Welcome to our tenth roundup of 2025. We review what was announced, released, and delayed across Microsoft 365 and Copilot in October.
Check out the September blog for lots of content still rolling out this month. If you are an Update Insiders member, take a sneak peek at the latest blog, which is updated 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
🗞️ = In the news
🎓 = Knowledge
Here are this month’s topics:
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Copilot
🎬 Are you, or your colleagues, struggling to get the most out of Copilot? On The Inform Team’s webinar You switched on Microsoft 365 Copilot. Now what? I discuss and demo no-prompt, easy ways that Copilot can help you without typing a single prompt. Watch and share here.
✅ Bring your own Copilot to work
Since early this year, Microsoft 365 has supported signing into documents with multiple accounts (MC981462), and apparently, you could use Copilot from different accounts within those documents. Fast forward to 1st October, Microsoft announced Microsoft 365 Premium. What caught my eye in that consumer announcement was a link that discusses how employees can bring their personal Copilot into the workplace. The part I can’t quite figure out is whether this capability is genuinely new or if it was already possible earlier in the year and is now being repackaged as part of the consumer Premium offering. Related links for you to digest for yourself:
- Meet Microsoft 365 Premium: Your AI and productivity powerhouse | Microsoft 365 Blog
- Employees can bring Copilot from their personal Microsoft 365 plans to work – what it means for IT …
- Multiple account access to Copilot for work and school documents | Microsoft Learn
Available now.
🔜 Microsoft 365 Copilot now enables you to build apps and workflows
Microsoft: “we’re bringing AI-powered building to employees across the organization, with new agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot customers in the Frontier program: App Builder and Workflows. Using these agents and Copilot Studio, Copilot now enables employees to turn ideas into impact by creating apps, workflows, and agents—just as easily as having a conversation. Describe what you need in natural language, and Copilot helps you build it”. Read more: Microsoft 365 Copilot now enables you to build apps and workflows | Microsoft 365 Blog.
🔜 Sharing and collaboration features in Copilot Notebooks
Sharing and collaboration come to Copilot Notebooks, enabling you and your colleagues to collaborate in a single notebook. Due late October to December 2025. Read more.
🔜 GPT-5 becomes the default Copilot model
Microsoft will soon make GPT-5 the default model for your Microsoft 365 Copilot experience, offering faster, more accurate, and context-aware responses. Initially, you will be able to disable GPT-5 via a toggle, but later it will become mandatory across web, desktop, and mobile, with the toggle removed. Copilot will automatically use GPT-5 for complex prompts, though you will still be able to choose “Get a quick answer” for simpler replies.
Reference: MC1176368. Due late October to late November 2025.
🔜 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Session persistence enhancement for Copilot chat
Microsoft: “We’re improving the reliability of Copilot chat by ensuring that conversations are preserved even when users navigate away from a chat. With this update, a session entry is created in the navigation pane as soon as a prompt is submitted. This allows users to return to the conversation later without losing context or progress”.
References: MC1174856 and 365 Roadmap ID 500638.
🔜 Copilot Chat can now reason over your Copilot Pages
Copilot Chat can answer questions based on the contents of the currently open Copilot Page. Due early October to early November 2025. Read more.
🔜 AI video generation coming to unlicensed Copilot users
Unlicenced Copilot Chat users get access to AI video generation. Due mid to late November 2025. Read more.
🔜 Include Teams channels in your Context IQ prompts
Teams channels are being added as a grounding option in M365 Copilot. A new Channels filter will help you find and select your channel(s).
References: MC1165054 and 365 Roadmap ID 429645. Due early to late November 2025. Read more about using Context IQ to refer to specific files, people, and more in Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Chat – Microsoft Support.
🔜 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Version history now available in Copilot Pages
Microsoft: “We’re introducing version history in Microsoft 365 Copilot Pages to help users confidently refine their work. This feature allows users to view and restore previous versions of a page—whether changes were made manually, through Copilot, or collaboratively. This update supports transparency and control in content creation, aligning with customer feedback”. An M365 Copilot license is not required.
Reference: MC1162965. Now due late October to early November 2025.
🕔 Communication memory in Copilot – enhanced personalisation across Copilot
Communication Memory will improve how you interact across Microsoft 365 apps. This AI-powered feature will analyse and summarise your digital communications—such as emails, chats, and meeting transcripts—to create a live memory of key highlights. As a result, Copilot will deliver responses that are more personalised and context-aware, helping you work more efficiently across platforms like Outlook, Teams, and others. Unlike existing features that operate within individual apps, you experience a unified view of your communications across channels. Summaries will be generated by large language models (LLMs), and while they may occasionally contain inaccuracies, each memory will include source links for your review and verification. On by default for Copilot-licensed users.
