Across Microsoft 365 and the Power Platform is defined by a major shift toward agentic AI, deeper Copilot integration, and broad modernization of core experiences. SharePoint Online introduces new AI-driven “SharePoint Skills,” Teams expands event and recap capabilities, Power Apps and Power Automate gain modern UI and self‑healing automation, Power BI aligns more tightly with Fabric, and Copilot Chat / Copilot Studio continue merging into a unified agent-building ecosystem. Governance, security, and multi‑model AI support (OpenAI + Anthropic) are now central themes across Microsoft 365.
🔹 SharePoint Online
- SharePoint Skills enters public preview, enabling AI-driven content generation and automation directly within SharePoint.
- New SharePoint UI becomes generally available, modernizing navigation and site design across Microsoft 365.
- Viva Connections & Viva Amplify fold back under the SharePoint brand for unified content governance.
🔹 Power Automate
- AI agents introduce self‑healing desktop flows that adapt automatically when systems change.
- Copilot Studio-powered actions allow cloud flows to call agents and desktop flows directly.
- Object-centric process mining and a new Process Intelligence Studio expand enterprise analytics.
- Governance upgrades include consolidated licensing and usage reporting.
🔹 Power Apps
- Modernized default UI rolls out across model-driven apps with refreshed navigation and headers.
- Improved offline & mobile capabilities with real-time Dataverse access and advanced offline profiles.
- Smarter search in grids and lookups for large datasets.
- Generative Pages expand globally, enabling AI-built app screens.
🔹 Power BI
- Tightens alignment with Microsoft Fabric, especially through process intelligence and Dataverse integration (inferred from Power Platform wave).
🔹 Teams
- Meet app becomes Events, centralizing webinars, town halls, and custom events.
- Teams Recap app consolidates recordings, transcripts, and AI summaries.
- Channel agent workflows allow triggering DevOps, GitHub, Jira, and Asana automations from chat.
- Meeting AI toggle lets organizers enable/disable Copilot mid-meeting.
🔹 Power Pages
- Adds Security Agent for proactive threat detection (phishing, DDoS).
- Deeper integration with AI tools for intelligent business portals.
🔹 Copilot Chat
- Unified web content setting centralizes control of web search across Copilot experiences.
- Notebook enhancements group chats, generated content, and references into project workspaces.
🔹 Copilot Studio
- Deeper integration with Microsoft 365 Copilot, Work IQ, and Microsoft Foundry for enterprise-grade agent development.
- Supports multi-model AI (Claude + OpenAI) for higher-quality agent reasoning.
🔹 Microsoft 365 / Office 365
- Over 90% of Fortune 500 now deployed on Copilot (major adoption milestone).
- OneDrive gains SharePoint document library views directly in the web experience.
- Outlook Copilot integrates directly into the compose window for real-time drafting.
🔹 Power Platform (Overall)
- 2026 Wave 1 focuses on agentic AI, governance, and modernization across Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, Dataverse, and Copilot Studio.
- Work IQ + Dataverse bring organization-specific decisioning into M365 Copilot.
