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- Microsoft Product Terms — MCAUniversal Terms for Online Services — Product Terms
Universal Terms for Online Services: Updated the Acceptable Use Policy terms for clarity. Added terms for Excessive Use and Purchasing Consumption Services.
- Published or announced
- 15 Jun 2026
- Effective
- Unknown
- Product / agreement / program
- Universal Terms for Online Services · Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) · Unknown program
- Audience / geography / cloud
- Unknown audience · Unknown geography · Unknown cloud
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- Terms
- Microsoft Product Terms — MCAPrivacy & Security Terms — Product Terms
Privacy & Security Terms: Added link to Data Residency for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Chat. Removed Priva - Subject Rights Request from Core Online Services. Microsoft 365: Added 365 Apps for business and Microsoft Teams Essentials to the terms that state the customers may not provision more than 300 Subscripti…
- Published or announced
- 15 Jun 2026
- Effective
- Unknown
- Product / agreement / program
- Privacy & Security Terms · Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) · Unknown program
- Audience / geography / cloud
- Unknown audience · Unknown geography · Unknown cloud
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- Availability, Retirement or removal, Terms
- Microsoft Product Terms — MCAAgent 365 — Product Terms
Agent 365: Added EES Availability table, Product Conditions and update the License Prerequisites table.
- Published or announced
- 15 Jun 2026
- Effective
- Unknown
- Product / agreement / program
- Agent 365 · Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) · Unknown program
- Audience / geography / cloud
- Unknown audience · Unknown geography · Unknown cloud
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- Prerequisites, Availability
- Microsoft Product Terms — MCAMicrosoft Teams — Product Terms
Microsoft Teams: Added terms regarding notifications.
- Published or announced
- 15 Jun 2026
- Effective
- Unknown
- Product / agreement / program
- Microsoft Teams · Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) · Unknown program
- Audience / geography / cloud
- Unknown audience · Unknown geography · Unknown cloud
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- Terms
- Microsoft Partner Center announcementsEvery technical update, delivered right to your inbox
Public announcement index. Read the linked announcement to confirm audience, program and scope.
- Published or announced
- 11 Jun 2026
- Effective
- Unknown
- Product / agreement / program
- Unknown product · Unknown agreement · Unknown program
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- Unknown audience · Unknown geography · Unknown cloud
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- Other commercial announcement
- Microsoft Partner Center announcementsMonthly Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program update
Public announcement index. Read the linked announcement to confirm audience, program and scope.
- Published or announced
- 10 Jun 2026
- Effective
- Unknown
- Product / agreement / program
- Unknown product · Unknown agreement · Unknown program
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- Unknown audience · Unknown geography · Unknown cloud
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- Other commercial announcement
- Microsoft Partner Center announcementsIntroducing Pitch Maker Agent (beta)
Public announcement index. Read the linked announcement to confirm audience, program and scope.
- Published or announced
- 9 Jun 2026
- Effective
- Unknown
- Product / agreement / program
- Unknown product · Unknown agreement · Unknown program
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- Unknown audience · Unknown geography · Unknown cloud
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- Other commercial announcement
- Microsoft Partner Center announcementsSecurity insights now available in Copilot tab of ASPX
Public announcement index. Read the linked announcement to confirm audience, program and scope.
- Published or announced
- 9 Jun 2026
- Effective
- Unknown
- Product / agreement / program
- Unknown product · Unknown agreement · Unknown program
- Audience / geography / cloud
- Unknown audience · Unknown geography · Unknown cloud
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- Availability
- Microsoft Partner Center announcementsMFA enforcement for Partner Center APIs
Public announcement index. Read the linked announcement to confirm audience, program and scope.
- Published or announced
- 8 Jun 2026
- Effective
- Unknown
- Product / agreement / program
- Unknown product · Unknown agreement · Unknown program
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- Unknown audience · Unknown geography · Unknown cloud
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- Other commercial announcement
- Microsoft Partner Center announcementsNew Microsoft 365 Copilot promotion: Customers can save 15% on three-year commitments for 300+ licenses
Public announcement index. Read the linked announcement to confirm audience, program and scope.
- Published or announced
- 8 Jun 2026
- Effective
- Unknown
- Product / agreement / program
- Microsoft 365 Copilot · Unknown agreement · Unknown program
- Audience / geography / cloud
- Unknown audience · Unknown geography · Unknown cloud
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- Pricing or billing
- Microsoft Product Terms — MCAPrivacy& Security Terms — Product Terms
Privacy& Security Terms: Added Microsoft 365 Agent to EU Data Boundaries table. Added new Azure Core Services, updated names, removed deprecated services.
