“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...

Large gallery view is coming to public preview

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The much anticipated "classroom" experience with 7*7 video streams is coming in public preview soon. There might be a few things you need to train your users on:
  • It is not turned on by default for meetings
  • Users may turn it on/off at any time during a meeting
  • It requires at least 10 active video streams to be available
The large gallery view will be available behind the three dots on the control bar (...) for the active meeting. This is all according to a message in the message center recently, and in the road-map ID 65333. According to the road-map, the release of the feature has been moved to August.