Microsoft is simplifying how you access Copilot in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint by reducing the number of entry points to just two. A new floating icon sits in the bottom-right corner of the document canvas, and a contextual entry point appears when you interact with content. Proactive suggestions are now surfaced directly from the Copilot button, and keyboard shortcuts have been unified across apps and platforms. These changes also improve access for users who rely on keyboards or screen readers.

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Microsoft 365 Copilot Cowork moves beyond chat-based AI responses by acting as an autonomous agent—an AI that can perform multi-step tasks on your behalf across Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, and other Microsoft 365 services. Cowork is built on top of Work IQ, Microsoft's intelligence layer that reads your emails, meetings, files, and organizational data to provide context for actions. As of May 2026, Cowork is available through the Frontier preview program and has expanded to include mobile support, custom skills, plugins, and integration with Agent 365. Access requires a Microsoft 365 Copilot license and enrollment in the Frontier early-access program.

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Microsoft released a new policy in April 2026 that lets you remove the Microsoft Copilot consumer app from managed Windows 11 devices using Group Policy or Microsoft Intune. The policy is called RemoveMicrosoftCopilotApp and is part of the April 2026 Windows security update. Alternatively, you can uninstall Copilot with PowerShell or Intune.

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Microsoft released new security and governance controls for Microsoft 365 Copilot, introducing Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies that inspect prompts before Copilot processes them, protecting web searches from leaking sensitive data, and enabling bulk remediation of overshared SharePoint files. The Copilot Dashboard gained expanded access, user satisfaction tracking, and CSV export. This article explains what each feature does technically, how to configure the relevant policies, and where the current limitations are.

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