Reference: MC1127234. Due early September 2025 to January 2026.
🕔 ‘Update available’ button for the M365 Copilot app on Windows
Microsoft 365 Copilot for Windows will introduce a new “Update available” button that will appear in the bottom left of the app interface, allowing you to continue interacting with the app when it appears. Microsoft is hoping to encourage you to keep the app up to date without interrupting your workflow. This is for the app installed on Windows, not the browser app. Due early to late October 2025.
Reference: MC1154790. Due early to late November 2025.
🕔 Updates to memory and personalisation
Microsoft will soon update Memory in Microsoft 365 Copilot to improve personalisation by using your chat history to tailor responses, making interactions more relevant and helpful. You will see a redesigned Memory settings page with clearer controls, allowing you to easily view and manage what Copilot remembers.
Reference: MC1158329. Now due early to mid-November 2025.
🕔 Account Switcher for Copilot Tab on iOS and Android
Currently, you can only access Copilot Chat with your default account. With account-switching on iOS and Android, you will be able to use Copilot Chat with other supported accounts, including access to your chat history and graph data.
References: MC1068268 and 365 Roadmap ID 490213. Now due early September to late October 2025.
🔭 Excel: Generate formulas directly in the grid with natural language
Microsoft: “Just type ‘=’ in the grid or formula bar, describe what formula you need in plain language, and Copilot instantly generates the right formula – right where you’re already working. No need to open a task pane or switch context; stay in your natural formula workflow”.
Roadmap ID: 518269. Platforms: Web. Due November 2025.
🔭 Microsoft 365 app: Add references to your Copilot Notebooks from the Quick Access section in Search on the M365 Copilot app
Microsoft: “Users can quickly add references to a Copilot Notebook through the Quick Access section in Search on the M365 Copilot app”. Roadmap ID: 510099. Platforms: Desktop, Web. Due November 2025.
🔭 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): App Navigation Pane Update
Microsoft: “The Microsoft 365 Copilot app now has a simpler, cleaner navigation. Key updates include an expanded chat history, quick actions to create new Notebooks and Agents, and intuitive feature grouping so users can find what they need faster and unlock more AI value”.
Roadmap ID: 518222. Platforms: Desktop, Mac, Web. Due November 2025.
🔭 Overview Page in Copilot Notebooks
Microsoft: “Users will find Copilot-powered Notebook summaries and insights as a landing page within their Copilot Notebook”.
Roadmap ID: 512430. Platforms: Android, iOS, Web. Due November 2025.
🔭 Copilot uses enterprise assets hosted on Adobe Experience Manager when creating presentations
Microsoft: “Once you connect your asset library hosted on Adobe Experience Manager to Microsoft365 and Copilot, Copilot will create presentations using your organization’s images”.
Roadmap ID: 516039/516038/516037. Platforms: Desktop/Web/Mac. Due November 2025.
🔭 Seamless Search and Chat Integration
Microsoft: “Microsoft 365 Chat brings the power of conversational AI directly into Microsoft 365 Copilot Search, enabling users to move effortlessly from finding information to acting on it. Search results become the foundation for contextual chat, allowing you to ask follow-up questions, synthesize insights, and generate content—all in one unified experience. This integration reduces workflow fragmentation, accelerates decision-making, and delivers a more intuitive way to interact with your organization’s knowledge”.
Roadmap ID: 512429. Platforms: Desktop, Web. Due March 2026.
🔭 Video recap in Copilot Chat
Microsoft: “Video recaps in Copilot Chat makes it easy to catch up on recorded meetings directly in Copilot Chat. It identifies and extracts key topics from transcripts, provides AI generated narration to summarize discussions, and pairs these with 20–40 second video snippets highlighting impactful moments of your meeting”.
Roadmap ID: 501452. Platforms: Desktop, Web. Due November 2025.
🔭 Web Link as a Reference in Copilot Notebooks
Microsoft: “Add web links as references in your Copilot Notebooks”.
Roadmap ID: 516040. Platforms: Web. Due November 2025.
🔭 Microsoft 365 app: Add Search results as references to your Copilot Notebooks in the M365 Copilot app
Microsoft: “Users can quickly add a Search result as a reference to a Copilot Notebook within the M365 Copilot app”.
Roadmap ID: 510100. Platforms: . Due November 2025.
🔭 Calendar Search in M365 Copilot Search
Microsoft: “Copilot Search makes it effortless to locate any meeting, even if you only remember a few details. Just type what comes to mind—like “last week’s design review”, “budget sync with marketing”, or “next quarterly planning session”—and Copilot instantly finds the right event”.
