Microsoft Copilot is a digital companion for a single Copilot user experience across Bing, Edge, Microsoft 365, and Windows.
Over the past few years, the pace and volume of work have increased. On a given workday, users typically search for what they need 18 times, receive over 250 Outlook emails, and send or read around 150 Teams chats. Teams users globally are in three times more meetings each week than they were in 2020. In Windows, some people use 11 apps in a single day to get their work done. Microsoft 365 Chat will help everyone lift the weight of work.
Last week’s announcement in New York impacts all the product line-up for commercial customers:
- Microsoft Copilot in Windows to create faster and to complete tasks with ease and make once-complicated tasks simple. Find it on the taskbar or with the Win+C keyboard shortcut, to get assistance alongside all your apps. Copilot in Windows will feature the new Copilot icon, the new Copilot user experience, Bing Chat, and will be available to commercial customers for free.
- Bing Chat Enterprise builds on Microsoft Copilot and adds commercial data protection. Bing Chat Enterprise, chat data is not saved, Microsoft has no eyes-on access, and your data is not used to train the large language models (LLM). Bing Chat Enterprise is available as a standalone for $5 per user per month and is included in Microsoft 365 E3 and Microsoft 365 E5. Bing Chat Enterprise is now available in the Microsoft Edge mobile app and Microsoft is bringing support for multimodal visual search and Image Creator to Bing Chat Enterprise. Bing Chat Enterprise is already part of Microsoft 365 E3 and E5, Business Standard, and Business Premium, which means more than 160 million people already have access.
- Microsoft 365 Copilot is your AI assistant at work. It builds on Bing Chat Enterprise and includes enterprise-grade security, privacy, compliance. This responsible AI ensures that all data processing happens inside your proven Microsoft 365 tenant
- . Microsoft 365 Chat is the new experience for Microsoft 365 Copilot and goes far beyond simple questions and answers. It combs across your entire universe of data—all your emails, meetings, chats, documents, and more, plus the web—to solve your most complex problems at work. It’s integrated into the Microsoft 365 Apps:Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and more. Microsoft 365 Copilot will be generally available for enterprise customers for $30 per user per month on 1 November 2023.
Copilot in Outlook helps you stayon top of your inbox and create impactful communication in a fraction of the time.:
- Ask Copilot to summarize an email thread to get key information with annotations that help you quickly jump to the source of the summarized content, and suggested action items, replies, and follow-up meetings.
- Choose “Sound like me” tomatch your unique writing style and voice when you’re using Copilot to draft an email.
- Follow a Teams meeting that you could not attend live, directly from Outlook on your own time. When the meeting starts, Teams notifies participants to record it. When the recording is ready, Copilot notifies you in Outlook.
Copilot in Word transforms every part of the writing process to make you more creative and efficient::
- Ask Copilot for a summary of any document to share as a recap or quickly get up to speed, and Copilot will now deliver a more in-depth bulleted summation with all the information you need.
- Ask Copilot to “rewrite” a paragraph, then scroll through a series of options to see what fits best. You can then adjust the rewrite tone to make it more neutral, casual, or professional.
- Refine a prompt by asking Copilot to do things like “make answer more concise” or “add a column in the table for the project owner.”
- Save time on formatting by asking Copilot to generate a table from your copy.
Copilot in Excel enables anyone to analyze and visualize data like a data analyst. :
- with Copilot in Excel to help analyze, format, and edit your data to gain deeper understanding and insights.
- Quickly add a formula column, highlight key data with a prompt like “make all cells red where the value is under 1000,” filter and sort your data, and ask questions to instantly uncover key insights.
- Use Copilot to access advanced analytics; create powerful, professional visualizations, generate forecasts, and save time sorting through data with Python in Excel.
Copilot in Loop unlocks the power of shared thinking,helping teams cocreate, stay up to date, and pick up where others left off. :
- Iterate with Copilot collaboratively as a team, cocreating prompts and reviewing earlier interactions to edit and improve on work together.
- Ask Copilot to generate a quick table on the page to help organize team projects. You can easily turn the table into a Loop component to share with teammates wherever they’re working—in Teams, Outlook, Microsoft Whiteboard, and Word on the web.
- Quickly catch up where your teammates left off by asking Copilot for a summary of a page or asking open-ended questions like “What key assignments were made since I was last on this page?”
- Generate a recap for a teammate that you’re handing work off to, so they can get up to speed on any updates or changes.
- Save time writing code with Copilot-suggested Code blocks that pop up automatically using the context of your work.
Copilot in OneNote helps you stay organized, prepared, and ready to take action. :
- Gain deeper insights on your notes by asking comprehensive questions like: “What are the pros and cons of this process?”
- Quickly generate summaries of your OneNote content.
- Type just a few sentences and get a Copilot-generated paragraph, bulleted list, or organized section.
- Make your writing clearer and more effective with a quick Copilot edit.
Copilot in Stream helps you find the insights and information you need from a video—in the Microsoft Stream web app or anywhere Stream videos work across Microsoft 365 apps—in seconds. :
- Get a quick summary of the video with a transcript of the relevant spots you need to review.
- Ask Copilot open-ended questions—“What was the discussion outcome?” “How did the site walkthrough go?”—to quickly understand outcomes and key points.
- Ask Copilot to identify when people, teams, or topics are discussed, then jump right to that point in the video.
- Ask Copilot for suggested follow-ups or actions from a video you missed.
Copilot in OneDrive helps you find all the insights and information you need—without ever opening a file.
Now you can:
- Ask Copilot open-ended questions related to an individual file or get a summary of the content.
Copilot in Windows
In May, we announced that Copilot was coming to Windows 11. Copilot in Windows—in preview starting September 26—empowers you to create faster, complete tasks with ease, and lessens your cognitive load—making once complicated tasks, simple. We’ve made accessing the power of Copilot seamless as it’s always right there for you on the taskbar or with the Win+C keyboard shortcut providing assistance alongside all your apps, on all screen sizes at work, school, or at home.
MANAGING COPILOT IN WINDOWS
To help bring Copilot to more people across more organizations, Windows 365 Boot and Windows 365 Switch will also be available in this update, making it easier than ever to get a full, secure, personalized Windows 365 Cloud PC with Copilot—on any device.
Microsoft was recently recognized as a Leader in Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Desktop as a Service (DaaS).Copilot Copyright Commitment means customers can be confident using the Copilot services and the output they generate without worrying about copyright claims.
