Changes to Microsoft Product Terms – November 2025
A new month brings new changes to some Microsoft Product Terms - read the summary of the latest amendments to be made.
Published on 4th November 2025
Microsoft Azure
Added Azure AI search terms notifying customers of the use of First-Party Consumption services and the use of Web Knowledge Sources while using Grounding with Bing services. Added terms for open source models offered as Azure Direct Models in Azure AI Foundry. Added Microsoft 365 E3 as the prerequisite for Microsoft eDiscovery Graph API Standard.
🔗 https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/terms/productoffering/MicrosoftAzure
Other Legal Terms
Updated the notices to include settlement terms required by the EU for European Economic Area customers. The notice addresses the availability of Office 365 and Microsoft 365 Suites with and without Microsoft Teams.
🔗 https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/terms/productoffering/otherlegalterms
Glossary
Added Covered Suites and (no Teams) Suites definitions.
🔗 https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/terms/productoffering/Glossary
Privacy & Security Terms
Added a clause to Exceptions to the DPA table for Microsoft Dragon Copilot to clarify that free trials follow the same 90-day retention and deletion terms as subscriptions.
🔗 https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/terms/product/PrivacyandSecurityTerms
Microsoft Dragon Copilot
Enabled Dragon Copilot terms for the Microsoft Online Subscription Agreement (MOSA) Program to support Dragon Copilot trials.
🔗 https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/terms/productoffering/DragonCopilot
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