Each month Microsoft roll out updates across their products including Teams, Outlook, Word and so on. You could spend time looking through all the updates on the Microsoft roadmap. But to make it easier for you, we put together our top features to look out for each month.
April 2025
Microsoft Teams | Post and Reply to Meeting Questions as an Organiser
Town hall, webinar, and meeting organisers will be able to post and reply to questions using the title ‘organiser’ in the Q&A, instead of their individual names. “This allows organisers to present a unified and official voice when responding to attendee questions.”
Microsoft Teams | Real-Time Mic Volume Indicator for Meetings
A new Mic Volume Indicator for Teams meetings will provide real-time visual feedback on your audio levels. Positioned on the user bar, this indicator ensures your voice is captured correctly, eliminating the need to ask, “Can you hear me?”.
Outlook | Sync Folder Order
The order of folders in Outlook mobile will sync to match the folder order on other Outlook apps.
Copilot for Microsoft 365 in PowerPoint | Presentation Summary
When you open a PowerPoint presentation, Copilot will automatically create a summary, making it easy to understand the content quickly.
March 2025
Microsoft Teams | Edit Meeting Display Name
When in a Teams meeting, you will be able to change your display name, regardless of your tenant set display name. You will be able to make this change during the meeting and it will remain throughout the duration of the meeting.
Microsoft Clipchamp | Transcript-Based Editing
Clipchamp are introducing a new method to quickly and accurately remove any unwanted sections from your projects using the transcript. With transcript-based editing, browsing text, selecting unwanted words, and removing them will remove them from the video without the need to navigate the timeline.
Microsoft Clipchamp | Share Video Sections as Clips
Clipchamp will soon allow authors and viewers to share a portion of a video without changing the original media. Using draggable handles on the playback timeline, a link containing the desired clip start and end is put on the clipboard for easy sharing. Opening this link will play only the specified clip, and viewers can easily pop out to view the full video if desired.
Copilot for Microsoft 365 | Audio Summary of Your File
Copilot will be able to generate audio summaries of your file, making information easy to consume anywhere.
Copilot for Microsoft 365 in PowerPoint | Ask Copilot to Rewrite Text as a List
PowerPoint is introducing Copilot text editing, allowing you to convert paragraphs into bullet points or lists effortlessly.
February 2025
Microsoft Teams | Short Meeting URL
Meeting URL’s are being shortened to remove unnecessary symbols/information to make it more convenient for sharing.
Microsoft Teams | Meeting Recap Link
Meeting participants will be able to share a link to the meeting recap from the meeting thumbnail in chat and the recap tab, making it easier to reference and share the meeting recap insights with others.
Viva Engage | Schedule Polls
You will soon be able to schedule a poll for publication in Viva Engage. You will also be able to edit a poll prior to publication, though once published, a poll is not editable.
Copilot/Clipchamp
Clipchamp is bringing video creation skills to Visual Creator in Copilot. Type your prompt and Clipchamp will write a bespoke script, source high quality stock footage, and assemble a video project with music, voiceover, text overlays and transitions. Open your video project draft in the Clipchamp app to continue editing, export and share.
January 2025
Microsoft Teams | In Meeting Pop-Out
When you are in a meeting or call, you will be able to pop out, drag, and resize your meeting panes from the meeting window. This includes the Chat, Copilot, and Notes side panes.
Microsoft Teams | Schedule Messages in Channels
Like in chat, you can soon schedule send messages in channels.
Microsoft Teams | Forward Messages to and from Channels
You will be able to forward messages between channels, allowing you to efficiently share important information with relevant team members.
Copilot for Microsoft 365 | Prompt Gallery
Share custom prompts with members of a Microsoft Teams team, allowing team members to easily discover and use these prompts with the new Copilot Prompt Gallery.
December 2024
Viva Engage (Prev. Yammer) | Verified Answers
Certain users, such as experts and admins, will be able to mark answers to questions as verified answers. Questions with verified answers will get a verified label and badge at the top of the question and on the verified answer. The goal of verified answers is to help enhance the trust and utility of knowledge in Viva Engage.
Forms/Teams | Forms Replaced by Polls in Meetings
The new Polls app will soon replace the Forms app in Teams meetings. This will provide more options for polls within meetings. The Forms app will continue to support surveys only.
Microsoft Teams | Take Control During Screensharing on Web
This update enables meeting participants using the Microsoft Teams web app to use the “Take control” function to request control while another person is screen-sharing.
Microsoft Teams Premium/Copilot | Intelligent Recap for Ad-hoc Meetings
Intelligent recap will be available for ad-hoc meetings and calls, for example, those started from ‘Meet now’ or chat. Teams Premium and Copilot for Microsoft 365 licensed users will be able to browse the recording by speakers and topics, as well as access AI-generated notes, AI-generated tasks, and name mentions after the ad-hoc meeting ends.
November 2024
Microsoft Teams | Name Pronunciation
You will be able to record and share the correct pronunciation of your name, promoting inclusivity and helping colleagues avoid mispronunciations. With a click, you can play and listen to your colleagues’ name pronunciations.
