*Members only early access* 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

Here are this month’s topics:

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🔜 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. Due late October 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.


🔍 View all Copilot updates.

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.


🔍 View all OneDrive updates.

Outlook

🔭 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.


🔍 View all Outlook updates.

PowerPoint, Word and Excel

🔭 Excel: =COPILOT Function
Microsoft: “Use the new =COPILOT function directly in Excel formulas to generate, classify, and summarize text and data”.
Roadmap ID: 499660. Platforms: Web. Due November 2025.


🔭 PowerPoint: Find and add company approved images in PowerPoint with Organisation Images
Microsoft: “Browse your company’s approved logos, icons, and photos right inside PowerPoint—no need to search elsewhere. Stay on brand and compliant with easy access to your organization’s asset library and connected image sources”.
Roadmap ID: 509111. Platforms: Desktop, Mac, Web. Due October 2025.


🔍 View all PowerPoint, Word or Excel updates.

SharePoint


🔍 View all SharePoint updates.

Teams

🔜 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.


🔭 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.


🔍 View all Teams updates.

Viva

🔭 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.

Around Microsoft 365

🔭 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.


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