M365 News for February 2026
This post will be updated throughout the month as new items are added to the tag.
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Zoom Changing how AI Note-takers Can Be Used – Will Microsoft Follow?
The first paragraph makes it obvious that you can’t be an unnamed guest in a Zoom meeting and invite your AI to take notes. That makes sense.
The second adds a requirement: you must also attend the meeting. No more sending your AI to take notes for you while you spend your time elsewhere.
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M365 News for January 2026
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Worth Reading – Microsoft’s Satya Nadella wants you to stop calling AI “slop” in 2026
The slop problem is the kind of PR problem that kills industries. It’s the Ford Pinto’s exploding gas tank, New Coke, and the iTunes U2 album fiasco all rolled into one. People see all the hype about AI, then experience entire websites and tens of thousands of social media accounts spewing content no one wants, generated by AI.
That’s a perception problem that won’t go away because you want customers to stop talking about it. You have to build a tool that doesn’t create this problem.
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Worth Reading – Enhanced App Support in Microsoft Teams Private Channels
This might not seem like a big deal, but it is. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to create a separate Team for a small group because they want a Private Channel, but they also want to use Planner in it, or some other app that wasn’t supported in Private Channels.
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Anthropic now a Microsoft Subprocessor
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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M365 News for December 2025
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Worth Reading – Advancing Microsoft 365: New capabilities and pricing update
This is also coming with a price increase effective in July 2026:
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Is Your Teams Meeting Being Recorded? I’d Assume It Is
A few months ago, I wrote about people using AI Notetakers in Teams meetings. I’ve spoken several times about the privacy implications of recording Teams meetings, using Copilot, and related practices. One thing I’ve been encouraging people to understand is that, even if you host the meeting and turn off all AI, recording, and transcription…
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So much news from Ignite 2025
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.
