Welcome to our fourth roundup of 2025. We look at what was announced, released and delayed across Microsoft 365 and Copilot in April.
Check out the March blog for lots of content still rolling out this month. If you are an Update Insiders member, have a sneak peek at the latest blog, as it is created throughout the month.
Here’s a reminder of what the icons mean and the order in which the updates are grouped:
✅ = Available now
🔜 = Coming soon
🕔 = Coming soon, but delayed
🔭 = Coming later; details and dates will be sketchy
🚫 = A feature we are losing
Here are this month’s topics:
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Copilot
🎬 Watch the Copilot highlights on YouTube.
🔜 Updates to the M365 Copilot app for licensed users
M365 Copilot app updates for licensed users include Copilot Search, Agent Store, simplified chat, updated Create experience, Copilot Notebooks, and improved memory and personalisation. Due late May to late June 2025. Read more.
🔜 Updates to the M365 Copilot app for unlicensed Copilot Chat users
The ‘free’, web-grounded version of Copilot chat is getting a refreshed navigation pane, simplified chat experience, and an Agent Store. Due late May to late June 2025. Read more.
🔜 Copilot audio overviews for Word and PDF files in Microsoft OneDrive
Microsoft: “Microsoft 365 Copilot will soon offer AI-generated audio overviews for Word documents, PDF files, and Teams meeting recordings stored in OneDrive”. Due early to late May 2025. Read more.
🔜 A Copilot Prompt Gallery redesign and organisational prompts
The Copilot Prompt Gallery app is being redesigned with a new home page and prompts from your organisation. Due early to mid-May 2025. Read more.
🔜 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Search for and select Teams Chats in Context IQ to scope prompts
Microsoft: “With this new feature, users will be able to search for and select Teams Chats in Context IQ (CIQ) to scope their prompts in BizChat.” and “Users will be able to ground their prompts in BizChat to the Teams Chats that they have access to. More details will be published for users here when this feature releases: Using Context IQ to refer to specific files, people, and more in Microsoft 365 Copilot“.
References: MC1060471 and 365 Roadmap ID 429646. Due early May to early June 2025.
🔜 Microsoft Copilot Studio – Introducing Draft with Copilot
Microsoft: “When authoring a prompt, the prompt builder will allow you to trigger Copilot to assist in turning your intent into a more effective prompt that follows best practices and produces better outcomes. Additionally, Copilot can also generate sample test data to assist in running your validations quicker”.
Reference: MC1056220. Due 15th May 2025.
🔜 Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile apps: Generate images
Copilot licence holders will be able to create images using natural language in iOS/Android mobile apps for Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Teams, and Microsoft Outlook. In the Chat tab of the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app, ask Copilot to generate an image, like these very cool cats:
Reference: MC1052161. Due mid to late April 2025.
🔜 Microsoft Copilot Studio – Conversational agent creation experience
You will soon be able to use Microsoft Copilot Studio’s new feature to easlily create a personalised conversational agent by generating essential elements such as its name, description, instructions, and prompt through simple conversations, and configuring web knowledge sources and other specifics using a straightforward interface.
Reference: MC1049405. Due 6th May 2025. Read the FAQ for the conversational agent creation experience – Microsoft Learn.
🔜 M365 Copilot gets better file grounding refinement
The Files tab in the M365 prompt box is gaining ‘Type’ and ‘People’ filters to help you ground your prompt in content that matters to you. Due late April to mid-May 2025. Read more.
🔜 Microsoft 365 Copilot: New Researcher and Analyst agents
As a Microsoft 365 Copilot-licensed user, you will soon gain access to two new deep reasoning agents, Researcher and Analyst, which will initially be available in English only. Researcher will combine OpenAI’s deep research model with Copilot’s advanced orchestration and deep search capabilities to assist you in tackling complex, multi-step research tasks at work, reasoning over work and web data, including third-party data. Analyst will leverage OpenAI’s o3-mini reasoning model, optimised for advanced data analysis at work, using chain-of-thought reasoning and Python to iteratively refine its responses and provide high-quality answers. These agents will start rolling out in April as part of the new “Frontier” programme, offering early access to new Copilot innovations while they are still in development. If the timing changes, you will be notified.
References: MC1041319. Due from May 2025. Read (and watch) more: Introducing Researcher and Analyst in Microsoft 365 Copilot | Microsoft 365 Blog.
🕔 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Users can search Copilot Chat sessions
Microsoft: “Before this rollout: Users can only skim and scroll through their Copilot chat sessions to find a desired session. After this rollout: Users will be able to type keywords to search their chat sessions. As a user begins typing, session results will appear based on the keyword(s), and users can select the session that corresponds to their search”.
References: MC1022528 and 365 Roadmap ID 388371. Now due early to mid-May 2025.
🕔 Ground your M365 Copilot prompts in SharePoint and OneDrive
When writing Copilot prompts in the chat box, you will soon be able to point your prompts (ground) at specific SharePoint/OneDrive folders and SharePoint sites. Now due early to mid-May 2025. Read more.
🕔 Prepare for your meeting with Microsoft 365 Copilot and Outlook
Microsoft 365 Copilot in Outlook will soon help you prepare for upcoming meetings by summarising key information such as the purpose, action items, pre-reads and related discussions. Now due late January to late April 2025. Read more.
🕔 Microsoft Copilot in Edge: New contextual features like page summary on Microsoft 365 Copilot Business Chat “Work” tab
Microsoft: “Microsoft Copilot in Edge will introduce support for page summarization and contextual queries to the Work tab for Microsoft 365 Copilot Business Chat. With this feature, users can ask Copilot contextual queries such as “summarize this page.” This feature will also include contextual prompt suggestions to help users ask relevant questions about open pages in Edge. Page summarization and contextual prompt suggestions will be accessible for users when using Copilot through the Edge side pane”.
References: MC966641 and 365 Roadmap ID 468884. Now due mid-March to late April 2025. Learn more about the differences between Copilot Chat and Microsoft 365 Copilot (Microsoft Learn).
🕔 Ground your M365 Copilot Chat prompts in third-party data
Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat will soon allow you to ground prompts in third-party data from Microsoft Graph Connectors. Now due mid to late April 2025. Read more.
🔭 Use Copilot in PDFs within the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app
Microsoft: “Use Copilot with PDF files for summaries and key insights”.
Roadmap ID: 485725. Due May 2025.
🔭 Use Copilot in your search tab in the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app
Microsoft: “Quickly find your files and leverage Copilot to get a better understanding within the search tab on the go”.
Roadmap ID: 485731. Due May 2025.
