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Why rent when you can own? Renters are subject to landlords raising the rent on a whim--and the same is true of Microsoft 365 subscribers who are seeing their monthly costs increase by 3 for the first time in 12 years. It's a good thing Microsoft Office 2024 Home & Business for PC or Mac offers a lifetime license that gets you tools with similar performance with a one-time purchase. Get the same great programs you know and love from Microsoft in the Office 2024 edition: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote. The 2024 edition has gotten some upgrades from its last update in 2021.

Two days ago, Google announced that it was doing away with a separate upcharge for its Gemini AI features in Workspace and forcing you to pay for it instead whether you want AI or not. Today, Microsoft is following suit, raising prices for its Microsoft 365 packages by 3 per month and bundling in some Copilot AI tools to justify the bump. In the announcement post, Microsoft says that the price of Microsoft 365 will be rising from 7 to 10 per month for Personal subscribers and 10 to 13 per month for the Family bundle. Per-year prices will be rising from 70 to 100 (Personal) and 100 to 130 (Family). What do you get for that 42 percent jump in price at the lowest tier?

The AI-powered Microsoft 365 Copilot could allow you to skip or even double-book meetings without missing out on what was discussed, "hopscotch" through priority email, and more. Microsoft 365 Copilot, announced in March, unfortunately remains in preview. Microsoft is confident enough of what it can do, though, that it said today that it's charging 600 worldwide customers to try it out as part of a Microsoft 365 Copilot Early Access Pass. In March, corporate vice president Jared Spataro said that Copilot would come to basically all Microsoft 365 apps: Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Teams and more. The company released a number of video demonstrations of how Microsoft 365 Copilot will work in its various apps.

Artificial intelligence is having an ever-growing influence on our tech, sometimes in ways that you perhaps haven't noticed. As well as playing Minecraft and spotting disease, AI engines can lend a hand when it comes to the day-to-day business of staying productive and creative--and a lot of the latest AI tools are accessible to anyone who wants to use them, with or without a computer science degree. Here we've rounded up some of our current favorites, and they may be able to save you a substantial amount of time in your week. We've opted for the more simple, effective AI tools out there, the ones that actually have a practical use right now -- and we've also kept AI art generators off this list because we have a separate round-up for those. For many of us, emails are a real time sink--but Gmail has a sprinkling of AI that can help.

Tech giant Microsoft is rolling out a new Dictate feature to OneNote that supports AI-powered voice commands to control dictation, such as deleting text or undoing a recent step. The AI-powered voice commands can be used to format and edit text, such as deleting a word or undoing a recent step, and the platform said it plans to add more voice commands to Dictate over the coming months, reports Windows Central. "Now it is easy to break away from the keyboard and stay in the flow by using Dictate with AI-backed voice commands to add, format, edit, and organise your text," Sofia Thomas, Product Manager of Microsoft's Office Voice Team was quoted as saying. "Over the next few months, we will be adding new voice commands as well as some that are already available in other Office apps to One Note," it added. Dictate works with over 50 languages and provides an alternative way to input text within OneNote.

Microsoft has a new Dictate feature in the works for OneNote. At the moment, the tool is available for anyone using OneNote for the web and Insiders using OneNote for Windows. It supports AI-powered voice commands that can be used to format and edit text, such as deleting a word or undoing a recent step. Microsoft plans to add more voice commands to Dictate over the coming months. Dictate works with over 50 languages and provides an alternative way to input text within OneNote.

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"Machine learning (ML) today is frustrating. There is so much potential and the algorithms are all there, but I just do not know how I can leverage it for my organization," says the CTO of a major professional services firm. "My CEO wants me to'leverage ML to lower OPEX and differentiate our service offerings, but there is nothing out there in the market that would allow me to get this done in a manner that has a high probability of success." Then of course he asks me what I would do and where I would start, because the guy with "Machine Learning and AI" in his job title must know for sure… ML / AI Principle 1: Do not constrain your thinking to what others tell you is'reasonably possible and what, in their opinion, is science fiction." This is absolutely key when thinking about transforming IT and the overall business through ML / AI.