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Microsoft has made more than 20 purpose-built legal skills generally available in Copilot, alongside plugins for research, document and matter management, signatures, specialist legal AI and e-discovery. Word preserves tracked changes and formatting, while approved SharePoint precedents, enterprise protections and explicit user approval keep lawyers responsible for final language.
Microsoft is introducing deterministic trust-aware processing in Microsoft 365 Copilot to reduce indirect prompt-injection risk. Content marked untrusted can be quarantined, transformed through a constrained path and passed to the primary model with provenance, preventing raw embedded instructions from sharing the same authority as trusted prompts.
Microsoft’s September Copilot Studio update adds public-preview app creation alongside workflows and agents. Makers can generate interfaces from natural-language requirements, retain code access and deploy through a managed runtime with identity, governed data, lifecycle controls, Git-backed versioning and central visibility across Microsoft’s connected agent-building surfaces.
Microsoft is extending Dynamics 365 into Copilot and Teams with 30 CRM skills, a public-preview shared customer view and new autonomous sales and service agents. The approach keeps CRM as the trusted system of record while bringing context, actions, approvals and governed automation into employees’ existing collaboration tools.
Microsoft has embedded conversational chat into Microsoft 365 Copilot Search for Windows and the web. The October release lets search results become grounded context for follow-up questions, synthesis and content creation, reducing the need to move between separate discovery and chat experiences when working with organisational knowledge.
Microsoft says Copilot in SharePoint has reached general availability, with worldwide tenant rollout beginning 30 September. Everyday content questions, organisation and reusable skills remain within the Microsoft 365 Copilot licence; advanced collection-wide and creative tasks use Copilot Credits. SharePoint tools will also feed the broader Copilot app and Work IQ, with separate preview timelines.
Microsoft has announced a redesigned Copilot with Home for chat and delegated work, Code for building small applications, and Autopilot as a persistent agent. Home and Code begin Frontier rollout over coming weeks, while Autopilot expands to private preview at month-end. The launch also adds a managed app runtime and plugin catalogue, with availability differing by feature.
Microsoft has set out a two-part Copilot pricing model: per-user subscriptions for everyday Chat and Office assistance, and usage-based Copilot Credits for advanced work such as Cowork, Code and Autopilot. Enterprise metered services remain off until an administrator creates a spending policy. Budgets, caps and reporting are expanding, but teams should model their own workload costs.
Microsoft has announced Microsoft 365 G7 for US Government Community Cloud customers, combining Copilot, agents, identity and governance. G7 and Agent 365 are scheduled for purchase from 1 October, with capabilities expanding in phases as authorisations complete. This is a US government offer, not a general or Australian availability announcement.
Microsoft and Mistral have expanded their partnership through a multibillion-dollar commitment to European AI infrastructure. The agreement also brings Mistral Medium 3.5 and OCR 4 into Microsoft products, with deployment options spanning public cloud, Azure Local and disconnected environments.