Way back in 2025, Microsoft announced that it would no longer sell a standalone subscription to Copilot pro. It would respect your yearly subscription if you had one, but come effective November 1, 2026 if you want AI in your Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote, you’ll need to switch to Microsoft 365 premium. Today I […]

MICROSOFT 365 By Peter Deegan Copilot for Microsoft 365 is changing plans, prices, and features so often that it’s hard for anyone to keep up. Microsoft has just changed Copilot arrangements for business and enterprise users.  It’s not easy to keep track of what’s available when there are around 80 different products with the Copilot […]

On April 10, Alex Oot from Microsoft’s Windows Insider Program team posted Improving your Windows Insider experience to the Insider’s blog. If you are participating as an Insider, you’ll want to read the post. There are several announcements in the post, but one might catch your attention. Under the heading “Clearer channel definitions,” the post […]

I was chatting with Copilot, doing some research about vintage drum machines. I have a little BOSS DR-220 Dr. Rhythm synth that provides the basic functionality I want, but it does not have variations. I was looking for something slightly better. The research session was pretty good, telling me about some equipment I’d never heard […]

PUBLIC DEFENDER By Brian Livingston Installing “agentic AI” such as Microsoft’s Copilot, OpenAI’s GPT Atlas, and other artificial-intelligence helpers is a big trend among businesses and individual computer users — but big problems come along with such bots. A white paper published by Kiteworks, a data-management firm, says 60 percent of companies using agentic AI […]

ISSUE 23.11.1 • 2026-03-19 By Will Fastie Great care must be taken when conversing with AI bots. In what can only be a galactic coincidence, I corresponded with two people this past Monday, both of whom had chatted with bots. One was an 87-year-old Plus member with a long background in technology and the other […]