Microsoft upgrades the Microsoft 365 Office suite this month: built-in AI assistant with "eyes" that can directly screenshot and analyze

IT Home March 6 news, based on the official disclosure of the Microsoft 365 roadmap, Microsoft plans to upgrade Copilot in the desktop version of the Microsoft 365 suite this month (March 2026), introducing a built-in screenshot tool.

According to the information shown in Microsoft’s official roadmap item ID 558105, users can directly capture screen images and seamlessly embed them into Copilot’s prompts, helping the AI understand the user’s visual context more intuitively, and thereby provide more accurate and more actionable assistance.

Microsoft plans to roll out this feature first on the desktop this month, with full coverage across Microsoft 365 core components such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams.

IT Home, citing a blog, explains that in real-world application scenarios—taking handling Excel spreadsheets as an example—users only need to click a dedicated button, and Copilot will natively capture the screen of the current workspace and automatically transfer it to the chat window for in-depth analysis.

This means users can completely say goodbye to the cumbersome steps of “using Windows’ built-in screenshot tool, saving the file, and then manually uploading it as an attachment to Copilot.”

Microsoft’s long-standing obsession with screenshot functionality dates back years. The company previously released a feature called Windows Recall in 2024, whose original purpose was to automatically capture the user’s screen every few seconds to record operation trails.

However, this near “all-day monitoring” mechanism quickly triggered major privacy concerns. Under external pressure, Microsoft subsequently significantly reduced Recall’s feature permissions and adjusted it to an opt-in mode, but it has still not been completely removed to this day.