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The copilot tag on WindowsForum.com covers Microsoft's AI assistant across Microsoft 365, Excel, Outlook, Edge, and Windows. Recent discussions highlight the retirement of Excel's experimental =COPILOT function in September 2026, the renaming of Edge's AI Search to AI Mode, and new Microsoft 365 Copilot features like Cowork and Notebooks. Threads also examine practical issues such as the lack of a direct toggle for Outlook's "Wrap up your day" prompt, the removal of Domain Exclusion for web sources, and the distinction between Copilot's drafting role and Power Automate's execution role. Adoption claims and feature announcements are scrutinized for accuracy, with a focus on admin controls and real-world deployment considerations.
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    Microsoft Ignite 2026 Preview: Copilot, AI Agent Security and What IT Admins Should Watch

    Microsoft Ignite 2026 hasn't happened yet, so "unveils" is premature. The headline compresses an event preview into something that sounds like news from the stage. Microsoft's flagship enterprise conference opens next week, and the company has already said what it plans to talk about: Copilot...
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    Copilot in Excel Interactive Canvas: AI Dashboards, Animated Charts and Audit Limits

    A spreadsheet that animates when you press a play button sounds unlikely, but that is the main claim in a new demonstration of Copilot in Excel. Geeky Gadgets, writing up a walkthrough by Excel trainer Leila Gharani, says Copilot's interactive canvas produced a full travel-and-expense dashboard...
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    Microsoft Edge and Windows Discover Feed Redesign: More Copilot Curation, Video and Controls

    Microsoft has redesigned the content feed in Microsoft Edge's new tab page and in the Windows Discover dashboard. The feed is supposed to get smarter. It will definitely carry more video, and more of it will be AI-curated. Many people open dozens of new tabs a day, so this feed reaches a lot of...
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    Teams Queues Mobile Copilot: Shared Call History Q&A Planned for December 2026

    Microsoft is planning to bring Copilot to the Queues app in Teams on Android and iOS, giving agents and supervisors a way to ask questions about earlier customer calls from shared call history. Roadmap item 578859 lists the feature as in development, with general availability estimated for...
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    Windows 11 File Explorer: Eight OneDrive Copilot Menu Shortcuts Retire in November 2026

    Microsoft is removing eight Copilot commands from the Windows 11 right-click menu. The change is smaller than the headlines make it sound. Copilot itself is staying. What's going is a set of OneDrive shortcuts that were added to File Explorer's context menu. The retirement starts in mid-November...
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    How to Customize Copilot in Excel With Personalization and Workbook Rules

    Microsoft's AI assistant in Excel has picked up a lot of features in a short time, and the useful question for most people is no longer whether Copilot can write a formula. It's whether you can stop it from doing things you didn't ask for. In a new INTHEBLACK "Excel tips" column from CPA...
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    Copilot in Excel on iPhone: Workbook Editing Targets October 2026

    Microsoft is bringing direct Copilot workbook editing to Excel on iPhone, moving the mobile experience beyond questions and answers. Roadmap item 577177, “Excel: Edit with Copilot in Excel on iPhone,” describes natural-language instructions for editing and transforming workbooks—and says Copilot...
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    Copilot in Excel Gets Power Query Data Import and Transformation: October 2026 Rollout

    Copilot in Excel is moving from answering questions about data to setting up the data in the first place. Microsoft's AI at Work roadmap item 577745, "Excel: Get and transform data with Copilot in Excel," adds a get data skill. You describe the data you need and how it should be prepared...
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    Microsoft 365 Insights Agent V2 Frontier Preview: Enable Copilot Agent Feedback Sharing

    Microsoft wants to cut down on guesswork for people who build Copilot agents. A new preview of Microsoft 365 Insights Agent V2 (Frontier) lets agent owners ask Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat about the feedback their agents have received. They can pull up thumbs-up and thumbs-down counts, read...
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    Dynamics 365 Field Service Scheduling Operations Agent: Preview Setup, Limits and March 2027 GA

