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The Copilot tag on WindowsForum.com covers Microsoft 365 Copilot, the AI assistant integrated across Microsoft 365 apps like Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint. Discussions include enterprise adoption, such as Microsoft's report of over 30 million paid seats, and deployment programs at large organizations like Leonardo. Administrative topics feature the new License Requests page in the Microsoft 365 admin center, helping IT manage user requests. Updates highlight new capabilities like GPT-5.6 and app-specific agents. The tag also touches on related issues, including upgrade prompts in Office apps and the Copilot icon in Microsoft Edge, offering a practical view of Copilot's evolving role in workplace productivity.
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot Passes 30 Million Paid Seats as Azure Tops $100B — Megathread

    Microsoft CFO Amy Hood told employees that Azure growth and Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption are beginning to justify the company’s enormous AI infrastructure spending, according to an internal memo published by Business Insider after Microsoft’s July 29 fiscal fourth-quarter results. The memo...
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    Quisitive Names Six 2026 Microsoft MVPs Across Copilot and Azure

    Quisitive has announced six consultants recognized as 2026 Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals, giving the Dallas-based Microsoft partner representation across Copilot Studio, Azure Virtual Desktop, Microsoft 365, SharePoint, PowerShell, Azure operations, and developer technologies. The July...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot Gets Dedicated License Requests Page

    Microsoft is making Microsoft 365 Copilot license demand a more visible administrative workflow with a new, dedicated License Requests page in the Microsoft 365 admin center. The feature, tracked as Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 561206, is marked Launched for the web-based admin center, with general...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot Adds GPT-5.6, Outlook Actions and Excel Plans

    Microsoft’s latest Microsoft 365 Copilot wave is less about adding another chat pane and more about turning AI into an active layer across the familiar Office workflow. The update highlighted by Geeky Gadgets brings OpenAI GPT-5.6, Anthropic Claude 5, and Microsoft’s image-generation...
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    Leonardo Launches Microsoft 365 Copilot Program for 50,000 Staff

    Leonardo has begun a major workplace transformation program with Microsoft Italia that could reshape how roughly 50,000 employees collaborate, find information, manage documents, and use generative AI across one of Europe’s most strategically significant aerospace, defence, and security groups...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot: New Zealand’s Vendor Lock-In Warning

    Microsoft’s expanding role in New Zealand’s public sector is a warning sign for private businesses—not because Microsoft 365 Copilot is inherently the wrong choice, but because convenience can quietly become dependency. As agencies look to AI and digital tools to help absorb work following the...
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    Microsoft 365 Shows Persistent Upgrade Ads in Word, Excel, PowerPoint — Megathread

    Microsoft 365 subscribers are confronting a new kind of productivity interruption: a persistent “Upgrade your plan” banner in the title bar of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint that promotes a higher-priced tier even when the customer is already paying for Microsoft’s suite. The banner’s placement...
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    Microsoft Edge Copilot Icon Refresh Is Internal-Only in Canary

    Microsoft is privately testing a refreshed Copilot icon for Microsoft Edge, according to a newly discovered flag in the Canary channel—but regular Insider users cannot yet turn it on or see the redesigned asset. The finding points to another incremental step in Microsoft’s wider effort to make...
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    ALIANDO Marks First Year Unifying Copilot, Fabric and Cloud Services

    ALIANDO’s first year as a unified global Microsoft partner has been defined by an ambitious proposition: combine cloud cost optimization, data modernization, security governance, AI adoption, and Microsoft co-investment into one execution-led engagement model. The company says that approach has...
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    Microsoft Q4 Earnings July 29: Azure Capacity and Copilot in Focus

    Satya Nadella’s defining AI wager has carried Microsoft from fast follower to agenda setter, but the same bet is now forcing the company to confront an unnerving possibility: artificial intelligence could weaken the very software franchises that finance its future. Three years after Microsoft’s...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot Reaches 20 Million Paid Seats

    Microsoft 365 Copilot has crossed 20 million paid seats, marking a major commercial milestone for Microsoft’s effort to make generative AI a standard part of everyday office work. The figure moves the conversation beyond pilots, demos, and isolated experiments: large organizations are now...
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    Edge Beta Smart Mode Shows GPT-5.1 Label in Copilot

    Microsoft Edge Beta is beginning to show a GPT-5.1 label inside Copilot’s Smart mode, offering the clearest indication yet that Microsoft may be preparing an updated model experience for consumer AI browsing. The new text appears on the Copilot-powered New Tab page, where Smart mode is described...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot Expands at Korean Card Firms Under Eased SaaS Rules

    South Korea’s card industry is moving quickly to put Microsoft 365 Copilot into daily work, turning what had once been a tightly constrained experiment in financial-sector generative AI into a broader workplace transformation effort. As regulators relax rules around cloud software and AI use...
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    Microsoft Edge Copilot on Mac: Journeys Privacy, Gmail Limits

    Microsoft Edge’s Copilot integration can make a Mac workflow feel more unified than Safari’s, particularly for users who regularly summarize web pages, compare open tabs, or use AI while researching. But two of the features credited with replacing Safari—Copilot Journeys and connected Gmail...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot: Fix Oversharing Before Enabling AI Agents

    BusinessDay reports that AI assistants are becoming more useful precisely because they can reach beyond a single prompt: calendars, email, documents, meetings and, increasingly, connected business systems. That same breadth turns an ordinary productivity deployment into a data-governance...
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    Microsoft $600 Target Rests on Azure Capacity and Copilot

    Microsoft’s latest Wall Street bull case is not simply that artificial intelligence will add another revenue stream to an already enormous software company. Morgan Stanley’s newly initiated Overweight rating argues that Microsoft is approaching a more consequential transition: Azure may finally...
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    Microsoft Blocks New Restricted SharePoint Search July 31, 2026

    Microsoft 365 is turning the corporate intranet from a polished collection of links into an active layer of the enterprise operating system. In 2026, SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, Power Platform, Microsoft Graph, Microsoft Purview, and Microsoft 365 Copilot increasingly work as one connected...
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    Windows 11 2026: Movable Taskbar, Faster Explorer, Fewer Copilot Prompts

    Microsoft is finally addressing several of Windows 11’s most persistent complaints, shifting attention from relentless feature expansion toward the fundamentals that determine whether a PC feels fast, predictable, and pleasant to use. The company’s 2026 quality initiative targets File Explorer...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot Price Rise Faces ACCC Classic Plan Case

    Microsoft’s defence in the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s Microsoft 365 subscription case is now drawing a sharp line between a product update and a consumer choice. The company argues that adding Copilot to Microsoft 365 Personal and Family was a normal evolution of...
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    Microsoft Teams AI Archives Default to 5-Year Retention August 2026

    Microsoft Teams AI meeting archives should not outlive transcript retention by default unless the organization deliberately classifies them as durable business records. Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 558933 estimates rollout beginning in August 2026, subject to change, and would allow Copilot to...