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 6, 2014

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Alternate login ID for Office 365 reduces dependence on UPN

We're making onboarding to Office 365 easier by reducing the requirements for Active Directory remediation before syncing your on premises directory with Office 365.

Published May 6, 2014

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Updating OneDrive: Five New Features You Asked For

We always prioritize feedback from our customers. And today, we’re announcing a number of exciting updates to both the web and our mobile app that deliver on some of the top requests we’ve received. These updates will be rolling out to OneDrive users over the coming days.

Published May 5, 2014

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The Walsh Group—Construction leader builds in flexibility and streamlines IT with Office 365 ProPlus

"Nobody wants to wait for their PC or mobile device to install huge updates—the incremental updates we get with Office 365 ProPlus mean no waiting." ---Read the guest post from Patrick Wirtz, innovation manager for The Walsh Group, a Chicago, Illinois–based general contracting, construction management, and design services firm that builds airports, highways, stadiums, bridges and other large-scale projects.

Published May 1, 2014

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Building the Business Case for Your Social Business Strategy

As I shared in the first post of this blog series, having a clear goal and plan for how your enterprise social network (ESN) and social business ties back to your overall business is the foundation of your strategy. In this post, we'll go through three steps that you'll need to take to build your…

Published May 1, 2014

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Connecting the dots with Project Lite: From time tracking and collaboration to business growth

Microsoft Project Lite - A companion offering to Project Online or Project Server, provides a very collaborative and engaging environment for team members to submit timesheets, manage tasks, highlight issues and risks, and collaborate with each other as well and other project stakeholders at a price of $7 per user/month.

Published April 29, 2014

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Office for iPad now includes printing

Your top Office for iPad request is here! You can now print Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations from the iPad.

Published April 28, 2014

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Martin Aircraft: Taking the jetpack into commercial production with Office 365

With Office 365, we get reliable, web-based email, easy access to our business information that stays current across all our mobile devices, the ability to work on documents simultaneously across time zones, web conferencing, and instant messaging. All these capabilities add up to the IT systems we need for performing effectively in a global marketplace… Read the post from Martin Aircraft’s CEO plus find the new video and case study.

Published April 16, 2014

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Outlook.com customers can now import their email from Yahoo Mail

We’re excited to announce that, as of today, you can use Outlook.com to import and manage your email from Yahoo Mail and many other IMAP-enabled email providers.

Published April 15, 2014

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Synchronizing your directory with Office 365 is easy

Paul Andrew is technical product manager for Identity Management on the Office 365 team. If you’re just getting started with Office 365, you’re probably considering how to extend the user directory that you use for accessing internal resources for connecting to cloud resources. The simplest way to achieve this is with the Windows Azure Active

Published April 1, 2014

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Office 365—Helping real estate agents succeed by keeping them connected to people and information

For Windermere’s 6,000 real estate brokers, the difference between success and failure is their ability to stay connected to a complex matrix of people and information. With Microsoft Office 365, brokers now rely on one easy solution to stay on top of countless details and hundreds of contacts. For more information on Windermere's success, read the article...

Published March 31, 2014

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Office powered by OneDrive. Everywhere.

When we launched OneDrive last month, our goal was to make OneDrive the one place for everything in your life – including your photos, videos, and documents – regardless of the device or platform being used. Now, with the release of Office for iPad, that vision is being realized yet again.

Published March 27, 2014

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Announcing the Office you love, now on the iPad

Word for iPad, Excel for iPad and PowerPoint for iPad are available in the App Store today as free downloads. These are the real Microsoft Office apps, optimized for touch and designed for getting work done on iPad. Read on to learn more about our mobile first, cloud first approach.