Project management edition
A hard deadline in your own toolkit this week: Microsoft is pulling the plug on Project Online on 30 September, and its successor comes with a built-in AI agent.
Project Online stops on 30 September: your planning moves to Planner
Microsoft is stopping Project Online. Planner is getting a new AI assistant that creates tasks and status reports for you.
Microsoft has confirmed that Project Online will close for good on 30 September 2026. The reason: the old structure of the program cannot support modern AI features. Users need to move to Planner, with a Project Plan 3 or 5 licence. That includes portfolios, baselines, dependencies and Gantt charts.
Background for subscribersIf you use Project Online, you need to switch to Planner with Project Plan 3 or 5 before 30 September 2026. Meanwhile, AI keeps creeping deeper into your daily work: Copilot creates tasks from a conversation, and tools calculate CPI and SPI for you instantly. The number-crunching disappears, but explaining and deciding remain your job.
Copilot creates Planner tasks straight from your conversation
Microsoft is expanding Copilot in September. You'll be able to create and look up Planner tasks directly from Copilot. Hyperlinks will also be inserted and formatted automatically in documents. A meeting summary can be translated into another language afterwards with one click.
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