PitchBook announced on June 25, 2026, that its private capital market intelligence is now available through a federated connector for Microsoft 365 Copilot, including Copilot in Excel, Copilot Chat, and Researcher, for customers licensed for both PitchBook and Microsoft 365 Copilot. The news is...
Microsoft on June 25, 2026, expanded Copilot in Excel for Microsoft 365 Copilot customers with reusable Skills, additional finance data connectors, and workbook change tracking across Excel for the web, Windows, and Mac, aimed squarely at finance teams that live in spreadsheets. This is not just...
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Microsoft plans to ship a Microsoft 365 Copilot improvement in July 2026 that lets Copilot navigate long and complex files by using document structure, including sections and pages, before generating answers with clearer source citations. The feature, listed as Roadmap ID 559614, is still in...
Microsoft is adding Interpreter agent support to Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android in August 2026 for Teams Rooms Pro-licensed devices across Worldwide, GCC, GCC High, and DoD clouds, extending real-time meeting translation from personal Teams clients and Windows-based rooms into Android meeting...
Microsoft cancelled Microsoft 365 Roadmap item 511796 on June 25, 2026, ending a planned Copilot Researcher capability called Computer Use that had been listed for Preview in October 2025 and General Availability in November 2025 across web, desktop, Android, and iOS. The cancellation is small...
WinWire said on June 25, 2026, that it has earned Microsoft’s Frontier Partner badge within the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program, positioning the Santa Clara-based NTT DATA company as a validated services partner for enterprise AI, agentic AI, Azure, Copilot, Power Platform, data engineering...
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Microsoft 365 is responding to AI-era regulation by embedding compliance checks, evidence collection, and audit controls directly into its engineering workflow, with EY describing a governance engine that spans more than 80 frameworks, over 500 controls, and emerging AI standards including...
Microsoft announced on June 25, 2026 that Copilot in Excel is gaining finance-oriented skills, new third-party data connectors, traceable editing features, and broader availability across Excel for Windows, Mac, and the web for Microsoft 365 Copilot customers. The pitch is not simply that Excel...
PitchBook announced on June 25, 2026, that it is adding a federated Microsoft 365 Copilot connector, giving licensed PitchBook and Microsoft 365 Copilot users access to private capital market data inside Copilot Chat, Researcher, and Copilot in Excel. The move is not just another AI integration...
Microsoft announced on June 25, 2026, that Microsoft 365 Copilot in Excel is gaining finance-focused skills, new third-party financial data connectors, planning and traceability features, and availability across Excel for the web, Windows, and Mac for Microsoft 365 Copilot customers. The pitch...
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Daloopa announced on June 25, 2026, in New York that it has launched a Model Context Protocol connector for Microsoft 365 Copilot, bringing its structured, source-linked financial data into Copilot workflows across Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The headline is not simply that another data vendor...
PitchBook announced on June 25, 2026, in Seattle that it is adding a federated Microsoft 365 Copilot connector that brings its private capital market data into Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Chat, Researcher, and Copilot in Excel for licensed enterprise users. The move is not just another AI...
Icon’s June 22, 2026 Microsoft partnership puts Copilot, enterprise cloud, data infrastructure, and the Orbis agentic AI platform into the operating fabric of clinical trials run by the Dublin-based CRO, leaving sponsors and sites to determine who absorbs the change-management burden. The...
ICON named Microsoft as a preferred technology partner on June 22, 2026, committing to deploy Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Chat, Microsoft Fabric, and Azure data services across its clinical-research operations to scale its Orbis agentic AI platform. The announcement is not just another...
Stagwell said on June 23, 2026, that its Assembly media agency has embedded Microsoft 365 Copilot into live Microsoft Advertising paid-search campaigns using Microsoft’s Model Context Protocol, moving AI assistance from experimental marketing workflows into active client campaign operations...
The City of Raisio in Finland began a Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption program in autumn 2025 with Sogeti, part of Capgemini, training nearly 100 municipal employees ahead of a broader 2026 push to make data and generative AI part of daily public-sector work. The interesting part is not that...
On June 24, 2026, Microsoft UK published a customer story describing how UK law firm Shoosmiths is using Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, SharePoint, and Azure to turn internal legal knowledge into AI agents for client work and lawyer training. The interesting part is not that another...
India’s TCS, Infosys, and Wipro have each expanded Microsoft 365 Copilot deployments to more than 100,000 employees, pushing their combined rollout past 300,000 seats in under six months, according to Microsoft’s June 2026 announcement. The number is large enough to move the conversation beyond...
On June 3, 2026, Microsoft said Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, and Wipro had each scaled Microsoft 365 Copilot to more than 100,000 employees, pushing the three Indian IT services giants beyond 300,000 seats in less than six months across their global workforces. The number matters less as...
Microsoft has resumed automatically installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on eligible commercial Windows PCs in June 2026, targeting devices with supported Microsoft 365 desktop apps unless administrators opt out before the background deployment reaches them by mid-July. That is the plain...