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The choice of AI models in Copilot changes regularly, in fact it changed while researching this article.  Any specific advice will be quickly out of date. In organizations, admins might limit the AI model selection. Auto is enough for most Excel needs For simple tasks like …. the Auto option is enough. It’s the default […]

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Microsoft is scrapping Copilot Podcasts, one of the more novel tricks in Microsoft 365 Copilot. If you enjoyed turning a document, a meeting, or a web topic into a listenable audio show, make the most of it now, because it’s on the way out. The feature was named as a casualty in a blunt internal […]

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Microsoft is retiring Meeting Insights, the Outlook feature that quietly surfaces related emails and files inside your meeting invites. The replacement is Copilot’s “Prepare for this meeting” panel, and here is the catch: it only works if you pay for a Microsoft 365 Copilot license. If you do not have a paid Copilot license, you […]

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Microsoft is changing the email address that Microsoft Forms uses for automated messages. From mid-August 2026, Forms notifications will come from [email protected] instead of the current [email protected]. That’s assuming your organization isn’t using a custom sending address alongside the custom or bring your own domain (BYOD) which most do. More on that be...


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Microsoft has boasted about “billion” user numbers before even when the claims were preposterous.  But this time a Microsoft executive has seriously raised the bar on Redmond “billion” hype into fantasy land. The chief executive officer of Xbox says the company is aiming for more than a billion daily Xbox users.  “I want XBOX to […]

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