Microsoft Copilot Updates

Everything Microsoft Copilot has shipped, in one place.

August 2026

Microsoft Copilotfeature

Link·Aug 11, 2026

Copilot Consumption Dashboard in Viva Insights

A dashboard in Viva Insights showing how many Copilot credits your organization is burning, and on which services.

Best for: Watching AI spend as it happens rather than finding out when the bill arrives.
When to use it: You have rolled Copilot out to a team and nobody can say what it is costing.
Who benefits: Managers with at least five direct reports, Insights analysts, and global admins, the only roles who can see it.

Microsoft Copilotfeature

Link·Aug 11, 2026

Adobe Experience Manager Assets in Copilot for PowerPoint

Copilot in PowerPoint can build slides using your company's own approved images, if those images live in Adobe Experience Manager.

Best for: Decks that have to stay on brand, where a stock photo or a generated image would be the wrong call.
When to use it: Your brand assets already sit in Adobe Experience Manager and people keep building decks with the wrong images anyway.
Who benefits: Brand and marketing teams at companies running Adobe Experience Manager as the asset library.

Microsoft Copilotfeature

Link·Aug 11, 2026

Outlook Copilot Coaching in Chat

Copilot's email coaching moved into the chat pane, so you can pick which suggested edits get applied instead of taking all of them at once.

Best for: Tightening an email before it goes out, especially one you are going to be judged on.
When to use it: The draft is written but the tone or the clarity is off and you want a second pass you can argue with.
Who benefits: Anyone sending a high volume of outbound or client-facing email.

Microsoft Copilotmodel

Link·Aug 11, 2026

Anthropic Models in Copilot for Word

Copilot in Word lets you pick an Anthropic model instead of an OpenAI one when editing a document.

Best for: Long-form document editing where you want a second model's read on the same draft.
When to use it: The edits an OpenAI model returns are not landing and you want to run the same passage through a different one.
Who benefits: Content and communications people drafting substantial documents in Word rather than short replies.

July 2026

Microsoft Copilotfeature

Link·Jul 29, 2026

SharePoint List Support in Agent Builder

Agents built in Microsoft 365 Copilot Agent Builder can now use a SharePoint list as a knowledge source, so they answer from structured data.

Best for: An agent that has to answer from a table your team already maintains, like a product list or an approval log.
When to use it: The answers live in rows and columns rather than in documents.
Who benefits: Anyone building Copilot agents in Agent Builder, no code required.

Microsoft Copilotfeature

Link·Jul 29, 2026

Copilot Notebooks Overview Redesign

The Overview panel in Copilot Notebooks in OneNote was rebuilt around shorter summaries and one-click actions.

Best for: Picking up a research notebook you have not opened in a while.
When to use it: You keep a running notebook of sources and want its current state without rereading everything.
Who benefits: OneNote users with Copilot on Windows, Mac, and the web.

Microsoft Copilotfeature

Link·Jul 29, 2026

Rich Images Inline in Copilot Responses

Copilot now shows images pulled from your files and meetings inside its answers instead of describing them in text.

Best for: Questions about documents and meeting recordings where the answer is a picture, not a paragraph.
When to use it: You are asking about a deck, a report, or a recorded meeting that carried visuals.
Who benefits: Microsoft 365 Copilot users on Windows and the web.

Microsoft Copilotfeature

Link·Jul 29, 2026

Take Screenshot in Copilot

A screenshot tool built into Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat on Windows, so you can capture what is on screen and drop it straight into a prompt.

Best for: Asking Copilot about something you can see but cannot easily paste, like a chart or a dashboard.
When to use it: Describing the thing in words would take longer than showing it.
Who benefits: Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat users on Windows.

Microsoft Copilotfeature

Link·Jul 15, 2026

MCP Agents in Office Apps

Custom AI agents that connect to outside tools and data now work inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Catalyst, from the Copilot pane.

Best for: teams that use custom Copilot agents and want them available without leaving their Office documents
When to use it: you are working in a Word or Excel file and want an agent to help in the same window
Who benefits: people who rely on custom agents daily, and the admins who deploy them

Microsoft Copilotfeature

Link·Jul 15, 2026

Company-Wide Prompt Publishing in Copilot Prompt Gallery

Admins can build prompt collections for their organization and push them to every user in the tenant through the Copilot Prompt Gallery.

Best for: organizations that want everyone using the same vetted prompts instead of each person writing their own
When to use it: your team keeps reinventing prompts and you want one approved set in front of everyone
Who benefits: Copilot admins and enablement leads standardizing how a company uses Copilot