"This experience helps users quickly understand content, take action with fewer steps, and get more value from Copilot while extending productive browsing time in Edge."
"Finding a corner of Microsoft's software that Copilot hasn't reached is increasingly difficult - even Notepad has not escaped - and disabling it across the company's productivity suite has become a game of Whac-A-Mole for enterprise administrators who have yet to embrace the technology."
"The automatic pane could hand those administrators yet another mallet to swing, particularly given that Copilot surfacing suggestions based on email content could run afoul of data security policies."
Microsoft announced that Edge browser will automatically launch the Copilot side pane when users open links from Outlook emails. The feature, appearing on the Microsoft 365 roadmap in February, aims to deliver contextual insights and actionable suggestions based on email and destination content. Microsoft states this helps users understand content faster, take action with fewer steps, and extend productive browsing time. The rollout begins May 2026 for standard multi-tenant cloud instances worldwide. Whether the feature will be opt-in or opt-out remains unclear. Enterprise administrators face potential challenges managing Copilot across Microsoft's productivity suite, particularly regarding data security policies when Copilot accesses email content.
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