Summary
- Outlook’s Meeting Insights retires mid-August to mid-September.
- Microsoft is adding a replacement, but it’s only for Microsoft 365 Copilot subscribers.
- If you want those insights, you’ll need to pay for Copilot; there’s no free option left.
If you make good use of the Microsoft Outlook Meeting Insights, I have bad news and very bad news. The bad news is that Microsoft is retiring the feature in mid-August. The very bad news is that you can only get what’s replacing it if you’re subscribed to Microsoft 365 Copilot.
You can keep using it until mid-August
The company announced the change in a message titled “MC1430531 – Microsoft Outlook: Meeting Insight is retiring” over on the Microsoft 365 Message Center. The company explains that, in a change starting mid-August and finishing mid-September, it will begin removing the Meeting Insights feature from all versions of Outlook.
Here’s how Microsoft explains the change:
Microsoft is retiring Meeting Insights, the feature that surfaces relevant emails and files within meeting details. To provide a more intelligent and context-aware meeting preparation experience, users with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license can instead use Copilot meeting preparation experiences that summarize relevant content, tasks, and context available to the user.
You don’t currently need a subscription to use Meeting Insights, so this seems like a case where Microsoft is not only moving a feature over to Copilot but also adding a subscription fee to it. So, if you want to keep those insights flowing, you’re going to need to pay up.
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