Microsoft 365 Roadmap
The Microsoft 365 roadmap provides estimated release dates and descriptions for commercial features. All information is subject to change. As a feature or product becomes generally available, or is cancelled or postponed, information will be removed from this website. If Targeted release is available the Rollout start date will reflect the change beginning to appear in Targeted release followed by Standard release, otherwise the Rollout start date will reflect the change beginning to appear in Standard release.
Latest announcements
Available now: New Copilot in Excel capabilities built for finance workflows
Announcing the new Work IQ APIs
Introducing Microsoft Scout
Copilot Notebooks gets smarter for Microsoft 365 Copilot users
2026 Work Trend Index Annual Report
Copilot Cowork: From conversation to action across skills, integrations, and devices
Federated Copilot connectors: Bringing real-time enterprise data within Microsoft 365 Copilot
Word: Legal Agent in Frontier
Work IQ API public preview brings Copilot intelligence into agent-to-agent communication
Dynamics 365 now delivers new agentic capabilities across manufacturing
Copilot’s agentic capabilities in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are generally available
Available today: Anthropic Claude Opus 4.7 in Microsoft 365 Copilot
Copilot Cowork: Now Available in Frontier
Introducing multi-model intelligence in Researcher
GPT-5.2 now available in Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft expands model choice through Anthropic partnership and data processing agreement
Microsoft 365 Copilot now includes App Builder, making it easy to create and deploy apps
Copilot Cowork is now generally available
Available today: Anthropic Claude Opus 4.8 in Microsoft 365 Copilot
Introducing Microsoft 365 Business with Copilot: The new standard for small business
Introducing a new design for Microsoft 365 Copilot
Available today: GPT-5.5 Instant in Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft 365 E7 and Agent 365 are now generally available
Copilot in Outlook: New agentic experiences for email and calendar
Real-time voice agents in Microsoft Copilot Studio transform customer experience
Available today: GPT-5.5 Thinking and ChatGPT Images 2.0 in Microsoft 365 Copilot
Bring your everyday business apps into the flow of work with agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot
Copilot in Word: New Capabilities for Document Workflows
Latest enhancements for Copilot security, management, and analytics
Powering Frontier Transformation with Copilot and agents
Introducing the First Frontier Worker Suite Built on Intelligence + Trust
Introducing Microsoft Agent 365: The control plane for agents
Microsoft 365 Copilot with Work IQ: AI built for work
Introducing Agent Mode across Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
Now available
- Skills and federated Copilot connectors help finance teams work to their own standards, codify repeatable workflows, and ground analysis in trusted financial data partners.
- Copilot Cowork brings enterprise‑ready AI for long‑running, complex work into Microsoft 365 Copilot, moving beyond prompts and responses toward execution that unfolds over time. As of June 16, you can automate multi‑step tasks across your work data with new partner plugins, integrated security and governance controls, branded templates, image generation, and more making it even easier for you to get work done.
- The Microsoft 365 Copilot app has a cleaner interface, faster app load and chat response times, and adaptive design that reveals the right capabilities at the right moment. These updates simplify the chat experience, improve navigation, and introduce new ways for you to organize work—helping you stay focused, maintain context, and move work forward more efficiently.
- Work IQ is a workplace intelligence layer that provides a semantic understanding of everything happening across Microsoft 365, organizational systems, and external sources. You get agent‑ready intelligence, governance, and context in a single platform—helping agents reason, act, and scale more effectively.
Coming soon
- Make decisions with confidence. Researcher brings leading AI models together with two new capabilities to refine responses from GPT with Claude with Critique, and compare GPT and Claude responses side by side with Council.
Frontier Program
Copilot Cowork: Multiple models, matched to your work
Microsoft Scout app
Copilot Notebooks: Smarter experience for Microsoft 365 Copilot users
Copilot in Word: Legal Agent
Microsoft 365 Roadmap
Updates that are currently in development and testing.
Updates that are beginning to roll out and are not yet available to all applicable customers.
Fully released updates that are now generally available for applicable customers.
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