- Published or announced
- 1 Jun 2026
- Effective
- Unknown
- Product / agreement / program
- Privacy& Security Terms · Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) · Unknown program
- Audience / geography / cloud
- Unknown audience · Unknown geography · Unknown cloud
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- Retirement or removal, Terms
- Microsoft Product Terms — MCAMicrosoft Dragon Copilot — Product Terms
Microsoft Dragon Copilot: Removed the term indicating that a customer may not deploy licenses in the same tenant.
- Published or announced
- 1 Jun 2026
- Effective
- Unknown
- Product / agreement / program
- Microsoft Dragon Copilot · Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) · Unknown program
- Audience / geography / cloud
- Unknown audience · Unknown geography · Unknown cloud
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- Retirement or removal
- Microsoft Product Terms — MCAAgent 365 — Product Terms
Agent 365: Added License Prerequisites table. Updated Data Privacy Notices terms.
- Published or announced
- 1 Jun 2026
- Effective
- Unknown
- Product / agreement / program
- Agent 365 · Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) · Unknown program
- Audience / geography / cloud
- Unknown audience · Unknown geography · Unknown cloud
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- Prerequisites, Terms
- Microsoft Product Terms — MCAGitHub Offerings — Product Terms
GitHub Offerings: The section of the Product Terms for GitHub Offerings related to GitHub Copilot are no longer needed and have been removed. This section was originally added to ensure terms parity with contracts provided to GitHub-direct customers. As of 5 March 2026, GitHub now uses a global "Generative AI Services…
- Published or announced
- 1 Jun 2026
- Effective
- Unknown
- Product / agreement / program
- GitHub Offerings · Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) · Unknown program
- Audience / geography / cloud
- Unknown audience · Unknown geography · Unknown cloud
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- Retirement or removal, Terms
- Microsoft Product Terms — MCAMicrosoft Azure — Product Terms
Microsoft Azure: Introduced a “Microsoft Azure AI Services” definition to ensure certain cross-cutting terms apply to all Azure services incorporating AI (e.g. customer compliance with technical documentation, Limited Access Services, and Bing grounding requirements). Renamed “Azure Direct Models” to “Foundry Models s…
- Published or announced
- 1 Jun 2026
- Effective
- Unknown
- Product / agreement / program
- Microsoft Azure · Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) · Unknown program
- Audience / geography / cloud
- Unknown audience · Unknown geography · Unknown cloud
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- Clarification or reorganization; no rights change inferred, Packaging, Availability, Terms
- Microsoft Product Terms — MCAMicrosoft Power Platform — Product Terms
Microsoft Power Platform: Added clarification of liability for query data obligation.
- Published or announced
- 1 Jun 2026
- Effective
- Unknown
- Product / agreement / program
- Microsoft Power Platform · Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) · Unknown program
- Audience / geography / cloud
- Unknown audience · Unknown geography · Unknown cloud
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- Clarification or reorganization; no rights change inferred
- Microsoft Product Terms — MCAUniversal Terms for Online Services — Product Terms
Universal Terms for Online Services: Updated Responsible Use of Microsoft AI Services terms to cover use of automated classifiers for AI Services.
- Published or announced
- 1 May 2026
- Effective
- Unknown
- Product / agreement / program
- Universal Terms for Online Services · Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) · Unknown program
- Audience / geography / cloud
- Unknown audience · Unknown geography · Unknown cloud
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- Terms
- Microsoft Product Terms — MCAGlossary — Product Terms
Glossary: Added definition for Azure Capacity Blocks.
- Published or announced
- 1 May 2026
- Effective
- Unknown
- Product / agreement / program
- Glossary · Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) · Unknown program
- Audience / geography / cloud
- Unknown audience · Unknown geography · Unknown cloud
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- Other commercial announcement
- Microsoft Product Terms — MCAMicrosoft Defender Experts — Product Terms
Microsoft Defender Experts: Updated Prerequisites for Microsoft Defender Experts for Servers and Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting – Servers.
- Published or announced
- 1 May 2026
- Effective
- Unknown
- Product / agreement / program
- Microsoft Defender Experts · Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) · Unknown program
- Audience / geography / cloud
- Unknown audience · Unknown geography · Unknown cloud
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- Prerequisites
- Microsoft Product Terms — MCAAgent 365 — Product Terms
Agent 365: Added new terms for launch of Agent 365.
