Ars Technica

With new agent mode for Excel and Word, Microsoft touts “vibe working”

With a new set of Microsoft 365 features, knowledge workers will be able to generate complex Word documents or Excel spreadsheets using only text prompts to Microsoft’s chatbot. Two distinct products ...
ZDNet

Microsoft Word forcing you to save new files to the cloud? Here's how to stop it

Word will save new documents to the cloud by default. AutoSave will also be enabled by default. You can turn off these options if you prefer to save your files locally. Microsoft has long been pushing ...

Notepad gets new features, while it's clobbered by new bug — highlighting everything that's wrong with Microsoft right now

Notepad gets new features — including a dash more AI – but I'm betting this isn't what most Windows 11 users want ...
Digital Trends

Microsoft’s new Word tests are a direct threat to Google Docs

What’s happened? Microsoft is trialing ‘cloud-first save’ for Word on Windows, where the documents would be pushed into OneDrive automatically. Starting now for that Windows Insiders, the group that ...