Back in November 2024, Microsoft announced an upcoming Copilot feature that would allow the AI assistant to see what was being shown during a screen-sharing session on Teams. The idea behind this capability was that Copilot would be able to gain more context based on what is visible on the screen, allowing it to give better responses and recommendations. Now, Microsoft has surprisingly decided not to roll out this capability right now.
In the recently updated Microsoft 365 Roadmap entry ID 325873, the Redmond tech firm has quietly amended the description of the feature, noting that based on "further view" it is not able to continue the rollout of this feature right now. It has just apologized to customers for the inconvenience and pushed the release date back by a year, to August 2026.
It is unclear why Microsoft decided to halt release plans at this time, but it may have to do with privacy reasons. It is unlikely that commercial customers would have been okay with giving Copilot unfettered access to screen-share sessions, even if it resulted in the model giving more context-aware answers. Sometimes, people also share sensitive information with other viewers accidentally, and while that data leak can be contained if you have trustworthy colleagues (or guardrails that prevent you from inadvertently exposing confidential data in the first place), having Copilot just accessing that information is probably not ideal.
That said, this is all speculation at this point since Microsoft did not disclose the actual reason publicly. Copilot already has access to meeting transcriptions and chats, but this particular feature would have allowed it to analyze the content being shown in a screen-sharing session of a recorded meeting too. This would have allowed customers to achieve more contextual outcomes quickly through prompts like "Rewrite the paragraph shared on the screen incorporating the feedback from the chat".
It is interesting to note that a similar feature is already present in Insider builds of Windows 11, through Copilot Vision. It enables Copilot to see your entire desktop in real-time, and can be triggered through the Copilot app.