“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...

One more personalization feature for OneDrive on the way

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One of the new features in OneDrive/SharePoint is the capability to set specific colours to the folders. Not only a way to personalize the look and feel, but possibly a way to visually organize content? All part of a bigger "personalization" journey for OneDrive: Experience the New OneDrive 

This in addition to previously mentioned "find file by contact" or "find by meeting". Features I already have in my OneDrive, and already using quite actively.

The feature should be rolling out by the time this post is published, but it can take some time to land in all tenants. (PS: To set color on an old folder, rename it)