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Microsoft opened Copilot Health in preview on May 29, 2026, for U.S. adults with Microsoft 365 Personal, Family, or Premium subscriptions, giving them a dedicated Copilot space to connect health records, Apple Health data, medical questions, and care-navigation searches online. The move is not...

Microsoft is reportedly building an unreleased Copilot “super app” that would combine chat, GitHub Copilot coding help, Copilot Cowork, and a new agentic Autopilot layer, with a leaked Sources screenshot dated May 30, 2026 showing a proactive Scout agent inside the interface. The immediate story...

Microsoft is reportedly building a unified “super app” for Copilot that would combine coding assistance, workplace chat, collaborative agents, and internal automation tools into one product experience, with elements potentially referenced around Build and a launch target by the end of summer...

Microsoft Copilot users reported slow responses and intermittent failures on Friday, May 29, 2026, with outage trackers showing a spike in complaints and reports concentrating around the Copilot app rather than Microsoft account sign-in. The episode was not merely another “is it down?” blip. It...

Microsoft Copilot users in the United States reported widespread access problems on Friday, May 29, 2026, with complaints describing failed AI responses, slow loading, login trouble, and generic “something went wrong” errors across Microsoft’s consumer and work-facing Copilot experiences. The...

Microsoft opened Copilot Health in preview on May 29, 2026, for adults in the United States using English-language Microsoft 365 Personal, Family, or Premium subscriptions, moving the health-focused Copilot experience beyond the waitlist it introduced in March. The launch is modest in geography...

Microsoft on May 28, 2026, announced a redesigned Microsoft 365 Copilot app and refreshed in-app Copilot experiences across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, including a larger prompt surface, faster app performance, and a less intrusive approach to the floating Copilot entry point. The...

Microsoft moved Copilot Health into preview on May 29, 2026, making the health-focused AI experience available on the web to U.S. Copilot users aged 18 and older with Microsoft 365 Personal, Family, or Premium subscriptions. The move turns what was a March announcement into a live consumer...

Microsoft said on May 28, 2026, that Microsoft 365 Business Standard with Copilot and Microsoft 365 Business Premium with Copilot will launch July 1 for small businesses, bundling Office apps, Copilot, connectors, and security controls into new Microsoft 365 business SKUs. The announcement is...

Microsoft is testing new Copilot controls for Word and PowerPoint that would make the assistant more context-aware, more limited in what it can change, and eventually more consistent across consumer and commercial Microsoft 365 experiences. The important part is not that the prompt box may get...

Microsoft Copilot Studio’s recent updates, culminating in Microsoft’s May 2026 wave of Copilot and Power Platform changes, recast the product from a low-code chatbot designer into a governed enterprise agent platform for building, orchestrating, testing, and operating AI agents across Microsoft...

ZDNET’s Lance Whitney says he replaced Copilot with Anthropic’s Claude in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint after testing Claude’s Microsoft 365 add-ins, which are available to paid Claude subscribers and can operate across multiple Office apps through Microsoft’s add-in framework. The story matters...

TD Synnex is expanding its UK Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider support operation in May 2026, adding a dedicated Alliance Growth team to identify high-potential SMB-focused partners and give them tailored business development, training, and technical help. The move is not just another channel...

Educational Foundation Freiburg is rolling out EDU360°, a Microsoft-based digital transformation program across its 31 schools in Germany, using Microsoft 365, Azure, Power Platform, and AI tools to unify administration, classroom workflows, security, and responsible generative AI learning. The...

Microsoft began pulling back visible Copilot branding and entry points from parts of Windows 11 and Microsoft 365 in spring 2026, after years of aggressively pushing its AI assistant into Windows, Office, Notepad, Paint, Photos, and dedicated Copilot+ PCs. The retreat is not a full abandonment...

Microsoft is building a Copilot Design System in 2026 to make Copilot behave more consistently across Microsoft 365 apps, after backlash over intrusive AI entry points such as the floating Dynamic Action Button in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The company’s pitch is “intentional and humane” AI...

Microsoft is developing a Copilot Design System for Microsoft 365 that defines how its AI assistant appears, moves, and hands off work across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and related productivity surfaces in 2026. The project is not a retreat from Copilot so much as a re-architecture of its...

Microsoft said in late May 2026 that Word, Excel, and PowerPoint users will be able to move the Copilot Dynamic Action Button out of its floating position and back to the ribbon, after complaints that the AI control was interfering with ordinary Office work. The change is small in pixels but...

Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft’s executive vice president and consumer marketing chief, reportedly plans to leave the company after its next fiscal year, but will first spend that transition year helping “reimagine Windows for the agentic era” alongside Microsoft 365 services and the company’s One...

Excel’s Analyze Data feature, available inside Microsoft 365 versions of Excel as of May 2026, can generate charts, surface trends, and answer plain-English spreadsheet questions without requiring a separate paid Copilot add-on. That does not make it a full substitute for Microsoft’s generative...