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The UK Competition and Markets Authority on October 16 proposed giving Microsoft a Strategic Market Status designation in business software and opened a consultation, with feedback due November 13 and a final decision expected by February 2027. The CMA said Microsoft holds a strong position in all five areas it examined — PC operating systems, productivity software, security software, server operating systems and relational database management — and that switching barriers and bundling practices may limit rivals. It will further examine whether customers can freely choose AI tools and whether competitors can take on Copilot, along with security-software bundling and how licensing affects cloud choice; Microsoft said all its products, including Copilot, are open and interoperable.
TechRadar · 🔥 0According to an October 12 NeoWin blog post relayed by AIbase, Microsoft has added a Copilot Interactive Canvas to Excel that lets users turn workbook data into dynamic, auto-refreshing interactive reports using plain-language instructions. The canvas is tied to the underlying sheet, so charts and layout update themselves when source data changes, and users can keep asking Copilot to adjust layout and emphasis; the feature is initially open to Microsoft 365 Insiders. Microsoft also packaged Skill Builder, said to launch officially in October and able to distill instructions, past prompts or examples into reusable skills, and Skill Recorder, planned for Insiders in late October, which captures a demonstrated workflow as a rerunnable skill.
AIbase AI新闻 · 🔥 0The Information reports that in the summer of 2025 Microsoft was fielding customer complaints that its AI assistant Copilot was buggy and not good enough at automating work in Excel or PowerPoint. Charles Lamanna, then a Microsoft president, proposed to CEO Satya Nadella that the company consider paying for AI models from Anthropic to make Copilot work better, saying the idea was “heresy” at the time. According to the report, Lamanna is now Microsoft's new Office chief and won over Nadella by fixing Copilot.
The Information · 🔥 0Microsoft is upgrading Copilot Notebooks with the ability to delegate tasks to Copilot, set up recurring automations such as daily briefings and weekly status reports, and generate interactive reports with data visualizations and filters. Users can now open and edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint files directly inside a notebook instead of switching to the corresponding Office apps. Audio Overviews gain more Microsoft 365 sources including Teams chats and Outlook mail plus new "Critique" and "Debate" formats, users can pick between models from OpenAI and Anthropic, and the features are rolling out in stages through Microsoft's Frontier preview program.
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AI Coding Makers•user2317•editedExperienceFirst, the result: over the course of four months, on and off, I built a WeChat Mini Program called “随了么小管家” for keeping track of gift-giving and reciprocity. It currently has about 40 pages, with roughly 29,000 lines of frontend code and 14,000 lines of backend code, 85 commits, and a version number that has reached 1.1.9. The tech stack is pretty ordinary: uni-app + Vue 3 + Pinia on the fronten…