“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...

Copilot for the enterprise to interpret images

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Here is a feature that has been available in the consumer version for a while already, but now it's coming to the enterprise version of Microsoft Copilot. Starting in late December, users with an Entra account and access to public preview were given the opportunity to upload images in both Work and Web scenarios and ask questions about the image. Users can also take pictures with their mobile cameras or upload images directly from their devices.

With these enhancements, Microsoft 365 Copilot will now understand non-animated images and support major image types. Copilot will interpret the images to the best of its ability, though the quality and content of the image may affect responses. This feature will be available to all endpoints without requiring tenant-level configuration. Existing controls to limit Copilot's availability will still be honored.

Hopefully, this should be in general release by the end of March.