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‘LeBron James of Excel spreadsheets’ celebrates 2025 Microsoft Excel World Championships win

By Mark Tyson Published

The 2025 Microsoft Excel World Championships final in Las Vegas has been won by Irishman Diarmuid Early.

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Developer gets Linux running inside Microsoft Excel, 'mostly for fun'

By Mark Tyson Published

Holy sheet!

Linux
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Microsoft Word and Excel AI data scraping slyly switched to opt-in by default

By Anton Shilov Last updated

Microsoft's 'optional' Connected Experiences enable Microsoft to use Excel and Word files to train its AI technology, but it is possible to turn this feature off.

Artificial Intelligence
A functioning raycaster and texture mapper demonstrated with a mildly-interactive maze game made fully within Microsoft Excel.
University student builds simple raycaster maze demo with transparency support in Microsoft Excel

By Christopher Harper Published

Microsoft Excel is proven capable of raycasting and transparency effects.

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Gameplay screenshot of "Fallout in Excel".
Fallout-inspired game runs in Excel — a spreadsheet-powered wasteland escape

By Christopher Harper Published

Modder creates a playable Fallout-esque RPG within the confines of Microsoft Excel.

PC Gaming
Williams F1 team
Formula 1 management shocked team used Excel for 20,000-part inventory, now replacing 'impossible to navigate' sheet

By Mark Tyson Published

New management at Williams was shocked after finding this F1 team had been relying on Microsoft Excel for the crucial car build workbook.

Software
"Spreadsheets-are-all-you-need"
ChatGPT's ancestor GPT-2 jammed into 1.25GB Excel sheet

By Mark Tyson Published

Release shines a light on the Transformer architecture behind most LLMs.

Artificial Intelligence
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Microsoft Excel Gains Python Data Analysis and Visualization Support

By Ash Hill Published

Microsoft is officially adding support for Python to Microsoft Excel with a little help from the third-party team Anaconda.

Programming
Microsoft Build 2023
Microsoft Build 2023 Puts AI in Everything, Adds Dev Mode for Windows 11

By Andrew E. Freedman Published

Microsoft is putting AI and Copilot experiences throughout its products at Microsoft Build 2023.

Applications
Microsoft 365
Microsoft's New 365 Basic Plan: $2 a Month Includes 100GB OneDrive, Ad-Free Outlook

By Brandon Hill Published

Also includes advanced security features and technical support

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