In September 2025, Microsoft announced that they would stop accepting new customers for Dev Box from 1 November 2025 and would instead bring developer capabilities to Windows 365.
At Build in early June 2026 they announced the public preview of a Windows 11 developer configuration image for Windows 365.
Find the announcement here: https://bit.ly/4esjVD3.
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Microsoft announce the general availability of Copilot Cowork.
Rather than just another standalone Agent, Copilot Cowork is an “agentic system” that lets you execute complex, long-running tasks in the background, powered by Work IQ. Unlike a standard Copilot prompt, you can hand off multi-step workflows and watch the results unfold. For example, it can pull marketing reports from a SharePoint folder, review and compare data, or build complete PowerPoint decks. In terms of licensing, you’ll need a Microsoft 365 Copilot licence and consumption-based billing configured.
This uses the familiar currency of Copilot Credits, consuming varied amounts based on the task complexity. To assist with understanding potential costs, Microsoft encourage you to categorise likely tasks as Light, Medium, or Heavy, and provide a useful Customer Cowork Estimator spreadsheet. Here you can supply the numbers of users and amount of Light/Medium/Heavy tasks to generate an estimated average price per user per month. Find that spreadsheet here: https://bit.ly/4uLQQIF.
For further resources, check out the announcement here: https://bit.ly/4oSBp0l, some examples of what Cowork can do here: https://bit.ly/43LK8rf, and a Partner Launch Kit here: https://bit.ly/4xBcT7w.
Microsoft have announced pricing adjustments for certain Microsoft 365 and Office 365 SKUs across European Economic Area (EEA) currencies from 1 July 2026.
This minor price update is required for EU settlement compliance and affects CSP, MCA-E, and Web Direct customers purchasing in EUR, DKK, NOK, SEK, and CHF. You might see small tweaks to the prices of the Frontline, Business, and Enterprise licenses (including the flavours both with and without Teams). This adjustment is completely separate from the wider July 2026 Microsoft 365 and Office 365 price changes also taking effect in July, which you can read about in our blog post here: https://bit.ly/4eNcnL7.
Check out the announcement here: https://bit.ly/4uYZG5Z.
We help subscribers track all price changes with our Exchange Rate Price Plotter: https://bit.ly/ExchangeRatePlotter. Use our Product Price Plotter to jog your memory on the July product price changes: https://bit.ly/ProductPricePlotter.
If FinOps is your thing, you might find this “Azure Savings Plan Inspector” article useful.
It’s a set of instructions for pulling data out of the Cost Management REST API to give you more insight on the right figure to choose for an Azure Savings Plan hourly commitment.
The article is here: https://bit.ly/4uFSkUY, with a worked example.
Microsoft announce Microsoft Scout, the first in a brand-new category of always-on autonomous Agents known as Autopilots.
Rather than solely relying on user prompts, this installable desktop AI application leverages Work IQ to learn your work habits and preferences over time. It works independently in the background, interacting with your Microsoft 365 data to do things like proactively flagging important meetings, or keeping an eye on your inbox and Teams for any outstanding decisions that are waiting on you.
Whilst an always-on Agent might sound like a privacy risk, Microsoft emphasise the security and compliance controls available. Scout has its own Entra identity, ensuring that any actions it takes remain within your organisational permissions. It can only view sensitive files or perform actions that you’ve explicitly approved, and its activities are fully auditable.
Licensing wise, you’ll need to be licensed for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Intune, as well as GitHub Copilot Business or Enterprise for additional token-based billing based on usage. Installation also requires specific system prerequisites and enrollment in the Frontier Preview Program, which is Microsoft’s early-access platform for experimental software.
Find the announcement here: https://bit.ly/43Biayu and check out the Learn documentation for installation details: https://bit.ly/4xw3zBQ.
The Modern Work Plan Comparison documents are updated for June 2026.
Both the Enterprise and SMB flavours feature a handful of small adjustments this month. The change logs point out the addition of the Entra Suite, which reinforces its inclusion in Microsoft 365 E7. However, since it was already in the comparison matrix, this introduces duplication and some conflicting guidance on what you can add it to. The Government documents are untouched for June, and there’s no new release of the Education flavour.
Don’t forget that we help you navigate the (increasingly frequent) errors in these documents every month with our Cautionary Notes. You’ll find these using the one-click “Microsoft 365” filter in our subscriber-exclusive Licensing Guides Gallery, along with quick access to the documents and full change details: https://bit.ly/GuidesGallery. Non-subscribers can find the documents here: https://bit.ly/4hn2hS2. If you’re a partner and prefer the Excel version, contact us from your work email address and we’ll send it right over: info@licensingschool.co.uk.
Microsoft begin an early rollout of some of the July Microsoft 365 changes.
The updates, initially announced last December, include enhanced Copilot Chat features, increased Exchange Online storage, and new Intune capabilities for specific licences. Additionally, Office 365 E3 and Microsoft 365 E3 licenses will newly incorporate Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Plan 1 capabilities, and this rollout has started ahead of schedule.
You can find more details in the original announcement here: https://bit.ly/4qExvb8, and the early-rollout update here: https://bit.ly/43HZCfS.
Microsoft have updated the Power Platform licensing resources for June 2026.
The Licensing Guide contains new information outlining Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies and how they protect sensitive company information. Towards the end of the guide the Terminology appendix delivers a wave of handy new Agent-related definitions. A few small wording tweaks round off this month’s changes to the guide, which pairs with an almost-untouched Licensing Deck.
The one-click “Power Platform” filter in our Licensing Guides Gallery gives subscribers quick access to every version of the licensing resources: https://bit.ly/GuidesGallery. You’ll also find details of all the changes to be aware (and wary) of with our “What’s New” and “Cautionary Notes” features. Grab your copy of the Licensing Guide here: https://bit.ly/3RYj997 and the Licensing Deck here: https://bit.ly/3RHggJS.
Microsoft announce the public preview of GitHub Enterprise Local to enable organisations to deploy GitHub Enterprise Server entirely within a customer’s infrastructure using Azure Local.
Find the announcement here: https://bit.ly/4xyesTL.