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

SEATTLE — A new state bill, modeled after a payroll tax in Seattle, is set to be introduced in Olympia and aims to collect more than $2 billion a year from the likes of Amazon and Microsoft. State Rep ...

"Who doesn't want to be the spreadsheet champion?" That is what the co-founders of the UK Microsoft Excel chapter said when explaining how the everyday computer program Microsoft Excel became a ...

A sophisticated cybercrime group, Storm-2657, is targeting US university payroll systems, diverting staff salaries since March 2025. Exploiting weak security and compromised email accounts, attackers ...

A financially-motivated hacking group, tracked by Microsoft as Storm-2657, has so far successfully compromised employee accounts at three U.S. universities to steal their salaries in what campaign ...

In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...

Microsoft is warning of an active scam that diverts employees’ paycheck payments to attacker-controlled accounts after first taking over their profiles on Workday or other cloud-based HR services.

Storm-2657 hackers hit university email accounts to launch phishing and redirect salary payments Attackers exploited lack of MFA and used AITM tactics to access HR SaaS platforms Microsoft is helping ...

A cybercrime gang tracked as Storm-2657 has been targeting university employees in the United States to hijack salary payments in "pirate payroll" attacks since March 2025. Microsoft Threat ...

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.

There are ways for everyone to get variations of Microsoft 365 for free, which includes access to Microsoft Office, PowerPoint and more. Managing Editor Alison DeNisco Rayome joined CNET in 2019, and ...