Microsoft 365
- All
- News
- Videos
-
Microsoft Introduces Two New Reasoning Agents in 365 Copilot, Launches Autonomous Agents in Copilot Studio
- Thursday March 27, 2025
- Written by Akash Dutta, Edited by Siddharth Suvarna
Microsoft introduced two new artificial intelligence (AI) agents to its 365 Copilot suite of features on Tuesday. These new AI agents are aimed at its enterprise users and can perform complex research and data analysis-related tasks. Dubbed Researcher and Analyst, these are built on OpenAI’s models with fine-tuning done by the Redmond-based tech ...
-
www.gadgets360.com
-
Microsoft Said to Be Developing AI Reasoning Models to Compete With OpenAI
- Saturday March 8, 2025
- Reuters
Microsoft is reportedly developing in-house AI reasoning models, known as MAI, to rival OpenAI, with plans to offer them to developers. These models, led by Mustafa Suleyman, perform nearly as well as OpenAI's and Anthropic's on key benchmarks. The company has also tested models from xAI, Meta, and DeepSeek as potential OpenAI alternatives for Copi...
-
www.gadgets360.com
-
Microsoft Unveils Two AI Agents That Can Complete Sales Tasks for Enterprise Clients
- Thursday March 6, 2025
- Written by Akash Dutta, Edited by Siddharth Suvarna
Microsoft unveiled two new artificial intelligence (AI) agents for enterprises on Wednesday. These agents are adept in various tasks in sales operations, and can assist professionals by automating time-consuming workloads. The company introduced these two AI agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot, and businesses can now access them and integrate them into...
-
www.gadgets360.com
-
Microsoft Testing a Free, Ad-Supported Version of Microsoft 365 Desktop Apps
- Tuesday February 25, 2025
- Written by Akash Dutta, Edited by Siddharth Suvarna
Microsoft is testing an ad-supported free tier for the Microsoft 365 Copilot or Office apps. Typically, these apps are only accessible to those who purchase the Microsoft 365 subscription. However, some users are now seeing an option to opt for a free version that offers limited features and ads. Currently, the Redmond-based tech giant is only offe...
-
www.gadgets360.com
-
Microsoft Said to Be Adjusting Office-Teams Pricing to Avoid EU Antitrust Fine
- Tuesday February 11, 2025
- Reuters
Microsoft is mulling if it can widen the price difference between the software sold without the app and its Office product sold with Teams to avert a possible EU antitrust fine. The move comes five years after Salesforce-owned Slack complained to the European Commission about Microsoft's tying of Teams with Office.
-
www.gadgets360.com
-
Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat for Enterprise Launched With Pay-as-You-Go AI Agents
- Thursday January 16, 2025
- Written by Akash Dutta, Edited by David Delima
Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat has been announced as a new subscription plan for enterprises that includes the usage of artificial intelligence (AI) agents. The new subscription offers a more flexible entry to the company’s AI services, as it ditches the fixed subscription fees with a pay-as-you-go model.
-
www.gadgets360.com
-
Microsoft Reportedly Bundling Copilot AI With Microsoft 365 Subscription and Hiking Prices
- Friday December 27, 2024
- Written by Akash Dutta, Edited by Siddharth Suvarna
Microsoft is reportedly making changes to its Microsoft 365 subscription in some regions to bring Copilot to more users. As per the report, the Redmond-based tech giant has started bundling the Copilot AI assistant, which is available across multiple apps such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, with the subscription. This new addition is also...
-
www.gadgets360.com
-
Microsoft Reportedly Trying to Bring Internal and Third-Party AI Models to 365 Copilot
- Tuesday December 24, 2024
- Written by Akash Dutta, Edited by Siddharth Suvarna
Microsoft is reportedly working on adding non-OpenAI artificial intelligence (AI) models to its 365 Copilot products. As per the report, the Redmond-based tech giant is trying to reduce its dependence on OpenAI’s AI models due to concerns regarding speed and cost. To diversify the company is said to be looking at both third-party models as well a...
-
www.gadgets360.com
-
Amazon Paused Rollout of Microsoft Office for a Year After Hacks
- Friday December 13, 2024
- Matt Day, Bloomberg
Amazon paused the rollout after Microsoft discovered a Russia-linked hacker group had gained access to some of its employees’ email accounts. After conducting its own analysis of the software, Amazon asked for changes to guard against unauthorised access and create a more detailed accounting of user activity in the apps
-
www.gadgets360.com
-
Microsoft Denies Training AI Models on User Data From Microsoft 365 Apps
- Thursday November 28, 2024
- Reuters
Microsoft on Wednesday denied claims that it uses customer data to train artificial intelligence models. The response came after some users pointed out on social media that the company requires users to opt-out of its "connected experiences" feature, which they argued was used to train AI models.