Roadmap ID: 501454. Platforms: Desktop, Web. Due November 2025.
🔭 Start writing, coding, and creating with Copilot in Pages
Microsoft: “Use the tools menu in Copilot Chat to co-create content or code with Copilot in a Page and share with others when ready”.
Roadmap ID: 509109. Platforms: Web. Due October 2025.
🔭 Video Overview in Copilot Notebooks
Microsoft: “Video overviews in Copilot Notebook generate concise, Copilot-powered videos with narration, visuals, diagrams, and text overlays—making it easy to summarize the content of your Notebook”.
Roadmap ID: 511793. Platforms: Web. Due November 2025.
🚫 On hold: The Skills agent is now available in ‘Frontier’
On hold as of 22nd October 2025. Microsoft: “To ensure an optimal experience for our customers we have determined that we won’t be proceeding with this change at this time”. Read more.
🎓 What are Declarative agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot?
They’re like specialised versions of Copilot that your organisation has tailored to address specific business needs. Instead of general AI help, they’re focused on specific tasks — and they know your company’s systems, data, and processes. They surface inside the familiar Microsoft 365 Copilot interface (like in Teams, Word, or PowerPoint). Read more: Declarative Agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot | Microsoft Learn.
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OneDrive
✅ Use Copilot with OneDrive files in Windows: Summarise, compare and ask questions
Microsoft has integrated Microsoft 365 Copilot into your Windows file management. Became available in early September 2025. Read more.
🔜 Floating Copilot button simplifies Copilot discovery
Microsoft: “We’re introducing a new way to interact with your files in OneDrive: the Copilot floating button. This feature provides quick access to Copilot-powered actions, helping users work more efficiently by surfacing relevant tools and suggestions directly within the OneDrive interface“.
Reference: MC1173929. Due mid-October to early November 2025. Images to follow.
🔜 Simplified file transfer for departing employees
Microsoft: “OneDrive enhancements simplify file management for departing employees by improving notifications, filtering, and enabling bulk file transfers that preserve sharing. Access transfers automatically to managers with email alerts”.
References: MC1164381 and 365 Roadmap ID 493946. Due mid-October to early November 2025. Read more: OneDrive retention and deletion – SharePoint in Microsoft 365 | Microsoft Learn.
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Outlook
🔜 A new ‘edit in Outlook’ button makes drafting emails with copilot a bit easier
If you ask M365 Copilot chat to draft an email for you, it will offer an Edit in Outlook button. Due late October to mid-November 2025. Read more.
🔜 Copilot meeting preparation improvements and expanding to more meeting types
Microsoft: “To help users prepare more effectively for meetings, Microsoft Copilot in Outlook is expanding to support all meetings – including 1:1s. In this update, there will also be new real-time insights that summarize relevant context, tasks, documents, and other resources directly within the meeting event form. Users will also be able to chat with Copilot to prepare more deeply, whether it’s confirming action items or learning more about meeting goals”.
Reference: MC1169081. Due mid-October to November 2025.
🔜 Copilot in Outlook: Intelligent agenda suggestions for calendar events
Microsoft: “To help users run more effective meetings, Microsoft is introducing Intelligent Draft Agenda with Copilot in Microsoft Outlook. This feature uses AI to automatically generate a proposed agenda when users create or edit a calendar event, making it easier to align meeting goals, participants, and discussion topics”.
Reference: MC1171854. Due 9th October 2025.
🔜 Microsoft Outlook: Declarative Agents in Copilot Chat coming to classic Outlook for Windows
Microsoft: “Declarative Agents in Copilot Chat will be available in classic Outlook for Windows starting late October 2025, enabling users to customize their experience with plugins and connectors”.
References: MC1162288 and 365 Roadmap ID 481559. Due late October to mid-December 2025. Read: What are Declarative agents?
🕔 Teams meeting option suggestions in classic Microsoft Outlook for Windows
The Microsoft Teams meeting add-in in classic Microsoft Outlook for Windows will soon offer meeting options suggestions. Now due mid-July to mid-November 2025. Read more.
🕔 New Outlook for Windows: Add attachments while offline
Microsoft: “Users with offline mode enabled in the new Outlook for Windows will be able to attach files to draft emails while offline. These emails, including attachments, will be sent automatically once the device reconnects to the internet”.
References: MC1125491 and Roadmap ID 496371. Now due early January 2026.
🕔 Use Copilot with OneDrive files in Windows: Summarise, compare and ask questions
Microsoft has integrated Microsoft 365 Copilot into your Windows file management. Now due late August to mid-November 2025. Read more.