🔭 M365 Copilot Memory
Microsoft: “Microsoft 365 Copilot leverages insights inferred from conversations between the user and Copilot, along with data from the Microsoft Graph and custom instructions to provide personalized help for tasks. Users have full control and can view, manage, disable or clear memory at any time”.
Roadmap ID: 486701. Due May 2025.
🔭 Access SharePoint agents in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app
Microsoft: “Use SharePoint agents seamlessly without navigating to the SharePoint site. With this new feature, you can quickly return to your most recently used SharePoint agents directly in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app”.
Roadmap ID: 482601. Due May 2025.
🔭 Admin control to disable file upload in Copilot Chat
Microsoft: “Admins will now have more control to disable File upload across tenants or in Work or Web grounding modes for Copilot Chat”.
Roadmap ID: 485775. Due June 2025.
🔭 M365 Copilot can generate an audio overview of a notebook
Microsoft: “Copilot can turn the referenced files in a notebook into a dynamic audio overview, transforming them into a listening experience that’s easy to follow. To generate an audio overview in Copilot Notebooks, select ˜Generate audio overview” at the top of the notebook. This capability is only available in English currently”.
Roadmap ID: 487854. Due May 2025.
🔭 M365 Copilot can generate an audio overview of your Word document
Microsoft: “Copilot can turn your Word document into a dynamic audio overview, transforming it into a listening experience that’s easy to follow. Ask Copilot to generate an audio overview in the Copilot chat pane, and Copilot will bring your content to life through a podcast-style discussion between two hosts. This capability is only available in English currently. The ability for users to configure the audio overview format and adjust things like style, number of speakers, and length will be available later”.
Roadmap ID: 487423. Due May 2025.
🔭 Copilot can now answer questions about opened Copilot Pages in chat
Microsoft: “When using Copilot Pages side-by-side in Copilot Chat, you can now ask questions in chat about your open page, and Copilot will provide answers based on the contents of that page”.
Roadmap ID: 487848. Due July 2025.
🔭 M365 Copilot Chat module UI refresh
Microsoft: “Copilot Chat is designed to provide a streamlined UI, making it easy to get started and achieve your goals quickly. It offers a helpful, understanding, and personalized experience, allowing you to search for past interactions, content, agents, or pages with ease”.
Roadmap ID: 485716. Due May 2025.
🔭 M365 Copilot generates the new presentation in a new file when starting from an existing presentation
Microsoft: “Now, when creating a presentation using Copilot from an existing presentation, it will create the new presentation in a new file without affecting the original presentation”.
Roadmap ID: 489452, 489451 and 489450. Due May 2025.
🔭 Employee Self-Service Agent in M365 Copilot
Microsoft: “The Employee Self-Service Agent in M365 Copilot expedites answers for the most common workplace policy-related questions and takes action on key HR and IT related tasks, connecting employees to authorized knowledge bases and HR/IT systems of record for faster resolution time and a streamlined employee experience”.
Roadmap ID: 487836. Due June 2025.
🔭 Fix all spelling and grammar issues with Copilot
Microsoft: “One-click solution to fix spelling and grammar errors in the document”.
Roadmap ID: 483954. Due April 2025.
🔭 Language expansion coming in Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft: “The broader Microsoft 365 Copilot team are working on supporting 7 new languages across all M365 Copilot features. These are (in alphabetical order) Albanian, Filipino, Icelandic, Kazakh, Malay, Maltese, and Serbian (Cyrillic)”.
Roadmap ID: 489218. Due June 2025.
🔭 Locate your Copilot Pages in Copilot Chat navigation pane
Microsoft: “For quick access to your Copilot Pages, find all page artifacts created across your apps/modules in one place underneath the Chat section in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app”.
Roadmap ID: 485728. Due May 2025.
🔭 Microsoft 365 Copilot App – Ask M365 Copilot
Microsoft: “Right-click on your content to ask Copilot about it on Copilot PC devices”.
Roadmap ID: 487856. Due June 2025.
🔭 Microsoft 365 Copilot Search
Microsoft: “Simple to use AI-powered enterprise search experience that quickly surfaces relevant information using work data you have access to”.
Roadmap ID: 490778. Due August 2025.
🔭 OneNote Pages in M365 Copilot
Microsoft: “M365 Copilot experiences can now reason over your OneNote content”.
Roadmap ID: 490722. Due May 2025.
🔭 People Skills is now available
Microsoft: “We’re excited to launch People Skills, an AI-powered service that delivers personalized skills-based experiences across Microsoft 365. Using advanced inferencing, it helps organizations identify skill gaps and promote upskilling. With People Skills, individuals can easily share a current view of their skills and more easily connect with others. People Skills data enriches people-based experiences in Microsoft 365 Copilot and in the Microsoft 365 profile card and editor”.
Roadmap ID: 485726. Due May 2025.
🔭 Quickly start a chat with Copilot from anywhere on your PC
Microsoft: “Use the Copilot key and Win + C shortcut on Windows 11 devices to quickly interact with Copilot.”.
Roadmap ID: 482544. Due May 2025.
🔭 Receive coaching on your writing in Copilot in Word
Microsoft: “The Copilot context menu will include an option for getting AI-generated coaching. Copilot will review the writing and offer suggestions for high-impact areas, such as logical structure, flow, and tone”.
Roadmap ID: 485719. Due June 2025.
🔭 Reference a TXT file when creating a presentation with Copilot
Microsoft: “You can now reference a TXT file when you create a presentation with Copilot within the PowerPoint application.”.
Roadmap ID: 488794, 488796 and 488795. Due May 2025.
🔭 Shared mailbox access for emails in Copilot Chat
Microsoft: “Users with shared mailbox access will be able to ground Copilot Chat conversations in shared mailboxes”.
Roadmap ID: 488797. Due June 2025.
🔭 Sharing with Copilot summary – Now supporting PowerPoint, Excel, PDFs, Images, and protected files
Microsoft: “The ability to include a Copilot summary when sharing a file now extends beyond Word web to cover PowerPoint (web), Excel (web), PDF, image and text files in OneDrive Web, SharePoint document libraries, and M365 File Viewer. You can even summarize protected or confidential files, preserving your sensitivity labels while getting instant overviews. These enhancements broaden your sharing toolkit, accelerate collaboration and keep your data secure.”.
Roadmap ID: 490156. Due May 2025.
🔭 Simplified Input box update in Copilot Chat
Microsoft: “We are making it easier for users to type prompts with access to CIQ, local files, attach cloud files, and agents by adding it under the Plus Menu”.