-
www.gadgets360.com
-
Microsoft Introduces Purpose-Built AI Agents, Copilot Actions at the Ignite 2024 Event
- Wednesday November 20, 2024
- Written by Akash Dutta, Edited by Manas Mitul
Microsoft Ignite 2024, the company’s annual conference for developers and IT professionals, was held on Tuesday. At the event, the Redmond-based tech giant made several new announcements around Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, and its artificial intelligence (AI) platform Copilot. In the AI space, the company introduced new purpose-built AI agents ...
-
www.gadgets360.com
-
Microsoft Windows 365 Link Cloud-Based Mini PC That Resembles Apple's Mac Mini Launched
- Wednesday November 20, 2024
- Written by Nithya P Nair, Edited by David Delima
Microsoft unveiled its Windows 365 Link Cloud PC on Tuesday. The company's first Cloud PC device that lets users quickly and securely connect to Windows 365 arrives as Microsoft's response to Apple's Mac Mini M4. The PC has a thin and light build and it runs a cloud-based version of Windows 11. The Windows 365 Link offers dual monitor connectivity,...
-
www.gadgets360.com
-
Microsoft 365 Copilot Pages, New AI Capabilities in Apps and Copilot Agents Rolled Out
- Tuesday September 17, 2024
- Written by Akash Dutta, Edited by Siddharth Suvarna
Microsoft 365 Copilot, the rebranded name for the enterprise-focused version of the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot is getting new features. Announced on Monday, the tech giant is rolling out various improvements in Microsoft 365 apps as well as a new Copilot Page feature. The latter is a multiplayer AI feature which allows different users to ...
-
www.gadgets360.com
-
Crowdstrike CEO Apologises for Global Tech Outage After Firm Deploys Fix for Issue
- Saturday July 20, 2024
- Reuters
CrowdStrike on Friday announced that it has deployed a fix for an issue that caused a global tech outage impacting airlines, banking, healthcare sectors, while cybersecurity company's CEO apologised for the incident on Friday. Meanwhile, Microsoft also resolved the underlying cause for the outage of its 365 apps and services, as systems continue to...
-
www.gadgets360.com
-
Microsoft Introduces Two New Reasoning Agents in 365 Copilot, Launches Autonomous Agents in Copilot Studio
- Thursday March 27, 2025
- Written by Akash Dutta, Edited by Siddharth Suvarna
Microsoft introduced two new artificial intelligence (AI) agents to its 365 Copilot suite of features on Tuesday. These new AI agents are aimed at its enterprise users and can perform complex research and data analysis-related tasks. Dubbed Researcher and Analyst, these are built on OpenAI’s models with fine-tuning done by the Redmond-based tech ...
-
www.gadgets360.com
-
Microsoft Said to Be Developing AI Reasoning Models to Compete With OpenAI
- Saturday March 8, 2025
- Reuters
Microsoft is reportedly developing in-house AI reasoning models, known as MAI, to rival OpenAI, with plans to offer them to developers. These models, led by Mustafa Suleyman, perform nearly as well as OpenAI's and Anthropic's on key benchmarks. The company has also tested models from xAI, Meta, and DeepSeek as potential OpenAI alternatives for Copi...
-
www.gadgets360.com
-
Microsoft Unveils Two AI Agents That Can Complete Sales Tasks for Enterprise Clients
- Thursday March 6, 2025
- Written by Akash Dutta, Edited by Siddharth Suvarna
Microsoft unveiled two new artificial intelligence (AI) agents for enterprises on Wednesday. These agents are adept in various tasks in sales operations, and can assist professionals by automating time-consuming workloads. The company introduced these two AI agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot, and businesses can now access them and integrate them into...
-
www.gadgets360.com
-
Microsoft Testing a Free, Ad-Supported Version of Microsoft 365 Desktop Apps
- Tuesday February 25, 2025
- Written by Akash Dutta, Edited by Siddharth Suvarna
Microsoft is testing an ad-supported free tier for the Microsoft 365 Copilot or Office apps. Typically, these apps are only accessible to those who purchase the Microsoft 365 subscription. However, some users are now seeing an option to opt for a free version that offers limited features and ads. Currently, the Redmond-based tech giant is only offe...
