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The latest Microsoft Copilot coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Windows 11 taskbar finally movable: Microsoft's 2026 plan brings back a fan-favorite feature
Microsoft is shifting its Windows 11 development focus from feature stuffing to fixing the fundamentals, and one of the most anticipated changes is the return of the movable taskbar. Beginning in...
Microsoft’s 45% Copilot Price Hike Heads to Court: What Your Subscription Renewal Won’t Tell You
Microsoft is gearing up for a landmark court battle in Australia over the way it introduced a steep price increase to millions of Microsoft 365 subscribers—and the alternative plan it kept out of...
No More Excuses to Migrate? Classic Outlook Gets Its Own Copilot Switch
Microsoft is adding a Copilot on/off toggle directly into classic Outlook for Windows, a change that removes one of the last remaining reasons for organizations to push users toward the new Outlook...
Microsoft pulls free Outlook meeting-prep feature, puts it behind Copilot paywall
Microsoft will begin removing the Meeting Insights feature from Outlook in mid-August 2026, completing the retirement by mid-September. The built-in tool that automatically surfaced relevant emails...
Microsoft Teams to Auto-Archive Meeting Insights with AI by Default in August 2026
Starting in August 2026, Microsoft Teams will automatically generate AI-powered summaries and insights for certain meetings and store them as permanent, tenant-owned files in SharePoint. The new...
Microsoft Cancels Teams Copilot Feature That Would Have Analyzed Shared Screens in Recorded Meetings
Microsoft has quietly abandoned a planned expansion of Copilot in Teams that would have let the AI assistant parse the content of desktop screen shares during recorded meetings, according to a...
You'll Soon Share Copilot Chat Sessions with a Link — No More Copy-Paste
Microsoft will add link-based sharing to Microsoft 365 Copilot chats in August 2026, according to a newly published entry on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap. The feature, identified as Roadmap ID 562353,...
Delivery Giant Evri Puts Microsoft’s New AI Agent Bundle to the Test with 6,000 Users
UK parcel delivery firm Evri will deploy 6,000 Microsoft 365 E7 licenses across its business, making it one of the first large-scale adopters of Microsoft’s recently launched premium suite. The...
Copilot’s Legal Productivity Claims Are Light on Data—Here’s What IT Admins Need to Know
A July 15 opinion piece by Matthew Stringer, founder and CEO of Microsoft 365 services provider Stridon, is making the rounds in legal tech circles with a bold claim: UK law firms using Microsoft 365...
Microsoft Wrings 40% More Speed from Copilot Models While Accelerating Data Center Rollouts
Microsoft has boosted the inference throughput of its most-used Copilot models by 40% through software and hardware optimizations, even as it rushes new GPU-filled data centers into service weeks...
Microsoft Cancels Copilot Feature That Would Have Scheduled Tasks with Plain English
A feature that many Microsoft 365 Copilot users had circled on their calendars has been erased from the roadmap entirely. On July 14, 2026, Microsoft updated its official roadmap to mark item 531913...
Microsoft’s AI Spending Spree Under Fire: What Windows Users and IT Pros Need to Know
Microsoft’s enormous artificial intelligence investments are facing their most pointed critique yet, and the argument has direct implications for anyone who uses Windows, Office, or Azure. In a...