Microsoft recently announced a new tool called Similarity checker.
The new tool will work with its editing tool Microsoft Word and is supposed to help determine whether the text in a document is original or requires some citation to the source of the text.
For now the new tool is available only for its customers Microsoft 365 EDU A3 and A5 in preview versions of the Office suite. Similarity checker is expected to be released to everyone in July 2020.
Once released the new feature can help you determine how much of a document is similar to online sources, while also helping to prevent plagiarism. New application it will also have many other features, such as proper tools that will tell you where to insert references to the original text.
This feature is supported by Bing, so it searches the web to find other sources that are similar to your document.
Microsoft's upgraded editing capability is an effort against Grammarly and others, which have recently appeared to be very popular due to the increased adoption of Microsoft Office.
Microsoft of course wants to keep them users στις πλατφόρμες της, οπότε ο νέος επεξεργαστής υποτίθεται ότι θα παρέχει σε όλους τα απαραίτητα εργαλεία για τη βελτίωση της κάθε συγγραφής χωρίς να χρειάζεται να στραφούν σε προϊόντα τρίτων.
