Today, I am excited to share that agentic capabilities in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are now generally available. Copilot can take multi-step, app-native actions directly in your documents, ...

AI agents run on file systems using standard tools to navigate directories and read file paths. The challenge, however, is that there is a lot of enterprise data in object storage systems, notably ...

Serialization is the process of converting a Java object into a sequence of bytes so they can be written to disk, sent over a network, or stored outside of memory. Later, the Java virtual machine (JVM ...

Anthropic upgraded Claude’s Excel and PowerPoint add-ins with shared context, reusable Skills, and cross-app workflows for business users. Anthropic is expanding the capabilities of its AI assistant, ...

In late July, an F.B.I. agent asked colleagues to get started on a sensitive task relating to Jeffrey Epstein, listing the names of 14 prominent men, with President Trump at the top. By Steve Eder and ...

These tricks show how AI tools, new import formulas, and classic features improve productivity. Excel has outlasted many tech trends, and in the age of AI, it remains very much in the mix. While new ...

If you often work with data that starts life as a text file or CSV, Microsoft Excel now has new built-in tools that simplify how that information gets pulled into a spreadsheet. The update introduces ...

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It’s been a while since the new version of Outlook overtook the old classic version, but users are still unhappy with it. The latest issue? Certain Excel attachments aren’t opening in Outlook anymore, ...

Microsoft is working to resolve a known issue that prevents some users from opening Excel email attachments in the new Outlook client. According to a service alert (EX1189359) seen by BleepingComputer ...

Karen Read, who was found not guilty of charges in the death of her boyfriend, has filed a lawsuit accusing members of the Massachusetts State Police and several others of targeting her and shielding ...