Skip to content
ERP LEADERS
Subscribe to the brief Follow on LinkedIn

The news behind the software that runs companies, explained for everyone.

AI at work

Microsoft capped Copilot Chat for organisations with 2,000 or fewer seats, the Register reported. Limits are not published.

The restrictions target users in commercial environments without a paid Microsoft 365 Copilot licence, the Register reported.

ERP LEADERS news desk · · First reported by The Register · Edition no. 61

Rollout for organisations with 2,000 or fewer Microsoft 365 seats began on 2 November 2026. Larger organisations face the caps from 9 November 2026.

Microsoft "doesn't publish specific limits because they're subject to change," the report says. Users learn where a limit sits when they reach it.

Hitting the limits "might indicate interest in additional Copilot capabilities," according to Microsoft. It has published no numeric limit.

The report does not list which Copilot Chat features are capped. IT teams running these commercial tenants, the company accounts that hold an organisation's data and users, have to support a tool whose limit they cannot see in advance.

ERP LEADERS card: Microsoft capped Copilot Chat for organisations with 2,000 or fewer seats, the Register reported. Limits are not published.
The card as published on LinkedIn. Photo: Jiaqian AirplaneFan/Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0 · original

Sources

Spotted an error? Tell us. Every correction is logged on Standards.

Your reading room

Companies in this story
Microsoft

Our file on Microsoft

  1. 13 NovFiled later

    Microsoft's outage cut Outlook and Teams for hours, with about 130,000 Outlook reports. Microsoft said fixes had not brought expected relief.

  2. 12 NovFiled later

    Microsoft's November update for 726 Windows flaws fails to install for some users, The Register reported. Microsoft had not said why.

  3. 12 NovFiled later

    IBM and Microsoft launched a platform promising over 6,000 ready-made AI agents. Gartner found 4% of CIOs implemented plans to adjust roles.

  4. 11 NovFiled later

    Microsoft plans to process Claude inside its EU data boundary by end-2026. Until then it is off by default in the EU.

  5. 10 NovFiled later

    Northern Trust cut client data preparation to three days from two and a half weeks, CIO reported. Staff still check it.

All 82 Microsoft stories

For your next steering committee

Questions for your own programme. They are not findings about any company in this story.

  1. 1Ask when each major software contract renews and what notice period applies.
  2. 2Ask which price protections are written into the contract and which rest on a sales conversation.
  3. 3Ask what a price rise on that line would do to the run budget, and who would notice it first.

Issue 01 of the ERP LEADERS brief puts a timeline, the three-number review and six questions on one page. Read issue 01

Founding reader view is on in this browser. It is a reading view, not secure access. Print the working sheet

Founding reader

Welcome back. · Issue 01

3 comments under this story on LinkedIn. Read the discussion

Keep reading

The ERP LEADERS brief Get the brief