Microsoft 365 Co-pilot

Subject: Science and Technology

Section : AWARENES OF IT AND COMPUTERS

Context:

Microsoft has launched Copilot, bringing in the power of generative artificial intelligence to most of its apps in the Microsoft Office 365 suite.

Details:

Copilot is integrated into Microsoft 365 in two ways.
- Firstly, it has been integrated with the apps such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams.
- Secondly, it has launched Business Chat, which works across your calendar, emails, chats, documents, meetings and contacts to lessen your drudgery and make you more productive.
Earlier this month Microsoft unveiled Dynamics 365 Copilot.
- The AI tool is meant to assist applications that handle tasks such as sales, marketing and customer service.
- Based on technology from OpenAI, the software can draft contextual chat and email answers to customer-service queries.

What can copilot do?

Copilot can give you a first draft, based on the prompts you give, to edit and iterate on. This can save you a lot of effort and time.
- In PowerPoint, it can help you in creating ‘beautiful’ presentations with a simple prompt, adding relevant content from a document you made last week or last year.
- Copilot in Excel can analyse trends and create professional-looking data visualisations in seconds.
- In Outlook, Copilot helps you clear your inbox in minutes.
- In Teams, it can summarise key discussion points — including who said what and where people are aligned, and where they disagree.
One can ask it to write a message to one’s team about the updated product strategy. In no time, it can generate a quick summary based on the meeting one held an hour ago based on the meetings, emails and chat threads around the meeting.