From AI-powered productivity to more connected data experiences, July has brought another strong wave of innovation from Microsoft. These updates aren’t just technical improvements—they represent strategic steps towards more intelligent, efficient, and user-centric workplaces.
Here’s what caught our attention and why it matters.
Microsoft Fabric: July 2025 Feature Summary
Fabric continues to evolve as an all-in-one data platform with a focus on performance, governance, and developer productivity. Key highlights this month include:
- Real-Time Intelligence, Simplified Rule and Object Creation Experience with Activator: Now enabling real-time monitoring and alerting across your data estate.
- Spark job visualisation and performance tuning tools: Helping teams better understand and optimise data pipelines.
- Mirroring is now generally available: Making Fabric even more interoperable with OneLake.
At Antares, we’re excited by the maturity of Fabric’s real-time capabilities and the accelerating momentum around unified governance—key enablers for future-proof data strategies.
Microsoft 365 Copilot: July 2025 Updates
This month, Copilot becomes even more personalised, contextual, and integrated:
- New reports and controls in the Microsoft 365 admin center give IT teams deeper visibility into how Copilot is being used across the organisation. Admins can now track adoption, manage access, and ensure responsible use at scale—key for secure rollouts in education, government, and enterprise environments.
- Conversation history has been enhanced, making it easier for users to revisit past interactions. Now, Copilot clearly shows grounding sources—so users can understand where information comes from and why it was used.
- Copilot in Teams now supports use without transcription or recording, addressing key privacy concerns for sensitive meetings while still delivering value through summaries and insights.
At Antares, we see these changes as essential steps toward making Copilot not only more useful but also more transparent, secure, and fit for real-world business use. We’re already working with organisations to implement structured rollouts and policies that match these evolving capabilities.
Microsoft Teams: July 2025 Updates
Teams continues to deliver on its vision as the digital workplace hub with upgrades including:
- Improved Copilot in Meetings: More accurate summaries and intelligent insights for meeting participants.
- New ‘Meet’ app: Centralising all your meetings in one place with clear visibility and actionable items.
- Expanded emoji reactions and channel activity filtering: Boosting user engagement and navigation.
These enhancements make Teams an even more essential daily tool—supporting async work, smarter meetings, and streamlined collaboration.
Power BI: July 2025 Feature Summary
Power BI delivers key improvements for both business users and developers:
- Visual calculations (preview): Bringing spreadsheet-like logic directly into visuals.
- OneLake integration improvements: Enhancing data connectivity and discoverability.
- Paginated report enhancements and RLS improvements: Increasing control and flexibility for enterprise reporting.
At Antares, we’re leveraging these updates to help clients take self-service analytics to the next level—empowering teams to create insights in context, at speed.
Final Thoughts
July’s updates show how Microsoft is refining the AI-powered workplace: smarter tools, richer data experiences, and more seamless user journeys. At Antares, we’re not just tracking these changes—we’re helping clients use them to lead.
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