Server and Services. Vivek Sharma: In our last From Inside the Cloud post, “Is your data safe at rest?,” we looked at possible physical and logical threat vectors and the various mitigations in

Published May 27, 2014

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2048… Excel style!

Occasionally, we like to feature the many creative and unexpected ways in which people are using Excel to solve all sorts of problems, for both work and play. For those of you who are fans of the hit mobile phone game 2048, some ingenious Excel users have created versions of the game inside of Excel!

Published May 21, 2014

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Save an email to OneNote with just a tap!

Today’s post is written by Chirag, Product Marketer at CloudMagic. CloudMagic has developed a way to save an email to OneNote with just a tap! You receive a lot of information over email that is note-worthy. Saving those emails to OneNote is now just a tap away with the CloudMagic Mail App. Read on to learn more and where to download the

Published May 15, 2014

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Get more done with Tell Me

At the beginning of this year, we launched a brand-new feature in Word Online, Tell Me. Tell Me is now also available in Excel Online and PowerPoint Online. Read on to learn more about how Tell me works and can help you be more productive with Office Online.

Published May 13, 2014

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Choosing a sign-in model for Office 365

We get a lot of questions about which of the three identity models to choose with Office 365. Which of these models you choose will impact where you manage your user accounts for Office 365 and how those user sign-in passwords are verified. Read on to learn more about each of the models, how to move between them, and guidance on how to choose the right one for your needs.