M365 News Roundup for October 2025
Copilot will be everywhere, for everything. Microsoft bet it's future on it, and you will use it.
On the blog this week, I asked a question about some of the new features Microsoft is introducing with Copilot. Namely, allowing users to bring their personal Copilot licenses to their work documents, and enabling agents to access Office as a way to “vibe work.”
The message I’m getting from Microsoft is that your organization didn’t purchase a license for you, so you’re being left behind without the magic agents that everyone will be using. You can always buy your own and use it on your work documents, though.
As I’ve said many times, Microsoft has invested too much money in AI to let users opt out of using it.
In the end, that’s the issue here. Microsoft Copilot has not yet become a profitable tool, and Microsoft has bet the company on it. The pressure to make it profitable is exceptionally high at this point, which is why we are seeing more articles like these:
Microsoft 365 Copilot’s commercial failure
Have they? I don’t know, but I can understand why people who’ve been around the Microsoft partner world might view Microsoft in 2025 as unrecognizable.
They are an AI company, for better and worse.
How do you and the users you support feel about Copilot being in everything?
Copilot News:
An agent for every Teams channel?
It’s not just coming to channels, it’s everywhere - Microsoft Copilot is taking over Teams. Here’s how AI will shape your daily workflow.
In SharePoint too - SharePoint Knowledge Agent Available in Preview
Moving sales, service, and finance to the Frontier with Microsoft 365 Copilot - The separate Copilots were just confusing, and didn’t sell.
It can be a bit unclear figuring out how scheduled prompts work:
If you’re just getting started with Copilot, this might help. - Skilling snack: Get started with Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat
Or this:
Non-Copilot News:
I wrote about the difficulties of applying retention to OneDrive for Business, as many items are synced there automatically. In that post, I shared this idea from Joanne Klein. - Purview Retention Controls on OneDrive Auto-generated Folders.
Speaking of retention, this newsletter has been full of information lately:
More information about Loop that might interest you - Microsoft Loop tying you up in knots? Breakdown of Loop components and storage.
Don’t forget about Information Protection and Records Management:
Beyond Stickers: The Messy Reality of Microsoft Information Protection Rollouts.
Microsoft Purview Records Management: A Practical Guide For AI-Ready Governance
As always, every link I find about M365 can be found in the blog links archive. - https://mikemcbride365.com/category/links/
If you’re an ILTA member, I will be discussing eDiscovery and Copilot on October 15th.:
Do you need to know how things look for the collections and preservation of CoPilot data?
Join Meredith Perlman, Mike McBride, and Jerry Bui for this upcoming International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) webinar!
🖥️ Tabletop Exercise on CoPilot
📅 October 15th | 11:00am ET
👉 https://lnkd.in/gpzw9v8C
I will also be doing a session on eDiscovery Preservation and Collection at the Oxygen Forensics Legacy and Logic User Conference on October 21.
If you’re attending either, let me know!