What's New in Microsoft 365 - Friday, June 05, 2026

Microsoft 365 Copilot Blog

Learning Agent now generally available — personalized AI upskilling for every employee

Meet Learning Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot Today we’re excited to announce the general availability of Learning Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot, to help every employee build Copilot and AI skills whe . . .

Tuesday, June 02, 2026

Microsoft 365 Blog

Introducing Microsoft Scout: Your always-on personal agent

Work is moving forward in new ways, with the rhythm shifting from single exchanges to something more continuous. Most systems still stop at answering the question. The real unlock is in the follow-thr . . .

Tuesday, June 02, 2026

Announcing the new Work IQ APIs

Software is moving from applications built for people to agents that can reason, retrieve context, and even act on a user’s behalf. That shift calls for a different kind of API surface. Today we are a . . .

Tuesday, June 02, 2026

Microsoft 365 Developer Blog

Work IQ: Production‑ready intelligence for every agent

Work IQ provides a workplace intelligence layer that enables agents to access and reason over organizational data, context, and tools, continuously building a semantic understanding across Microsoft 3 . . .

Tuesday, June 02, 2026

Build collaborative agents where work happens

At Microsoft Build 2026, we’re announcing new investments to help your agents become teammates in everyday work, from new interaction patterns to streamlined tooling. The post Build collaborative age . . .

Tuesday, June 02, 2026

Frontier Tuning: Teaching AI to work the way you do

We’re announcing the private preview of Frontier Tuning, a new approach to making AI work the way your business does by applying reinforcement learning inside your compliance boundary with your own da . . .

Tuesday, June 02, 2026

Microsoft 365 Insider Blog

Shaping Copilot across Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

We’ve been working to make Microsoft 365 feel more connected and integrated with Copilot, available as a helpful thought partner, when you need it. We recently updated Word for the web, Excel for the . . .

Thursday, June 04, 2026

From LaTeX to accessible PDFs: Transforming math workflows in Microsoft 365

Congratulations, Class of 2026! It’s an exciting time looking forward to the next step in your journey. The rest of us salute you as we continue with our own journeys. For so many of us, math has been . . .

Tuesday, June 02, 2026

Microsoft Teams Blog

What’s new in Microsoft Teams | May 2026 - Build Edition

It’s hard to believe May is over already! You may have noticed this edition of What’s new in Teams is landing a few days later than usual — that’s intentional. We’re publishing alongside Microsoft Bui . . .

Wednesday, June 03, 2026

Outlook Blog

15 productivity features in the new Outlook for Windows

Hello, Outlook community. I’m Vicki Milton, a Principal Product Manager on the Outlook team. Over the last year, we’ve added important capabilities across areas such as offline support, shared mailbox . . .

Wednesday, June 03, 2026

Viva Engage Blog

Planning for Communities in Teams: What Admins and Communicators Should Do Next

Imagine if employees could spend less time sorting through messages and more time engaging with what actually matters, whether it’s a leadership update, a company announcement, or an important change… . . .

Wednesday, June 03, 2026

Access Blog

Bug fixes in Microsoft Access - Current Channel Version 2605 (Build 16.0.20026.20118)

Bug Name

Issue Fixed

Edge Browser Control didn’t render PDFs on some machines

When the Edge Browser Control was used to display a PDF, on some machines the PDF would not render at all if the regist . . .

Wednesday, June 03, 2026

Power BI Blog

Copilot in web modeling (Preview)

Copilot in web modeling (Preview) in the Power BI service, is an AI-powered assistant helping you analyze and improve your semantic models using natural language so you can spend less time on manual e . . .

Thursday, June 04, 2026

Power BI at Microsoft Build 2026: The Agentic Era of analytics

Microsoft Build 2026 brings the next generation of intelligent analytics to Power BI—where agents do the building, apps deliver insights everywhere, and the platform gets more powerful for every user.

Thursday, June 04, 2026

Building in the Agentic Era with Power BI and Fabric

Microsoft Build 2026 marks a major shift in how developers build data experiences with AI agents. Today we’re announcing two capabilities that bring agentic analytics to the forefront: Agent Skills fo . . .

Wednesday, June 03, 2026

DAX User-Defined Functions (Generally Available)

DAX user-defined functions are now production-ready based on community feedback and internal validation. Their adoption during preview shows that DAX UDFs are quickly becoming a mainstay of Power BI s . . .

Tuesday, June 02, 2026

Azure Virtual Desktop Blog

Azure Virtual Desktop supports greater application and identity functionality with latest updates

At Microsoft Ignite 2025, we announced both the general availability of external identity support in Azure Virtual Desktop and the public preview support of using FSLogix and Azure Files as a user pro . . .

