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Microsoft plans to demo its new ChatGPT-like AI in MS Office

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San Francisco: Microsoft is reportedly planning to demonstrate its new Prometheus model to its core productivity apps such as Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
In the coming weeks, Microsoft will detail its productivity plans for integrating OpenAI’s language AI technology and its AI Model, reports The Verge, citing sources.
The company may make an announcement in March, highlighting how quickly Microsoft wants to reinvent search and its productivity apps through its OpenAI investments.
Previous reports indicated that the GPT models were being tested in Outlook to improve search results, along with features like suggesting replies to emails and Word document integration to improve writing.
Moreover, the report said that the tech giant is moving quickly with this integration mainly because of Google.
Microsoft had planned to launch its new Bing AI in late February, but moved the date up to this week, just as Google was preparing to make its own announcements, the report mentioned.
Earlier this week, Microsoft introduced its new Bing powered by “next-generation” ChatGPT artificial intelligence (AI), and also updated its Edge browser with new AI capabilities.
The AI-powered Bing search engine and Edge browser are now available for preview at Bing.com, to “deliver better search, more complete answers, a new chat experience and the ability to generate content”.

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February 11, 2023
Microsoft Edge to get Adobe Acrobat PDF tech in March

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San Francisco: Microsoft has announced that with the software major Adobe, it is bringing Adobe Acrobat’s PDF capabilities to more than 1.4 billion Windows users in Microsoft Edge next month.
The announcement is part of an ongoing Adobe and Microsoft initiative to transform digital work and life by bringing Adobe’s industry-leading PDF, e-signature and document automation tools directly to Microsoft users, the tech giant said in a blogpost on Wednesday.
“Together, the two companies are updating the PDF experience and value users have come to expect in Microsoft Edge by powering the built-in PDF reader with the Adobe Acrobat PDF engine.”
This will provide users a better PDF experience including more accurate colours and graphics, improved performance, strong security for PDF handling and greater accessibility, as well as better text selection and read-aloud narration, which will all be available free of cost.
However, users who want more advanced digital document features, such as the ability to edit text and images, convert PDFs to other file formats and more, can purchase an Acrobat subscription.
Moreover, Microsoft Edge users with existing Adobe Acrobat subscriptions can use the Acrobat extension inside Edge at no extra cost.
“Adobe’s PDF technology in Microsoft Edge means users will have fast and secure access to critical digital document capabilities,” said Jared Spataro, Corporate Vice President, Modern Work & Business Applications, Microsoft.
The tech giant also mentioned that users across the world interact with trillions of PDF files across web, mobile and desktop.

“With Adobe Acrobat capabilities powering the PDF experience in Edge, Windows 10 and Windows 11 users can use Adobe’s best-in-class PDF capabilities within the Microsoft Edge web browser, without the need to download or switch to a separate application,” it added.
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February 9, 2023
Microsoft launches new AI-Powered Bing and Edge browser

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Microsoft has announced an all-new AI-powered Bing search engine and Edge web browser based on a new OpenAI model that is more powerful than ChatGPT.
To empower people to unlock the joy of discovery, feel the wonder of creation and better harness the world’s knowledge, today we’re improving how the world benefits from the web by reinventing the tools billions of people use every day, the search engine and the browser.
Available in preview now at Bing.com, the new technology offers better search, more complete answers, a new chat experience and the ability to generate content.
“AI will fundamentally change every software category, starting with the largest category of all – search,” said Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO, Microsoft. “Today, we’re launching Bing and Edge powered by AI copilot and chat, to help people get more from search and the web.”
The new Bing and Edge
We have brought together search, browsing and chat into one unified experience you can invoke from anywhere on the web, delivering:
Better search
The new Bing gives you an improved version of the familiar search experience, providing more relevant results for simple things like sports scores, stock prices and weather, along with a new sidebar that shows more comprehensive answers if you want them.
Complete answers
Bing reviews results from across the web to find and summarize the answer you’re looking for. For example, you can get detailed instructions for how to substitute eggs for another ingredient in a cake you are baking right in that moment, without scrolling through multiple results.
A new chat experience
For more complex searches – such as for planning a detailed trip itinerary or researching what TV to buy – the new Bing offers new, interactive chat. The chat experience empowers you to refine your search until you get the complete answer you are looking for by asking for more details, clarity and ideas – with links available so you can immediately act on your decisions.

