Private previews in shared page edits [Web]

October 28, 2025
Updates released between October 15, 2025, and October 28, 2025.

Copilot extensibility
@mention capability for mainline Copilot Chat [Android, iOS]

• Use @mention in Copilot Chat to direct interactions to specific agents, ensuring focused and relevant responses from Copilot.

Static tab for custom agents in Teams meetings [Windows, Web]

• Developers can now add static tabs in their custom engine agents using Teams Toolkit, enhancing experiences during meetings and calls.

Microsoft 365 Copilot
Private previews in shared page edits [Web]

• After edits in shared pages, view suggestions as private previews to refine and finalize content before public application.

Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat

• Focus mode in Teams [Web]
  Enhance your concentration with Focus Mode in Teams, which hides unnecessary UI elements and provides alerts when launching the full app from chat.
• Launch full app from side panes in Copilot Chat []
  Easily transition from the side pane in Microsoft 365 apps to the full Copilot app with a dedicated button, simplifying access to advanced features.
• Stay informed with email alerts for scheduled prompts", [Web]
  Get notified when your scheduled Copilot prompts finish running. Email notifications ensure you never miss results and can act on insights right away no need to keep checking manually.

Microsoft Planner
- Copilot faster with new Planner button [Web]
A new floating action button (FAB) gives you quick, one-click access to the Project Manager Agent, making it easy to launch Copilot or start a chat without losing your place in your plan. Learn more.

- Get a project manager agent in all premium plans", [Windows, Web]
The project manager agent is now included in all premium Planner plans. It helps you move work forward by creating plans from goals, executing tasks, and acting on feedback—all with less manual effort.

• Get task recommendations grounded in real-time web data [Web]
  Copilot’s Project Manager Agent now includes web-grounded responses with source links, ensuring task updates and recommendations are timely, credible, and actionable.

Outlook

• Expanded coverage and Improvements to Preparing for Meetings with Copilot [Windows, Web]
  Preparing for meetings can be time and effort-intensive. New enhancements to Copilot’s meeting preparation experience help streamline the process. Directly within the Outlook meeting event form, Copilot can now proactively generate key insights to help you prepare for specific meetings. Copilot also suggests additional ways that it can help you prepare, from finding the pre-reads to learning more about the meeting's intended outcome. User can then continue the conversation via chat, and get answers to additional questions that are top-of-mind. In addition, Copilot now supports all meeting types – including 1:1 meetings – via the meeting preparation experience. Learn more.

PowerPoint

• Copilot now offers an on-canvas experience for generating speaker notes [Mac, Web, iOS]-
  Now, Copilot in PowerPoint offers an on-canvas experience to generate speaker notes in place of the previous chat experience Learn more.
• PPT Copilot now offers an on-canvas experience for translating presentation [Mac, Web, iOS]

Now, when creating a presentation using Copilot from an existing presentation, it will create the new presentation in a new file without affecting the original presentation Learn more.

Teams
Teams chats in ContextIQ [Web]
Enhance Copilot Chat prompts by searching and selecting Teams chats within ContextIQ, streamlining your workflow and improving context accuracy. Learn more.

Use Copilot in a call without recording or transcribing [Windows, Mac]
Now, users can benefit from Copilot during live Teams calls with sensitive conversations where a persistent record is not desired. When the admin enables this option, users can initiate Copilot without transcription or recording simply through clicking the Copilot button in the header menu, so they can use important Copilot administrative tasks such as capturing key points, task owners, and next steps, enabling participants to stay focused on the content of the call. Learn more.

Viva Insights

• Weekly user insights in Copilot Studio agent reports", [Windows, Mac, Web]
  Copilot Studio reports now include weekly active user counts and provide aggregated data on a weekly basis for consistency across reporting. These updates make it easier to track engagement trends for planning and adoption.", Learn more.

Word

• Instantly get helpful options from Copilot [Mac]
  The Copilot icon in your document margin gives you a variety of actions you can take on your selected text. One click lets you rewrite, get writing suggestions, and more