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Microsoft is working on integrating AI assistant Co-Pilot into its portfolio of office apps, and Co-Pilot's customer reviews will be expanded to 600 companies. The trial includes new ways to use CoPilot in Outlook, PowerPoint, and Whiteboard, as well as new data “maps” to help businesses integrate AI tools.
ⓒ Microsoft
Microsoft unveiled the M365 Co-Pilot in March after signing Phone Number List a partnership to apply OpenAI's ChatGPT-4 technology to software products. CEO Satya Nadella said at the time that the technology would “result in a fundamental change in the way computers help people think, plan and act.” CoPilot will also be applied to Microsoft's Dynamics 365 business apps and security tools.
Microsoft is a leading company integrating generative AI capabilities into its business productivity and collaboration products. Google also plans to integrate generative AI across its Workspace app suite , and many companies, including Slack, Zoom, and Box, are adding AI technology to their respective platforms. At the same time, there are also critical perspectives, such as concerns about the reliability of generative AI and data governance in the work context.
After Microsoft announced CoPilot, it is quickly integrating it into all software, from Teams to Word and Excel. Depending on the application you're using, CoPilot performs a variety of tasks, including summarizing conversations, generating project ideas, drafting email responses, and providing natural language prompts through the business chat feature. Microsoft also continues to release new ways to bring CoPilot to its M365 product line, and in recent weeks it has also integrated it with OneDrive, SharePoint, and other apps.
Significant expansion of companies subject to preview testing
Microsoft has been testing Co-Pilot with 20 customers, including Chevron, Goodyear, General Motors, and Dow. Microsoft announced that it will expand its customer pilot project to 600 large global customers. The pilot is a paid “early access” type, and participation is by invitation only.
“Microsoft is implementing OpenAI-based capabilities into its portfolio at a significant pace,” said Daniel Newman, principal analyst at Futurum Research. “A quick rollout helps us build buzz around the product and quickly identify areas for improvement before it goes live.”
Microsoft did not say when the next evaluation phase would begin or when it would release it to general customers. “We will use the data we collect from the preview program to determine the optimal time to expand Co-Pilot to more customers,” a Microsoft spokesperson said.
Jared Spataro, Microsoft's vice president of modern work and business applications, said in a pre-recorded briefing for the announcement that employees at 20 companies evaluating CoPilot are seeing a variety of productivity benefits. CoPilot provides a summary of meeting remarks for those who could not attend, eliminating the need to take notes during the meeting and providing inspiration for new documents.
But there are also problems. “Customers have told us that Co-Pilot doesn’t always work well,” Spataro said. But even when it's wrong, there's a useful side to it. “There are definitely areas for improvement in the early stages,” he said.
Spataro also said that in order for users to handle AI tools, “they need to practice completely new ways of working and develop new habits. For example, you'll need to learn how to ask a co-pilot to draft emails instead of drafting them yourself, and more generally, how to write good prompts. “This kind of feedback helps us bring CoPilot to more customers.”
New integrations: PowerPoint, Whiteboard, Outlook, etc.
New CoPilot features include integration with OpenAI's DALL-E image generator and Microsoft PowerPoint. These features allow users to create custom images for presentations. CoPilot also suggests text for PowerPoint files.
CoPilot interacts with Microsoft Whiteboard tools in a variety of ways. You can generate ideas based on user prompts and write these suggestions as “sticky notes” on the whiteboard. It automatically classifies the main themes within the whiteboard document, summarizes the generated content, and adds the information to Microsoft Loop (Microsoft's new document creation tool) so it can be easily shared with other office apps.
CoPilot can help you summarize information in the Loop app. ⓒ Microsoft
A summary function has been added to Loop, and a tip suggestion function for drafting emails has been added to Outlook. OneNote automatically creates lists, drafts plans, and organizes information based on user prompts. Additionally, the Viva Learning app provides assistance functions such as creating a schedule for assigned learning and selecting learning resources for users.
ⓒ Microsoft
Microsoft unveiled the M365 Co-Pilot in March after signing Phone Number List a partnership to apply OpenAI's ChatGPT-4 technology to software products. CEO Satya Nadella said at the time that the technology would “result in a fundamental change in the way computers help people think, plan and act.” CoPilot will also be applied to Microsoft's Dynamics 365 business apps and security tools.
Microsoft is a leading company integrating generative AI capabilities into its business productivity and collaboration products. Google also plans to integrate generative AI across its Workspace app suite , and many companies, including Slack, Zoom, and Box, are adding AI technology to their respective platforms. At the same time, there are also critical perspectives, such as concerns about the reliability of generative AI and data governance in the work context.
After Microsoft announced CoPilot, it is quickly integrating it into all software, from Teams to Word and Excel. Depending on the application you're using, CoPilot performs a variety of tasks, including summarizing conversations, generating project ideas, drafting email responses, and providing natural language prompts through the business chat feature. Microsoft also continues to release new ways to bring CoPilot to its M365 product line, and in recent weeks it has also integrated it with OneDrive, SharePoint, and other apps.
Significant expansion of companies subject to preview testing
Microsoft has been testing Co-Pilot with 20 customers, including Chevron, Goodyear, General Motors, and Dow. Microsoft announced that it will expand its customer pilot project to 600 large global customers. The pilot is a paid “early access” type, and participation is by invitation only.
“Microsoft is implementing OpenAI-based capabilities into its portfolio at a significant pace,” said Daniel Newman, principal analyst at Futurum Research. “A quick rollout helps us build buzz around the product and quickly identify areas for improvement before it goes live.”
Microsoft did not say when the next evaluation phase would begin or when it would release it to general customers. “We will use the data we collect from the preview program to determine the optimal time to expand Co-Pilot to more customers,” a Microsoft spokesperson said.
Jared Spataro, Microsoft's vice president of modern work and business applications, said in a pre-recorded briefing for the announcement that employees at 20 companies evaluating CoPilot are seeing a variety of productivity benefits. CoPilot provides a summary of meeting remarks for those who could not attend, eliminating the need to take notes during the meeting and providing inspiration for new documents.
But there are also problems. “Customers have told us that Co-Pilot doesn’t always work well,” Spataro said. But even when it's wrong, there's a useful side to it. “There are definitely areas for improvement in the early stages,” he said.
Spataro also said that in order for users to handle AI tools, “they need to practice completely new ways of working and develop new habits. For example, you'll need to learn how to ask a co-pilot to draft emails instead of drafting them yourself, and more generally, how to write good prompts. “This kind of feedback helps us bring CoPilot to more customers.”
New integrations: PowerPoint, Whiteboard, Outlook, etc.
New CoPilot features include integration with OpenAI's DALL-E image generator and Microsoft PowerPoint. These features allow users to create custom images for presentations. CoPilot also suggests text for PowerPoint files.
CoPilot interacts with Microsoft Whiteboard tools in a variety of ways. You can generate ideas based on user prompts and write these suggestions as “sticky notes” on the whiteboard. It automatically classifies the main themes within the whiteboard document, summarizes the generated content, and adds the information to Microsoft Loop (Microsoft's new document creation tool) so it can be easily shared with other office apps.
CoPilot can help you summarize information in the Loop app. ⓒ Microsoft
A summary function has been added to Loop, and a tip suggestion function for drafting emails has been added to Outlook. OneNote automatically creates lists, drafts plans, and organizes information based on user prompts. Additionally, the Viva Learning app provides assistance functions such as creating a schedule for assigned learning and selecting learning resources for users.