    Dynamics 365 Field Service now has an AI dispatcher's assistant, and it comes with a good deal of fine print. Microsoft's Scheduling Operations Agent lets a dispatcher ask Copilot for a rebuilt technician schedule, review it, and apply it. It is still a preview feature. The roadmap entry (ID...
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    Business Central Managed AI Resources: GPT-4.1 Billing Rules, AL Migration and April 2027 GA

    Dynamics 365 Business Central partners building Copilot extensions have a managed way to reach large language models. Microsoft's roadmap entry (ID 577820) and its Learn documentation describe it. The roadmap lists the feature as in development, with general availability targeted for April 2027...
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    Teams Copilot Meeting Controls: Organizer AI Access and Simpler Admin Policies Due November 2026

    Microsoft has added an item to its AI at Work roadmap for one of the more confusing parts of Teams administration: deciding who can turn on Copilot in a meeting, when it runs, and what remains afterward. Roadmap ID 577399, titled "Microsoft Teams: Enhanced Copilot and AI controls for meetings,"...
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    New Outlook for Windows Unified Inbox Rolls Out: All Accounts View and Admin Controls

    Microsoft is about to finish delivering a feature that New Outlook for Windows users have been asking for since the app launched. The All Accounts view, also called Unified Inbox, is in its final rollout stretch. If you connect several mailboxes to New Outlook, you should soon be able to work...
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    Edge Copilot Browser AI Privacy and Security: Tracking, Page Context and Group Policy

    For most Windows users and enterprise administrators, the web browser is no longer just a digital picture frame that renders HTML and CSS. It is the de facto operating environment of modern work—the place where corporate credentials live, financial transactions clear, and sensitive documents are...
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    Microsoft Confirms Vietnam Layoffs, With R&D Team Reportedly Hit in 2026 Restructuring

    When an email lands in a corporate inbox inviting engineers to an "Important Business Update" hosted jointly by executive leadership and Human Resources, seasoned technology workers rarely expect cake in the breakroom. On Monday, October 12, 2026, accounts from purported Microsoft employees in...
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    Microsoft Maia 300 AI Chip Targets Copilot Inference in 2027, While Nvidia Remains Key — Megathread

    Microsoft says it will lean on its own Maia chips to serve most AI requests. Nvidia isn't leaving the building, though. On October 12, 2026, Microsoft unveiled Maia 300, its third-generation in-house AI accelerator. In a blog post, Executive Vice President Scott Guthrie said Microsoft will scale...
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    Microsoft’s Windows Hybrid Intelligence Event: MXC Security, Copilot Previews and RTX Spark Hardware

    Paul Thurrott says it took him three viewings to work out what Microsoft was saying at last week's Windows event. In his Thurrott.com column he describes the 90-minute show as wandering "drunkenly from topic to topic" with no clear thread. That's a harsh review, but it's a useful place to start...
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    Outlook Themes by Copilot Retires in October 2026: Existing AI Themes Freeze Permanently

    Microsoft is retiring one of Outlook's more decorative Copilot features. Themes by Copilot, which uses AI to generate custom backgrounds for the app, is being removed this month. The only thing that's really final about it is this: once you switch away from a Copilot theme, you can't switch...
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    Microsoft 365 Family to Share Copilot, but OneDrive Storage Drops to 2TB

    Microsoft is finally letting the whole household use Copilot on a Microsoft 365 Family plan. Since AI features were added to these plans, only the person paying for the subscription could use them. The other five members got Word, Excel and OneDrive, but no Copilot. That is changing. The catch...
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    Copilot in Excel Plan Mode: Review AI Edits Before They Change Your Workbook

    Microsoft has added a confirmation step to Copilot in Excel. Plan Mode makes Copilot describe how it will handle a task before it changes the workbook. Microsoft's AI at Work roadmap (item 560338) lists the feature as Launched, with general availability in May 2026. It covers Excel on Windows...