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Microsoft Doubles Down on Seat-Based Pricing For AI

Microsoft appears to be betting that its tried-and-true subscription pricing model for software is here to stay, even in the era of AI agents that run 24/7, and that customers will be OK with ...
FedScoop

ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot approved for use with Senate data

The Senate, for its part, previously allowed ChatGPT, Google Bard, and Microsoft’s Bing AI chat in 2023 at “moderate” risk levels, but they were only for research and evaluation or use with ...
WinBuzzer

Anthropic Claude Links Excel and PowerPoint With Shared Context, Reusable Skills

Anthropic has launched shared context for Claude's Excel and PowerPoint add-ins, enabling cross-app workflows and reusable one-click Skills for enterprise teams.
Computer Weekly

This rise of the splinternet? Data sovereignty risks and responses

We look at the political, legal and economic risks around data sovereignty, the fears for digital dependency and massive hyperscaler penetration in the UK public sector ...

Build, Analyze, and Present Better With Microsoft Office 2024, Now 44% Off

Microsoft Office 2024 Home & Business is on sale for $139.97 (reg. $249.99) through April 5. Office 2024 places a strong emphasis on performance, particularly within Excel, which now manages larger ...

Microsoft announces that Office has two critical security vulnerabilities, and here's where you can find patches to fix them

With the catchy codenames of CVE-2026-26110 and CVE-2026-26113, these issues potentially allow anyone with local access to Office to execute whatever code they like. Both have a common vulnerability ...
WinBuzzer

Microsoft Bundles Copilot Into New $99 Microsoft 365 E7 Suite

Microsoft has launched a new $99 Office 365 bundle with Copilot AI included for enterprise users, marking a major shift in ...
Computer Weekly

WA auditor general flags weak Microsoft 365 security controls across state entities

Western Australia’s Office of the Auditor General has uncovered weaknesses in M365 configurations across seven government agencies, leading to compromised accounts and data breaches ...

Microsoft announces Copilot Cowork with help from Anthropic — a cloud-powered AI agent that works across M365 apps

Copilot Cowork operates in the cloud, inside Microsoft 365's infrastructure, and draws on something Claude Cowork simply cannot access: the full graph of a user's enterprise work data.

European alternative to Microsoft Office and Google Docs launches in the Hague

Office.eu promises a European answer to Microsoft Office dependence ...
Cryptopolitan

Microsoft brings Anthropic’s Claude AI into Copilot Cowork to expand agent-driven workplace tools

Microsoft is adding Anthropic’s Claude Cowork to Microsoft 365 Copilot, giving business users a new tool that can do actual office work instead of just ...

M365 Copilot gets its own version of Claude Cowork

The Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 3 brings new agentic AI tools to create and edit documents, alongside the launch of an E7 price tier that bundles AI tools with M365 apps for $99 per user each month.