A creative spark
There are times when you need more than an answer – you need inspiration. The new Bing can generate the content to help you. It can help you write an email, create a 5-day itinerary for a dream vacation to Hawaii, with links to book your travel and accommodations, prep for a job interview or create a quiz for trivia night. The new Bing also cites all its sources, so you’re able to see links to the web content it references.
New Microsoft Edge experience
We’ve updated the Edge browser with new AI capabilities and a new look, and we’ve added two new functionalities: Chat and compose. With the Edge Sidebar, you can ask for a summary of a lengthy financial report to get the key takeaways – and then use the chat function to ask for a comparison to a competing company’s financials and automatically put it in a table. You can also ask Edge to help you compose content, such as a LinkedIn post, by giving it a few prompts to get you started. After that, you can ask it to help you update the tone, format and length of the post. Edge can understand the web page you’re on and adapts accordingly.
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February 8, 2023
Microsoft Teams Premium gets new features powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5

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San Francisco: Tech giant Microsoft has introduced new features powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5, to its Teams Premium, to make meeting artificial intelligence (AI)-powered.
The new features aim to make meetings more intelligent, personalised and protected – whether it’s one-on-one, large meetings, virtual appointments or webinars, the tech giant said in a blogpost on Wednesday.
“With a 252 per cent increase in weekly time spent in meetings in the first two years of the pandemic, we needed to find ways to work smarter, not harder.
With the ‘intelligent recap’ feature, users will get automatically generated meeting notes, recommended tasks and personalised highlights.
This will help users to save time spent reviewing meeting recordings, and this feature will be available in the second quarter of this year.
The ‘AI-generated chapters’ will divide the meeting into sections, making it easier to pick and choose the content most relevant to users. This is now available for “PowerPoint Live meeting recordings”.
“Intelligent recap will automatically generate meeting chapters based on the meeting transcript as well,” the company said.
Now, users can also access personalised timeline markers which will allow them to “call out when you joined or left a meeting in the meeting recording, so you can quickly click and listen in on what you missed.”
The timeline markers will also expand to include when the user’s name was mentioned and when a screen was shared.

“In the coming months, you’ll see key points and takeaways after the meeting, with AI-generated notes automatically created and powered by GPT-3.5,” the tech giant mentioned.
“AI is also here to help with some of the toughest collaboration challenges – working with people who natively speak different languages. Anyone can turn on live captions in Teams and see real-time captions in the spoken language,” it added.
Microsoft also introduced new features for brands, including ‘Branded meetings’, ‘organisation backgrounds’ and ‘organisation together mode scenes’, and much more.
Moreover, users can purchase Teams Premium for $7 till June 30, post which it will cost its usual price of $10.
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February 2, 2023
Microsoft unveils Spotify, Phone Link widgets for Windows 11

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San Francisco: Tech giant Microsoft has unveiled new Spotify and Phone Link widgets for Windows 11 which are now available in the latest ‘Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25290’ to the Dev Channel.
To access the new widgets, Insiders in the Dev Channel can go to the widgets collection in the Microsoft Store and update to the latest version of the applications, the tech giant said in a blogpost on Wednesday.
Then they have to open the widgets board and navigate to the widgets picker by clicking the plus button at the top-right of the board to pin their widgets.
The company also mentioned that with the release of ‘Windows App SDK 1.2’ developers can now create widgets for their applications.
“Users can access these experiences on their Windows 11 widgets board in current Dev Channel Insider Preview builds,” it added.
Meanwhile, last month, the tech giant had released a new Windows 11 preview build for Insiders in the Dev Channel, which included an updated version of Task Manager with a new feature for tinkerers, developers, and troubleshooters.
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February 2, 2023
Microsoft to bring new look to Teams Rooms on Windows

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San Francisco: Tech giant Microsoft has announced that it will bring a new look to its Teams Rooms on Windows consoles and front-of-room displays, by the end of this quarter.
“To make Teams Rooms even easier to use, we’re aligning key elements of the user interface across the Windows and Android ecosystems,” the tech giant has said in a blogpost.
With the upcoming update, users will first see the “vivid new ambient screens” and a re-designed calendar on consoles and front-of-room displays.
Moreover, users will get improved visual cues throughout the experience that will make it easier and more intuitive to interact with the console.
On the calendar, users will be able to scroll down to see the schedule for the entire day.
The update will also bring improved buttons on the console which will allow users to quickly access the most used features, including a button for ‘Meet’ to start a new meeting from the room, a button for ‘Call’ which will allow users to make a call to a phone number or add a person from the directory, and much more.
“For enhanced customisation, your organisation will have a wider range of ambient screens to choose from than before, with five exciting new themes added to the eight themes currently available,” the company said.
“Users will be able to customise the Front Row view, including visibility of the meeting chat, and choose which meeting component is displayed on the left and right panel,” it added.

