Microsoft 365 Copilot
The latest Microsoft 365 Copilot coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Microsoft Scout: Always-On AI Agent for Teams, Email, and M365 Unveiled at Build 2026
Microsoft took the wraps off Scout at its Build developer conference on Tuesday, June 2, 2026. The new offering marks the company’s most aggressive push yet into always-on workplace AI, placing an...
Five-hour Copilot outage exposes risks of relying on cloud AI assistants
Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant, deeply woven into Windows, Microsoft 365, and Edge, went down for thousands of users mid-morning on Monday, June 1, 2026, triggering a flood of outage reports and...
Agentic Copilot in Outlook: AI Autonomously Triages, Drafts, and Schedules
Microsoft has flipped the switch on a new class of Outlook capabilities. The spring 2026 rollout introduces agentic Copilot features for Microsoft 365 Copilot subscribers enrolled in the Frontier...
Accenture Rolls Out Microsoft 365 Copilot to 743,000 Workers: The Largest Enterprise AI Deployment Ever
On April 27 and 28, 2026, Microsoft and Accenture confirmed the largest enterprise rollout of Microsoft 365 Copilot ever publicly announced. The global professional services firm is deploying the AI...
Anthropic Claude Opus 4.8 Launches May 28 With Deep M365 Agent Integration
Anthropic dropped Claude Opus 4.8 on May 28, 2026, marking a decisive pivot in the artificial intelligence landscape. The release wasn’t just another model upgrade. It capped a week where every...
Microsoft Copilot mobile app outage sparks enterprise reliability concerns
Microsoft Copilot suffered a significant service disruption on Friday, May 29, 2026, as a flood of user complaints overwhelmed Downdetector. By 8:58 a.m. Pacific time, more than 2,600 reports had...
Cactus Life Sciences Deploys 30+ Custom AI Agents With Microsoft 365 Copilot
Cactus Life Sciences, a global medical communications agency, has rolled out more than 30 custom AI agents integrated with Microsoft 365 Copilot, achieving dramatic speed-ups in clinical data...
Microsoft 365 Copilot Earns Flawless ISO 42001:2023 Recertification
Microsoft 365 Copilot has cleared its ISO/IEC 42001:2023 recertification audit with zero non-conformities and zero improvement observations, the company confirmed in March 2026. The result extends an...
Copilot redesign May 2026 shrinks AI controls, adds Throw & Catch for cross-app content
Microsoft is preparing a significant overhaul of its Copilot AI assistant within Microsoft 365 applications, slated for rollout in May 2026. The redesign focuses on a 'quieter' interaction model that...
How Zavarovalnica Triglav Deployed 40 Digital Mentors to Make Microsoft 365 Copilot Work Across 5,000 Employees
Slovenian insurance group Zavarovalnica Triglav has successfully embedded Microsoft 365 Copilot across its entire 5,000-plus-employee operation, a feat made possible by an innovative digital mentor...
AI-powered Frontier now generates Excel spreadsheets inside Copilot Notebooks by May 2026
Microsoft confirmed today that its Copilot Notebooks will expand into Excel, Teams, Outlook, and OneNote starting in May 2026, turning the AI-powered workspace into a cross-app hub for data analysis,...
Microsoft's Ask Copilot arrives on Windows 11 taskbar by mid-2026
Microsoft is set to integrate Ask Copilot directly into the Windows 11 taskbar and Start menu by mid-2026, transforming an optional search experience into a dedicated entry point for the Copilot...