If you are a university student preparing for a career in finance or data analytics, the skills you are learning in your business computing and Excel courses are undergoing a radical transformation.

From Python integration to Office Scripts and AI-powered Copilot, Excel has evolved into a powerful automation hub. These tools cut down repetitive tasks, clean messy data, and deliver insights faster ...

So far Excel users had three ways to invoke Copilot. Microsoft has now decided that was three too many. In February 2026, the company retired App Skills entry points from the Excel ribbon and context ...

Microsoft is killing off an Excel feature and folding it into other Copilot experiences, but some advanced features still aren't ready. We recently covered all the new features that Microsoft added to ...

Anthropic is embedding AI more deeply in popular work software tools. Claude AI now integrates with Excel, PowerPoint, and Slack, enhancing enterprise productivity. Anthropic challenges Microsoft, ...

Official support for free-threaded Python, and free-threaded improvements Python’s free-threaded build promises true parallelism for threads in Python programs by removing the Global Interpreter Lock ...

Excel is Microsoft's flagship spreadsheet software and a core component of its Microsoft 365 offering. The company regularly introduces new features to the software each month, and today, we'll be ...

It’s not a bubble; it’s a disrupter. Like it or not, artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the finance sector at a pace that is difficult to either keep up with or maintain. Meanwhile, on Sept.

The new ‘COPILOT’ function uses AI to generate summaries, tags, tables, and more based on a group of cells. The new ‘COPILOT’ function uses AI to generate summaries, tags, tables, and more based on a ...

There's a new AI agent on the block for people who spend their waking hours inside spreadsheets. Navigate to Shortcut AI's website, and you'll find a page that looks almost exactly like an empty ...

The 2025 Florida Python Challenge, ending July 20, had 933 participants from 30 states and two countries. $25,000 in prizes will be awarded across professional, novice, and military categories. The ...