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.
Microsoft’s June 2026 blog post pitches five new Outlook for Windows productivity features as reasons to abandon classic Outlook. The reality is less impressive. Two of the five already exist in classic Outlook, often in a stronger form, a third has a close equivalent. Three only work properly on Microsoft hosted mailboxes like Microsoft 365 […]
The Microsoft 365 Workplace Discount Program (WDP) cuts 30% off Microsoft 365 Premium, Family and Personal for employees of companies and government agencies that buy Microsoft volume licenses with Software Assurance. Formerly the Home Use Program, the WDP is now simple to claim: enter your work email, verify, and link your personal Microsoft account. Even […]
New Outlook is slower and far hungrier for memory than classic Outlook, and new testing shows just how bad the gap is. Click a new email notification in Windows 11 and new Outlook can take around 10 seconds to show that message, while classic Outlook opens it almost instantly. New Outlook can also chew through […]
Excel lets you pick which AI model Copilot uses, and the list keeps growing: various GPT options, two Claude Opus and the heavyweight Claude Fable 5 (maybe). If you do not understand the difference, you are not alone. This plain English guide explains what each Copilot AI model for Excel is actually good at, when […]
Copilot in Word, Excel and PowerPoint lets you pick which AI model handles each task, but the menu is confusing and changes all the time. So what is an AI model, why does Microsoft offer several, and which Copilot model should you actually choose? This plain English guide explains the model options and how to […]
