State of Microsoft 365 AI
Every week I compare the Microsoft 365 public roadmap with the week before and write down what changed for Copilot and agents: what's new, what moved, what slipped and what's gone. Each edition stays here as a dated record.
This week
- 54new items
- 17changed status
- 17date moves, 17 later
- 21left the roadmap
- 764AI items tracked, of 2,092
This is the first edition, so it covers 11 days rather than a week: the oldest copy of the feed I'd saved is from 10 October 2026, and this one is from 21 October.
The biggest change is underneath Copilot rather than in it. Ten new Work IQ items describe what agents will be able to do with Microsoft 365 content: retrieve it, upload to it, edit Office documents, read Teams transcripts in real time, pause for a person's approval, and be governed by admin policy. Microsoft targets October 2026 to January 2027 for these, and all ten are still in development. Security is following Cowork closely: Purview Data Loss Prevention for Cowork has moved to rolling out, and a new item extends DLP administrative units to Copilot, Copilot Chat and Cowork.
Dates only went one way. All 17 date moves (on 15 items) were later, none earlier, and six of them are on Purview items, including the Purview SDK for Agent Framework (September 2026 to March 2027) and the Compliance Manager link with Foundry (October 2026 to January 2027). Two Copilot items were cancelled. More than half the new items (31 of 54) are Dynamics 365 and Power Platform, many already marked as launched in June to August 2026, which looks like release-plan items arriving in the feed late rather than new work.
All editions
How this is made
Every Monday a script saves a copy of Microsoft's Microsoft 365 roadmap RSS feed and compares it with the copy from the week before. It keeps the items about Copilot, agents and the AI services around them: any item whose product is Copilot, Copilot Studio, Work IQ, Agent 365 or Foundry, and any item whose title mentions Copilot, agents, AI, Cowork, Facilitator or Researcher. That catches some Dynamics 365 and security items too, which I've left in and grouped separately.
The lists are the comparison, unedited: items that are new to the feed, items whose status changed, items whose general availability or preview month moved, and items that have left the feed. The summary and "What stood out" are mine, written from the feed items. Microsoft removes items from the roadmap some time after they launch, so most of what leaves is finished work, not cancelled work; the last status I saw is shown on each one.
Dates are Microsoft's targets, written as months, and they move often. Check the roadmap ID on microsoft.com before you plan training or a budget around one. The same data, searchable, is in the roadmap explorer.
A question to take awayWho in your organisation reads the roadmap each week, and who do they tell?