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45 posts about Microsoft from Simon Carter.
Copilot Studio's October 2026 release adds an MCP server for dev tools, persistent agent accounts, a customer conversation harness, and credit tracking.
From 25 October 2026, any M365 user can upload advanced Copilot agents by default. Here's what the new admin setting does and where to find it.
Microsoft held its fourth annual OneDrive + Copilot digital event on 20 October 2026, showcasing new AI capabilities across files, search, and photos.
From 16 October 2026, Microsoft renames M365 Copilot CSP offers to include '(add-on)'. Scripts matching on offer name will silently break.
Microsoft has shipped Copilot for Legal at GA, bringing contract redlining, drafting, and obligations tracking into Word and Cowork.
Microsoft has pushed the CSP usage-based billing default date to 1 December 2026 and confirmed a 4,000 Copilot Credits/user/month spending cap.
Copilot in SharePoint hit GA on 30 September 2026, bringing new features, a split billing model, and a PowerShell deadline admins cannot ignore.
Microsoft completes its Copilot redirect to copilot.cloud.microsoft in early October 2026. Blocked domains mean user lockouts. Here's what to fix.
Microsoft merges consumer and business Copilot into one enterprise product, adds Autopilot: a persistent AI agent, and launches managed app hosting.
Microsoft's renamed Scout agent, now called Autopilot, gets its own identity, memory, and workspace inside M365: and keeps working when you log off.
From 19 October 2026, new Copilot Business licences include default usage-based billing for agentic AI. Admins need to act before then.
The standalone Whiteboard apps retire on 16 October 2026. Legacy Azure-backed boards delete permanently the same day. Here's what you need to do.
The single Copilot app merging consumer and M365 Copilot hits Windows and Mac from mid-September 2026. Here's what IT admins need to do now.
Microsoft's new app-building experience lets you describe a business app in plain language and deploy it without writing code, grounded in your org's data.
The Azure-to-OneDrive migration tool closed on 22 August 2026. Unmigrated enterprise whiteboards will be deleted on 5 September 2026.
Three consumer Copilot features hit hard end-of-life on 18 August 2026. Here is what is deleted, what survives, and what it costs you.
Three free Copilot features are being cut on 18 August 2026. Here's what you need to save, what it costs to keep Deep Research, and what's changing.
From 13 August 2026, Microsoft is rolling out a single unified Copilot app: with three consumer features deleted on 18 August.
GPT-5.6 runs under OpenAI as a subprocessor in M365 Copilot. The admin toggle auto-enabled 24 July 2026 unless you'd already said no.
The Copilot Business promotional price of $18/user/month ends June 30. Here's what the new pricing means and whether the bundles make sense for your team.
Microsoft's agentic AI assistant Copilot Cowork hit GA on June 16, 2026, with nine launch plugins, $0.01/credit pricing, and a July 1 billing grace period for Frontier customers.
Microsoft is unifying its fragmented Copilot tools into a single super app with chat, GitHub Copilot, Cowork, Autopilot, and a new proactive agent called Scout.
Work IQ API hits GA on June 16 with consumption-based Copilot Credits billing. Here's what admins must configure before agents start running up charges.
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 arrives in Microsoft 365 Copilot on day one, expanding to Copilot Chat, Excel, PowerPoint, and Copilot Studio with stronger reasoning and Work IQ grounding.
Microsoft's July 2026 pricing update bundles Copilot Chat, extra storage, and security tools into most M365 plans, with price rises of 5–43%.
Microsoft's Power Apps MCP Server brings AI agents into model-driven apps with human-in-the-loop supervision, automated data entry, and a redesigned agent feed.
Microsoft's Work IQ API reached GA on June 16, bringing an agent-ready intelligence layer for Microsoft 365 with consumption-based Copilot Credits billing.
Microsoft resumed automatic installation of the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on commercial Windows PCs from June 4, with waves running to July 1. Act fast to opt out.
Microsoft open-sourced its Windows Agent Framework, unveiled Project Polaris to replace GPT-4 Turbo in Copilot, and shipped Copilot Workspace as GA at Build 2026.
Microsoft unveiled seven in-house MAI models at Build 2026, cutting reliance on OpenAI with its own reasoning and coding models.
Microsoft IQ — combining Work IQ, Fabric IQ, and the new Web IQ — is now GA across GitHub Copilot, Foundry, and Copilot Studio.
At Build 2026, Microsoft launched Autopilots — always-on autonomous agents with their own Entra identity. Microsoft Scout is first.
Copilot Health entered public preview on May 29, 2026, giving eligible U.S. Microsoft 365 subscribers AI-powered health insights, wearable data, and EHR access.
Microsoft has redesigned the Microsoft 365 Copilot experience across all M365 apps, with faster load times, smarter context, and a cleaner interface.
Microsoft's Copilot Studio CUA feature hits GA, letting agents operate any UI like a human, with new workflow tools and real-time voice now live too.
Microsoft's Copilot Cowork AI task delegation tool is now available on iOS and Android, letting users hand off work from mobile and pick it up on desktop.
Microsoft's first new enterprise licence tier since 2015 bundles E5, Copilot, Entra Suite, and Agent 365 into one platform at $99/user/month.
Microsoft Agent 365 is now GA at $15/user/month, with preview tools to discover and manage shadow AI agents running on employee devices.
Microsoft's 2026 Work Trend Index finds organisational culture, not tools or people, is what's holding back real AI value — and agents are changing what work looks like.
Microsoft's new in-house AI models for speech, voice, and image generation are now in public preview on Microsoft Foundry — here's what they do and who they're for.
Microsoft's AI execution layer for Microsoft 365, built with Anthropic, has expanded to broader availability through the Frontier early-access program.
Microsoft is reversing its September 2025 decision to offer free Copilot Chat inside Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, with changes taking effect April 15, 2026.
Microsoft announced Agent 365, ZT4AI, and a sweeping set of security updates at RSAC 2026 to help enterprises secure the rise of agentic AI.
Microsoft has released Zero Trust for AI — new tools, architecture, and guidance for securing AI systems across the full lifecycle, from data to agents.
Microsoft's February 2026 Copilot update brings AI agents, mobile widgets, SharePoint grounding, and new admin controls across Microsoft 365.