Microsoft has released the Microsoft 365 E7 and Agent 365 licenses, updated the pricing for Windows 365 Business and Dragon Copilot, and discontinued the Windows 365 Business with Windows Hybrid Benefit product.
Microsoft has discontinued Windows 365 Business with Windows Hybrid Benefit and reduced Windows 365 Business licensing by 20%.
A new Voice and Face enrollment report in the Teams admin center gives admins visibility into enrollment status and metrics across the tenant for the last 180 days.
Flex routing is extending to Power Platform environments, Copilot Studio, and Dynamics 365, with Microsoft switching the setting to on starting 4 May.
The OneDrive sync client will soon skip the local recycle bin when a cloud-initiated deletion affects a locally downloaded file.
Microsoft has rebranded the Surveys agent to Forms agent and is adding Copilot Chat directly into the Microsoft Forms editing experience.
Enterprise App Insights is now generally available in SharePoint for Enterprise organizations with the SharePoint Advanced Management add-on or a Microsoft 365 Copilot license.
Microsoft’s new Publish to Web feature in PowerPoint and Excel for the web lets users share a clean, view-only version of a document externally, without exposing comments, tracked changes, or speaker notes. Word for the web is following soon.
Collaborative Notes powered by Loop are rolling out for instant (Meet now) meetings in Teams. The notes are stored in OneDrive.
Starting in May, Microsoft is changing the default layout of the first channel in a new Teams team to Threaded.
Smart App Control in Windows 11 can now be enabled or disabled at any time without reinstalling the operating system. The April 2026 cumulative update removes the restriction that previously required a full Windows reset to re-enable it.
Microsoft is expanding the Teams Reader role with broader read-only access to the Teams Admin Center, PowerShell, and Microsoft Graph APIs.
Microsoft is rolling out a new Pay-as-you-go meter for Windows 365 for Agents, a Cloud PC platform designed to run AI agent workloads.
A new control in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center lets administrators assign third-party model provider access to specific users or Entra ID groups, rather than enabling it for the entire tenant. The setting is also enforced across Power Platform environments and Copilot Studio agents.
The Frontier Admin Control is being updated with a single control point for managing access to experimental Frontier features across Microsoft 365 apps, platforms, and Copilot agents.
Microsoft is rolling out a new three-tier release model for Microsoft 365, starting with Copilot in May. The new Frontier, Standard, Deferred tiers should give organizations greater control over when users receive new features.
Copilot in PowerPoint has been enhanced with a new editing mode, making it easier to build and refine presentations through natural conversation. A Microsoft 365 Copilot license is required.
Microsoft is activating two new service plans, Microsoft eCDN and Teams Events, across all Enterprise licenses, as announced in January. Neither is included in Microsoft 365 Business licenses.
A new AI Reader role in Microsoft Entra provides broad read-only access to Copilot and Agent 365 settings, usage reports, service health, and Entra ID objects.
Microsoft 365 Copilot gets a new side-by-side drafting experience in Outlook, letting users refine and iterate on emails through back-and-forth interaction with Copilot without leaving the compose window.