{"id":302687,"date":"2025-05-09T03:51:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T10:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=302687"},"modified":"2025-07-01T14:41:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T21:41:04","slug":"microsoft-believes-in-a-future-without-excel-the-key-lies-in-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/microsoft-believes-in-a-future-without-excel-the-key-lies-in-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft believes in a future without Excel: The key lies in AI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Microsoft is no longer thinking of Excel as just a spreadsheet tool. Under the leadership of Satya Nadella, the company is&nbsp;<strong>redefining its software legacy through the lens of generative AI<\/strong>. In a recent interview, Nadella hinted that traditional business apps, including Excel, may become obsolete as AI agents take over the intelligence layer of enterprise workflows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">AI is reshaping the foundation of business software<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Nadella, most SaaS apps today are&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;just CRUD databases with business logic.&#8221;<\/strong>&nbsp;But in the new era of Agentic AI, that logic shifts to AI agents capable of connecting and managing multiple databases simultaneously. This could lead to the&nbsp;<strong>collapse of traditional app structures<\/strong>, as intelligence no longer lives in individual apps, but in a shared AI layer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Excel with Python and Copilot is just the beginning<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Microsoft is already experimenting with this idea. Nadella described Excel combined with Python and Copilot as&nbsp;<strong>\u201clike GitHub with Copilot\u201d<\/strong>\u2014transforming a spreadsheet into an interactive data analysis tool. In this context, users no longer need to understand formulas or scripts. The AI handles it, making&nbsp;<strong>advanced data manipulation accessible to non-experts<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Copilot layer as the new interface<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Microsoft\u2019s broader strategy is to make Copilot the&nbsp;<strong>\u201cUI for AI\u201d<\/strong>, acting as a control panel for all tasks and agents. This suggests a future where users no longer open individual apps but instead rely on&nbsp;<strong>a single intelligent interface<\/strong>&nbsp;that coordinates tasks across tools and platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the software giant invests billions in AI infrastructure, the message is clear:&nbsp;<strong>Microsoft is preparing for a post-SaaS world<\/strong>, and Excel may be just the first to evolve\u2014or disappear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is no longer thinking of Excel as just a spreadsheet tool. Under the leadership of Satya Nadella, the company is&nbsp;redefining its software legacy through the lens of generative AI. In a recent interview, Nadella hinted that traditional business apps, including Excel, may become obsolete as AI agents take over the intelligence layer of enterprise &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/microsoft-believes-in-a-future-without-excel-the-key-lies-in-ai\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Microsoft believes in a future without Excel: The key lies in AI&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9317,"featured_media":302688,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6771],"class_list":["post-302687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","content-category-ai"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307128,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302687\/revisions\/307128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302687"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=302687"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=302687"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=302687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}