M365 News for January 2026
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This post will be updated throughout the month as new items are added to the tag.
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I’m glad we can now record only the audio. It makes it slightly less intrusive to record a meeting that others may need to listen to later.
Microsoft has made efforts to make it clearer when a call is from outside the tenant, and I think that helps. Still, it might now be a good idea to review the proper procedures with your users, and for larger organizations where users may not recognize the support team, an identity verification step might also be worth considering.
I want to be charitable and say that this doesn’t reek slightly of desperation, but is instead a strategic decision, possibly to be followed by a price increase next year. Or even that they are trying to lessen the confusion around the different versions of Copilot.
Then I counted the number of “Try Copilot Chat Now!” buttons on that page and immediately realized how desperate they are to get people to use Copilot.
If you can get Copilot to drop a link into the auto-summary, it would be less suspicious than an email sent from outside with a link. That’s probably true. After all, if you trust your AI Summarization tool to summarize the email instead of reading it, why wouldn’t you trust any links it included?
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I’ve only had time to watch the keynote today, and I’m already overwhelmed by the number of announced changes coming to M365 – almost all of which involve AI of some sort.
If you want to see the firehose, you can check out the Book of News.