A 15-year-old student from Kavala, Greece, achieved 4th place in the PowerPoint 365 category at the Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship held in California.

The AI Claude is now able to work directly within Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files, offering users direct control, work on original documents, and simultaneous access across all three programs for significant time savings.

The Euro-Office project is being developed as an open-source alternative to Microsoft Office, driven by Europe's increasing desire for independence from major American tech companies.

A coalition of European tech companies, including IONOS and Nextcloud, has launched Euro-Office, an open-source productivity suite designed to offer public institutions, schools, and businesses a sovereign alternative to Microsoft Office.

Anthropic is expanding the reach of its Claude AI by embedding it more deeply into popular enterprise software tools like Excel, PowerPoint, and Slack, intensifying its competition with Microsoft and OpenAI.

A Vietnamese student has been crowned the world Microsoft Excel champion, winning an US$8,000 prize at the Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship in California.

The AI Claude is now capable of working directly within Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files, offering advantages such as direct control, work on original documents, and simultaneous access across all three Office programs, leading to significant time savings.

Keysfan is promoting an April sale offering lifetime licenses for Microsoft Office 2021 and Windows 11 Pro at significantly reduced prices, starting from €13.

A new European platform, Office.eu, is launching open-source applications like EU Drive and EU Docs to compete with Google Workspace and Microsoft Office 365, emphasizing no US access for data.

A summer sale is offering Microsoft Office 2024 for 19 euros and Windows 11 Pro for 11 euros, providing an opportunity for users to acquire productivity tools at discounted prices.

Europe is set to release the first stable version of its own open-source office suite on June 9, developed by a coalition of European tech companies and organizations, aiming to be a serious alternative to Microsoft Office.

Just days after Euro-Office was announced by IONOS and Nextcloud as a European open-source alternative to Microsoft Office, the project is now facing a public licensing dispute with ONLYOFFICE, which…

Japan's antitrust watchdog has raided Microsoft Japan's offices, investigating potential unfair practices in its Azure cloud business, specifically allegations that Microsoft made it difficult for customers to use rival cloud services.