Microsoft’s biggest story today is the official unveiling of its unified Copilot “super app” on September 25, merging consumer and enterprise Copilot into one experience with Home (Chat + Cowork), Code, and Autopilot (formerly Scout), as it cedes the personal chatbot race to focus on corporate customers. Simultaneously, Microsoft is ending its historic twice-yearly Dynamics 365 and Power Platform Release Wave model, moving all roadmaps to an always-on AI at Work roadmap starting September 2026, retiring M365 Companion Apps and shifting the M365 domain to copilot.cloud.microsoft, while pushing platform consolidation across SharePoint, Azure, Dev Tools, and Windows gaming.
Top News – September 25, 2026:
- SharePoint Online: Two-phase retirement of SharePoint Alerts confirmed – new alert creation blocked, migration recommended to Power Automate for item created/changed scenarios. SharePoint 2013 workflows support ended July 14, 2026.
- Power Automate: Recommended replacement for Alerts and workflows; September 2026 update adds flow groups to cut licensing waste.
- Power Apps: September 2026 Feature Update highlights AI-assisted canvas app development and natural-language model-driven app creation.
- Power BI: Part of Power Platform September update refresh with Dataverse for Teams training and faster inner loops.
- Teams: Power Apps and Copilot Studio capabilities natively expanding inside Teams; Project Online retires Sept 30.
- Power Pages: Gains AI-assisted security updates in September 2026 release.
- Copilot Chat: Renamed from Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat to Microsoft Copilot Chat; merged into single Copilot app experience. Unified app unveiled Sept 25.
- Copilot Studio: Credits model re-confirmed Sept 24 – $200/month per 25k credit pack, pay-as-you-go via Azure. Scout agentic capability rebranded to Autopilot.
- Microsoft 365 / Office 365: Domain change from m365.cloud.microsoft to copilot.cloud.microsoft announced Sept 9. Companion Apps retirement notice MC1474111 issued Sept 18. Publisher 365 hard kill-switch set for Oct 1, 2026 blocking.pub files.
- Power Platform: Release Waves ending, replaced by AI at Work roadmap starting Sept 2026. Directions EMEA / Enterprise 2026 running Sept 23-26 focusing on Agentic ERP.
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 (CRM & ERP): Sales agent record creation reaches GA in Sept 2026; Customer Insights Journeys adds Journey Creation and Outreach Optimization Agents; Dynamics 365 AI Hub for governance. No traditional 2026 Release Wave 2 plan to be published.
- Visual Studio: September Update rolled out with GitHub Copilot CPU/memory agent diagnostics. Visual Studio 2026 surfaces built-in Copilot for Azure tools.
- Microsoft Windows: Windows 11 SE end-of-line at 24H2, full support ends Oct 13, 2026. Xbox Mode (Full Screen Experience) expanding to all Windows 11 PCs including desktops/laptops/tablets from April 2026.
- Microsoft Azure Portal: Unified Azure SQL experience launched in portal; new Copilot HydraFusion research preview for model routing and cost/latency balancing; Azure Cosmos DB connector for Logic Apps GA.
- SQL Server: SSMS modernized on latest Visual Studio base, adds dark mode, Arm64, Fabric support, and GitHub Copilot in SSMS Preview via AI Assistance workload.
- GitHub: Billing shifts to consumption after Sept 1, 2026 – Business/Enterprise promotional credits end, agentic runs can spike costs.
- Games: 46 Xbox games arriving Sept 21-25 including CONTROL Resonant and EA SPORTS FC 27; Game Pass adds Dune: Awakening and Well Dweller.
- GitHub Copilot: In SSMS, in VS Code MSSQL extension, and billing/policy changes Sept 28 around Lite vs Balanced code review.
- Xbox: Xbox Mode rolling to all Windows 11 PCs next month, boot-direct to Xbox Mode supported. Next-gen Xbox console teased to support both PC and Xbox titles.
- Surface: Surface Pro 12-inch and Surface Laptop 13-inch launched Sept 24 with Snapdragon X2 Plus CPU.
