Microsoft is adding some very useful features to Edge, Outlook, Copilot, Teams, and more

Microsoft 365 is a collection of software intended for use in both personal and professional environments. It includes applications like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneDrive, Teams, Universal Print, and more. Microsoft publicly tracks the development and availability of upcoming features on its dedicated Microsoft 365 Roadmap portal, and in the past week, it added 43 items to this website.

Starting off with Universal Print, Microsoft is making audit logs available in Purview Unified Audit Log from April 2026 in preview. It will track admin and user activities when it becomes generally available in July 2026.

Teams

Next, Microsoft is revamping the content sharing panel in Teams in January 2026, with the goal of modernizing activities such as screen sharing and making file sharing more "discoverable". In the same month, frontline workers will also be able to leverage an upgraded Teams mobile onboarding experience on BYOD hardware. Meanwhile, in December 2025, Town hall organizers will be able to simply restart an event in case of technical issues rather than scheduling an entirely new event.

Outlook

Switching gears to Outlook, the Android and iOS version will autonomously collapse multiple automatic replies, with the ability to manually expand them when needed from December 2025. In the same vein, Android customers will be able to preview PDFs within the Outlook app from this month.

Edge

Microsoft Edge is gaining some useful features too. From December 2025, Edge will prompt you before saving autofill suggestions, rather than doing so on its own accord. IT admins will also be pleased to know that they will be able to configure Edge for Business policies across macOS, Android, and iOS from the Edge management service from the start of the new year. They will also be able to configure inline data security controls and data loss prevention policies (DLP) for Edge for Business' interactions with unmanaged GenAI apps from December 2025, but a preview is landing this month.

Copilot

As expected, Microsoft has a lot of new capabilities planned for Microsoft 365 Copilot, some of the highlights are summarized below:

• Improved freshness in Copilot connectors
• Availability of AI Learning Agent (AILA)
• Discover popular graph connector prompts in Prompt Gallery for Copilot Chat
• IT admins will be able to manage filters in Copilot Search
• Copilot users will be empowered to build agents that are scoped to specific datasets
• Integration with Adobe Experience Manager Assets
• Revamped UX in Copilot Notebooks
• Utilize Hubspot Connector in Researcher agent
• Copilot conversations can be surfaced in search results
• Users can specify data source-specific filters in Copilot Search
• Copilot modifications will be highlighted on Pages by default
• Availability of Researcher with Computer Use
• A new floating Copilot button in OneDrive
• Updated Copilot UI in Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneNote, Outlook, and Teams
• Admins can configure dedicated retention policies for Copilot and AI apps
• Ask Copilot about highlighted content
• Read Aloud in Word with Copilot
• Podcasts with real-time interaction in Word with Copilot

As can be seen above, Microsoft is preparing a massive feature-set for Copilot scheduled for availability within the next few months. That said, keep in mind that the Microsoft 365 Roadmap is a tentative plan that can change based on various factors, and some features might not arrive at all.

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Posted Wednesday 5 November 2025 at 4:12 am AEST (my time).

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