Tuesday, June 02, 2026

Microsoft Security Blog

Updating the taxonomy of failure modes in agentic AI systems: What a year of red teaming taught us

In this article Why the Taxonomy Needed Updating Seven new failure modes Operational findings: What red teaming showed New mitigations What to do this quarter When the Microsoft AI Red Team published . . .

Thursday, June 04, 2026

Preinstall to persistence: Inside the Red Hat npm Miasma credential-stealing campaign

In this article Attack chain overview Mitigation and protection guidance Learn more Microsoft Threat Intelligence identified a large-scale npm supply chain attack affecting 32 maliciously modified pac . . .

Wednesday, June 03, 2026

Microsoft Build 2026: Securing code, agents, and models across the development lifecycle

In this article Secure your code Secure your agents Trust agents with your data Secure your models Trust starts with security Today, developers and security teams are caught in growing tension. AI is . . .

Tuesday, June 02, 2026

Microsoft Defender XDR Blog

The next frontier in endpoint security: Securing local AI agents with Microsoft Defender

AI agents are now doing real work on the endpoint — reading files, running commands, browsing the web, and acting on behalf of the users they run under. That same power is also what makes them dangero . . .

Tuesday, June 02, 2026

Microsoft Azure Blog

Announcing Microsoft Discovery general availability and Microsoft Discovery app preview

At Microsoft Build, we are announcing that Microsoft Discovery is now generally available for all organizations, providing a comprehensive platform for building and governing agentic AI workflows. In . . .

Tuesday, June 02, 2026

Microsoft Build 2026: Building agentic apps with Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Databases

Microsoft Build 2026 highlights advancements in app development with Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Databases, emphasizing a unified data and AI platform for scalable, agentic applications. In this ar . . .

Tuesday, June 02, 2026

New Azure Cobalt 200 VMs deliver 50% performance improvement, fully optimized for modern agentic AI workloads

We are announcing the early access preview for Azure Cobalt 200 Arm-based Virtual Machines (VMs), designed for Linux-based agentic AI workloads. In this article Building on the success of Cobalt 100 V . . .

Tuesday, June 02, 2026

Microsoft Foundry Blog

Azure Speech at Build 2026: Powering Voice Agents with Real-Time and Life-like Experiences

Voice is rapidly becoming the default interface for AI. At Build 2026, Azure Speech is making it dramatically easier to ship production-grade voice experiences that feel real, responsive, and global. . . .

Thursday, June 04, 2026

Introducing the New Browser Automation Tool with Toolboxes in Foundry

AI agents can reason through complex problems—but they hit a wall when workflows require clicking buttons, filling forms, or navigating web interfaces. The Browser Automation Tool bridges that gap, gi . . .

Thursday, June 04, 2026

Giving Developers Claude Code with Azure API Management and Claude Models in Microsoft Foundry

Summary You want to give your engineering org Claude Code without handing out Anthropic API keys, without per-developer billing sprawl, and without losing visibility into who is spending what. This po . . .

Thursday, June 04, 2026

Foundry IQ: Improve recall by up to 54% with knowledge bases

By Abhishree Shetty, Alec Berntson, Alina Stoica Beck, Amaia Salvador Aguilera, Arnau Quindós Sánchez, Jieyu Cheng, Jim Singh, Jing Zhu, Lihang Li, Matt Gotteiner, Mike Kim, Thibault Gisselbrecht Agen . . .

Wednesday, June 03, 2026

Foundry Labs @ Build 2026

We launched Foundry Labs last year as the home for cutting-edge AI experiments from across Microsoft. It is meant to be a place where developers could try, fork, and build with our earliest prototypes . . .

Wednesday, June 03, 2026

Evaluate before you ship: introducing the Voice Live Evaluation Harness

You’ve built a voice agent on Azure Voice Live. It demos beautifully. Then a teammate asks the question that keeps every voice-agent team up at night: “How do we know it’s actually good — across 200 c . . .

Wednesday, June 03, 2026

Improved data processing features in Foundry IQ: Richer content extraction and data enrichment

Great answers start before retrieval. They depend on how well your data pipeline can reach enterprise content, preserve document structure, and carry text and visual context into the index. As part of . . .

Tuesday, June 02, 2026

New MAI models in Microsoft Foundry across text, image, voice, and speech

Continuing Microsoft AI momentum in Foundry Since launching MAI-Image-2-Efficient, MAI-Image-2, MAI-Voice-1, MAI-Transcribe-1 in Microsoft Foundry this spring, we’ve been laser-focused on one thing: g . . .

Tuesday, June 02, 2026

Foundry IQ: New governance and enterprise AI security capabilities

Enterprise AI adoption depends on more than retrieval quality. It requires a foundation that enables agents to access business-critical content without weakening the controls already in place to prote . . .

Tuesday, June 02, 2026