Friday, October 03, 2025

28 new posts across 14 Microsoft websites since Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Microsoft Copilot Blog

Introducing a more immersive chat experience with Copilot Portraits

Voice remains a defining feature of Copilot, the interface of the future for AI companions. A question pops into your head, or you need to bounce an idea around—you invoke Copilot and begin a lively c…

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

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Copilot for Microsoft 365

What’s new in Microsoft 365 Copilot | September 2025

Welcome to the September 2025 edition of What’s New in Microsoft 365 Copilot! Every month, we highlight new features and enhancements to keep Microsoft 365 admins up to date with Copilot features that…

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

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Employees can bring Copilot from their personal Microsoft 365 plans to work - what it means for IT

Whether IT-sanctioned or in the shadows, AI has become mainstream in knowledge work. Employees everywhere are bringing their own AI assistants – and that can be a good thing, unless the tools they bri…

Wednesday, October 01, 2025

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Microsoft 365 Blog

Vibe working: Introducing Agent Mode and Office Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot

Today, we’re bringing vibe working to Microsoft 365 Copilot with Agent Mode in Office apps and Office Agent in Copilot chat. The post Vibe working: Introducing Agent Mode and Office Agent in Microsoft…

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

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Meet Microsoft 365 Premium: Your AI and productivity powerhouse

We’re taking a big step forward with major updates to our individual subscription plans, combining the best of AI and productivity at an unbeatable price. The post Meet Microsoft 365 Premium: Your AI …

Wednesday, October 01, 2025

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Teams Blog

What’s New in Microsoft Teams | September 2025

Hey Microsoft Tech Community, we’re back with the latest updates to Microsoft Teams! This month we’re excited to spotlight many new features, like Threads in Channels which lets you reply directly to …

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

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SharePoint Blog

SharePoint Showcase: Governance and Security Essentials for Admins in the AI Era

This month’s SharePoint Showcase comes at a pivotal time following our recent announcement of the new Knowledge Agent in SharePoint. We encourage you to opt-in for our public preview and share your fe…

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

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Microsoft 365 Insider Blog

Microsoft Excel turns 40!

In 1985, the world was grooving to “Careless Whisper,” watching Back to the Future rocket Michael J. Fox into superstardom, and marveling at the discovery of the Titanic’s wreckage beneath the Atlanti…

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

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Boo-tiful costumes, powered by Microsoft Copilot

Hi, Insiders! This spooky season, Microsoft Copilot can help you and your family find or create the perfect costume, whether you’re attending a party, trick-or-treating, or hoping to win your town’s o…

Wednesday, October 01, 2025

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Stay in the flow with PivotTable #SPILL! in Excel

Hi, Microsoft 365 Insiders! I’m Valerie Kistrina, a Product Manager on the Excel team. I’m excited to introduce PivotTable #SPILL!, a new feature in Microsoft Excel for Windows and for Mac. Instead of…

Wednesday, October 01, 2025

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Edit the default initialization for Python in Excel

Hi, Insiders! I’m Ndeyanta Jallow, a Product Manager on the Excel team. I’m excited to announce a powerful new Python capability in Microsoft Excel for Windows: editable initialization. Edit the defau…

Thursday, October 02, 2025

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Intune Customer Success

From the frontlines: Delivering critical early responder device management

By: Catarina Rodrigues – Product Manager 2 | Microsoft Intune In high-stakes environments like emergency response, speed, accuracy, and security are essential. Whether it’s paramedics delivering lif…

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

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Microsoft Security Blog

Empowering defenders in the era of agentic AI with Microsoft Sentinel

Microsoft Sentinel is expanding into an agentic platform with general availability of the Sentinel data lake, and the public preview of Sentinel graph and Sentinel Model Context Protocol (MCP) server….

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Security starts with you

At Microsoft, we believe that cybersecurity is as much about people as it is about technology. Explore some of our resources for Cybersecurity Awareness Month to stay safe online. The post Cybersecur…

Wednesday, October 01, 2025

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Microsoft named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape for XDR

Microsoft has been named a Leader in IDC’s inaugural category for Worldwide Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Software for 2025, recognized for its deep integration, intelligent automation, and un…

Thursday, October 02, 2025

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Microsoft 365 Defender Blog

Monthly news - October 2025

Microsoft DefenderMonthly news - October 2025 Edition This is our monthly “What’s new” blog post, summarizing product updates and various new assets we released over the past month across our Defender…

Wednesday, October 01, 2025

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Host Microsoft Defender data locally in the United Arab Emirates

We are pleased to announce that local data residency support in the UAE is now generally available for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Microsoft Defender for Identity. This announcement reinforc…

Wednesday, October 01, 2025

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Public Sector Blog

Transforming Emergency Response: How AI is reshaping public safety

Brand new released Smart City Trend Report:Discover how AI is transforming emergency response and public safety in cities worldwide.In an era of escalating climate events, urban complexity, and rising…

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

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Microsoft Viva Blog

Chapter 1: Ready for Agents - 2025 Agentic Teaming & Trust Research Report

AI agents are becoming increasingly prevalent at work, going beyond generating content to taking action, following processes, and making decisions within set boundaries. Organizations began exploring …

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

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Chapter 2: The Multiplier Effect - 2025 Agentic Teaming & Trust Research Report

As we strategize for integrating agentic AI into our workflows, it’s important to remember that the goal is to not only drive elevated productivity and performance, but to do so in a way that empowers…

Thursday, October 02, 2025

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Planner Blog

What’s new in Microsoft Planner – September 2025

This month, we introduced the Project Manager Agent in Microsoft Teams meetings and channels and enhanced Planner’s security. These features make collaborating with your team more effective while keep…

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

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The new Planner in Microsoft Teams is now available to customers in GCC High

We’re excited to announce that the new Planner app in Microsoft Teams (web and desktop) is now available to customers in the Government Community Cloud (GCC) High environment! There’s no migration re…

Wednesday, October 01, 2025

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Skype for Business Blog

Hotfix Released for Skype for Business Server SE (SE RTM Hotfix 2)

Microsoft has released a hotfix update for Skype for Business Server Subscription Edition (Version 7.0.2046.828) to resolve two issues impacting functionality: MACP Icons Not Loading Offline: Icons …

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

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Azure AI Foundry Blog

Azure AI Search: Microsoft OneLake integration plus more features now generally available

Introduction Azure AI Search has officially launched its latest generally available (GA) REST API version 2025-09-01 release, delivering enterprise-grade enhancements across the stack—from expanded da…

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

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Upgrade your voice agent with Azure AI Voice Live API

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Voice Live API, which enables real-time speech-to-speech conversational experience through a unified API powered by generative AI models. …

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

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Azure AI Foundry: Advancing OpenTelemetry and delivering unified multi-agent observability

Microsoft is enhancing multi-agent observability by introducing new semantic conventions to OpenTelemetry, developed collaboratively with Outshift, Cisco’s incubation engine. These additions—built upo…

Wednesday, October 01, 2025

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Keeping Agents on Track: Introducing Task Adherence in Azure AI Foundry

AI agents are no longer just answering questions. They can plan, reason, and act. A single agent can fetch information from APIs, trigger workflows, or even make transactions. Multiple agents can work…

Wednesday, October 01, 2025

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Better detecting cross prompt injection attacks: Introducing Spotlighting in Azure AI Foundry

As agentic AI becomes more powerful, the risks grow more serious. One of the most common risks is cross prompt injection, which are malicious instructions embedded inside untrusted content such as doc…

Wednesday, October 01, 2025

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