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PC Pro is the UK’s number one IT monthly magazine and offers readers a healthy variety of tech news updates, tests, reviews, best buys and even bonus software in every issue. The editorial team are experts in their field and they’re dedicated to creating the most authoritative reviews and keeping you up to speed on the latest technology developments.

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The growing threat of the cable cutters • Experts warn of increasing threat to the subsea cables that connect UK to the rest of the world

Adobe’s video AI is all filler • Firefly now generates short videos from text or images

The road to 50Gbits/sec broadband Trevor Linney, Openreach • Openreach’s director of network technology reveals Britain’s broadband future

ONCE A PON A TIME… • Here’s a quick summary of the technologies that Openreach will be deploying over the next decade.

The A-List • The best products on the market, as picked by our editors

A short reading list for tech bros • It’s time our quasi-leaders put down their science fiction and started educating themselves with something a little more meaningful instead

We should have seen DeepSeek coming • Regulators and ethicists warned that AI needed to consider efficiency, so how odd that China is the country that listened

Full fibre, half the speed • Under-par routers aren’t keeping pace with Britain’s ever-faster broadband lines, which is choking back speeds and progress

Readers’ comments • Your views and feedback from email and the web

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MASTER AI IN MICROSOFT 365 • Is it worth paying for AI in Microsoft 365? Barry Collins finds out what Copilot can and can’t do in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook to help you decide

WORD • Microsoft clearly has ambitions for Copilot in Word to become far more than a glorified Clippy, but much work is yet to be done

EXCEL • Excel is where Copilot can make a genuine difference to your workflow, and we recommend you take advantage

POWERPOINT • Used wisely, Copilot not only saves you time when creating PowerPoint presentations but also gives them greater impact

OUTLOOK • A missed opportunity in many ways, not least due to its lack of support for non-Microsoft services, but some people will find it a handy tool

Microsoft 365 Family for £79.99 • Why pay Microsoft a recurring fee of £104.99 per year when you can enjoy the same advantages for £69.99 and avoid ongoing subscriptions?

Microsoft Office Home 2024 for £109.99 or Home & Business 2024 for £229.99 • The best choice if you want a version of Office that doesn’t need a subscription

AFFINITY PHOTO • Bring your pictures to life with this powerful image editor – no subscription needed. Nik Rawlinson introduces the best features

SIMPLIFY YOUR WORKFLOW WITH STUDIOLINK

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Why PCI Express rules the world • Expansion cards may seem an old concept, but Darien Graham-Smith finds out how PCI Express remains on the cutting edge of interconnect technology

What version of PCIe do I need?

Nvidia GeForce RTX 50-series • AI and Multi Frame Generation are the stars of this release rather than the silicon, but these alone give reasons to buy

Laptops coming soon?

Scan 3XS Edge iCue • Silent but deadly fast, this is a high-class gaming PC that also has plenty to offer creative workers

Wired2Fire R7X3D RTX 5080 Beast Gaming PC • This truly is a beast, being the best-specified and fastest RTX 5080 PC on test, but also the noisiest

CyberPowerPC Infinity Z890 Elite PC • A fast performer and excellent choice if you’ll take advantage of...