Roadmap ID: 490548. Due May 2025.
🔭 Skills agent
Microsoft: “The Skills agent in M365 Copilot, empowers individuals and leaders to easily find experts in the organization, make informed decisions about skill development, and ensure that the organization has the right skills in the era of AI. The Skills agent is powered by the People Skills data layer, which uses advanced AI capabilities to infer skills for every person in the organization, providing a comprehensive view of areas of expertise and focus all in one place”.
Roadmap ID: 489823. Due June 2025.
🔭 Updates to Copilot Chat response output
Microsoft: “Easily interact with Microsoft Graph content represented by bolder references, new action bar, and more”.
Roadmap ID: 490547. Due May 2025.
🔭 Catch up on a summary of document comments in the top of your document
Microsoft: “Copilot will have a Discussion tab in the top of your document to summarize open comments, helping you quickly understand what people have said in comments.”.
Roadmap ID: 487851. Due August 2025.
🔭 Drafting on a selection includes being able to reference files, emails, and meetings
Microsoft: “Just like when you’re using Copilot to draft content on a blank line in your document, you can reference resources that provide context in addition to the content you’ve selected in your document”.
Roadmap ID: 483949. Due May 2025.
🔭 M365 Copilot: Agents in Copilot Chat available on Edge Sidebar
Microsoft: “Use agents in Copilot Chat on Edge Sidebar to simplify tasks.”.
Roadmap ID: 482410. Due April 2025.
🔭 M365 Copilot: Drafting on a selection includes being able to reference files, people, emails, and meetings
Microsoft: “Just like when you’re using Copilot to draft content on a blank line in your document, you can reference resources that provide context in addition to the content you’ve selected in your document”.
Roadmap ID: 485730. Due August 2025.
🔭 Reference People from your enterprise in Copilot in Word
Microsoft: “Users can now reference People from your enterprise while generating content in Word”.
Roadmap ID: 485722. Due May 2025.
🚫 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Image Generation Usage Limit for Users without a Copilot License
Microsoft: “Currently, Microsoft 365 commercial users of Copilot Chat can generate an unlimited number of images. Starting in late April 2025, users of Copilot Chat without a Microsoft 365 Copilot license will have a daily limit on the number of images they can generate. The daily limit for images is not publicly disclosed and is subject to change. Once they reach the daily limit, they may receive an in-product message informing them that they have reached their daily allotment for image generations and will need a Copilot license to create additional images or to wait until the next day when their allotment refreshes”.
Reference: MC1064749. Due late April 2025.
🚫 On hold: New ‘Web content’ on/off toggle for Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft Copilot will soon add a Web content on/off slider to the three-dot menu. On hold as of 1st April 2025. Read more.
Forms
🎬 Watch the Forms highlights on YouTube.
🔜 Users can reference files and forms to help generate drafts using Copilot
You will soon be able to use Microsoft 365 Copilot in Forms to reference existing documents and forms when creating new forms. This feature will allow you to select the paperclip to reference content from Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other forms into your new forms. However, you will only be able to reference files with sensitivity labels of ‘General’ or below.
References: MC1047927 and 365 Roadmap ID 474658. Due mid to late April 2025. Related: Welcome to Copilot in Forms and Copilot in Forms FAQ.
🔜 Copilot in Forms will help you collect responses and monitor form progress
You will soon be able to tell Copilot your goals and deadline, and it will track the form’s progress and keep you updated. Now due late April to late May 2025. Read more.
🔜 M365 Copilot in Forms will help you refine and edit your forms
Microsoft is updating M365 Copilot in Forms to help you refine and modify your forms more easily. Due early to late April 2025 mid-April to early May 2025. Read more.
Lists
🕔 New features coming to Lists forms
New features for Lists forms include notifications, form scheduling, and conditional branching. Now due mid-February to late April 2025. Read more.
OneDrive
🎬 Watch the OneDrive highlights on YouTube.
🔜 A new PDF compression feature is coming to SharePoint and OneDrive
A new PDF compression feature is coming to SharePoint and OneDrive to reduce the file sizes of PDFs. You will be able to choose from three compression levels. Early to mid-May 2025. Read more.
🔜 Use Ask Copilot to catch up on meetings in OneDrive
This update will make catching up on meetings listed in OneDrive > Meetings quick and easy. Read more.
Outlook
🎬 Watch the Outlook highlights on YouTube.
🔜 New Microsoft Outlook: How shared mailboxes are displayed in the folder pane to align with Outlook classic
Microsoft: “Coming soon for new Microsoft Outlook for Windows desktop: To align with the behavior of classic Outlook for Windows, we will display shared mailboxes in the same way accounts are displayed and add a Shared icon to give users a visual distinction between standard mailboxes and shared mailboxes”.
References: MC1058261 and 365 Roadmap ID 486837. Due early to late June 2025. Related: Open and use a shared mailbox in Outlook – Microsoft Support.
🔜 Outlook mobile: Edit a recurring event from a chosen date going forward by selecting ‘This and all following events’
Recently made available on desktop and web, this feature is now coming to mobile. Microsoft: “Users can now edit a recurring event from a chosen date going forward by selecting This and all following events on Android or Edit this and all following events on iOS”.
References: MC1057715 and 365 Roadmap ID 486835. Due early to late May 2025.
🔜 Category shortcuts are coming to new Outlook
Assign a shortcut to function keys ranging from CTRL+F2 to CTRL+F12. Already available in Outlook classic. Manage category shortcuts Settings > Accounts > Categories…look out for the new column called Shortcut.
Refrences: MC1057713 and 365 Roadmap ID 483507. Due mid-June to mid-July 2025. Read more about categories in Outlook – Microsoft Support.
🔜 View and manage shared email accounts you can access using ‘Shared with me’
Outlook (new and web) will soon have a new page called Shared with me where you can view and manage shared email accounts you have access to. Due early June to early July 2025. Read more.
🔜 Draft with Copilot, Highlight and Rewrite coming to classic Outlook for Windows.
Coming to Outlook classic: You will be able to use Draft with Copilot to enhance sections of your email drafts. Highlight a specific section and use Draft with Copilot to refine the text of the highlighted portion.
Refs: MC1048620 and 365 Roadmap ID 407380. Due late May to late June 2025.
🔜 Open attachments while offline in the new Outlook
You will soon be able to open and save attachments from your emails without an internet connection in the new Outlook for Windows. This functionality will be limited to file attachments; OneDrive and SharePoint links in the body of emails will still require an internet connection. To use this functionality, you must ensure that Offline mode and offline attachments are enabled.
