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The January 2026 release of OneDesk is now live. Here are some of the great new features and enhancements introduced this release.

What if every customer could feel truly seen in AI customer support—not just recognized by a ticket number or automated reply, but understood in context, intent, and history? For many businesses, this question sits at the heart of modern customer experience. AI customer support has evolved far beyond basic chatbots and canned responses. Today, it represents an opportunity to combine intelligence, speed, and personalization in ways that were previously impossible at scale.

Choosing the best AI chatbots for customer service in 2026 comes down to one thing: how well they blend knowledge-grounded answers with seamless help desk and CRM workflows. According to Gartner, in 2025, 80% of companies were already using — or planning to use — chatbots in their customer service strategy. The AI chatbot market in 2026 favors platforms that deflect routine questions, route complex issues to the right agent, and learn from every interaction to lift CSAT and reduce costs.

Employee offboarding often moves faster than access removal. Accounts stay active longer than they should, licenses remain assigned, and shared tools keep former employees listed as active users. Each delay increases the risk of unauthorized access and leaves IT teams cleaning up issues that could have been avoided with a clear, automated revocation process. Asset revocation refers to the removal of access to company-owned resources when an employee leaves.

Microsoft Copilot is often marketed as AI included with Microsoft, suggesting a simple, predictable add-on to Microsoft 365. In reality, Copilot pricing is layered, conditional, and easy to underestimate. What starts as a per-user cost quickly escalates into eligibility requirements, additional licenses, usage-based capacity limits, and data-readiness dependencies that are not always clear upfront.