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$30 a Seat and a Meter Behind It. What Microsoft's One-App Copilot Actually Costs a Buyer.

Microsoft folded chat, an agent, a code builder and native Word, Excel and PowerPoint into a single Copilot application on 25 September, and split the bill in two: a flat per-user subscription for everyday use, and a usage meter denominated in Copilot Credits for everything agentic. Thirty million paid seats out of a commercial base above 450 million is the number the launch is aimed at.

By Alison Acosta September 26, 2026

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Four Hours From Nothing to a Breach, Then Eleven Victims in Twenty-Six Seconds

GreyNoise says a threat actor pointed hundreds of agents built on OpenAI's Codex and a DeepSeek model at two PaperCut flaws, reaching remote code execution on a real victim in under four hours and compromising eleven organisations in twenty-six seconds once the campaign ran. The exploit was ordinary. The labour was not.

By Alison Acosta September 12, 2026

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$30 a Seat and a Meter Behind It. What Microsoft's One-App Copilot Actually Costs a Buyer.

Four Hours From Nothing to a Breach, Then Eleven Victims in Twenty-Six Seconds