M365 News for May 2026
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This is a pretty significant change for many of us who had been concerned about vetting data protection agreements with Anthropic before allowing user access to the Claude option in Coiplot Chat, and who’ve also watched new agents for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint rollout, but not to our tenants with Anthropic model access disabled.
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We can publicly measure the cost of someone using AI against the output of their work. If the user can’t tell the total cost of their AI work, we can create a dashboard of costs and let the workforce judge themselves openly. Since users can’t tell themselves how much compute they’re using, we make it public and make them prove the value.
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I do appreciate that the water between the two tools is less muddy. It’s still not clear. There is still confusion among the average users, but it’s a little less murky. That’s a good thing.
It just isn’t clear to them that they would need to pay for that when they’re already using Copilot to help them write emails and summarize log documents. They are using AI for free on their work PC, their home PC, everywhere. Microsoft has done a really good job of explaining the difference to people who follow Microsoft blogs, but an extremely poor job of explaining it to the average M365 user.
It doesn’t help that they keep changing what is included in the free version, either.