Copilot, Teams, Outlook and Excel updates for businesses on Microsoft 365, including the licence and billing changes worth knowing about before they land.
10 updates
29 September 2026
Microsoft has added a Copilot chat pane to Forms on the web. It can suggest improvements to a form, draft and send invitations, and summarise the responses.
Read update28 September 2026
A new Teams meeting policy blocks external bots it identifies from joining automatically. Organisers then have to let each bot in separately.
Read update27 September 2026
Microsoft announced a new version of Copilot on 25 September. It adds a single Home screen, a way to build small apps by describing them, and an agent that keeps working when you're not there.
Read update26 September 2026
Microsoft's September Copilot release notes add more inbox actions to Outlook, such as moving or deleting messages and managing folders and rules.
Read update24 September 2026
Microsoft is redirecting Copilot to copilot.cloud.microsoft and Teams to teams.cloud.microsoft. If your firewall or web filter blocks the new addresses, staff could lose access.
Read update23 September 2026
From 2 November, Copilot Business licences bought through a Microsoft partner will have usage-based billing switched on by default. Here is what that covers and where the spending limits live.
Read update9 September 2026
Copilot in 30 is a partner-run trial of Microsoft 365 Copilot Business: 25 users, 30 days, no upfront cost. It runs to the end of the year.
Read update9 September 2026
Google switched on built-in interoperability between Meet and Microsoft Teams on Android-based room hardware. It is in Early Preview, and it only covers meeting rooms.
Read update7 September 2026
Microsoft has added emails and meeting transcripts as sources you can pin to a Copilot Notebook, so answers come from one project's material instead of everything you own.
Read update4 September 2026
Edit with Copilot can write and run Python inside Excel on desktop and in the browser, putting the results straight back into the sheet.
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