Outlook | Sort By Flagged
Support is being added to allow you to sort by flag status, flag due date and flag start date.
Microsoft Teams | Brand Impersonation Protection
Teams will get support to identify if an external user is impersonating a brand commonly targeted by phishing attacks, during their initial contact with an enterprise user via Teams messages.
Copilot for Microsoft 365 | Schedule Prompts
You’ll be able to plan ahead by scheduling essential prompts for repeated tasks in Copilot chat. Create a productive routine that helps you stay organised and efficient.
October 2024
Microsoft Teams | All Teams and Channels View
A new ‘your teams and channels’ view provides you with a centralised hub where you can see all your teams and navigate to their channels from one page. This interface streamlines your workflows, enabling you to quickly access and manage your teams and channels.
Microsoft Teams | Skin Tone Settings for Reactions
In Teams settings, you will have the option to select your preferred skin tone. This preference will be applied to all emojis and reactions in chats, channels, and meetings.
Outlook: Work Hours and Location in My Day
Work Hours and Location information will now be available in My Day pane in Outlook when using agenda view. You will be able to update your Work Hours and Location information from My Day and also see who is coming to Office. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and web.
September 2024
Microsoft Teams | Q&A App Updates
Take your meeting Q&A to the next level with this new update that lets attendees vote on the questions they want presenters to answer. Organisers will be able to sort questions by most voted, as well as filtering and archiving questions to keep the discussion focused in meetings and events.
OneDrive | Improved Search
OneDrive for web is getting a new and improved search functionality. With this update, you’ll see new filters for different file types, ensuring you can pinpoint exactly what you’re looking for. With the date filter, you’ll be able to narrow down your search results to find files created or modified within a specific timeframe.
Microsoft Edge | Auto-discarding Sleeping Tabs
Tabs that have been sleeping for a long time will be discarded to save memory. When you navigate back to a discarded tab, the tab will need to be reloaded.
Copilot for Microsoft 365 | Image Generation in Copilot Chat
You’ll be able to create images using natural language to visualise concepts and ideas within Copilot Chat in Microsoft Teams.
August 2024
Microsoft Teams | Rename General Channel
You will soon (finally🙏) be able to rename the general channel in your teams. The general channel will be able to be renamed by the team owner, or member (if they have permissions), and will show up in the teams and channels list in alphabetical order.
Microsoft Teams | Export Q&A Questions
Event organisers will be able to export questions that attendees asked in a meeting or event as a .CSV file.
Microsoft Edge | Highlighting in Workspaces
Workspaces is getting enhanced collaboration with synchronized highlighting.
July 2024
Microsoft Clipchamp | Brand Kit
Brand kit enables anyone to create and share brand asset collections including colours, fonts, and logos to easily apply while creating. This release adds support for images, backgrounds, stickers, video, and audio asset types. Your official assets can now be rolled out tenant-wide via SharePoint Organization Asset Libraries (OAL).
Bonus: Clipchamp are also releasing an image background removal feature this month.
Microsoft Teams | Files Tab Renamed
The Files tab in chats will be renamed to ‘Shared’. The shared tab shows all the files and links that were sent in the chat. Channels are not affected by this change.
New Outlook | New RSVP Settings
New Outlook and Outlook on the web are getting two new RSVP options to respond to meeting invites: (1) do not delete invitation email after RSVPing and (2) auto-decline if the attendee’s calendar shows as busy.
And for those with a Copilot Licence:
Automatic Summary of Word Documents
When you open a document, Copilot will generate a summary in the Word window. You can hide the summary or open the Copilot chat pane to ask specific questions about the document.
June 2024
Microsoft Teams | Custom Emojis and Reactions
You will be able to upload your own custom emojis and reactions to personalise your communications within Teams. Emojis will be available within your tenant in chat and channels via the emoji and reaction menus.
Microsoft Edge | AI Theme Generator
Edge is getting an AI theme generator that lets you input a text prompt to generate images to use as browser themes. Applying the theme includes setting the generated image as the ‘new tab’ page, and applying the image’s dominant colour to the browser frame.
Viva Engage | Domain/URL Update
Following on from the transition of Yammer to Viva Engage, Microsoft are due to update the domain/URL this month.
May 2024
Microsoft Clipchamp | Silence Removal
Silence removal uses AI auto transcription to transcribe your audio. It then finds pauses in your speech transcription and any gaps detected longer than 3 seconds is considered a pause. You’ll have the option to remove all pauses at once or to review each pause.
Bonus Clipchamp feature: the Clipchamp desktop app will soon support work accounts!
Microsoft Edge | Auto-discarding Sleeping Tabs
Tabs that have been sleeping for a long time will be discarded to save memory. When you reopen a discarded tab, the tab will need to be reloaded.
OneDrive | Annotate PDFs with Text
This feature allows you to annotate and save PDF files with text boxes if the files are stored in OneDrive and SharePoint. You can access the annotation feature by opening the PDF in file viewer and selecting “edit”.
