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New Outlook migration turns opt-out for SMBs in January 2025, monthly billing on annual terms gets a 5% markup, Viva Goals gets a retirement date, and Teams ships ten quality-of-life features.
Ignite 2024 set the Teams roadmap for 2025: speech-to-speech interpretation in nine languages, email-verified external attendees, bot-blocking CAPTCHA, and a merged chat and channels experience.
Ignite 2024 buried real news under Copilot branding. The 20 announcements that matter, grouped: agents, Copilot+ PCs, Windows 365, Windows resiliency and security, Edge, and Lighthouse.
Copilot agents reach general availability, Teams adds impersonation warnings for external chat, a new calendar lands in January, and Office 2016/2019 get one year of support left.
Copilot Wave 2 ships Pages, Python in Excel, and SharePoint agents; Microsoft starts enforcing MFA for admin portals on October 15, 2024; Teams and Intune stack up quality-of-life updates.
Copilot Studio agents and Team Copilot headline May 2024, alongside mandatory MFA for Azure, external authentication methods in Entra, macOS Platform SSO, and a twelve-feature Teams batch.
A December 2022 proof of concept: a custom Microsoft Teams app that answers user questions with the OpenAI completions API and reads and creates PSA tickets. Architecture, token math, and lessons.