- Published or announced
- 1 May 2026
- Effective
- Unknown
- Product / agreement / program
- Agent 365 · Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) · Unknown program
- Audience / geography / cloud
- Unknown audience · Unknown geography · Unknown cloud
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- Availability, Terms
- Microsoft Product Terms — MCAMicrosoft 365 — Product Terms
Microsoft 365: Updated the use limitations for Microsoft 365 – Unattended License to reinforce its use for automation and task execution scenarios and clarify that outputs generated through Robotic Process Automation or bots may not be used to develop, train, evaluate, improve AI or machine learning models, or to repl…
- Published or announced
- 1 May 2026
- Effective
- Unknown
- Product / agreement / program
- Microsoft 365 · Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) · Unknown program
- Audience / geography / cloud
- Unknown audience · Unknown geography · Unknown cloud
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- Clarification or reorganization; no rights change inferred
- Microsoft Product Terms — MCAMicrosoft Azure — Product Terms
Microsoft Azure: Added new terms for Azure Capacity Blocks.
- Published or announced
- 1 May 2026
- Effective
- Unknown
- Product / agreement / program
- Microsoft Azure · Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) · Unknown program
- Audience / geography / cloud
- Unknown audience · Unknown geography · Unknown cloud
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- Terms
- Microsoft Product Terms — MCAMicrosoft Power Platform — Product Terms
Microsoft Power Platform: Added Windows 365 for Agents add-on for Microsoft Copilot Studio to Availability Table.
- Published or announced
- 1 May 2026
- Effective
- Unknown
- Product / agreement / program
- Microsoft Power Platform · Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) · Unknown program
- Audience / geography / cloud
- Unknown audience · Unknown geography · Unknown cloud
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- Availability
- Microsoft Product Terms — MCAOffice Applications — Product Terms
Office Applications and Microsoft 365 Applications: added "Use for training AI Models" to clarify that outputs generated through Robotic Process Automation, bots, or other similar technologies may not be used to develop, train, evaluate, improve AI or machine learning models, or to replicate product functionality. The…
- Published or announced
- 1 May 2026
- Effective
- Unknown
- Product / agreement / program
- Office Applications · Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) · Unknown program
- Audience / geography / cloud
- Unknown audience · Unknown geography · Unknown cloud
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- Clarification or reorganization; no rights change inferred
- Microsoft Product Terms — MCAWindows 365 — Product Terms
Windows 365: Removed terms for W365 with Windows Hybrid Benefit as that product has reached end of life and is no longer supported.
- Published or announced
- 1 May 2026
- Effective
- Unknown
- Product / agreement / program
- Windows 365 · Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) · Unknown program
- Audience / geography / cloud
- Unknown audience · Unknown geography · Unknown cloud
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- Retirement or removal, Terms
- Microsoft Product Terms — MCAWindows Desktop Operating System — Product Terms
Windows Desktop Operating System: Added Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB ESU SKU to the Availability tables.
- Published or announced
- 13 Apr 2026
- Effective
- Unknown
- Product / agreement / program
- Windows Desktop Operating System · Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) · Unknown program
- Audience / geography / cloud
- Unknown audience · Unknown geography · Unknown cloud
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- Packaging, Availability
- Microsoft Product Terms — MCAMicrosoft Azure — Product Terms
Microsoft Azure: Updated Limited Access Services to include Guardrails for High-Risk Content in Azure Direct Models.
- Published or announced
- 1 Apr 2026
- Effective
- Unknown
- Product / agreement / program
- Microsoft Azure · Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) · Unknown program
- Audience / geography / cloud
- Unknown audience · Unknown geography · Unknown cloud
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- Other commercial announcement
- Microsoft Product Terms — MCAWindows Desktop Operating System — Product Terms
Windows Desktop Operating System: Added terms for Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB ESU.
- Published or announced
- 1 Apr 2026
- Effective
- Unknown
- Product / agreement / program
- Windows Desktop Operating System · Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) · Unknown program
- Audience / geography / cloud
- Unknown audience · Unknown geography · Unknown cloud
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- Terms
- Microsoft Product Terms — MCAMicrosoft Teams — Product Terms
Microsoft Teams: Updated notices to include language regarding disabling audio announcements.
- Published or announced
- 1 Apr 2026
- Effective
- Unknown
- Product / agreement / program
- Microsoft Teams · Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) · Unknown program
- Audience / geography / cloud
- Unknown audience · Unknown geography · Unknown cloud
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- Other commercial announcement
- Microsoft Product Terms — MCASQL Server — Product Terms
SQL Server and Windows Server Standard, Datacenter, and Essentials: Consolidate MCA Subscription Product Terms (formerly found in the Server Subscriptions for Azure entry) and provide rights for Subscription license customers equivalent to the rights provided to Software Assurance customers.
- Published or announced
- 1 Apr 2026
- Effective
- Unknown
- Product / agreement / program
- SQL Server · Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) · Unknown program
- Audience / geography / cloud
- Unknown audience · Unknown geography · Unknown cloud
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- Terms