buildConfirmed4 publishers Developer Brandon Thomas built WordCraft, GridCraft and DeckCraft, early open-source clones of Word, Excel and PowerPoint, with Claude. TechSpot reports the project's own estimate at about 60% feature parity, with GridCraft about 50% ready for real work.
Perspective Coverage
4 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 33%
- Operator
- Operator 30%
- Investor
- Investor 37%
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption20
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives55
- Confidence60
Microsoft brings full Office into a merged Copilot app for the first time
Satya Nadella pitched Microsoft's merged Copilot app to invited enterprise customers as the 'OS for work', with tabs for chat, coding and an Autopilot agent. IT teams now have to plan for a second route into Office, along with an agent whose autonomy Copilot chief Jacob Andreou calls terrifying to admins.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption15
- Hype gap+45
- Incentives75
- Confidence45
A signed Windows binary can stand up a real Microsoft login and pocket the tokens
Huntress showed WWAHost.exe rendering attacker JavaScript with full WinRT access, driving a genuine login.microsoftonline.com prompt. The tokens survive MFA. The gate is Developer Mode.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives72
- Confidence55
buildOne report1 publisher September's Office update stops Excel pasting on perpetual and volume installs
A dev.to writeup pins silent copy/paste failures in Excel 2016 through 2024 on KB5002914, and says MSI machines can drop the patch while volume Click-to-Run installs have to be moved back a whole build.
Reality
- Evidence30
- Adoption20
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives40
- Confidence45
Excel users are uninstalling KB5002914 to get copy and paste working again
Microsoft's September 9 Office update stopped copy-paste and formula dragging for some users on Office 2016 through 2024, and every workaround now circulating removes or downgrades the security patch.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption55
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives35
- Confidence50