Over time, Microsoft deprecates features in Windows depending upon low usage or the presence of potential security vulnerabilities. In the past few months, the company has announced deprecations for VBScript, Windows Mixed Reality, and Legacy Console mode. Now, the Redmond firm has revealed that yet another feature will join its graveyard of deprecated capabilities in Windows.

Microsoft has a rather controversial history of inserting "advertisements" for its other services in Windows 11, with these promotions sometimes causing issues in the operating system too. Now, the Redmond tech giant has been caught embedding content regarding Copilot in the Windows 11 lock screen in a rather unsolicited manner.

Microsoft adds new features to Excel on a regular basis in order to continue engaging existing customers as well as attract more users. These enhancements often include new formulas, export capabilities, usability improvements, and more. Towards the end of each month, the company also publishes a changelog of all the new features it introduced in the past four weeks. Now, it has done the same for the month of February 2024.