-
www.gadgets360.com
-
Microsoft Said to Be Adjusting Office-Teams Pricing to Avoid EU Antitrust Fine
- Tuesday February 11, 2025
- Reuters
Microsoft is mulling if it can widen the price difference between the software sold without the app and its Office product sold with Teams to avert a possible EU antitrust fine. The move comes five years after Salesforce-owned Slack complained to the European Commission about Microsoft's tying of Teams with Office.
-
www.gadgets360.com
-
Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat for Enterprise Launched With Pay-as-You-Go AI Agents
- Thursday January 16, 2025
- Written by Akash Dutta, Edited by David Delima
Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat has been announced as a new subscription plan for enterprises that includes the usage of artificial intelligence (AI) agents. The new subscription offers a more flexible entry to the company’s AI services, as it ditches the fixed subscription fees with a pay-as-you-go model.
-
www.gadgets360.com
-
Microsoft Reportedly Bundling Copilot AI With Microsoft 365 Subscription and Hiking Prices
- Friday December 27, 2024
- Written by Akash Dutta, Edited by Siddharth Suvarna
Microsoft is reportedly making changes to its Microsoft 365 subscription in some regions to bring Copilot to more users. As per the report, the Redmond-based tech giant has started bundling the Copilot AI assistant, which is available across multiple apps such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, with the subscription. This new addition is also...
-
www.gadgets360.com
-
Microsoft Reportedly Trying to Bring Internal and Third-Party AI Models to 365 Copilot
- Tuesday December 24, 2024
- Written by Akash Dutta, Edited by Siddharth Suvarna
Microsoft is reportedly working on adding non-OpenAI artificial intelligence (AI) models to its 365 Copilot products. As per the report, the Redmond-based tech giant is trying to reduce its dependence on OpenAI’s AI models due to concerns regarding speed and cost. To diversify the company is said to be looking at both third-party models as well a...
-
www.gadgets360.com
-
Amazon Paused Rollout of Microsoft Office for a Year After Hacks
- Friday December 13, 2024
- Matt Day, Bloomberg
Amazon paused the rollout after Microsoft discovered a Russia-linked hacker group had gained access to some of its employees’ email accounts. After conducting its own analysis of the software, Amazon asked for changes to guard against unauthorised access and create a more detailed accounting of user activity in the apps
-
www.gadgets360.com
-
Microsoft Denies Training AI Models on User Data From Microsoft 365 Apps
- Thursday November 28, 2024
- Reuters
Microsoft on Wednesday denied claims that it uses customer data to train artificial intelligence models. The response came after some users pointed out on social media that the company requires users to opt-out of its "connected experiences" feature, which they argued was used to train AI models.
-
www.gadgets360.com
-
Microsoft Introduces Purpose-Built AI Agents, Copilot Actions at the Ignite 2024 Event
- Wednesday November 20, 2024
- Written by Akash Dutta, Edited by Manas Mitul
Microsoft Ignite 2024, the company’s annual conference for developers and IT professionals, was held on Tuesday. At the event, the Redmond-based tech giant made several new announcements around Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, and its artificial intelligence (AI) platform Copilot. In the AI space, the company introduced new purpose-built AI agents ...
-
www.gadgets360.com
-
Microsoft Windows 365 Link Cloud-Based Mini PC That Resembles Apple's Mac Mini Launched
- Wednesday November 20, 2024
- Written by Nithya P Nair, Edited by David Delima
Microsoft unveiled its Windows 365 Link Cloud PC on Tuesday. The company's first Cloud PC device that lets users quickly and securely connect to Windows 365 arrives as Microsoft's response to Apple's Mac Mini M4. The PC has a thin and light build and it runs a cloud-based version of Windows 11. The Windows 365 Link offers dual monitor connectivity,...
-
www.gadgets360.com
-
Microsoft 365 Copilot Pages, New AI Capabilities in Apps and Copilot Agents Rolled Out
- Tuesday September 17, 2024
- Written by Akash Dutta, Edited by Siddharth Suvarna
Microsoft 365 Copilot, the rebranded name for the enterprise-focused version of the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot is getting new features. Announced on Monday, the tech giant is rolling out various improvements in Microsoft 365 apps as well as a new Copilot Page feature. The latter is a multiplayer AI feature which allows different users to ...
-
www.gadgets360.com
-
Crowdstrike CEO Apologises for Global Tech Outage After Firm Deploys Fix for Issue
- Saturday July 20, 2024
- Reuters
CrowdStrike on Friday announced that it has deployed a fix for an issue that caused a global tech outage impacting airlines, banking, healthcare sectors, while cybersecurity company's CEO apologised for the incident on Friday. Meanwhile, Microsoft also resolved the underlying cause for the outage of its 365 apps and services, as systems continue to...
-
www.gadgets360.com