If Excel vanished tomorrow, global finance would halt. It is the essential infrastructure powering the modern world.

Five years ago, Rahul Kumar was an inventory checker at a cosmetics warehouse in New Delhi, ticking items like lipstick and eyeliner off lists on paper. Today, working as a driver, he’s earning one ...

DuckDB is an amazing tool with deep integration with Python and R, but sometimes you just need data in Excel. xlDuckDb allows DuckDB SQL to be run within Excel. Query results are returned as regular ...

An illustration Anthropic commissioned to mark the release of Opus 4.5. (Anthropic) Hot on the heels of Google's Gemini 3 Pro release, Anthropic has announced an update for its flagship Opus model.

You don’t need to pay $30 per month for these latest Office AI features. You don’t need to pay $30 per month for these latest Office AI features. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been ...

Q. How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel work? A. Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of ...

Azure cloud computing platform took down a long list of services from Xbox Live and Microsoft 365 to critical systems for airlines and banks. Image: Envato In a rough day for the cloud-dependent ...

Microsoft is working to resolve a known issue that causes its Defender for Endpoint enterprise endpoint security platform to incorrectly tag SQL Server software as end-of-life. According to a service ...

Microsoft’s declarative REST and GraphQL API design tool supports MySQL and Postgres as well as Azure databases and works anywhere you can run a Docker container. Microsoft Azure is now so big it’s ...

When Andrew Grigolyunovich first started using Excel more than two decades ago, he never imagined the spreadsheet program would land him in Las Vegas or on ESPN. The Latvian financial consultant ...

Microsoft has launched AI agents for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The agents are available for business and individual subscribers. Now accessible on the web, the agents will expand to the desktop.