References: MC1047925 and 365 Roadmap ID 472026. Due late June to mid-July 2025.
🕔 Agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat in Outlook
Microsoft: “Agents extend the capability of Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat in exciting ways, letting users customize their Copilot experience. From Copilot in Outlook, the right-side panel will show agents that the user has previously installed or that their admin has previously deployed. The panel will also provide entry points to Get Copilot agents in the app store and to Create an agent”.
References: MC1020219 and 365 Roadmap ID: 481558. Now due early June to early July 2025.
🕔 Add shared folders to Favourites in Outlook for Windows and web
Microsoft: “This new functionality will enable users to add shared folders and individual folders from shared mailboxes to their Favorites. This means that users can easily access important folders from shared resources or individual colleagues, directly from their Favorites. Users can share calendars, or folders that contain mail, contacts, tasks, or notes”. Refs: MC799635 and 365 Roadmap ID 388913. Now due early March to late April 2025.
🕔 Use Microsoft Outlook to quickly see who is in the office with you
New Outlook for Windows and Outlook web are getting a new calendar feature to show who will be in the office. Now due early October 2024 to late April 2025. Read more.
🕔 Message recall in the Outlook app for iOS and Android
Microsoft: “From the Microsoft Outlook for iOS and Android apps, you can request that Outlook to attempt to recall a message sent to a colleague within your organization” and “sers will have the option to request a recall attempt for a sent email. This feature provides an additional layer of control for users who need to retract emails sent in error”.
References: MC1025213 and 365 Roadmap ID 471444. Now due early March to late April 2025. Read more: Recall emails in Outlook for Android and iOS (Microsoft).
🕔 Outlook notifications to be batched in the Notifications pane
New Outlook for Windows desktop and Outlook for the web notifications will soon be batched in the Notifications pane. Now due late February to late April 2025. Read more.
🕔 Microsoft Outlook for iOS and Android: Minimize the compose window to multitask in the Outlook app
Microsoft: “Coming soon for Microsoft Outlook for iOS and Android: Minimize draft emails and quickly access them again from the message list or calendar view”.
Refs: MC946791 and 365 Roadmap ID 470304. Now due early January to late April 2025.
🔭 Mobile: Account Switcher for Copilot Tab
Microsoft: “You can now switch between accounts on the Copilot tab. Simply swipe left to open the the left-navigation and select from the list of supported accounts”.
Roadmap ID: 490213. Due June 2025.
🔭 Copilot can generate an audio overview of a linked file in email
Microsoft: “Copilot in Outlook can turn a linked document in email into a dynamic audio overview, transforming it into a listening experience that’s easy to follow. To generate an audio overview in Outlook, hover over a linked file in email, then select Generate audio overview. Copilot will bring your content to life through a podcast-style discussion between two hosts. This capability is available in English only currently”.
Roadmap ID: 485747. Due May 2025.
🔭 Custom Instructions for draft with Copilot
Microsoft: “Give Copilot some instructions about your emails – like the tone, length, greeting – so your Copilot generated drafts sound more like you want them to”.
Roadmap ID: 366572. Due May 2025.
🔭 Find Text when reading email on Outlook on the Web and New Outlook for Windows
Microsoft: “The ability to find text when reading email on Outlook will be supported. This feature will bear resemblance to F4 on Outlook for Windows, or Ctrl+F in another apps”.
Roadmap ID: 489226. Due May 2025.
🔭 Improved interaction in the subject header section on Outlook on the Web and New Outlook for Windows
Microsoft: “The subject header section that shows up at the top when reading an email will be improved. This includes the component that contains meeting information when looking at a meeting invitation and other similar components. The subject header section will be more sensitive to available space and allow for a more comfortable reading experience when on smaller screens or on displays with high scale factors”.
Roadmap ID: 487407. Due April 2025.
🔭 Jump to a row in the Message List on Outlook on the Web and New Outlook for Windows
Microsoft: “We’re making it possible to jump to a row in the Message List by typing. For example, while sorted by “From”, you’ll be able to type “Philip” to jump to the first row where the sender is “Philip””.
Roadmap ID: 490058. Due May 2025.
🚫 Work Hours and Location (WHL) comes to the Outlook My Day pane
Rolled back and on hold: New Outlook and Outlook web will soon allow you to view and update your Work Hours and Location in the My Day pane. On hold as of 3rd April 2025. Read more.
PowerPoint
🔜 Select templates to ensure the Copilot-generated presentations stay on brand
You will soon be able to select templates from a collection provided by your organisation to ensure on-brand Copilot-generated presentations. Alternatively, you can choose from a handpicked collection of Microsoft templates to ensure beautifully designed presentations. However, your organisation must set up your Office Template Library and upload your enterprise templates as per the instructions provided here: Create an organization assets library – SharePoint in Microsoft 365 | Microsoft Learn.
References: MC1060860 and 365 Roadmap IDs 485179, 485180, 485181. Due early to late May 2025.
🔜 Microsoft PowerPoint: Reference a PDF file when creating a presentation with Microsoft 365 Copilot
You will be able to reference PDF files, in addition to Microsoft Word files, when creating a presentation in PowerPoint Copilot. This feature will be available on PowerPoint for Windows desktop, PowerPoint for Mac desktop, and PowerPoint on the web. After this rollout, you will see PDF files when searching for files that Copilot can use to create a presentation. Select the Copilot icon from the PowerPoint ribbon, choose “Create a presentation from file,” and search for PDFs by file name.
Reference: MC1047238. Due late April to late May 2025. Related: Create a new presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint – Microsoft Support.
🔜 PowerPoint: Copilot generates a new presentation in a new file when starting from an existing presentation
Microsoft: “After this rollout in Microsoft PowerPoint, when using Copilot to create a presentation from an existing one, the original presentation remains unchanged. Copilot generates the new presentation in a separate file, preserving the integrity of the content in the original file”.
References: MC1060857 and 365 Roadmap IDs 489450 (Desktop), 489451 (Mac), 489452 (Web). Due late April to early June 2025.
🔜 Use Copilot to create a single PowerPoint slide from a file or prompt
You will soon be able to create individual PowerPoint slides using Copilot. Due late April to early June 2025. Read more.
🔜 Copilot will create a presentation summary as you open PowerPoint
Microsoft PowerPoint and Copilot will create an automatic presentation summary, which will help you understand the topics covered in the slide deck as you open it. Now due late April to mid-July 2025. Read more.
SharePoint
🎬 Watch the SharePoint highlights on YouTube.
