Microsoft 365 Copilot
The latest Microsoft 365 Copilot coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Microsoft Brings Copilot Prompt-Level DLP to Government Clouds, Plugging Data Leak Risks
Microsoft has begun rolling out prompt-level Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for Microsoft 365 Copilot to its government cloud environments, finally giving public sector organizations automated tools to...
Microsoft 365 Copilot Will Finally Show Its Work with Deep Citations
Microsoft is preparing to add source citations directly into Microsoft 365 Copilot’s responses, a long-requested capability designed to help users verify information and meet compliance...
Military and Government Copilot Chat Gets Agent Widgets in July 2026 Roadmap Update
Microsoft has revealed that its Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat for government and military cloud environments will gain agent-based widgets powered by MCP technology, with a planned rollout in July 2026....
Microsoft Pilots Agent ROI Dashboard in Foundry, Forms Copilot Hits Global Availability
Microsoft on July 8, 2026, commenced a private preview for a new ROI tracking dashboard within Microsoft Foundry, designed to measure the business value of AI agents. Simultaneously, Microsoft Forms...
Law Firms Can Now Surface Client Intel Directly Inside Microsoft 365 Copilot
Litera, a prominent legal technology company, announced on June 3, 2026, that its AI-powered client relationship platform, Foundation 365, now integrates directly with Microsoft 365 Copilot. The move...
Microsoft Brings AI to Out-of-Office Replies: Copilot Drafts Your Emails Now
Microsoft has started rolling out a new capability for its Copilot AI assistant in Outlook: it can now draft your automatic replies when you’re away from the office. The feature, which began...
New in Microsoft 365: Copilot Chat Comes to Forms, Word for iPad Gets AI Editing
Microsoft has expanded its Copilot AI assistant into two more Office apps this week, bringing a new chat-based experience to Microsoft Forms and enhanced editing capabilities to Word for iPad. The...
Microsoft’s 365 Copilot Now Serves Excel, Outlook AI Prompts on Homegrown MAI Models
Microsoft has started routing tens of thousands of weekly AI prompts from Excel and Outlook through its own MAI models, Bloomberg reported on July 7, 2026, marking the first disclosed...
AI Note-Taker Slashes Social Care Admin Costs: Lancashire Saves £2M with Microsoft Copilot
Lancashire County Council has started using generative artificial intelligence tools from Microsoft to automatically convert spoken notes from social care visits into structured case records, a move...
Microsoft Scraps Scheduled Prompts for Copilot Agents, Leaving Power Users in the Lurch
Microsoft has removed a feature from its Microsoft 365 Roadmap that would have let users schedule recurring prompts for declarative Copilot agents. The change, recorded on July 6, 2026, cancels...
Your Government Tenant Will Soon Show Who's Using Copilot Chat—and Where
On July 6, 2026, Microsoft planted a new flag in the government cloud landscape: an admin center usage report for Copilot Chat is coming to GCC, GCC High, and DoD tenants. General availability is...
Microsoft Copilot Notebooks: The Memory Layer That Could End AI Amnesia, Coming June 2026
Microsoft plans to roll out a redesigned Copilot Notebooks experience in the Microsoft 365 Copilot web app, with preview available in June 2026 and general availability in July 2026. The feature,...