Microsoft is teaching Copilot new tricks

Copilot seems to be Microsoft's favorite tool lately, with the company cramming the AI assistant into your workflows in as many ways as possible. Recently, Microsoft brought Copilot to Samsung TVs and smart monitors, introduced Copilot for Azure in Visual Studio, and updated the dedicated app on Windows. Now, it is gearing up to add even more features to the AI assistant.

The Redmond tech firm made numerous updates to its public Microsoft 365 Roadmap in the past few days, and a lot of the new items deal with Copilot. For starters, it is working on surfacing interactive Bing web answer cards in responses to prompts related to topics like stocks and weather, which is a good way to promote two services in one go. This is being tracked as ID 500865 and is scheduled to be released in November 2025.

In addition, small businesses will be pleased to hear about ID 501581, which indicates that the Microsoft Copilot Dashboard will no longer require 50 Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses in order to track adoption trends in Copilot Chat Insights. This flexibility will become available in November 2025, too.

The OneDrive file browsing experience in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on iPad and iPhone is set to receive a major change, too. Users will be redirected to the dedicated OneDrive app for advanced actions like folder navigation, permission settings, and downloads. It will still be possible to search and view recent files in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app, though. One major upgrade coming soon to both platforms is also the ability to create documents through prompts. The former capability is tagged as ID 501277 with a rollout date of October 2025, while the latter feature is identified as ID 500632 and is expected in September 2025.

Enterprise customers will be able to leverage the Copilot Chat to ask prompts about their meetings based on the RSVP status set by them and others, too. An example prompt is "List all events I have not RSVPed". This feature has an ID of 499429 and should become available next month. In the same month, organizations should also be able to reference a Loop or Page when creating a PowerPoint presentation with the help of Copilot, if IDs 500862-4 are anything to go by.

September will be a busy month, as Redmond is making it easier to launch the dedicated Microsoft 365 Copilot app from within the Copilot Chat pane in Microsoft 365 apps. This is tagged as ID 500866. In a similar vein, the Copilot Chat pane is also landing on Teams, inside chats, calls, and meetings next month, tracked as ID 501107.

Finally, Government Community Cloud (GCC) customers are not being left out in the cold either. Within the next couple of days, they are expected to be able to leverage GenAI capabilities present in Copilot to create images, posters, forms, and infographics that conform to their official branding. That said, it is important to note that the features and dates described in the Microsoft 365 Roadmap are not set in stone, so don't be surprised if plans change down the line.

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Posted Friday 29 August 2025 at 5:32 am AEST (my time).

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