🔜 New document library template type: Resume repository
Microsoft: “A new “Resume repository” library template type will be available for SharePoint Online. For tenants with pay-as-you-go-billing services enabled, this template type will include autofill columns to automatically extract name, email, phone, college, and degree. Additionally, there are preconfigure choices and people-based columns to help streamline hiring and interview coordination centered on the resume files”.
Reference: MC1062455. Due early to late May 2025.
🔜 Customise your SharePoint sites with multi-colour themes
Microsoft: “This feature introduces multi-color themes that support multiple color combinations in a theme. In addition to custom themes, eight new out-of-the-box site themes will be available after this rollout” and “The theme colors will show up in the site header and site footer, applied by site managers. The theme colors will also show up in section backgrounds, the rich text editor (text web part), and Design ideas, all edited by page authors”.
References: MC1062451 and 365 Roadmap IDs 489833 / 490062. Due early to mid-June 2025. Read more about Site themes and Site branding on Microsoft.com.
🕔 Use SharePoint quick steps to automate common tasks and workflows
Microsoft: “Coming soon to Microsoft SharePoint: In the Automate menu, users will be able to create customized quick steps for common tasks such as composing an email or starting a Microsoft Teams chat to specified People columns, sending an approval request, executing a flow, and setting a column value on one or more items. Users will find a simple sentence builder experience, similar to SharePoint rules”.
References: MC1025215. Now due late April to late May 2025. Read more: Create a quick step for your list or library – Microsoft Support.
🕔 Protect PDFs with Passwords on OneDrive for web and SharePoint
Microsoft: “SharePoint and OneDrive users can now secure their PDF files by adding protection that restricts unauthorized access through OneDrive Web. This feature allows you to set an open password, which is required to access the PDF, or an owner password, which sets permissions for actions such as printing or editing the document. This ensures your files remain secure and only accessible to authorized individuals”.
References: MC1017119 and 365 Roadmap ID 482193. Now due early to late May 2025.
🕔 Add approvals to a SharePoint document library
SharePoint will soon enable approvals for document libraries. Now due early March to late April 2025. Read more.
🕔 New to SharePoint: collaborate on Pages and News with co-authoring
Co-authoring is coming to SharePoint Pages and News to allow multiple authors to edit a page simultaneously. Now due early August 2024 to late July 2025. Read more.
🔭 Advanced Page Analytics
Microsoft: “SharePoint page analytics will add enhanced reporting capabilities including long-term data, distribution channel filtering, and reactions and promotions, data exports.”.
Roadmap ID: 488502. Due May 2025.
🔭 Copilot actions in SharePoint document libraries
Microsoft: “When you select an item in OneDrive on the Web, the Copilot button appears, offering a range of actions you can perform on that item. The same feature and actions are coming to document library views in SharePoint and Teams”.
Roadmap ID: 488297. Due May 2025.
🔭 Document Libraries – A new forms experience for streamlined document collection
Microsoft: “Introducing native forms within SharePoint Document Libraries to streamline document collection. Users can create custom forms directly in libraries for seamless file uploads and metadata submission. Forms can be shared as links within the organization, facilitating document collection without additional access. This integration enhances productivity by simplifying workflows and improving user experience”.
Roadmap ID: 489834. Due July 2025.
🔭 Header & Footer Enhancements
Microsoft: “The site header and footer are key elements of the SharePoint user interface, playing a vital role in navigation, brand expression, and overall user experience. To better align with today’s design standards and customer expectations, we’re introducing a full visual upgrade of the SharePoint site header and footer. This upgrade delivers a more cohesive and contemporary look while offering new preset layouts and enhanced customization options. Organizations will be able to tailor these elements to better reflect their brand identity, improve usability, and create a more engaging, connected experience for employees”.
Roadmap ID: 489225. Due June 2025.
🔭 Improved processing status experience for Content AI models in SharePoint Online
Microsoft: “We’re introducing a new activity pane in SharePoint Online to help users track and troubleshoot Content AI model processing. Starting with document translation and autofill, users will be able to view real-time status (in progress, completed, failed) for individual files, bulk selections, or the full library. Completed status will include enriched details like language codes, glossary usage, and column extraction counts. This new pane will eventually replace the current ‘processing status’ column, providing a more consistent and actionable experience”.
Roadmap ID: 489453. Due July 2025.
🔭 Modern SharePoint Page Templates
Microsoft: “The Modern SharePoint Page Templates feature introduces a new Template Gallery, providing users with a centralized hub to discover, preview, and select from over 50 modern out-of-the-box (OOB) templates and custom templates. This feature empowers users to create high-quality, on-brand pages effortlessly, enhancing productivity while ensuring consistency and visual appeal across SharePoint sites. Key highlights: Template Gallery: Centralized hub to access both Saved on this site (custom templates) and From Microsoft (OOB templates). 50+ new OOB templates: A collection of aesthetically pleasing, professional, and easy-to-use templates that empower users to quickly create visually engaging and consistent content for common use cases like status updates, event announcements, and team introductions”.
Roadmap ID: 490565. Due June 2025.
🔭 OneDrive and SharePoint – Apply watermark to PDF
Microsoft: “OneDrive for Web now lets you add text or images as watermarks to your PDF documents. You can place the watermark in front of your content and choose the perfect location and angle for it”.
Roadmap ID: 485796. Due April 2025.
🔭 OneDrive and SharePoint – Use table of contents in PDF
Microsoft: “OneDrive for Web can now display a table of contents if it’s already in your PDF. You can click on the line item to jump directly to the location of that page”.
Roadmap ID: 486859. Due May 2025.
🔭 Time to read on SharePoint News posts
Microsoft: “Each news item in SharePoint will display estimated read time of the article”.
Roadmap ID: 491024. Due May 2025.
🔭 M365 Copilot: SharePoint agent web part
Microsoft: “SharePoint site page authors can add SharePoint agents to their pages with an agent web part, allowing end users to easily access and interact with SharePoint agents directly from the site pages”.
Roadmap ID: 481512. Due July 2025.
Teams
🎬 Watch the Teams highlights on YouTube.
✅ Add a name pronunciation to your profile card in Teams and Outlook
Rolling out now but off by default: Microsoft Teams and Outlook will soon include a feature that enables you to record and share the pronunciation of your name on your profile cards. Now due late March to late April 2025. Read more.
🔜 Live captions copying disabled for Teams meetings
You will soon notice an update in Microsoft Teams to strengthen meeting content protection. Live Captions will become view-only, meaning you will still be able to follow the conversation in real time, but you will no longer be able to copy text from the caption pane. This change is designed to support compliance and privacy requirements by reducing the risk of sensitive information being copied or shared unintentionally, especially now that captions can be scrolled to view the full meeting dialogue.
