Microsoft is getting more aggressive in using artificial intelligence
What Is New with Microsoft Copilot Pro? An Empirical Analysis of Two Plans for Future Microsoft 365 Subscriptions and When I Can Turn Off Copilot
As part of this price bump, Microsoft is providing a set of AI credits that can be used on Copilot in apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote. You can use your credits for things like image generation in the Designer app or in Windows applications like Paint, Photos, and Notepad. If you want unlimited usage of Copilot in Office apps or all of these AI features, you’ll still need to pay for Copilot Pro.
“We’ve created two new plans that are really only going to be available for the next year, Personal Classic and Family Classic,” explains Oystryk. As the people go through the renewal cycle, they will be available. If they go to cancel they’ll have the opportunity to pick one of these Personal Classic or Family Classic plans.”
These plans will only be available to existing Microsoft 365 subscribers, and new subscribers will get AI-powered Office features by default with the new pricing changes. It sounds like the classic plans will not get any new features from Microsoft. No new innovations will be included in the plans for the future because they will continue to get security updates and minor feature updates.
Microsoft is also making it easy to turn off Copilot in Office apps if you simply don’t want the AI assistant or you’re a student and your school has policies against using AI. “The most interesting piece of feedback we learned is that there are times where our users want to turn off Copilot,” says Oystryk. We are working to make it easier for people to change their Copilot settings in some of our key apps.
Microsoft’s AI Program for Developers and the World Wide Open Source Collaboration (Invited Talk) with Tom Warren on Telegram and Twitter
The three announcements are linked to Microsoft having a hunger to win at artificial intelligence. It feels like promotion of artificial intelligence is an equally high priority and the company still focuses on security through performance reviews.
Microsoft has spent the past 15 years selling cloud computing to businesses, tempting them to move off traditional software that’s licensed and installed to on-premise servers toward servers hosted by the software giant. Nadella led Microsoft’s transformation to cloud infrastructure and services before becoming CEO, and it’s been hugely successful for the company. At the moment, Microsoft is interested in being able to automate many people-based services and package this up in a software solution for businesses.
That’s a scary prospect for the thousands of engineers at Meta and Microsoft who have spent their entire careers learning how to build software. There isn’t a place for people who aren’t all in on artificial intelligence in Microsoft’s new Coreai team.
The free chat side of Copilot is popular with businesses that use Microsoft software and services, and adding agent capabilities will allow businesses to automate tasks with Artificial Intelligence.
The worldwide launch of Microsoft 365 is a bigger test for the company than it has been in Australia, New Zealand and Asia.
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