Diarmuid Early won first place in the 2025 Microsoft Excel World Championship. He has some pointers for using Excel at work.

The Microsoft Excel World Championship 2025 wrapped up with yet another champion reigning supreme. This year’s champion beat out 23 Grand Final rivals at the Las Vegas HyperX Arena. The annual ...

Microsoft Ignite 2025 unveiled dedicated Word, Excel, and PowerPoint agents within Microsoft 365 Copilot. These AI-powered tools now allow users to generate documents, spreadsheets, and presentations ...

Claude now works inside Microsoft Excel, reading, editing, and explaining every cell About a thousand users are testing Claude’s Excel skills before public rollout The AI assistant can fix formulas ...

Editor's take: Microsoft has long been the financial lifeline of OpenAI, but its growing reliance on Anthropic's models suggests that loyalty may be giving way to performance. By favoring Anthropic in ...

We'd venture that most folks under 40 or so aren't aware that Bill Gates and Paul Allen, former head honchos of Microsoft, actually started their empire as hardcore programmers, and darn good ones at ...

In the era of vibe coding, when even professionals are pawning off their programming work on AI tools, Microsoft is throwing it all the way back to the language that launched a billion devices. On ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

Windows may get all the attention, but when you want to get real work done, you turn to the applications that run on it. And if you use spreadsheets, that generally means Excel. Excel is, of course, ...

The Developer tab unlocks powerful automation tools in Excel—macro recording, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), XML import, and form-controls. Because most users rarely use these features, ...