🕔 Better Outlook searches with Copilot and Immersive Search
Microsoft is introducing Immersive Search to Outlook, which includes an entry point to the Copilot side pane, presenting an AI-generated summary based on your query. Now due late October to late November 2025. Read more.
🔭 Delegate Meeting Search via Copilot chat
Microsoft: “Delegates can now use Copilot chat to quickly find their leader’s meetings—past or upcoming—by simply asking questions. They can search by attendee name, meeting title, location, or time range to instantly get details like the next 1:1 or upcoming appointments”.
Roadmap ID: 511818. Platforms: Desktop, Web. Due January 2025.
🔭 Delegate Meeting Triage via Copilot chat
Microsoft: “Delegates can now manage their leader’s meetings directly through Copilot chat reviewing pending invites, accepting or declining meetings, categorizing, or even deleting them all through simple chat commands without leaving the conversation”.
Roadmap ID: 511819. Platforms: Desktop, Web. Due January 2025.
🔭 Delegate Scheduling via Copilot chat
Microsoft: “Executive Assistants can now seamlessly schedule, edit, and send meeting invites on behalf of their leaders directly within Copilot chat. Using simple chat commands, they can create invites, make updates, and add attendees—all without leaving the chat experience”.
Roadmap ID: 511817. Platforms: Desktop, Web. Due January 2025.
🔭 Enhanced Search Experience in Win32
Microsoft: “After executing a search in classic Outlook, users will have the option to easily opt into seeing an AI generated summary of their search results in their Copilot side pane. They can ask further questions in their chat, navigate to cited files and emails, or go back to their email experience easily”.
Roadmap ID: 510107. Platforms: Web. Due December 2025.
🔭 Expanded Conditions for Conditional Formatting in the New Outlook for Web and Windows
Microsoft: “The new Outlook for web and Windows now offers expanded Conditional Formatting options, allowing you to highlight emails based on size, read/unread status, presence of attachments, flag settings, categories, or importance. These enhanced rules make it easier to identify critical messages at a glance and visually organize your folders”.
Roadmap ID: 503551. Platforms: Desktop, Web. Due November 2025.
🔭 See progress when running rules manually in the new Outlook for Windows and Web
Microsoft: “When you choose “Run Rule Now” in Outlook, you’ll now see a visual progress indicator in both the message list and the rules page, showing that the rule is actively being applied. This helps confirm the action is in progress especially for large mailboxes, so you’re not left wondering if anything is happening”.
Roadmap ID: 500395. Platforms: Desktop, Web. Due December 2025.
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PowerPoint, Word and Excel
🔜 PowerPoint: Find and add company approved images with Organisation Images
Microsoft will introduce Organisation Images in PowerPoint, allowing you to browse and insert company-approved logos, icons, and photos directly within the app. This feature will streamline brand compliance, save time, and reduce the risk of using outdated or unauthorised images. It will be enabled by default for all tenants, but your admins will need to configure the Organisation Assets Library (OAL) in SharePoint. Admins, or your branding team will need to manage the available images, maintaining brand consistency and compliance through a centralised library in SharePoint.
References: MC1169573 and 365 Roadmap ID 509111. Due late October to late November 2025.
🕔 Turn Teams Meetings into PowerPoint Slides
Copilot in PowerPoint will soon allow you to reference a Teams meeting to create a presentation. Now due mid to late January 2026. Read more.
🔭 Steer your presentation length, tone, style, and images when creating with Copilot
Microsoft: “You can now adjust the length of your presentation, the tone of your narrative, the style of your slides, and leverage AI-generated images when creating with Copilot”.
Roadmap ID: 513431, 513430. Platforms: Mac, Desktop. Due December 2025.
🔭 M365 Copilot: Quickly edit an image in PowerPoint
Microsoft: “Edit your images directly in PowerPoint with Copilot, no need to switch apps or interrupt your flow. Whether you’re refining visuals for a pitch deck, enhancing marketing assets, or simply making your slides pop, the image editor makes it fast and seamless. You can make edits like improving the resolution, removing the background, and more”.
Roadmap ID: 508530. Platforms: Desktop. Due November 2025.
🔭 Copilot voice support in Word & PowerPoint.
Microsoft: “Chat in Work and PowerPoint now supports voice. Users can talk and interact with Copilot to brainstorm ideas, create content, and analyze information. Same as text, voice understand documents, work and web context”.
Roadmap ID: 516569. Platforms: Desktop. Due December 2025.
🔭 Excel: Generate formulas directly in the grid with natural language
Microsoft: “Just type ‘=’ in the grid or formula bar, describe what formula you need in plain language, and Copilot instantly generates the right formula – right where you’re already working. No need to open a task pane or switch context; stay in your natural formula workflow”.