Reference: MC1065053. Due mid to late June 2025.
🔜 Pop out live captions and Real-Time Text (RTT) in Teams meetings
Microsoft is introducing the ability to pop out live captions and the new Real-Time Text (RTT) in Microsoft Teams meetings and calls. Due early to mid-May 2025. Read more.
🔜 Real-Time Text (RTT) in Teams meetings and calls
Real-Time Text (RTT) in Microsoft Teams is a feature that allows participants to type messages during meetings and calls, with the text appearing instantly for everyone to see.
Microsoft: “We’re introducing Real-Time Text (RTT) support in Microsoft Teams meetings and calls, available on both desktop and mobile platforms. RTT is an accessible communication method that transmits text character by character as it is typed, enabling more immediate and responsive text-based conversations. This enhancement supports inclusivity by providing an alternative communication channel for users who are deaf or hard of hearing, neurodiverse, or have speech-related disabilities”
References: MC1059674 and 365 Roadmap ID 484119. Due early to mid-May 2025.
🔜 Town halls: Preview changes before making them visible to attendees with “Manage what attendees see”
Microsoft: “Coming soon for Microsoft Teams: A new Manage what attendees see feature will help organizers and presenters deliver polished town hall events by simplifying the attendee view and keeping the focus on participants brought on screen. The new feature allows assigned organizers and presenters to preview changes before applying them all at once”.
References: MC1058259 and 365 Roadmap ID 487431. Due mid to late June 2025. Related: Manage what attendees see in Microsoft Teams – Microsoft Support.
🔜 Specify who can manage the screen in town halls
Microsoft: “Before this rollout, organizers, co-organizers, and presenters can bring participants on or off screen and start or end the event. After this rollout, only assigned users will have the ability to perform these actions. Organizers, co-organizers, or presenters who are not assigned can still join the event and present but will be restricted from managing the screen or starting and ending the event. Presenters who are unassigned will not be able to manage assigned users with the options Make an attendee or Remove from meeting. A clapperboard icon will appear next to the names of participants who have been granted these permissions during the event”.
References: MC1058258 and 365 Roadmap ID 487432. View the above image in full here. Due late May to early June 2025.
🔜 Town hall organisers, co-organisers, and presenters: preview event as an attendee
Organisers, co-organisers, and presenters in Microsoft Teams town halls will soon be able to join and view the event as an attendee. Due mid to late June 2025. Read more.
🔜 There’s a new way to create channels in Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams now offers an additional way to create team channels. Due mid to late May 2025. Read more.
🔜 PowerPoint Slide Control for presenters
You will soon be able to use the new Slide Control feature in PowerPoint during meetings and events, allowing presenters to share control of their presentations with selected users. Users with control will be able to move the slides forward and backwards for everyone in the meeting, hopefully eliminating “next slide, please”. Presenters will be able to share control with internal users, but they cannot request control themselves.
References: MC1052166 and 365 Roadmap ID 484844. Now due mid to late July 2025.
🔜 The General channel for new Teams is back!
You will be able to name the first channel ‘General’ when creating a team on the desktop client and rename an existing first channel to ’General’. Due early to mid-May 2025.
🕔 Microsoft Copilot: File summary in Microsoft Teams chat
Microsoft: “Users will be able to summarize files with Summarize for me using Microsoft Copilot within one-on-one or group Microsoft Teams chats. This feature will work on common file types like Word and PDF initially, and other file formats will be added over time. This summarization respects the file’s security policies, ensuring that only users with access to the file receive a summary, which will carry the same sensitivity label as the original file. A Microsoft 365 Copilot license is required to use this feature”.
References: MC1003344 and 365 Roadmap ID 418564. Now due mid to late June 2025.
🕔 Meeting participants can request collaborative annotation sessions
Microsoft: “After the rollout, meeting participants who are not sharing their screens will have the ability to request an annotation session. This request will be sent to the presenter sharing their screen who can choose to accept or deny it”.
References: MC1019312 and 365 Roadmap ID 89975. Now due mid to late June 2025.
🕔 Transitioning from user’s OneDrive to SharePoint for Whiteboards created in Teams Channels
Microsoft: “We are updating the storage location for Whiteboards created from the Teams Channel Tab App. Previously, these whiteboards were saved on the initiator’s OneDrive, which caused access issues due to sharing settings, information barriers, or conditional access policies. To resolve these issues and align with the behavior of other M365 apps, whiteboards initiated from the Teams Channel Tab App will now be stored in the corresponding SharePoint site of the Teams Channel (also known as the channel site). This change ensures seamless access for all channel members while adhering to set policies”.
References: MC1024395. Now due early to late May 2025.
🕔 Teams Facilitator agent will take live notes in meetings and chats
The Microsoft Teams Facilitator agent will create notes in Teams meetings and chats, creating and maintaining a live, up-to-date summary of important information as the conversation happens. Now due early to late June 2025. Read more.
🕔 The files tab in Microsoft Teams channels gets renamed and gains new capabilities
The ‘Files’ tab in Microsoft Teams channels will be renamed ‘Shared’ and will show shared post content and document library files under two tabs. Now due mid-June to mid-July 2025. Read more.
🕔 New keyboard shortcut for adding emojis
Microsoft: “We are excited to announce a new feature in Microsoft Teams that allows users to insert emojis in the compose box by typing a word surrounded by colons. For example, 🙂 will turn into a smiling face emoji. Users can soon add any emoji, including custom ones, for faster and easier personal expression”.
References: MC1000269 and 365 Roadmap ID 369345. Now due mid to late June 2025. Learn more about sending an emoji, GIF, or sticker in Microsoft Teams (Microsoft Support).
🕔 Correction to: Join town halls using dial-in options and join codes available in email invites
Microsoft: “Presenters and attendees organisers can now join Microsoft Teams town halls using dial-in options and join codes that are available in email invites”.
References: MC1009929 and 365 Roadmap ID 476489. Now due mid to late May 2025.
🕔 Live chat for small businesses
Microsoft: “Microsoft Teams is introducing a Live chat feature for small businesses to engage customers directly on their websites. It will be available in Microsoft 365 Business plans and configurable via the Teams Admin app”.
Ref: MC974364. Live in the U.S. Now due globally from mid-April to late May 2025. Related: Set up Live chat in Teams – Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Learn.
🕔 Add a Loop workspace tab to standard channels in Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams will soon allow you to add a Loop workspace tab to a standard channel. Now due late May 2025. Read more.
