Join hosts Rob Scott, Krstian McCann and Tom Arbuthnot of Empowering.Cloud for the July 2025 edition of the Microsoft Teams News Shows.
- Josh Blalock, Chief Video Evangelist, Jabra
- Ryan Herbst, Vice President & Chief Device Strategist, UnifiedCommunications.com
- Kevin Kieller, Co-Founder and Lead Analyst, enableUC
Microsoft enters its new fiscal year with bold moves—cutting roles, re-aligning priorities, and pushing harder on AI. Tom Arbuthnot details the internal shakeups and how they’re tied to the company’s CoPilot-first vision. One of the biggest headlines? Barclays Bank’s rollout of 100,000 M365 Copilot licenses—one of the largest deployments to date.
The panel also dissects the end of Teams Classic, enhanced tools for IT pros, and the strategic launch of real-time voice Copilot across platforms. Meanwhile, Europe’s pushback on data sovereignty, including a German municipality’s exit from Teams, hints at larger geopolitical tensions in cloud tech. It’s an unmissable update filled with practical takeaways and expert insights.
Microsoft’s FY26 kickoff
- Layoffs, new roles, and renewed focus on AI and agentic capabilities
Enterprise AI at scale
- Barclays rolls out 100,000 Copilot licenses and what that means for adoption
Microsoft Teams Classic sunset
- Teams classic sunset, new IT health dashboards and AI-powered Teams Room administration
European Data Sovereignty
- European data sovereignty challenges and Microsoft’s “M365 Local” and sovereign cloud responses
For deeper dives into Copilot, agentic AI, and what’s next in FY26, don’t miss the Microsoft Partner Kickoff on July 22 and the Copilot Fireside Chat on July
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