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February 1, 2023
Microsoft logs slowest quarter growth in 6 years, PC sales nosedive

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New Delhi: Microsoft has recorded its slowest sales growth in more than six years in its December quarter of 2022, as it took a $1.2 billion hit after laying off 10,000 people amid poor PC sales globally.
Revenue was $52.7 billion and increased 2 per cent while net income was $16.4 billion, decreased 12 per cent for the quarter that ended December 31.
Revenue in the ‘More Personal Computing’ was $14.2 billion and decreased 19 per cent. While Windows OEM revenue decreased 39 per cent, Xbox content and services revenue decreased 12 per cent and devices revenue decreased 39 per cent.
Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella said the next major wave of computing is being born, as the Microsoft Cloud turns the world’s most advanced AI models into a new computing platform.
“We are committed to helping our customers use our platforms and tools to do more with less today and innovate for the future in the new era of AI,” said Nadella.
Microsoft has made a “multiyear, multibillion dollar” investment in ChatGPT developer OpenAI.
Last week, the company said it will begin integrating ChatGPT into its Azure cloud services offerings.
“We are focused on operational excellence as we continue to invest to drive growth. Microsoft Cloud revenue was $27.1 billion, up 22 per cent year-over-year as our commercial offerings continue to drive value for our customers,” said Amy Hood, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Microsoft.

While LinkedIn revenue increased 10 per cent, Search and news advertising revenue excluding traffic acquisition costs increased 10 per cent in the quarter.
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January 25, 2023
Microsoft may bring split-screen feature to Edge

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San Francisco: Microsoft is reportedly testing a new split-screen feature for Edge that will let users compare two tabs side-by-side.
The feature was discovered by a Reddit user named Leopeva64-2 and is now available in the beta, dev, and canary versions of Microsoft Edge with an experimental flag, reports The Verge.
Once the feature becomes enabled, a new button will appear alongside the address bar, letting users split an Edge window into two separate tabs side-by-side.
Windows already allows you to compare tabs next to each other by dragging the tab to the right or left of the screen and using the built-in Windows split view, but doing this is fiddly unless you drag the tab all the way there, said the report.
This built-in split view in Edge makes it easier in a single click, without having to re-arrange your tabs or open up a new window of a browser.
Meanwhile, Microsoft ended support for Edge web browser on both Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1.
The company has also ended support for Microsoft Edge WebView2 for both operating systems.
WebView2 is a developer control for embedding web content in applications.

Moreover, Chrome support for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 has also ended, and now users will need to upgrade to Windows 10 or Windows 11 to use the browser.
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January 24, 2023
Microsoft invests billions of dollars in ChatGPT developer OpenAI

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San Francisco: Microsoft on Monday announced a multi-year, multi-billion-dollar investment in OpenAI, the developer behind AI-driven ChatGPT which has become a rage.
The tech giant, which infused $1 billion in OpenAI in 2019, did not divulge the investment amount in the “third phase of our long-term partnership with OpenAI”. Earlier reports had claimed Microsoft may infuse up to $10 billion in OpenAI.
“We formed our partnership with OpenAI around a shared ambition to responsibly advance cutting-edge AI research and democratise AI as a new technology platform,” said Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO, Microsoft.
“In this next phase of our partnership, developers and organisations across industries will have access to the best AI infrastructure, models, and toolchain with Azure to build and run their applications,” Nadella added.
Microsoft will now increase its investments in the development and deployment of specialised supercomputing systems to accelerate OpenAI’s groundbreaking independent AI research.
It will deploy OpenAI’s models across its consumer and enterprise products and introduce new categories of digital experiences built on OpenAI’s technology.
This includes Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service which empowers developers to build cutting-edge AI applications through direct access to OpenAI models, said the tech giant.
“The past three years of our partnership have been great,” said Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI.

“Microsoft shares our values and we are excited to continue our independent research and work toward creating advanced AI that benefits everyone,” he added.
As OpenAI’s exclusive cloud provider, Azure will power all OpenAI workloads across research, products and API services.
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January 23, 2023