🕔 Microsoft Copilot in meetings will suggest follow-up questions
Microsoft: “When Microsoft Copilot in Teams meetings responds to a prompt, Copilot will also suggest follow-up questions to keep the conversation going. The follow-up questions will typically be based on Copilot’s prior responses, such as asking for more details or asking what a specific person said about the topic in the meeting. This message applies to Teams for Windows desktop and Teams for Mac desktop. A Microsoft 365 Copilot license is required to use this feature”.
Ref: MC999448. Now due early March to late April 2025. Use Copilot in Microsoft Teams meetings – Microsoft Support.
🕔 You will soon be able to resize Microsoft Teams windows
You will be able to adjust the width of Teams windows. Now due late January to late April 2025 for some (targeted release), a date for the rest of us is to be confirmed. Read more.
🕔 🔜 Updates to the Teams system tray icon and menu
Instead of seeing My status in the system tray menu, you will soon see your current presence status and can quickly change your status. Microsoft will remove the Open option from the system tray menu. You can instead launch the Teams app by selecting your account name.
References: MC1011152. Now due mid-March to mid-April 2025.
🔭 Automatically set your Work Location via WiFi Network
Microsoft: “Simplify your hybrid work experience with Microsoft Teams automatic work location updates. By connecting to your office building Wi-Fi network, Teams can seamlessly set your work location to reflect you’re working from the office, ensuring accurate visibility for your colleagues. Stay flexible and eliminate manual updates while enhancing collaboration and scheduling efficiency.”.
Roadmap ID: 488800. Due June 2025.
🔭 Configurable Keyboard Shortcuts on Mac
Microsoft: “Set your own keyboard shortcuts to match your work preferences. Customize the keyboard shortcut for an action you frequently use by clicking on the ellipsis and selecting Keyboard shortcuts from the menu”.
Roadmap ID: 490048. Due June 2025 on Mac.
🔭 Meeting option suggestions in classic Outlook for Windows
Microsoft: “Classic Outlook for Windows will suggest meeting options based on your meeting details, helping you easily schedule meetings with optimized settings from within the scheduling form”.
Roadmap ID: 487858. Due June 2025.
🔭 Notify collaborators in chat that are in the office using new mention type @nearby
Microsoft: “Enhance in-office collaboration with Microsoft Teams new @nearby mention type. Easily notify teammates who are physically present in the office, streamlining communication and fostering real-time connections. Perfect for quick discussions or impromptu meetings, @nearby keeps your team aligned and efficient”.
Roadmap ID: 488801. Due June 2025.
🔭 Polls support in Teams Town hall [Premium]
Microsoft: “Organizers can now create and share polls directly within Teams Town halls, gathering real-time feedback from participants through multiple-choice questions and other types of polls. This feature is available for town hall organizers that have an active Teams Premium license”.
Roadmap ID: 489808. Due June 2025.
🔭 Town Halls: Preview Changes Before Sending Live in ‘Manage what attendees see’
Microsoft: “An enhancement to the ‘Manage what attendees see’ feature, allowing organizers and presenters to preview changes to what is brought on or off the screen before sending them live to attendees. This capability is only available for Town hall”.
Roadmap ID: 487431. Due May 2025.
🔭 Sensitivity Labels for Loop Components
Microsoft: “Sensitivity labels for Loop components – Users can set/apply/view sensitivity labels to loop components to classify and protect content based on its sensitivity level. The labels help enforce policies such as encryption, access control, and content marking to ensure that sensitive information is handled appropriately”.
Roadmap ID: 487437. Due May 2025.
🔭 Bi-directional Calendar Syncing between Google Workspace and Microsoft Teams
Microsoft: “Businesses using Google Workspace for email and calendaring can now enable bidirectional synchronization with Microsoft Teams through the Teams Admin app. This enhanced sync ensures that events created in either platform are seamlessly reflected in both, improving scheduling efficiency and minimizing the risk of missed meetings. With this update, all calendar events including incoming, outgoing, existing, and new are fully synchronized. This feature is being rolled out gradually. When rollout is complete, you can sync up to 50,000 users per tenant”.
Roadmap ID: 488093. Due May 2025.
🔭 Detect sensitive content that’s being shared in meetings
Microsoft: “Screen content shared during a meeting is protected by detecting sensitive content and alerting the presenter and organizers when it appears”.
Roadmap ID: 487433. Due May 2025.
🔭 Specify who can manage the screen in Town hall meetings
Microsoft: “A new option in Town hall lets organizers designate who can manage the screen during the event. Now selected individuals will be able to start the event, manage what attendees see, and end the event, ensuring a smoother and more organized event experience.”.
Roadmap ID: 487432. Due May 2025.
🔭 Unified attachment flow on Teams Mobile
Microsoft: “Introducing a new content picker for Teams Mobile! Attach any type of content, whether files or media, from the paperclip icon in the compose overflow menu. Our unified attach flow makes it easy and intuitive to attach content from any source location”.
Roadmap ID: 488091. Due June 2025.
🚫 Classic Microsoft Teams end of availability starts 1st July 2025
Microsoft: “Starting July 1, 2025, classic Microsoft Teams on Mac and Windows desktops will be unavailable to use as mentioned in End of availability for classic Teams client – Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Learn. To avoid any business continuity issues, you must upgrade to new Teams or use Teams on the web at https://teams.microsoft.com” and “Starting July 1, 2025, classic Teams users will be blocked from using classic Teams. Users will not be able to dismiss the blocking message or use the classic Teams desktop app”.
🚫 Use operating system-level animation settings instead of Teams-level animation settings
Microsoft: “We have removed the Animation setting in Microsoft Teams. Instead, users can configure animations at the operating system (OS) level. If users disable animations in Microsoft Windows or macOS, Teams will honor that preference. This means users no longer need a separate setting in Teams to control animations. We will not reinstate the Teams-level animation control. Moving forward, Teams will rely entirely on the OS setting for animation preferences”.
Reference: MC1056991. Available now.
🚫 The “Code snippets” feature for chats and channels is to be retired
Microsoft is retiring code snippets for chats and channels in Microsoft Teams in favour of code blocks. This change aims to streamline development efforts and enhance your overall user experience. Code blocks, which are apparently faster and more efficient, will allow you to create, edit, and share code directly in the compose box without needing a title. Code blocks will offer almost all the features of code snippets, except for line numbers, which will be added soon.
Reference: MC1055554. Retiring between late May and mid-June 2025. Read more about code snippets and code blocks – Microsoft Support.
