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Used ForProductivity Suite

Initial Release Year2011

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Redington AvePoint Partnership Expands Data Security and AI Readiness Across India

Redington Limited has formed a strategic partnership with AvePoint to strengthen its enterprise data security portfolio across India. The collaboration will leverage Redington's extensive channel network to deliver AvePoint's data protection, governance, and AI-ready solutions to organizations navigating digital transformation and emerging cyber threats.

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Redington AvePoint Partnership Expands Data Security and AI Readiness Across India

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Microsoft Restructures Into 'Agents and Infra' and 'Devices and Consumer' Divisions in AI Makeover

Microsoft is overhauling its organizational structure, replacing three traditional segments with two new divisions: Agents and Infra and Devices and Consumer. CEO Satya Nadella says the Microsoft reorganization reflects how AI is fundamentally changing operations, with Agents and Infra projected to generate $75 billion in revenue.

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Microsoft Restructures Into 'Agents and Infra' and 'Devices and Consumer' Divisions in AI Makeover

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Microsoft Stock Climbs 3% as AI Growth Drives Analyst Upgrades and Business Restructuring

Microsoft stock jumped nearly 3% as Bank of America raised its price target to $600, citing accelerating Azure cloud services growth at 43% and Microsoft 365 Copilot reaching 30 million paid seats. The company announced a sweeping business restructuring into two AI-focused segments starting fiscal 2027.

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Microsoft Stock Climbs 3% as AI Growth Drives Analyst Upgrades and Business Restructuring

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Microsoft's Office and LinkedIn chief warns AI slop is creating a workplace doom loop

Ryan Roslansky, Microsoft EVP overseeing Office and LinkedIn, criticized a colleague's AI-generated document as meaningless slop. His warning highlights growing frustration with low-quality AI content flooding workplaces, even as Microsoft aggressively pushes Copilot integration across its productivity tools.

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Microsoft's Office and LinkedIn chief warns AI slop is creating a workplace doom loop

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Microsoft Kills Excel Copilot Function After Only 1 Year in Preview

Microsoft is pulling the plug on Excel's COPILOT() function on September 14, 2026, barely a year after its August 2025 preview debut. The AI-powered feature, which allowed users to describe tasks in natural language directly within worksheet cells, never reached public launch. Microsoft is directing users to the Copilot side pane instead, citing a need to streamline the AI experience.

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Microsoft Kills Excel Copilot Function After Only 1 Year in Preview

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Microsoft Merges Copilot Apps Into Single Platform, Retires AI Features Amid Consolidation Push

Microsoft is consolidating its separate consumer and commercial Copilot apps into one unified platform starting mid-August, eliminating features like Group Chats, Podcasts, and Deep Research by August 18. The move reflects broader AI consolidation trends and Microsoft's struggle to compete with ChatGPT and Gemini.

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Microsoft Merges Copilot Apps Into Single Platform, Retires AI Features Amid Consolidation Push

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S&P Global Expands Microsoft 365 Copilot Data Integration with AI-Ready Intelligence

S&P Global announced an expanded collaboration with Microsoft to integrate its AI-ready data and analytics into Microsoft 365 Copilot workflows. The integration uses the Kensho LLM-ready API to deliver cited, verifiable results for financial analysis, company research, and competitive benchmarking directly within Microsoft 365 tools.

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S&P Global Expands Microsoft 365 Copilot Data Integration with AI-Ready Intelligence

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OpenAI Acquires NextSlide to Expand AI-Powered Presentation Tools Inside ChatGPT

OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, an AI-powered presentation startup founded just over a year ago. The deal brings founder Ahmed Beshry and his team into ChatGPT development, advancing OpenAI's push to build a comprehensive office suite with AI-driven productivity tools that could challenge Microsoft's core products.

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OpenAI Acquires NextSlide to Expand AI-Powered Presentation Tools Inside ChatGPT

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Microsoft Copilot security vulnerability lets hidden prompts copy themselves across Word documents

A researcher has revealed that Microsoft Copilot for Word can be tricked by hidden prompts embedded in documents, causing it to alter data and copy malicious instructions into new files. Despite two mitigation attempts by Microsoft, including a model upgrade to GPT-5.5, the security vulnerability remains exploitable 144 days after initial disclosure, raising concerns about AI security flaws as Microsoft pushes Copilot to 30 million paid seats.

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Microsoft Copilot security vulnerability lets hidden prompts copy themselves across Word documents

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Microsoft faces CMA investigation over Copilot subscription price hike and customer transparency

Britain's Competition and Markets Authority launched a probe into Microsoft's bundling of Copilot into Microsoft 365 subscriptions, examining whether customers were clearly informed about a £25 annual price increase. The investigation focuses on how Microsoft communicated renewal options when it automatically moved subscribers to pricier plans in January 2025, unless they actively opted out.

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Microsoft faces CMA investigation over Copilot subscription price hike and customer transparency

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Perplexity brings Personal Computer AI agent to Windows, targeting enterprise productivity

Perplexity has launched its Personal Computer tool for Windows, expanding the AI agent beyond Mac to over 1 billion devices. The agentic automation software acts as a digital worker that accesses local files and apps to handle tasks like document creation and spreadsheet updates. Starting at $200 per month for Max subscribers, the tool positions Perplexity as an enterprise productivity platform competing directly with Microsoft Copilot.

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Perplexity brings Personal Computer AI agent to Windows, targeting enterprise productivity

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Microsoft replaces OpenAI with its own AI models in PowerPoint and Bing, signals shift

Microsoft is swapping OpenAI's image-generating models for its own technology across PowerPoint and Bing. CEO Satya Nadella emphasized that enterprises shouldn't depend on any single AI provider, calling every model "substitutable." The move comes as Microsoft reported $90 billion in quarterly revenue while positioning itself as a multi-model platform that competes directly with OpenAI and Anthropic.

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Microsoft replaces OpenAI with its own AI models in PowerPoint and Bing, signals shift

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Manulife expands Microsoft partnership with five-year AI deal targeting $1 billion in value

Manulife Financial has signed a five-year agreement with Microsoft to expand AI capabilities across global operations. The deal includes deploying Microsoft 365 Copilot to over 30,000 employees and adopting Microsoft Agent 365 for enterprise-scale AI agent management. The Canadian insurer expects to generate more than $1 billion in enterprise value by 2027.

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Manulife expands Microsoft partnership with five-year AI deal targeting $1 billion in value

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LTM leads India's largest enterprise AI transformation with Microsoft 365 Copilot for 140,000 workers

LTM is spearheading the deployment of Microsoft 365 Copilot across the L&T Group, enabling approximately 140,000 employees in one of India's most ambitious enterprise AI workplace transformations. The initiative has already delivered a 70% improvement in IT and HR query resolution while boosting employee engagement and HR productivity by 15%.

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LTM leads India's largest enterprise AI transformation with Microsoft 365 Copilot for 140,000 workers

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OpenAI GPT-5.6 becomes preferred model for Microsoft 365 Copilot amid partnership questions

OpenAI announced that GPT-5.6 will serve as the preferred model for Microsoft 365 Copilot, powering productivity tasks across Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The announcement comes as Bloomberg reported Microsoft increasingly relies on its in-house MAI models to cut costs, raising questions about the evolving dynamics between the two tech giants.

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OpenAI GPT-5.6 becomes preferred model for Microsoft 365 Copilot amid partnership questions

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