Microsoft has created a new collaborative artificial intelligence playground called Copilot Pages
How do You Use Copilot? Data Analysis in Microsoft Teams, OneDrive, and PowerPoint During the May 15 Outcome of launching Copilot
Copilot in PowerPoint is also getting improvements, with an improved narrative builder that’s designed to let you quickly create a first draft of a slide deck. The AI assistant will even soon use a company’s branded template to create drafts or company-approved images from SharePoint libraries.
After bringing Python to Excel last year, Microsoft is now combining its Python support with Copilot to let Excel users easily perform advanced analysis on spreadsheet data. “Now, anyone can work with Copilot to conduct advanced analysis like forecasting, risk analysis, machine learning, and visualizing complex data — all using natural language, no coding required,” says Jared Spataro, corporate vice president of AI at work at Microsoft. “It’s like adding a skilled data analyst to the team.”
Copilot in Microsoft Teams will summarize conversations that happened in the text chat as well as spoken ones in meetings later this month. This will help the meeting organizers make sure they did not miss any questions that made their way into the chat. Spataro says that their customers tell them Copilot is the number one place they are seeing value in.
I’ve personally been waiting for improvements to Copilot in Outlook beyond drafting and summaries, and now Microsoft is starting to allow its AI assistant to organize your inbox. A new “prioritize my inbox” feature lets Copilot automatically prioritize emails. According to Spataro, you can teach Copilot specific topics, people that are important to you, and more later this year. These emails will then also be marked as high priority in your inbox.
Later this month, Microsoft is also improving Copilot in Word to let you reference data from emails and meetings, alongside data from documents. It will be easier to bring in something from a meeting when you have this. Microsoft is also rolling out Copilot in OneDrive later this month, making it easy to summarize and compare up to five files to spot differences between them.
60 percent of the Fortune 500 use Copilot and the number of people who use Copilot daily doubled quarter over quarter, says Microsoft. Both of these data points appear to include the free version of Copilot. Microsoft has won over a big customer for Microsoft 365 Copilot: Vodafone is signing up for 68,000 Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses for its 100,000 employees, after trialing the AI assistant and seeing early benefits.
