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Dec 4 (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab will increase prices for its Microsoft 365 productivity suites globally starting July 2026 for commercial and government clients, the company said ...

An illustration Anthropic commissioned to mark the release of Opus 4.5. (Anthropic) Hot on the heels of Google's Gemini 3 Pro release, Anthropic has announced an update for its flagship Opus model.

Microsoft plans to remove Defender Application Guard from Office by December 2027, starting with the February 2026 release of Office version 2602. The Microsoft Defender Application Guard for Office ...

Over the last few weeks, Microsoft has focused on improving Excel formula automation, refining PivotTable behavior, and streamlining accessibility processes. Together, these changes speed up the Excel ...

Anthropic is making its most aggressive push yet into the trillion-dollar financial services industry, unveiling a suite of tools that embed its Claude AI assistant directly into Microsoft Excel and ...

A new Agent Mode comes to Office apps today, alongside an Office Agent in Copilot chat. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 ...

Despite millions spent on financial software, many finance teams still rely on Excel to close their books and reconcile numbers while preparing them for audit. Two former Microsoft executives view it ...

Forget vibe coding — Microsoft has a new idea. It's called "vibe working," and it's what the company is promising as it brings more agentic AI features to its Microsoft 365 Office apps using Microsoft ...

Microsoft is launching a suite of autonomous AI agents designed to attack one of corporate America's most expensive and persistent problems: the crushing weight of technical debt that prevents ...

Editor's take: Microsoft has long been the financial lifeline of OpenAI, but its growing reliance on Anthropic's models suggests that loyalty may be giving way to performance. By favoring Anthropic in ...