Rohit Patel, who spent eight years at Meta and most recently served as a director at Meta Superintelligence Labs, has left the company to start Ndoc, an AI-native workspace meant to replace Microsoft Office and Google Workspace. The product combines presentation, analysis, and underlying data/code into three linked views called Stage, Narrative, and Model, letting users inspect and verify the scripts behind AI-generated documents.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-27
Denmark's Energy Agency has abandoned its effort to switch from Microsoft Office to the open-source suite Collabora, reverting back to Microsoft's products. The agency had piloted the migration as part of a broader push by Danish authorities to reduce reliance on US-based software providers.
tech.slashdot.org
· 2026-10-27
Denmark's former Ministry of Digitization has reportedly ended a pilot program that had 38 employees using the open-source Collabora suite instead of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. The trial, launched in 2025 by then-minister Caroline Stage to reduce reliance on American technology, wound down before February 2026, with staff citing formatting, blank page, and track-changes problems.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-26
A 38-person pilot at Denmark's digitalization ministry testing Collabora, an open-source office suite integrated with cBrain's F2 case-handling system, has ended without adoption. Internal records obtained by Ingeniøren show testers faced persistent formatting bugs, missing fonts, blank documents and printing errors, and no staff currently use the replacement software.
techspot.com
· 2026-10-26
Microsoft now primarily sells Office through its Microsoft 365 subscription rather than one-time purchases, with a standalone license available for $180 but limited to one PC. The Family subscription plan includes 1TB of cloud storage per user, but Microsoft has added AI features to its plans and raised prices without an option to opt out of AI tools.
engadget.com
· 2026-10-17
ArtCraft, the startup behind free Adobe Creative Cloud alternatives built using Anthropic's Claude AI, has released open-source clones of Microsoft Office apps called GridCraft, DeckCraft and WordCraft. The tools are available as free downloads on ArtCraft's website, with optional paid AI image and video generation credits powered by Google's Nano Banana Pro.
futurism.com
· 2026-10-14
Developer Brandon Thomas, who previously built free alternatives to Adobe Creative Cloud apps using Claude AI, has now created WordCraft, GridCraft, and DeckCraft—open-source replicas of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The apps are written in Rust with Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5 and released under MIT or Apache 2.0 licenses, running natively across Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD, and the browser via WebAssembly. WordCraft already supports .docx and other formats with offline spelling and grammar tools, while GridCraft reportedly implements 89% of Excel's ribbon commands and 98% of its worksheet functions.
techspot.com
· 2026-10-13
Microsoft is offering its Office 2021 suite for a one-time payment of $29, significantly discounted from its regular price. The package includes core applications like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and others, with enhancements such as improved collaboration features and dark mode. This deal is available for both Windows and macOS users for a limited time, with options to upgrade to Office 2024 or choose more affordable versions like Office 2019.
techspot.com
· 2026-10-08
Ryan Roslansky, who has led LinkedIn since 2020 and took on oversight of Microsoft 365's Copilot strategy last year, announced he is leaving the company. In an internal memo, he said the decision stemmed from a need to be based full-time in Redmond, while his family remains in the Bay Area. He credited CEO Satya Nadella and his teams for LinkedIn surpassing a billion members and nearly tripling its business during his tenure.
theverge.com
· 2026-10-01
Satya Nadella presented a redesigned Copilot at an invite-only event for enterprise customers, describing it as an 'OS for work.' Microsoft has merged its consumer and enterprise Copilot apps into one interface, adding coding capabilities, an agent called Autopilot, and deeper Office integration, replacing the earlier consumer design shaped by Inflection AI's Pi assistant.
theverge.com
· 2026-10-01
Microsoft released update KB5002655 to address a silent copy-and-paste failure introduced by the September security patch KB5002914, but the fix only applies to MSI-based installations of Excel 2016. Users of Excel Online, 2024, 2021, 2019, and Click-to-Run editions of 2016 remain affected, with Microsoft citing a code regression as the cause and recommending the Paste Special workaround in the meantime.
bleepingcomputer.com
· 2026-09-18
A newly published Nix flake automates installing Microsoft 365 (click-to-run Office) on Linux without a virtual machine, using the umu-launcher tool alongside GE-Proton, the gaming-focused Wine build from Valve and GloriousEggroll, with Bottles' ProtoSoda Wine core offered as an alternative runner. The project doesn't bundle any Microsoft software itself; instead its ms365 script fetches the Office Deployment Tool and Office files at install time, requiring users to supply their own Microsoft 365 license and sign in. The approach builds on prior community work, including Bottles' reports of Office 365 running on Wine and older ruados/eylenburg registry and DLL tweaks.
github.com
· 2026-09-17
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