Roadmap ID: 518269. Platforms: Web. Due November 2025.
🔭 Excel: =COPILOT Function
Microsoft: “Use the new =COPILOT function directly in Excel formulas to generate, classify, and summarize text and data”.
Roadmap ID: 499658. Platforms: Desktop. Due December 2025.
🔭 Use Copilot to get a detailed and contextual explanation
Microsoft: “Users will be able to click on “Explain this’ on an acronym, text box, an image, or even a complete slide, and get a detailed contextual explanation of the selected object”.
Roadmap ID: 516567, 516566, 516565. Platforms: Desktop, Web, Mac. Due November 2025.
🔭 M365 Copilot: Generate text for a PowerPoint slide using slide context
Microsoft: “Copilot in PowerPoint now helps you create a compelling title, a concise summary, or captions for your visuals. Just describe what you want in natural language and Copilot will generate text based on the content of your slide. It’s a simple way to turn ideas into content quickly”.
Roadmap ID: 513429/513428/513427. Platforms: Web, Desktop, Mac. Due December 2025.
🚫 PowerPoint for the Web: “Editor Pane” retirement notice
Microsoft: “To improve consistency and quality across Microsoft 365 writing experiences, Microsoft will retire the Editor Pane in PowerPoint for the Web. This pane, previously available as a preview feature, offered grammar and style suggestions. However, it no longer meets the standards for intelligent writing assistance and will be removed. Users can continue to rely on built-in spell check and Copilot in PowerPoint for enhanced writing support”.
Reference: MC1181280. Retirement due January 2026.
🚫 “Reuse Slides” feature will retire starting 2026
Microsoft: “Starting in January 2026, Microsoft will retire the Reuse Slides feature from PowerPoint for Windows and Mac desktops. This change is part of ongoing efforts to simplify the PowerPoint experience and remove features that duplicate existing capabilities”.
Reference: MC1179161. Due December 2025 to January 2026.
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SharePoint
🔜SharePoint document libraries are getting a new user experience
SharePoint document library user experience changes affect breadcrumb navigation, custom views, filter pills, and the command bar. Due early to late January 2026. Read more.
🕔 SharePoint introduces a new Workflows experience
SharePoint introduces a new Workflows experience aligned with the new experience in Teams. Now due early February 2026. Read more
🔭 Optimising Version History for lists and libraries
Microsoft: “We’re improving version history for SharePoint Lists and Document Libraries generated with grid view editing. This change improves reliability, reduces storage, and streamlines the user experience by consolidating multiple edits into one where possible. Automation rules and flows, if configured with item level edits, will also now trigger more efficiently”.
Roadmap ID: 511800. Platforms: Web. Due November 2025
🔭 M365 Copilot: Metadata understanding support for queries scoped to SharePoint document libraries or folders
Microsoft: “We’re introducing column metadata support for queries in Microsoft 365 Copilot when a SharePoint library or folder is attached or its URL is provided. This enhancement improves contextual relevance by enabling Copilot to leverage additional metadata from the selected library, delivering more accurate and meaningful results”.
Roadmap ID: 516044. Platforms: Web. Due November 2025.
🚫 SharePoint 2013 workflow retirement
Microsoft: “This update serves as a reminder that SharePoint 2013 workflow will retire and stop working in 6 months from now (April 2, 2026)”.
Reference: MC542767. Retirement due 2nd April 2026. Read more: SharePoint 2013 workflow retirement – Microsoft Support.
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Teams
✅ Licensing updates for Interpreter
Microsoft will increase included interpretation hours to 20 per user per month with a Microsoft 365 Copilot licence, with additional access subject to capacity. IT admins will receive usage monitoring tools after 31st March 2026 to help you manage usage. You will not be charged now, but Microsoft may offer the option to buy extra hours in future with clear notice, and past usage will not be billed retroactively.
Reference: MC1163764 and 365 Roadmap ID 490740. Effective 1st October 2025.
🔜 Microsoft Teams town halls: Full HD (1080p) video resolution coming to Teams Premium
Microsoft: “Microsoft Teams Premium will support 1080p video resolution for town halls…” and “…Network support and Ultra-Low Latency streaming are required. The feature enhances video quality for sharper broadcasts and is available across all Teams platforms”.
References: MC1178507 and Roadmap ID 513270. Due mid to late December 2025.
🔜 Image search is coming to Teams chats and channels
Image search is coming to Teams chats and channels. Due mid-November to early December 2025. Read more.
🔜 Teams will soon support Audio-only recording in meetings and calls
Microsoft Teams will soon offer an audio-only recording option for meetings and calls. Due early October to late November 2025. Read more.
