Copilot is now built into Word, Excel and Outlook, and ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are open on millions of desktops every day. The tools are genuinely useful. The way most people use them is not. Invented facts sent to clients, confidential data pasted into a public chatbot, and workflows that collapse the day a subscription […]
Microsoft just emailed Microsoft 365 subscribers with a warning that badly undersells the Publisher 365 problem. The real deadline is 1 October 2026, less than two months away, not “next year” as the email claims. After that date, Publisher 365 stops opening or editing your files completely, not just “no longer supported.” Here is what […]
Microsoft declared Office 2016 dead on 14 October 2025, then quietly released 36 security patches for it anyway. The catch is that those fixes only reach MSI installations of Office 2016, not the Click-to-Run version most home and small business customers have. Microsoft declared Office 2016 dead on 14 October 2025, on the same day […]
The Edinburgh Festivals run through August 2026 and the costs add up fast. There is no single booking site, venues with the same name sit in three different postcodes, and shows regularly start late. Office Watch editor Peter Deegan has been going for many years. Here is what actually saves money and stress: book across […]
Microsoft has cancelled the Copilot suggestions it started pushing into the Outlook search box in June 2026, after three months of complaints that AI answers were burying the emails people were actually looking for. If you saw Copilot results appear above your own messages, they will vanish again as the rollback reaches your account, and […]
