What is new in Microsoft 365 Copilot for May 2025

Welcome to the May 2025 edition of What's new in Microsoft 365 Copilot! Every month, we highlight new features and enhancements to keep Microsoft 365 admins up to date with Copilot features that help your users be more productive and efficient in the apps they use every day.

This month we are excited to share that the Copilot Wave 2 spring release—including an updated Microsoft 365 Copilot app, the new Create experience, and Copilot Notebooks—has moved to general availability and begins rolling out today. And Researcher and Analyst, our first-of-their-kind reasoning agents for work, are rolling out this month to customers worldwide via the Frontier program.

Now let’s take a closer look at what’s new this month:

Copilot Control System:​

• Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention in Microsoft 365 Copilot
• A unified experience and new reports for Copilot Analytics
• SafeLinks integration in Copilot Chat
• Agent management: Built for AI admins, designed for Scale
• Enhancements to billing and usage: Flexible, transparent, accountable
• Message consumption report: Measure consumption, Manage costs
• More Copilot Control System news

User capabilities:​

• Copilot pages inside OneNote
• Search summarization with Copilot in Edge
• File sharing summaries with Copilot in SharePoint
• Citations, voice and summaries with Copilot in Word
• Streamlined creation of presentations with Copilot in PowerPoint
• Expanded functionality of Copilot Chat