microsoft 365 copilot

Xero announced on July 1, 2026, that its JAX AI financial agent will integrate with Microsoft 365 Copilot, bringing live Xero financial data into Copilot Chat, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint for small businesses and accountants working inside Microsoft’s productivity suite. The move is not just...

Xero launched a Microsoft 365 integration on July 1, 2026, bringing live Xero financial data into Microsoft 365 Copilot so small businesses and accountants can query, model, draft, and present finance information inside apps such as Copilot Chat, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. The announcement is...

Microsoft plans to improve Microsoft 365 Copilot connector freshness for Azure DevOps, Jira Cloud, Confluence Cloud, Trello, Asana, Bitbucket, GitHub, and GitLab by using webhook-led update notifications, with preview listed for March 2026 and general availability for August 2026 in GCC and GCC...

Microsoft added Roadmap ID 566872 on July 1, 2026, describing an in-development Microsoft 365 Copilot upgrade for Excel on desktop, Mac, and web that uses a multi-agent search system to improve complex web research, with general availability targeted for July 2026. The short version is that...

Xero announced on July 1, 2026, an integration with Microsoft 365 that lets small businesses and accountants query live Xero financial data from Microsoft 365 Copilot through JAX, the company’s AI financial assistant, starting with Copilot Chat and laying groundwork for Excel, Word, and...

Microsoft made Service Agent generally available in Microsoft 365 Copilot on June 30, 2026, bringing Dynamics 365 Customer Service data, Microsoft 365 context, and more than 70 service-focused MCP tools into a single Copilot experience for customer service representatives and supervisors. The...

Microsoft is preparing to make Teams Facilitator detect knowledge gaps during live meetings and post web-grounded explanations into meeting chat, with general availability expected by late August 2026 for organizations using Microsoft 365 Copilot licensing and permitting Copilot web search. The...

Microsoft expanded Microsoft 365 Copilot throughout June 2026 with Copilot Cowork reaching general availability, new model choices, richer Office-app integration, administrative controls, and governance features across Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, Planner, Power BI, Dataverse, and Microsoft...

Microsoft added a broad June 2026 wave of Microsoft 365 Copilot features across Cowork, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, Notebooks, Power BI, Dataverse, and admin controls, with Copilot Cowork’s general availability as the month’s clearest signal of where the product is heading. The story is...

The City of Raisio in Finland began a Microsoft 365 Copilot rollout in autumn 2025 with Sogeti, part of Capgemini, training nearly 100 municipal employees through a staged program designed to support the city’s 2026 strategy for better data use. The notable part is not that another public-sector...

Microsoft launched Roadmap ID 516040 for Microsoft 365 Copilot in May 2026, giving users of the Microsoft 365 web app a way to add web links as references inside Copilot Notebooks for Worldwide standard multi-tenant customers. The change looks small because the interface action is small: paste a...

Lancashire County Council said on June 30, 2026, that social workers are using Microsoft 365 Copilot to turn spoken visit notes into structured case records, part of an AI programme the council estimates could save at least 225,000 staff hours a year. The claim is not a neutral audit; it comes...

Microsoft, LITE Lab@HKU, ALITA, and The Law Society of Hong Kong have published a “Legal Copilot Cookbook” for legal professionals in Hong Kong and beyond, presenting practical Microsoft Copilot workflows for drafting, due diligence, regulatory monitoring, enquiry triage, and other routine legal...

On June 29, 2026, Microsoft announced a July wave of Dataverse agent features that puts business data into Microsoft 365 Copilot, adds public-preview semantic models, makes Business Skills generally available, expands MCP connectivity, and brings a Dataverse plugin to Claude, Cursor, and GitHub...

Lancashire County Council is using Microsoft 365 Copilot and related AI tools in 2026 to help social workers turn spoken visit notes and case material into structured documentation, with the council estimating that targeted use cases could release at least 225,000 staff hours a year. The claim...

Microsoft launched Remote MCP Server Support for Microsoft 365 Copilot Work IQ APIs in June 2026 for worldwide standard multi-tenant customers, giving developers a Work IQ endpoint that lets agents securely connect to remote Model Context Protocol servers and invoke external tools beyond their...

Microsoft has moved Planner Agent for Microsoft 365 Copilot to general availability for worldwide standard commercial tenants in June 2026, after a March preview, giving Copilot-licensed organizations a task-management agent for creating, organizing, updating, and summarizing Planner work from...

Microsoft plans to bring multimodal Capture for Copilot Notebooks to OneNote on Windows in July 2026, giving Microsoft 365 Copilot users a desktop workflow for recording audio, images, and typed notes into a selected Copilot Notebook. The feature, listed as Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 566322, is...

Microsoft is rolling out a simplified design for the Microsoft 365 Copilot web and desktop app in June 2026, after a May preview, bringing changes to the chat home screen, response layout, and navigation pane across Windows, Mac, and the web. The update is not a new AI model, a new licensing...

Microsoft resumed automatically installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on eligible commercial Windows 10 and Windows 11 PCs in mid-June 2026, with the broadest Microsoft 365 Apps enterprise wave scheduled for July 2026 outside the European Economic Area. The rollout is not merely another...