“Bring your AI to work” is here: Microsoft edition - What Multiple Account Access to Copilot means

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Multiple Account Access to Copilot On October 1. 2025 Microsoft released a blog post explaining how employees now can use Copilot from their personal 365 plans to work on organizational data. This is of course, an extension of the already existing "Multi account" feature that was released for corporate accounts a "couple of months" ago. In other words, “bring your own Copilot” is now a real thing in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote on desktop and mobile, with enterprise protections intact. “Bring your AI to work” is an important topic, and banning AI altogether might not be the answer. Whether sanctioned or shadow, AI has already entered everyday knowledge work. Microsoft’s new multi‑account access offers a safer path where employees can use Copilot from their personal Microsoft 365 subscriptions on work files, while the file’s access, auditing, and compliance still flow through the work identity and tenant. That’s better than users copy‑pasting sensit...

Pinned apps coming to the Teams Mobile client

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Soon you will be able to get to your pinned personal apps even from the mobile client. This makes the client even richer, and is in my opinion, a great step in the right direction for  the "mobile only" end-users. 

This new feature affects your company's LOB applications, 3rd party applications and even private applications the end-user creates themselves. It doesn't look like the client supports adding new apps from the store, but as an admin this is controlled through policies

The roll-out of this feature started at the end of May, and should soon be available to tenants according to a post in the Admin message message center.