365 Copilot

Last week, Microsoft announced that they have already begun testing their new product, 365 Copilot, which integrates AI with their office suite of products. Currently, 20 large customers are trialling the product, after which Microsoft will announce the public rollout, along with the pricing.

Copilot has the ability to turn a novice into a power user on things like Excel or Powerpoint. Soon you can ask Copilot to analyse a data set, then create excel graphs on specific numbers, and from there create a 10 slide presentation on PowerPoint of the data reviewed. Things that would take hours to do can now be done in minutes.

It also can write emails where you will be able to set the length of the reply and the tone to be used. How about asking it to analyse industry data, and then to create a SWOT analysis?

It will be interesting to see how Microsoft prices this product. Will they give it away for free for a while to get businesses hooked, and then charge a nice premium later? Maybe they feel that there is enough hype around these services that they can charge for it from day one.

Copilot can do some amazing things - Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot - Your Copilot for Work.