Tag Archives: Microsoft 365 Apps

Microsoft 365 – Unattended License Overview Licensing Guide

There’s an updated (May 2025) Microsoft 365 – Unattended License Overview Licensing Guidance. If you haven’t come across this document before, it’s got some useful information on how you license a bot to run repetitive tasks in a Windows client or Microsoft 365 App without user intervention. The updates are slightly odd – references to Windows 11 are removed in favour of Windows 10, and it’s not yet updated for the “new” Power Automate licences introduced in August 2023. We’ve got a new section in LicenseVerse – Licensing Guides Cautionary Notes – to keep you informed of errors like this in current Microsoft Licensing Guides.

Help yourself to this May 2025 document here: https://bit.ly/4nDXHBb.

Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and the Microsoft 365 Apps

The various Copilot offerings have somewhat evolved over time! We have seen Microsoft Copilot become Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, and there are new features being added all the time. Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat is a collection of AI features, the newest of which is chat functionality within the Microsoft 365 Apps. This means that if you have a valid Microsoft 365 or Office 365 licence, you’ll now find a snazzy sidebar in your apps which is aware of the context of the document you have open, and will provide natural language assistance based on what it sees. No need for a separate Microsoft 365 Copilot licence!

There is more information on the announcement here: https://bit.ly/3DZCgca, along with eligibility criteria here: http://bit.ly/4oycQEb.

New Microsoft 365 Copilot offerings for education

It’s been two years since the release of Microsoft 365 Copilot, and now Microsoft reveal for the first time that there will be a discounted variant for education. Just like the corporate offering, it will include natural language chat, integration with the Microsoft 365 Apps, reasoning across work data, and access to custom and pre-built Agents grounded in your chosen data and files. It will be released in December, 2025 at $18 per user per month, compared to the corporate pricing of $30 per user per month.

The announcement also reveals two other offerings: “Teach” and “Study and Learn”. Teach is (perhaps unsurprisingly) aimed at teachers, giving them an Agent to create lesson plans and help draft teaching resources. Study and Learn is targeted at students, allowing them to tailor and customise learning exercises and activities. These Agents will both be incorporated into the current education offering in the coming weeks at no extra cost.

Find out more here: http://bit.ly/42NPHFy.

Microsoft 365 Apps and Windows 10 End of Support

Windows 10 finally reached its end of support on October 14, 2025. Originally the impact of this deadline meant that running the Microsoft 365 Apps on it would not be supported. This would have affected the two types of updates available for the Microsoft 365 Apps: feature updates for functionality and performance improvements, and the separate security updates for critical patches and bug fixes. Microsoft have since announced an extension on both, with feature updates continuing up to January 12, 2027 (depending on your chosen update channel), and security updates continuing until October 10, 2028.

You can find full details here: http://bit.ly/4qaDXqK.

Microsoft 365 Apps licensing guidance

There’s a new (January 2025) Microsoft 365 Apps licensing guidance document. It’s pretty comprehensive, covering all sorts of licensing bits and bobs to do with the Microsoft 365 Apps, and includes an FAQ at the end.

Find this document here: https://bit.ly/4hB2osg.

Copilot and Microsoft 365 Personal and Family

Microsoft announce that Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscribers can now use Copilot in the Microsoft 365 Apps. It’s not unlimited usage – there are 60 AI Credits available each month where asking Copilot to summarise your Word document would consume 1 credit, for example.

In addition, for a Microsoft 365 Family subscriber, it’s only the subscription owner that gets this Copilot usage.

There’s also a price increase for these consumer subscriptions at $3 per user per month but, as you’d expect, subscribers don’t see any price increases until their subscriptions renew and, at that time, they could choose to renew into new Classic plans which keep the existing price and don’t include Copilot or AI Credits.

Find the announcement with a host of useful links here: https://bit.ly/4apmCmu. Alternatively, if you’re a Licensing School subscriber join our Did You See..? training session on Wednesday 22nd January, 2025 and let us teach you all about it: https://bit.ly/3Wy2CbZ.