Microsoft 365 Copilot To Roll Out From Today (Image: Microsoft Blog)
Starting today, November 1, the much-anticipated Microsoft 365 Copilot will be generally available for enterprise customers. Microsoft unveiled this next-generation AI tool in March 2023, and in September, Microsoft rolled out this tool for Windows.
📢 Microsoft 365 Copilot will be generally available for Enterprise customers on November 1.
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The Microsoft 365 copilot will assist the users with various tasks like summarising emails, writing documents, as well as crafting presentations. In May, the tech giant announced the Microsoft 365 Copilot Early Access Program, an invitation-only, paid preview that was available to 600 customers worldwide. Since March, Microsoft has been testing the Copilot with 20 enterprise customers. Microsoft believes that the new AI tool has the potential to revolutionise work.
Copilot will be embedded in the Microsoft 365 apps, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams. For example, the copilot in Outlook will help the users summarise long emails and will assist the users in responding to them. In Teams, this tool will assist the users in interacting with their colleagues and can also help in creating meeting summaries for those users who missed the meeting. In Excel, Copilot will assist users to analyze, format, and edit their data to gain deeper understanding and insights. Microsoft announced that the Copilot tool will be available at a price of $30 per user license per month, and the minimum number of license purchases will start at 300. Microsoft”s new move comes at a time when other tech giants like Apple and Google are making huge investments in the generative AI sector.
Microsoft describes its Copilot tool in Windows as an everyday AI companion for users. This generative AI tool will incorporate the context and intelligence of the web, the work data of users, and what the users are doing in the moment on their PC to provide improved assistance. “With our new copilot for work, we’re giving people more agency and making technology more accessible through the most universal interface — natural language,” said Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO of Microsoft, during the launch in March.