🔜 Find Teams settings with a new settings search box
It’s about to get easier to find Microsoft Teams settings with a new settings search box. Due early November 2025. Read more.
🔜 Add emojis to personalise chat and channel section names
You will soon be able to add emojis to your chat and channel section names. Due late November 2025. Read more.
🔜 Open Microsoft Teams channels in a new window
You will soon be able to open Microsoft Teams channels in a new window. Due late October to late November 2025. Read more.
🕔 Teams is getting a Network Strength Indicator
Microsoft: “This feature will display your current network quality using a simple 3-bar system: Good (3 bars), Poor (2 bars), and Bad (1 bar). When your connection is limited, we’ll suggest actions to help conserve bandwidth and maintain meeting performance. You’ll also be able to see when other participants are experiencing poor or bad network conditions, providing better context for disruptions in the meeting”.
References: MC1077865 and 365 Roadmap ID 414513. Now due early to mid-January 2026.
🕔 Teams group chats get a new Notes tab
Microsoft Teams group chats will soon have a new Teams Collaborative Notes tab. Now due early to mid-November 2025. Read more.
🕔 Microsoft Teams is introducing a redesigned Workflows experience
This new version of Workflows in Teams aims to deliver a faster, more intuitive, and streamlined interface. Now due from late January 2026. Read more.
🕔 Microsoft Teams AI workflows combine Copilot and automation for end users
Imagine creating a scheduled Copilot prompt and having some automation applied to the output, such as sharing it in a Teams post or sending it to you in an email. In simple terms, that’s the new AI workflows. Now due late January to mid-February 2026. Read more.
🕔 Teams group chats get a new Notes tab
Microsoft Teams group chats will soon have a new Teams Collaborative Notes tab. Now due early to late October 2025. Read more.
🕔 Choose to hide inactive channels
Microsoft: “As a follow up to MC804771, based on Admin feedback, we are updating the behavior for automated hiding of inactive channels to be opt-in (suggestions) only. With this update, Teams will offer users suggestions on channels that are inactive, and the user is prompted to review their inactive channels and hide them only if they choose. The user will also be able to view when they last visited the channel to help them decide if they would like to hide the channel. The settings support this opt-in workflow and there are no changes to the on demand hiding process”.
Reference: MC1141958. Now due January 2026.
🔭 Apps in Private Channels for Microsoft Teams
Microsoft: “Bring the apps your team relies on—tabs, bots, and message extensions—directly into Private Channels in Microsoft Teams. This update lets channel owners add apps to a specific private channel, so everyone collaborating there (including invited collaborators from other teams or organizations, subject to admin policy) can work in one place without switching contexts”.
Roadmap ID: 518215. Platforms: Desktop, Mac. Due November 2025.
🔭 Live meetings indicator for channels
Microsoft: “Introducing a new indicator in channels to help users find meetings occurring live within the channel and join them”.
Roadmap ID: 513272. Platforms: Desktop, Mac. Due December 2025.
🔭 Customize AI-generated notes in meeting recap
Microsoft: “Users can now customize the AI-generated notes in meeting recap, instantly transforming meeting notes into the format that works best for each person. Choose from built-in options like Speaker Summary or Executive Summary to quickly surface the details that matter most. Users can even create and save their own custom templates with a simple prompt, so meeting notes always match the way each user prefers to work”.
Roadmap ID: 501540. Platforms: Desktop, Mac. Due December 2025.
🔭 Chat with anyone who has an email address
Microsoft: “Start a chat with anyone who has an email address, even if they’re not on Teams! They’ll receive an email inviting them to join your chat session as a guest. You’ll be able to chat, share files, and start calls all within Teams”.
Roadmap ID: 513271. Platforms: Android, Desktop, iOS, Linux, Mac. Due November 2025.
🔭 Search for images
Microsoft: “Search for images by message content, people, or where they were shared. See results as you type, filter to show only images, or explore them in the dedicated Images tab — all from the search bar”.
Roadmap ID: 505443. Platforms: Desktop, Mac, Web. Due November 2025.
🔭 Simultaneous role-specific Town Hall and Webinar views in Teams Rooms on Android
Microsoft: “With a Teams Room on Android system, both attendees and presenters for Teams Town Hall and Webinars can now simultaneously enjoy unique experiences in the same room. This new feature sets the in-room viewing experience on the front of room display to attendee view by default so presenter-specific features, such as the green room and backroom chat, or off-stage presenters are hidden. Presenters in the room can still see their view on the console and manage everything smoothly without distracting the audience”.
Roadmap ID: 500378. Platforms: Android. Due November 2025.
