Articles from 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in 2026
Microsoft Targets September 2026 for Teams Rooms Call Quality Feedback on Android
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Custom Engine Agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot in Government Clouds: Delayed but Not Dead
Microsoft has quietly pushed back the arrival of custom engine agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot in its U.S. Government Community Cloud (GCC). A roadmap entry updated in late July 2026 shows the...
Your Microsoft Teams Sidebar Just Grew: A Practical Guide to Viva Engage Communities
Microsoft has flipped the switch on a long-planned integration: Viva Engage communities are now a permanent fixture inside the Microsoft Teams client. As of June, following a February preview, the...
Microsoft Teams Adds Numeric-Only Meeting Passcodes—But Only for Those Who Need Them
Microsoft has given Teams administrators a new tool to reduce meeting friction for users who struggle with alphanumeric codes, launching an optional eight-digit, numeric-only passcode policy that can...
Viva Glint’s New Copilot-Powered Topic Assignment Targets Unclassified Employee Feedback
Microsoft has rolled out a Copilot-enhanced topic assignment engine for Viva Glint, its employee engagement survey platform, fundamentally changing how open-ended comments are classified before they...
Book a Meeting Room Instantly from the Console: Teams Rooms Pro on Windows Gains Ad-Hoc Reservation
Microsoft is rolling out a new feature that lets users reserve an available meeting room for immediate use straight from a Teams Rooms on Windows console. The capability, tracked as Microsoft 365...
Microsoft to Give Copilot Agents a Major UI Overhaul by May 2027
Microsoft has signalled a significant shift in how Microsoft 365 Copilot agents will look and behave, with a roadmap entry (ID 497844) promising flexible layouts and rich UX components for...
New Exchange Online Policy Puts Admins in Charge of Outlook’s Comma Behavior
Microsoft has quietly started rolling out a new Exchange Online policy that lets administrators set a tenant-wide default for whether commas act as recipient separators in Outlook. The policy,...
Microsoft Purview's New Panel Will Recommend Insider Risk Policies You're Missing
Microsoft plans to add a Policy Recommendation Panel to Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management, according to a new entry on the Microsoft 365 roadmap. The feature, listed under ID 560600, is...
Coming in 2026: AI-Powered Teams Meeting Summaries That Don’t Require a Stored Transcript
Microsoft is working on a new meeting option for Teams that will let organizers get an AI-generated summary of their meeting without retaining the full written transcript. The capability, listed on...
October 2026: Microsoft Will Put Copilot Oversharing Alerts and DLP Controls Inside the M365 Admin Center
Microsoft will embed Microsoft Purview data security controls directly into the Microsoft 365 admin center, giving IT and AI administrators a single pane to spot oversharing risks tied to Copilot and...
Coming in September: AI-generated summaries of Microsoft Purview DLP policy changes
Microsoft has quietly added a new entry to its Microsoft 365 Roadmap that could change how compliance teams handle data loss prevention (DLP) policy updates. Listed as ID 559106, 'Microsoft Purview:...