Microsoft’s May 2026 updates emphasize AI‑driven productivity, Copilot‑integrated workflows, governance and security enhancements, and major improvements across Power Platform. Key themes include:

• Copilot everywhere — deeper integration across Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Microsoft 365.
• AI‑enhanced automation — new agentic capabilities, self‑healing flows, and richer app‑based conversational tools.
• Modernized app experiences — refreshed UI, improved mobile/offline performance, and expanded generative features.
• Advanced analytics — Power BI introduces visual calculations, custom totals, and new Copilot summary capabilities.
• Strengthened governance — improved reporting, Dataverse Git integration, and scalable architecture patterns.

🟦 Power Apps

• User‑Defined Types (UDTs) are now generally available, enabling strong typing, complex data structures, and improved JSON parsing.
• Custom Copilot tools & rich UI for app‑based conversations enter public preview, allowing makers to embed business logic and interactive UI widgets directly into Copilot experiences.
• Modernized model‑driven UI, improved offline capabilities, and expanded generative page features highlighted in the 2026 Release Wave 1.

🟦 Power Automate

• AI agent authoring and self‑healing desktop flows introduced in the 2026 Release Wave 1.
• Copilot Studio‑powered actions now integrate directly into cloud flows for more intelligent automation.
• Object‑centric process mining reaches general availability.
• New reference architectures published for SLA governance, Dataverse Git integration, and scalable deployments.

🟦 Power Pages

• Enhanced AI‑assisted portal building and security agent features to support both low‑code makers and pro developers.
• New architecture guidance for file uploads to SharePoint with metadata and cross‑environment data sync.

🟦 Power BI

• Visual calculations & custom totals reach general availability, enabling running sums, moving averages, and more directly in visuals.
• Copilot summary shortcuts added to the ribbon and visual headers for instant report‑wide or visual‑level insights.
• New Get Data experience in preview and multiple reporting enhancements (landing pages, subscriptions in org apps, fixed column widths).
• Copilot narrative visual now embeddable in customer applications.

🟦 Copilot Studio

• Continued expansion of agentic workflows, making it easier to build powerful AI agents.
• New solution ideas and architectures for anomaly detection, customer support agents, onboarding agents, and more.
• Updated guidance for embedding Copilot Studio agents into model‑driven apps.

🟦 Copilot Chat (Microsoft 365 Copilot)

• Deeper integration with model‑driven apps and custom MCP‑powered tools, enabling contextual, action‑driven workflows inside Copilot.
• Expanded role‑based Copilot offerings included in the 2026 Release Wave 1.

🟦 Microsoft 365 / Office 365

• May 2026 roadmap updates highlight major changes across SharePoint, OneDrive, Outlook, Teams, Exchange, and Purview.
• Focus areas include:
  • Security hardening across Microsoft 365 services
  • Copilot‑driven productivity enhancements
  • Admin‑focused governance improvements
• SharePoint‑specific updates were referenced in roadmap summaries but not detailed in the retrieved sources.

🟦 SharePoint Online

• No new SharePoint‑specific feature posts were published in the retrieved May 2026 sources.
• SharePoint appears primarily in integration scenarios (e.g., Power Pages file uploads with metadata).
• Broader SharePoint roadmap updates are included in the Microsoft 365 May 2026 roadmap.