By Tom Warren
Publication Date: 2025-11-18 16:00:00
Microsoft is adding even more AI features to Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. While the software maker has been adding plenty of features to its paid Microsoft 365 Copilot over the past year, a range of free additions are coming to its Office apps in early 2026 that don’t require the $30 per month, per the user Microsoft 365 Copilot license.
Microsoft first introduced the free version of Copilot Chat into Microsoft 365 apps in September, and it’s now improving how this chatbot works in Outlook. Copilot Chat will soon be able to view content across an entire Outlook inbox, including calendar entries and meetings. This will allow you to use Copilot to triage an inbox or schedule and prepare for meetings, all without a paid Microsoft 365 Copilot license. It goes far beyond the existing integration that’s limited to just individual email threads.
Agent Mode, which originally launched to paid Microsoft 365 Copilot subscribers in September, is also coming to Word, Excel, and…