🔭 Voice and Face Enrollment Dashboard for Admins
Microsoft: “Admins now have visibility and insight for voice and facial profile enrollments through a dashboard in the Teams Admin Center (TAC). Voice and face profiles are critical for supporting AI-enhanced meeting experiences for users across the organization. The dashboard provides metrics on enrollments over time”.
Roadmap ID: 506750. Platforms: Desktop, Teams and Surface Devices, Web. Due December 2025.
🚫 On hold: Customise your Microsoft Teams experience with new accent colours
27th October 2025. Microsoft: “We are not releasing this feature at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause”. Read more.
🗞️ 4 things Microsoft Loop does better than alternatives”
Parth Shah: “The collaboration software wars are officially heating up. Tools like Notion, Coda, and even Confluence have dominated the market by offering flexible workspaces, but a new heavyweight has entered the ring: Microsoft Loop. While many dismiss it as ‘just another tool’ for the Microsoft ecosystem, that’s a mistake”. Read more on xda-developers.com: 4 things Microsoft Loop does better than alternatives.
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Viva
🕔 Microsoft Viva Insights: People Skills insights for analysts
Microsoft: “Coming soon for Microsoft Viva Insights: The Skills landscape report, a new Microsoft Power BI report in the advanced insights app that introduces the skills landscape in your organization, powered by People Skills data. With this report, analysts and leaders can understand People Skills data and its usage in the organization, browse commonly used skills and areas of skills specialization, see how groups of skills are distributed across your groups, and explore the skills hierarchy”.
References: MC1075900 and 365 Roadmap ID 491022. Now due late October to late November 2025. Read more: Skills landscape report | Microsoft Learn.
🔭 Hide a user in Viva Engage
Microsoft: “The hide user feature is a user-level moderation control. It allows users to see fewer messages from other users, helping to reduce interactions that may be unwanted or inappropriate. Users cannot hide designated leaders, corporate communicators, or network/verified/Engage admins. The hide user feature is default on; admins can turn it off for their network in the Engage admin center”.
Roadmap ID: 513276. Platforms: Android, iOS, Web. Due January 2026.
🔭 Engage Communities in Microsoft Teams
Microsoft: “Your Viva Engage communities will now be available in Teams along side teams, chats and channels. Engage communities in Microsoft Teams make it simple to connect, share, and learn across your organization. This new experience brings discoverable, asynchronous conversations and leadership engagement into Teams—helping employees explore ideas and perspectives beyond project-based collaboration”.
Roadmap ID: 513274. Platforms: Android, Desktop, iOS, Mac, Web. Due November 2025.
🔭 Engage Community feed improvements
Microsoft: “Align the community feeds default experience with expected user behaviors; support triage and content review for users who want to read every message in a community”.
Roadmap ID: 513275. Platforms: Web. Due January 2026.
🔭 Hide a user in Viva Engage
Microsoft: “The hide user feature is a user-level moderation control. It allows users to see fewer messages from other users, helping to reduce interactions that may be unwanted or inappropriate. Users cannot hide designated leaders, corporate communicators, or network/verified/Engage admins. The hide user feature is default on; admins can turn it off for their network in the Engage admin center”.
Roadmap ID: 513276. Platforms: Android, iOS, Web. Due January 2026.
🔭 Copilot Analytics – Agent Dashboard
Microsoft: “Viva Insights is creating an Agent Dashboard, designed to be a central place for leaders, delegates and analysts to understand how your organization is adopting agents”.
Roadmap ID: 506749. Platforms: Web. Due February 2026.
🚫 Viva Engage: Retirement of Viva Engage Desktop Notifications
Microsoft: To simplify and streamline notification experiences across Microsoft 365, Microsoft is retiring the desktop notification capability in Viva Engage. This change helps reduce redundancy and ensures consistency across supported channels such as Teams, Outlook, and Viva Engage in-app notifications. It also affects how users receive @mention and community announcement notifications on desktop”.
Reference: MC1169069. Due by mid-November 2025.
Around Microsoft 365
🔜 Microsoft Authenticator to block Entra credentials on jailbroken/rooted devices
Microsoft Authenticator will block Entra credentials on jailbroken/rooted iOS and Android devices. Due between February and April 2026. Read more.
🔜 Power Automate – Automate browsers using direct control without extensions
Microsoft: “We are announcing the ability to automate browsers using direct control without extensions in Power Automate”.
Reference: MC1166689. Due 17th November 2025. Read more: Automate browsers using direct control without extensions | Microsoft Learn.
