Microsoft is combining their two Copilot apps into one application, bringing the consumer Copilot app and the Microsoft 365 Copilot app together under a single name, icon and web address. The change will take place gradually over the next several weeks. It means the end of having two Copilot apps with similar icons on the […]
Microsoft is switching off the COPILOT() worksheet function in Excel on September 14, 2026, with barely a month’s warning. If you are on the Microsoft 365 Insider or Frontier channels and have COPILOT() formulas sitting in a workbook, assume they will break. Convert those results to static values now, before the deadline. Here is exactly […]
Microsoft keeps nudging you to become a Microsoft 365 Insider, with little prompts inside Word, Excel and Outlook offering early access to new features. Before you click yes, understand what you are agreeing to: unfinished software, more data sent to Microsoft, add-ins and macros that may stop working, and no real support if something breaks. […]
The Edinburgh Fringe and other Festivals have thousands of shows and no reliable way to tell the good from the dire until after you have paid. Peter Deegan, the Office Watch editor, has been a theatre junkie far longer than he has been a Microsoft Office nerd, and he goes to Edinburgh every August. Below […]
Ten Critical bugs fixed in Microsoft’s August 2026 Patch Tuesday can be triggered just by previewing a file. No opening it, no macro warning, no “Enable Content” click. Selecting a message in Outlook’s Reading Pane or clicking a file once in File Explorer is enough to run an attacker’s code on an unpatched machine. That […]