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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 365 Copilot Moves to Word, Excel, PowerPoint Canvas

    Microsoft 365’s Copilot button has moved from the Word, Excel, and PowerPoint ribbon into the document canvas, where it now appears as a floating Copilot Dynamic Action Button in the lower-right corner. The change is already rolling out worldwide for eligible users on Windows, Mac, the web, and...
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    Excel =COPILOT Function Retires September 14, 2026

    Microsoft plans to remove Excel’s experimental =COPILOT worksheet function on September 14, 2026, ending a feature that let eligible users send natural-language prompts and cell ranges directly to an AI model from the formula bar. XDA, citing Microsoft 365 Message Center notice MC1454373...
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    Edge Canary Renames AI Search to AI Mode, Not a New Product

    Microsoft has renamed an experimental Edge Canary address-bar option from AI Search to AI Mode, but the evidence so far points to a user-interface relabel rather than a new search product. Windows Report first spotted the change in the Canary channel, and PiunikaWeb independently confirmed that...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot Cowork Requires Admin Controls

    Microsoft 365 Copilot has gained meaningful new capabilities this summer, including GPT-5.6 support, Anthropic model options in Cowork, expanded Copilot Notebooks access, and the ability to delegate multi-step work. But the “eight new features in August 2026” framing overstates what Microsoft...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot: 1 Million Adoption Claim Unverified

    Microsoft 365 Copilot can speed up email triage, meeting recaps, and first-draft documents, while Power Automate can turn a defined trigger-and-action sequence into a repeatable process. But the productive workflow described in Analytics Insight’s August 8 explainer only becomes reliable when...
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    Microsoft 365 AI Automation: Copilot Drafts, Humans Approve — Megathread

    Analytics Insight’s August 8 guide to “Microsoft 365 AI automation” gets one important idea right: the useful pattern is no longer asking Copilot to help with an isolated email or document. It is pairing AI-assisted interpretation with Power Automate and Teams so a repeatable business process...
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    Outlook’s “Wrap Up Your Day” Copilot Prompt Lacks a Direct Toggle

    WindowsLatest has spotted a new “Wrap up your day” bubble in new Outlook for Windows and Outlook for Android that opens Copilot and asks it to produce an evening inbox brief. The immediate practical issue is not the existence of another Copilot prompt; it is that Microsoft’s own documentation...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot Pulls Domain Exclusion for Web Sources

    Microsoft has pulled Domain Exclusion for Microsoft 365 Copilot shortly after its rollout began, removing a tenant-level control that allowed administrators to keep named websites out of Copilot’s web-grounded answers. For organizations that had started building exclusion lists, the immediate...
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    Windows 11 Browser Defaults: EEA Protections Still Exclude Most Users

    Microsoft’s annual-report language does say that Windows is used to drive engagement with Edge, Bing, Copilot, Teams, Microsoft 365 Consumer and Xbox Game Pass. But the document being cited is not a new 2026 disclosure, and it does not mention Windows 11 specifically or reveal a new policy of...
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    Microsoft 365 vs Office 2024: Choose Desktop Apps, Cloud or Copilot

    HP’s new Microsoft 365 explainer makes the right central point for Windows users: the product is no longer simply “Office with a subscription.” It is a bundle of desktop applications, OneDrive storage, identity services, collaboration tools and increasingly prominent Copilot features—sold...
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    Microsoft 365 Family Is Best for 3 Users, Copilot Stays Owner-Only

    HP’s new guide on Microsoft 365 Family gets the central calculation right: the subscription becomes compelling when several people genuinely need Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneDrive under separate accounts. But in 2026, the decision is less about how many devices sit in a home than...
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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...