Microsoft 365 – the subscription / annual fee plan for Microsoft Office on Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad and Android.
Includes Word 365, Excel 365, PowerPoint 365, Outlook 365 and many other ‘365’ programs, apps and services.
Copilot Saves “43 Minutes a Day”? The Real Number Is 12
Microsoft 365 Copilot saves UK NHS staff 43 minutes a day. That single number has been repeated by Microsoft and the UK government for a year, and it helped justify a Copilot deal for 505,000 National Health Service staff worth around £120 million. A Freedom of Information request has now revealed where the figure came […]
AI at Work Roadmap: Microsoft Renames the Microsoft 365 Roadmap
Microsoft has renamed the Microsoft 365 Roadmap to the AI at Work Roadmap. Your bookmarks still work and nothing has moved, but from September 2026 the list gets a lot longer, with Dynamics 365, Power Platform and Dataverse entries pouring into the same page you use to track Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams. If you […]
Windows 11 26H2: 5 Improvements for Microsoft Office Users
Windows 11 26H2 is rolling out now, and for once there is something in it for Microsoft 365 and Office users. The headline change is that Windows Search will finally stop padding your results with Bing hits and Microsoft Store listings, so hunting for a Word document actually finds Word documents. You also get the […]
Copilot in Outlook Is Changing this month: Here’s What Moves
Microsoft is changing the look and layout of Copilot inside Outlook, with general availability set for sometime this month. The change lands automatically but Microsoft won’t say which of their many “Outlook” apps are affected. Which $&*@! Outlook? Microsoft Won’t Say Before we explain the changes, there’s one question we’d like to answer but can’t […]
Microsoft AI Images can Carry Your Personal ID Tag
Every image you make with Microsoft’s AI tools can carry a hidden code that can point straight back to you personally. Not a visible logo you can crop off, but a unique ID stitched into the pixels themselves and repeated in the file’s Content Credentials. It happens in Paint, in Photos and almost certainly in […]
Microsoft’s Copilot Merge Eats Your OneDrive Space and Cuts Features
Microsoft is merging its two Copilot apps into one, and the changes buried under that announcement will cost you storage space, features or money. Your Copilot uploads and generated images are being moved into OneDrive, where they eat into the same allowance as your documents and photos. Deep Research has gone for consumers unless you […]
Letter or A4 in Word: Two Ways to Switch Without Wrecking Your Layout
Get a document formatted for the wrong paper size and Word gives you two very different ways out. One rescales the printout and leaves your document untouched. The other changes the document itself and can shift your margins, headers and images without warning. Which one you pick matters, so here is when to use each, […]
New Copilot Logo Is Here: Flatter, Simpler and Completely Useless to You
Microsoft has given Copilot a new logo for 2026, a flatter and simpler version of the rainbow icon it has used since September 2023. You will see the new icon appear in the Copilot app, on the Home tab of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, and in Microsoft’s marketing. That is the entire change. It […]
Microsoft Drops Excel COPILOT(): Convert Your Formulas Before They Break
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 365 Insiders: The Risks Microsoft Does Not Mention
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. […]
August 2026 Patch Tuesday: Office Bugs That Fire From the Preview Pane
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 […]
Which Copilot Model Should You Use in PowerPoint? Auto, GPT, or Claude Opus
PowerPoint 365 now lets some Microsoft 365 Copilot subscribers choose between Auto, GPT, and Claude Opus for text and design tasks, and picking the wrong one wastes time or gives you a weaker draft. Here is what each model is actually good at, which one to leave selected for everyday slide work, and when it […]
Windows 10 Users: Microsoft 365 Just Stopped Getting New Features
If you run Microsoft 365 on Windows 10, your Word, Excel, and Outlook just got locked in place. Microsoft’s version 2608 update, released August 2026, is the last one bringing new features to Windows 10. Your apps keep working and keep getting security patches, but nothing new is coming unless you move to Windows 11. […]
Microsoft ends SMS and Voice Authentication: Passkeys Become Mandatory
If your organization uses Microsoft Entra ID, the days of logging in with a text message code or an automated phone call are numbered. Microsoft has set February 1, 2027 as the shutdown date for its free SMS and voice login service, and passkeys become the default in its place. Here is exactly what changes, […]
AI Can Turn Your Angry Email Into One That Actually Gets Results
If you have ever typed an angry email and hesitated before hitting send, AI can help. Paste your unfiltered draft into Copilot, ChatGPT, or any AI tool and ask for a polite but firm rewrite. You still get to vent everything you are feeling, but the version you actually send is calmer, clearer, and far […]
OneNote as a Digital Commonplace Book: A Simple Way to Save Ideas
If you’re copying quotes, links, and half formed ideas into random Word documents or sticky notes, OneNote can replace all of that with one searchable place. This habit is centuries old. Renaissance writers called it a commonplace book. OneNote just makes it faster to fill and far easier to search later. The commonplace book isn’t […]