🔜 Upcoming privacy-related changes in Chromium-based browsers (Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge)
Microsoft: “Upcoming privacy-related changes in Chromium-based browsers (Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge) will increase restrictions on local network access. When enforcement begins, users accessing OneDrive for Web (and some integrated Microsoft 365 experiences such as Microsoft Lists and SharePoint Document Libraries) will encounter a browser permission prompt for local network access unless the required policy is in place”. If your admin has not taken the required action, you will see the above pop-up. Select Allow to avoid performance acceleration not being available and offline functionality in OneDrive Web not being available.
Reference: MC1150662. Due late October 2025 as part of Chromium 142.
🔜 Microsoft Loop: Copilot experience upgrade
Microsoft: “We’re upgrading the Copilot experience in Microsoft Loop to align with Microsoft 365 Copilot Pages. In the interim, some of the Copilot integrations will be temporarily removed. Once fully completed, this update replaces older Copilot integrations with a consistent, high-quality model—reducing user confusion and improving reliability across chat and page contexts”.
Reference: MC1169068. Due from 9th September 2025.
🔜 Microsoft 365 apps get new icons
Microsoft: “The newly designed Microsoft 365 icons reflect a strategic shift in Microsoft 365—unified, intuitive, and designed…”. Read more.
🔜 Power Automate – Enable version control for desktop flows
Microsoft: “This feature allows users to compare changes between the current version and a previous version of a desktop flow, or between any two versions selected. In the console for Power Automate for desktop, the context menu contains a version history option. This displays version information in the properties window of the desktop flow”.
Reference: MC1163091. Due 31st December 2025.
🔜 Microsoft Edge: The primary work profile will open external links by default
Microsoft: “We’re updating how Microsoft Edge handles external links for enterprise users. Before this rollout, Edge opens external links using the last used profile. After this rollout, for users signed in with Microsoft Entra ID, Edge will default to the Primary work profile to open links. The Primary profile is typically the most secure and appropriate profile for work-related content. This change will be on by default”.
References: MC1104313 and 365 Roadmap ID 494835. Now due late August to mid-November 2025.
🕔 M365 Copilot rewrite is coming to editable text in Edge
M365 Copilot users will soon be able to use Rewrite to draft and rephrase editable text within the Edge browser. Now due early to late December 2025. Read more.
🔭 OneNote: Copilot Notebook in OneNote iPhone and iPad
Microsoft: “Users will be able to use Copilot Notebooks in OneNote on iPhone and iPad”.
Roadmap ID: 511794. Platforms: iOS. Due November 2025.
🔭 OneNote: Copilot Notebooks available in OneNote on Web
Microsoft: “Users will now have access to their Copilot Notebooks on the web version of OneNote”.
Roadmap ID: 511797. Platforms: Web. Due November 2025.
🔭 Microsoft Edge: PDF Viewer Performance Improvement and Minor Visual Updates
Microsoft: “The PDF Viewer in Microsoft Edge is migrating to WebUI2, enhancing responsiveness and introducing a series of subtle visual upgrades aimed at improving overall usability and utility. This migration ensures UI coherence with the rest of the browser while maintaining the same user experience. The update focuses on improving underlying performance, consistency in design elements, and a smoother interaction without altering any existing workflows for users”.
Roadmap ID: 516043. Platforms: Web. Due May 2026.
🔭 Microsoft Edge: Desktop Visual Search
Microsoft: “Quickly send images to Bing Visual Search from the Edge Desktop Search Bar to identify images, people, animals, and shows; extract, copy, and translate text while keeping its format. Solve questions quickly in various subjects and get trusted information to boost your knowledge. Discover products, fashion, recipes, identify a location and more. Available on Windows devices. Admins can control availability to this feature using the VisualSearchEnabled policy”.
Roadmap ID: 508519. Platforms: Web. Due October 2025.
🔭 Microsoft Edge: Tab Search
Microsoft: “Tab Search helps users stay organized by letting them quickly find and reopen recently closed tabs or search across all open ones in a single view. From the same menu, they can also enable Vertical Tabs, access the AI-powered Organize Tabs feature, and open Workspaces”.
Roadmap ID: 508520. Platforms: Web. Due October 2025.
🗞️ 29th October Microsoft outage timeline
It was late afternoon, and I had just spent over two hours in Clipchamp editing a Teams meeting on MS Forms that I was turning into a training asset. I was about to push the output to SharePoint when ‘something’ went wrong. Microsoft alerts started popping up about a service issue, so I went to the gym to ride a bike for an hour. That turned out to be a better use of time than waiting for my Clipchamping to resume. Read about the outage and the timeline here: Microsoft down? Services recovering after major outage hits Azure, 365 and more – even Minecraft and Xbox affected | TechRadar.
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