Microsoft’s Latest Launch of Copilot in Microsoft 365
Microsoft has recently announced a new feature for its Microsoft 365 suite of productivity apps: Copilot. Copilot is an AI-powered assistant that helps you write, create, communicate, and collaborate more effectively and efficiently. Copilot leverages the power of large language models (LLMs) and your data in the Microsoft Graph to understand your context, intent, and preferences, and to generate relevant suggestions, insights, and actions.
Copilot is integrated into Microsoft 365 in two ways:
– It works alongside you, embedded in the Microsoft 365 apps you use every day — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams and more — to unleash creativity, unlock productivity and uplevel skills.
For example, Copilot can help you write better emails by suggesting subject lines, salutations, sign-offs, and follow-ups; it can help you create engaging presentations by suggesting layouts, designs, images, and animations; it can help you analyze data by suggesting charts, formulas, and insights; it can help you communicate more effectively by suggesting responses, emojis, and translations; it can help you collaborate more smoothly by suggesting tasks, reminders, and meetings.
– It also offers an entirely new experience: Business Chat. Business Chat is a conversational interface that works across all your data and apps in Microsoft 365. You can simply type or speak what you want to do or know in natural language, and Copilot will understand your query and provide relevant information or actions in a chat-like format.
For example, you can ask Copilot to show you your latest sales report or to schedule a meeting with your team or to find a document related to a project or to summarize an article for you.
Copilot is not only smart but also secure and trustworthy. Copilot is integrated into Microsoft 365 and automatically inherits all your company’s valuable security, compliance, and privacy policies and processes. Two-factor authentication, compliance boundaries, privacy protections, and more make Copilot the AI solution you can trust.
Copilot also respects your preferences and feedback and learns from your behavior to provide ersonalized and relevant suggestions.
Microsoft 365 Copilot is currently being tested with a limited number of people and the company plans to open its doors to a wider audience in the coming months.
Microsoft 365 Copilot is a game-changer for productivity and innovation. It combines the best of human intelligence and artificial intelligence to help you achieve more with less effort. With Copilot as your copilot for work, you can focus on what matters most: your ideas, your goals, your impact.
Sources:
– https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/03/16/introducing-microsoft-365-copilot-your-copilot-for-work/
– https://redmondmag.com/articles/2023/03/16/microsoft-unveils-microsoft-365-copilot.aspx
