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All businesses are unlocked by Microsoft’s Copilot AI inside Office apps

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Copilot: An Introductory Study of the Copilot Experience for Business and Individual Users in Microsoft Windows, Outlook, and Mac (and iPad)

If you are already a Microsoft365 Personal or Home subscriber, the extra $20 per month will allow you to get Copilot in Office on Mac, Windows, and iPad. These features include the ability to generate entire PowerPoint slide decks from a chatbot-like prompt, and inline Copilot experiences in Word to rephrase paragraphs, generate text, and summarize documents. Copilot will appear in Outlook.com to help you reply to emails or generate new ones, as well as preview versions of Copilot to analyze data, generate graphs, and much more.

Microsoft is opening up its Copilot service to other businesses. The subscription is currently $30 per user per month but Microsoft is giving businesses the ability to sign up for it for that amount of money. You can read more about that right here.

The majority of features that have been available to businesses in the last couple of months will be available to the public, with one exception, the ability to create a PowerPoint deck based on a Word document. The consumer version isn’t powered by Microsoft’s Graph technology.

Copilot is also available in Teams, ideal if you want to summarize a meeting you never attended or one that you arrived late to. Email threads in Outlook can also be summarized, and Copilot can create draft email responses with a variety of tones or lengths.

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