If you use Microsoft 365 and want to know what’s coming next, what would you search for on Google/Bing? Microsoft 365 Roadmap, right? Wrong. Microsoft now wants you to search for “AI at Work Roadmap,” as it “centralizes AI innovations” across products like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook.
I use Microsoft 365 products all the time as part of my job, and I also often visit the Microsoft 365 Roadmap to prepare myself for forthcoming changes, but when I opened the website today (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap), I noticed that it looked a bit different.
All references to Microsoft 365 Roadmap were replaced with “AI at Work Roadmap,” including the title of the website and headers or subheaders. Heck, even the Microsoft 365 Roadmap webinars were rebranded as AI at Work Roadmap, and I honestly thought it had to be a bug because it absolutely does not make sense.
The Microsoft 365 Roadmap name makes it clear what we’re looking for, which is updates for all products in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. But when you read something like “AI at Work,” you feel disconnected, and it’s also silly by Microsoft’s own definition.
According to the company, Microsoft 365 offers AI features only when you pay for the AI license, as you do have a “basic” subscription without AI innovations.
Turns out it’s not a bug at all, and it’s an intentional change that was quietly announced earlier today.
In a post on the Microsoft 365 Admin portal (I am glad it’s not renamed yet), the company notes that “Microsoft 365 Roadmap is becoming the AI at Work Roadmap,” as it “centralizes AI-powered innovation tracking without changing access or workflows.”
Microsoft argues it was necessary to rebrand Microsoft 365 Roadmap as AI at Work Roadmap because it wanted to offer a single destination for all “upcoming innovations” across its products.
“The AI at Work Roadmap provides a single destination to discover upcoming innovations across Microsoft 365, Copilot, agents, and related AI-powered experiences,” the company argues in a post visible only if you have the subscription.
The rebrand is already live, and it’s not being “rolled out” like the new features of Windows 11. But it does not have updates beyond Microsoft 365 yet. That will happen in September 2026, when Microsoft will start including all AI-related updates on the former Microsoft 365 Roadmap.
Anything that is closely related to AI will now be tracked on Microsoft’s AI at Work Roadmap (previously Microsoft 365 Roadmap).
“Beginning in September 2026, roadmap information for Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Dataverse will also begin publishing to the AI at Work Roadmap, making it easier to track innovation across Microsoft’s business applications, productivity, and AI portfolio,” the company noted.
I am all for “AI innovations,” but this is a hell of a problem for older IT admins who are already struggling to keep up with the changes. They would now be staring at the “AI at Work Roadmap” when they look for the Microsoft 365 Roadmap, and the dashboard also gets unnecessarily populated with AI products.
