Microsoft Copilot in Microsoft 365 Copilot: what does this AI read, and can you turn it off?
Checked on October 22, 2026 by verification chain vchain-1
Whether it is on by default is not yet verified; it can be turned off.
The facts, edition by edition
| All editions | |
|---|---|
| What the AI does | Two vendor statements
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| Model | Not yet verified |
| What it reads | Two vendor statements
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| Where the data goes | Global “Customers outside the EU may have their queries processed in the US, EU, or other regions.” “EU traffic stays within the EU Data Boundary while worldwide traffic can be sent to the EU and other countries or regions for LLM processing.” [2] dated copy |
| Trains on your data | No “Data stored about user interactions with Microsoft Copilot is encrypted and isn't used to train foundation models (including those used by Microsoft Copilot) from model providers such as Microsoft (Azure Open AI Service), Anthropic, or OpenAI.” “Prompts, responses, and data accessed through Microsoft Graph aren't used to train foundation LLMs, including those used by Microsoft Copilot.” [3] dated copy |
| On by default | Not yet verified |
| Can be turned off | Yes “If you turn off connected experiences that analyze your content on devices in your organization, Microsoft Copilot features won't be available to your users in the following apps:” [2] dated copy |
| Billing | Not yet verified |
| Feature type | Not yet verified |
| Frameworks the catalog links to it | Not yet verified |
All editions
- What the AI does
- Two vendor statements
- Analyze “It can generate responses anchored in your organizational data, such as user documents, emails, calendar, chats, meetings, and contacts.” [2]
- Search “Search: Users can search trusted source documents such as internal company documentation.” [3]
- Model
- Not yet verified
- What it reads
- Two vendor statements
- Email, Documents, Meetings, Other data “It can generate responses anchored in your organizational data, such as user documents, emails, calendar, chats, meetings, and contacts.” [2]
- Email, Documents, Meetings “Microsoft Copilot uses data from Microsoft Graph to ground responses in organization-specific data like emails, chats, files, and calendars.” [3]
- Where the data goes
- Global “Customers outside the EU may have their queries processed in the US, EU, or other regions.” “EU traffic stays within the EU Data Boundary while worldwide traffic can be sent to the EU and other countries or regions for LLM processing.” [2] dated copy
- Trains on your data
- No “Data stored about user interactions with Microsoft Copilot is encrypted and isn't used to train foundation models (including those used by Microsoft Copilot) from model providers such as Microsoft (Azure Open AI Service), Anthropic, or OpenAI.” “Prompts, responses, and data accessed through Microsoft Graph aren't used to train foundation LLMs, including those used by Microsoft Copilot.” [3] dated copy
- On by default
- Not yet verified
- Can be turned off
- Yes “If you turn off connected experiences that analyze your content on devices in your organization, Microsoft Copilot features won't be available to your users in the following apps:” [2] dated copy
- Billing
- Not yet verified
- Feature type
- Not yet verified
- Frameworks the catalog links to it
- Not yet verified
To turn it off
- All editions: Yes “If you turn off connected experiences that analyze your content on devices in your organization, Microsoft Copilot features won't be available to your users in the following apps:” [2] dated copy
Frameworks the catalog links to it
Linked frameworks will appear once the reference set is published.
- All editions: Not yet verified
Sources
- Microsoft Copilot Chat overview, Microsoft, October 22, 2026
- Data, Privacy, and Security for Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft, October 22, 2026
- Application card: Microsoft Copilot (for organizations), Microsoft, October 22, 2026
- Microsoft 365 Roadmap, ID 558286, Microsoft, October 22, 2026
Change log
- October 26, 2026 · All editions · models: [{"maker":"Anthropic","name":"not_disclosed","open_weights":"not_disclosed","hosting":{"provider":"not_disclosed","regions":["not_disclosed"]}},{"maker":"Microsoft","name":"not_disclosed","open_weights":"not_disclosed","hosting":{"provider":"Microsoft","regions":["not_disclosed"]}},{"maker":"OpenAI","name":"not_disclosed","open_weights":"not_disclosed","hosting":{"provider":"not_disclosed","regions":["not_disclosed"]}}] → [{"maker":"Anthropic","name":"Claude Opus","open_weights":"not_disclosed","hosting":{"provider":"not_disclosed","regions":["not_disclosed"]}},{"maker":"Anthropic","name":"Claude Opus 5.5","open_weights":"not_disclosed","hosting":{"provider":"not_disclosed","regions":["not_disclosed"]}},{"maker":"Anthropic","name":"Claude Opus and Claude Sonnet","open_weights":"not_disclosed","hosting":{"provider":"not_disclosed","regions":["not_disclosed"]}},{"maker":"Anthropic","name":"Claude Sonnet","open_weights":"not_disclosed","hosting":{"provider":"not_disclosed","regions":["not_disclosed"]}},{"maker":"Anthropic","name":"not_disclosed","open_weights":"not_disclosed","hosting":{"provider":"not_disclosed","regions":["not_disclosed"]}},{"maker":"Microsoft","name":"GPT models (Azure OpenAI Service)","open_weights":"not_disclosed","hosting":{"provider":"Azure OpenAI Service","regions":["not_disclosed"]}},{"maker":"Microsoft","name":"GPT models (Azure OpenAI Service)","open_weights":"not_disclosed","hosting":{"provider":"Microsoft (Azure OpenAI Service)","regions":["not_disclosed"]}},{"maker":"Microsoft","name":"not_disclosed","open_weights":"not_disclosed","hosting":{"provider":"Microsoft","regions":["not_disclosed"]}},{"maker":"OpenAI","name":"GPT models","open_weights":"not_disclosed","hosting":{"provider":"OpenAI","regions":["not_disclosed"]}},{"maker":"OpenAI","name":"GPT models","open_weights":"not_disclosed","hosting":{"provider":"not_disclosed","regions":["not_disclosed"]}},{"maker":"OpenAI","name":"GPT-5.6","open_weights":"not_disclosed","hosting":{"provider":"not_disclosed","regions":["not_disclosed"]}},{"maker":"OpenAI","name":"GPT-6 Sol","open_weights":"not_disclosed","hosting":{"provider":"not_disclosed","regions":["not_disclosed"]}},{"maker":"OpenAI","name":"not_disclosed","open_weights":"not_disclosed","hosting":{"provider":"not_disclosed","regions":["not_disclosed"]}},{"maker":"not_disclosed","name":"not_disclosed","open_weights":"not_disclosed","hosting":{"provider":"Microsoft","regions":["not_disclosed"]}}] · correction by Ojja [2, 3, 4]
- October 26, 2026 · All editions · Where the data goes: Yes → No · correction by Ojja [2]
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