project

Microsoft 365 companion apps

A set of lightweight Windows 11 taskbar applications (Calendar, People and Files) that surface Microsoft 365 contacts, documents and schedule data alongside Copilot assistance.

Known aliases

Calendar, People and Files companion apps
Companion apps

Relationships

No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.

Current clusters

security1 publisher

Microsoft tells admins to uninstall the three companion apps it auto-installed a year ago

Calendar, People and Files stop working on December 16, 2026, and Microsoft has already stopped shipping them, leaving a removal job on fleets that took the apps automatically at the end of 2025.

Publishers:bleepingcomputer.com

Reality

Evidence74
Adoption46
Hype gap+20
Incentives58
Confidence71