Viva
🔜 Microsoft Viva Learning: Surfaces will be personalised according to user skills/interests
Microsoft: “Viva Learning surfaces will be personalized based on user-selected skills and inferred skills derived from the user’s role and activity within Microsoft Graph. This ensures that the learning content is tailored to each user’s unique needs and professional context”.
References: MC1041459 and 365 Roadmap ID 479751. Due mid to late April 2025
Around Microsoft 365
🔜 Copilot in Word gets new document snapshot superpowers
The Copilot summary at the top of Word documents will soon gain new tabs in addition to the Summary tab: Insights, Activity, Discussion and Coaching. Due late April to August 2025. Read more.
🔜 Status Report with Project Manager Agent in Planner
Microsoft: “A new feature in the Project Manager agent that automates the creation of status reports for your plans. This capability streamlines the process to generate, view, modify, and share status reports based on project progress. The concise, accurate, and professional report is summarized based on your plan’s progress, key milestones, and upcoming tasks. With this feature, you can ensure stakeholders stay informed effortlessly, saving time while maintaining transparency and alignment across your projects”.
References: MC1060865 and 365 Roadmap ID 474452. Due late June to late August 2025.
🔜 Expanding reference capabilities with Microsoft 365 Copilot in Word
You will soon be able to reference more data, more quickly, when creating, reviewing, and finalising Word documents using the Draft feature with Copilot in Word. Based on your feedback, Microsoft are introducing three improvements:
- Reference folders when using Copilot: You will be able to reference a whole folder stored on OneDrive or SharePoint, instead of adding files, emails, and meetings one by one. Copilot will use the 10 most recent files as the basis of the content it generates.
- Support for larger documents in Word Copilot: You will be able to reference large documents up to 1.5 million words or 3000 pages, as Microsoft continue to expand the size limits of what we support.
- More files can be referenced in Draft with Copilot in Word: You will be able to reference up to 20 items such as files, emails, and meetings when using the Draft with Copilot command.
Reference: MC1060858. The Rollout has already begun and should be complete by early December 2025.
🔜 Microsoft OneDrive and Microsoft SharePoint: New annotation layout and tools for editing PDFs
Microsoft: “Coming soon for Microsoft OneDrive and Microsoft SharePoint: A new PDF annotation layout that features a more intuitive design. After this rollout, all annotation tools will be in a single row at the top of the screen, including a new type of eraser that can remove pen and highlighter annotations pixel by pixel”. Note that the new eraser tool does not work for Text annotations.
References: MC1026218 and 365 Roadmap ID 483156. Now due mid-April to early May 2025.
🕔 Word, Excel, and PowerPoint web are getting an enhanced File menu
Microsoft is introducing an enhanced File menu for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for the web. This update is intended to make it easier for you to create, open, share, export, and manage files. Now due early August 2024 to late May 2025. Read more.
🕔 Easily stay on-brand when creating PowerPoint presentations with Copilot
You will soon be able to create presentations with M365 Copilot in PowerPoint using your organisation’s brand images. Now due early to late June 2025. Read more.
🕔 Microsoft OneNote Copilot Chat is coming to Microsoft OneNote for the web and Microsoft OneNote in Teams
Microsoft: “Microsoft OneNote Copilot Chat is coming to OneNote for the web and OneNote in Teams. OneNote Copilot Chat is an intelligent assistant, transforming the way users interact with their notes. Users enter natural language prompts, and Copilot helps them understand, summarize, and rewrite notes for enhanced clarity and purpose”.
References: MC1009928 and 365 Roadmap ID 417005. Now due early February to late June 2025. Learn more about Copilot on OneNote Web and OneNote in Teams | Microsoft Community Hub.
🕔 Microsoft Loop – Microsoft 365 Groups for Managing New Loop workspaces
Microsoft: “When creating a new Loop workspace, users will be able to choose an existing Microsoft 365 Group to manage the workspace’s lifetime, governance, and compliance, similar to SharePoint Team sites”.
Refs: MC929023 and 365 Roadmap ID 422728. Now due late June to late July 2025.
🔭 Find on Page in Microsoft Edge for Business will soon be integrated with Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat
Microsoft: “Microsoft Edge for Business plans to introduce Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat to Find on Page (CTRL+F). This feature seeks to help users more easily find relevant content and save time”.
Roadmap ID: 489222. Due June 2025.
🔭 Microsoft Edge for Business will soon integrate an entry point into Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat from the address bar
Microsoft: “Microsoft Edge for Business plans to introduce an easy way for users to get summaries of their open page from the address bar using Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat. This feature seeks to help users more easily understand relevant content and save time”.
Roadmap ID: 489822. Due May 2025.
🔭 Microsoft 365: People Skills
Microsoft: “People Skills is a new Microsoft 365 service that offers skills-based experiences across Microsoft 365, including the Microsoft 365 profile card, profile editor, and Org Explorer. People Skills lets individuals in your organization create a skills profile based on a shared taxonomy, to showcase their skills and connect more easily with others”.
Roadmap ID: 485768. Due May 2025.
🔭 Access: Modernize Access Forms and Reports to work well on Large Format Monitors
Microsoft: “Remove the 22-inch size limit and modernize Access forms and reports work well on large format monitors and provide responsive behavior for different form factors”.
Roadmap ID: 478926. Due July 2025.
🔭 Clipchamp: Camera Update
Microsoft: “Camera in our editor will be updated to a newer version with improved recording controls and command bar options”.
Roadmap ID: 488100. Due May 2025.
🔭 Clipchamp: Windows Widget
Microsoft: “With Microsoft Clipchamp Windows widget, Windows 11 users will have a quick way to launch screen recording, camera recording and create video projects”.
Roadmap ID: 488099. Due May 2025.
🚫 Limited Microsoft Planner Functionality for Shared Mailbox Users
Microsoft: “Shared mailbox users will no longer be able to add or edit tasks, upload attachments, or add comments in Microsoft Planner due to permission model limitations. A temporary workaround is available but will be phased out in 30 days. Convert shared mailboxes to user mailboxes for uninterrupted functionality“.
Reference: MC1064044. Due late April to late May 2025.
🚫 Support for Office 2016, Office 2019, and additional apps will end on 14th October 2025
Microsoft: “As previously communicated, support for Office 2016 and Office 2019 will end on October 14, 2025. After that date, no further updates, security fixes, or technical support will be available for these versions of Office. While the applications may continue to function, using unsupported software could lead to potential security risks, compliance risks, system incompatibilities, and other issues”.
Reference: MC1056260. Support ends 14th October 2025.
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