The queries about tying or bundling software offerings into other products like Windows and Office echo the Justice Department investigation into Microsoft in the late 1990s. That landmark case ...

Microsoft’s January 2026 update puts Excel back in the spotlight. After a brief pause late last year, the company has resumed its monthly feature recap, and this time the bulk of the changes land ...

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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 ...

Are you among those who receive the frustrating error message “You must start Microsoft Access by double-clicking a Microsoft Access file” when trying to open the ...

REDMOND, Wash. — Jan. 8, 2026 — Microsoft Corp. on Thursday announced agentic AI solutions designed to bring intelligent automation to every part of the retail business. These new capabilities help ...

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a cross-tenant blind spot that allows attackers to bypass Microsoft Defender for Office 365 protections via the guest access feature in Teams. "When users ...

Every day, Microsoft processes more than 100 trillion signals from our services. Together with insights from researchers, law enforcement, and cybersecurity teams, these signals reveal how quickly the ...

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Microsoft’s new Copilot function in Excel lets users generate, analyze and explain data directly from cell formulas, marking a major step toward full AI integration within spreadsheets. Microsoft’s ...

A new study provides the best evidence to date that the connection patterns between various parts of the human brain can tell scientists the specialized functions of each region. Previous research has ...