Microsoft gives Copilot proactive powers in Outlook for emails and calendars
Microsoft rolls out agentic features for Copilot in Outlook from April 27, 2026. The AI now triages inboxes by prioritising emails, drafting follow-up replies and setting sorting rules. Users review each step before approval. For calendars, it resolves meeting conflicts, reschedules events and blocks focus time. These tools work across all Outlook versions for emails. Calendar functions need access to Microsoft's Frontier preview program on Windows and web. Agentic means the AI handles multi-step tasks on its own, rather than just suggesting single actions.
Knowledge workers faced endless manual sorting of dozens of daily emails and constant calendar firefighting. Inbox triage ate 40 minutes each morning, with critical updates buried amid noise. Calendars filled with overlaps, leaving no room for focused work. Copilot now automates these routines proactively, cutting decision fatigue on what to action first. Reviewable steps prevent errors, turning scattered workflows into reliable systems. This directly shrinks the 60-plus minutes lost to email and meeting chaos without demanding new apps or deep training.
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This Frontier preview is the no-nonsense fix for your inbox overload and back-to-back meeting traps – skip the waitlist hype and claim your edge now. Join the program today, then hit your next 47-email morning triage with agentic Copilot and tweak its rules to match your Focused Inbox gaps. That single test locks in 30 minutes saved daily, hitting Inbox under 20 by lunch without another UI headache.
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