It's official: All your Office apps are getting AI and a price increase

Every Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscription is about to get Copilot AI features, along with a price increase of at least 30%. The global rollout comes after months of testing and is certain to be controversial.

If you've got a Microsoft 365 Personal or Family subscription, you're about to get a jumbo serving of AI in your Office apps. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook will all get a new Copilot button that opens a prompt pane where you can get help writing documents, analyzing spreadsheets, summarizing email messages, and building presentations. In addition, those subscriptions will get the AI-powered Microsoft Designer app, which can build images from prompts and edit unwanted objects from existing photos.

The new features, announced in a post on the Microsoft 365 blog, will be available as part of the latest Microsoft 365 update and come with a ...