ISSUE 23.19 • 2026-05-11 MICROSOFT 365 By Peter Deegan Outlook email rules are undergoing a major — and mostly unheralded — change. They’re going online. If the mailbox is stored online in a Microsoft-hosted service such as Outlook.com or Microsoft 365, then Outlook rules will run only in the cloud, not locally on your PC. […]

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 […]

I received a call from a friend yesterday morning asking me to remove something from Outlook. It just showed up. “It” was a Copilot icon on the left edge of the message block when writing an email. A grayed-out instruction suggesting using Copilot has been in the message block for some time, but it vanishes […]

MICROSOFT 365 By Peter Deegan Windows users often ask me about switching to a Mac and, most recently, the new and economical Mac Neo. For most everyday users, it’s a good alternative. Mac Neo is Apple’s most affordable laptop. It’s not a powerhouse, but it handles Microsoft Office well, plays very well with iPhones, and […]

MICROSOFT 365 By Peter Deegan With the end of Microsoft Publisher getting ever closer, let’s look at which features will disappear. Some have rough equivalents in Word, but others will go MIA. Publisher and Word might seem similar because they can both make paper documents, but their underlying bases are quite different. It’s about content […]