1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:11,031 This is your weekly brief on what Microsoft changed in Copilot — the week of 12 October to 18 October, read for the people who run Copilot inside an organisation. 2 00:00:11,031 --> 00:00:16,604 Every date here was read on a Microsoft page, and every claim names the page it came from. 3 00:00:16,604 --> 00:00:21,929 Two changes matter this week: how Copilot is bought, and a new edition for legal work. 4 00:00:21,929 --> 00:00:23,105 Here is what moved. 5 00:00:24,845 --> 00:00:27,890 The headline change is how Copilot is purchased. 6 00:00:27,890 --> 00:00:36,646 From the first of December, Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Business can be bought without a qualifying Microsoft 365 base subscription. 7 00:00:36,646 --> 00:00:40,136 Until now, each Copilot seat sat on top of a base plan. 8 00:00:40,136 --> 00:00:49,272 That requirement is going away for new offers — which means Copilot can reach roles in your organisation that never held a qualifying base plan. 9 00:00:51,132 --> 00:00:53,599 Here is what the page actually says. 10 00:00:53,599 --> 00:01:07,165 On the Partner Center announcement, dated the fourteenth of October, new Copilot and Copilot Business offers can be purchased without a qualifying base subscription, beginning the first of December. 11 00:01:07,165 --> 00:01:10,316 The quote is on screen, and the page is named. 12 00:01:10,316 --> 00:01:14,770 This is a purchasing change on a Microsoft page — not a forecast. 13 00:01:18,270 --> 00:01:19,845 One thing to read carefully. 14 00:01:19,845 --> 00:01:27,553 From the sixteenth of October, the current offers that still require a base subscription are being renamed to include the words 'add-on'. 15 00:01:27,553 --> 00:01:32,392 Those add-on offers reach end of sale in the partner channel on the first of December. 16 00:01:32,392 --> 00:01:35,880 The product is not changing — the names and the catalogue are. 17 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:39,818 If any of your automation matches these offers by name, it will drift. 18 00:01:41,648 --> 00:01:43,144 So, the buying change. 19 00:01:43,144 --> 00:01:49,398 What moved: Copilot and Copilot Business can be bought with no qualifying base subscription. 20 00:01:49,398 --> 00:01:59,798 What it means for you: Copilot can reach roles that held no base plan, so plan who it reaches, set the limit before the first credit, and widen on proof. 21 00:01:59,798 --> 00:02:07,004 One thing to check: list the roles in your tenant with no qualifying base plan who could now hold Copilot. 22 00:02:10,504 --> 00:02:11,385 The rename. 23 00:02:11,385 --> 00:02:17,155 What moved: the base-dependent offers now carry 'add-on' in their names. 24 00:02:17,155 --> 00:02:24,606 What it means for you: anything that matches offers by name will drift when the names change. 25 00:02:24,606 --> 00:02:33,260 One thing to check: find any script or report that keys off offer names, and switch it to the stable SKU ID. 26 00:02:36,730 --> 00:02:46,419 The second change: Copilot for Legal is generally available worldwide, bringing more than twenty purpose-built legal skills into Microsoft Copilot. 27 00:02:46,419 --> 00:02:51,098 In Word, it supports deep document work built into the document itself. 28 00:02:51,098 --> 00:02:58,085 In Cowork, legal professionals can delegate multi-step work across agreements, emails, meetings and files. 29 00:02:58,085 --> 00:03:05,071 New partner-built plugins extend it across legal research, matter management, e-signature and e-discovery. 30 00:03:05,071 --> 00:03:11,003 A Word experience for navigating defined terms is dated to enter preview later this month. 31 00:03:13,663 --> 00:03:14,883 Copilot for Legal. 32 00:03:14,883 --> 00:03:21,252 What moved: it is generally available worldwide, with over twenty legal skills inside Copilot. 33 00:03:21,252 --> 00:03:33,109 What it means for you: legal teams gain purpose-built skills in Word and Cowork, so plan which roles get them first, set the limit before the first credit, and widen on proof. 34 00:03:33,109 --> 00:03:38,462 One thing to check: confirm whether your licensing includes these legal skills. 35 00:03:41,962 --> 00:03:46,235 Two more items were read this week, both on Microsoft blogs. 36 00:03:46,235 --> 00:03:58,768 A new enforcement layer for Microsoft 365 Copilot isolates untrusted content to defend against indirect prompt injection — the admin steps were not yet confirmed word for word. 37 00:03:58,768 --> 00:04:05,463 And a SharePoint team knowledge base, curated by Copilot and agents, was described in preview. 38 00:04:05,463 --> 00:04:14,934 Quiet this week: Copilot Credits mechanics, cost management limits and alerts, and Copilot analytics — no change on a Microsoft page. 39 00:04:17,854 --> 00:04:28,087 That is the week: Copilot can be bought without a base plan from December, the base-dependent offers are being renamed, and Copilot for Legal is now generally available. 40 00:04:28,087 --> 00:04:30,085 The next brief lands next Monday. 41 00:04:30,085 --> 00:04:32,204 This brief was made by PhoenixHalo.