Microsoft is integrating an AI chatbot into Windows, and the new tool may help you do tasks more quickly. 

Windows Copilot is a new AI personal assistant that will replace Cortana within your operating system. The software assists users in real time with tasks such as coding, email composition, and presentation creation.

Copilot has two points of entry into Microsoft 365. It's built into Microsoft 365 apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and more to help you be more productive, learn new skills and express your creativity. 

Features

• Copilot in Word and PowerPoint lets you jump-start the creative process by providing a first draft for editing and iteration. 
• It saves writing, sourcing, and editing time and allows you to drive your unique ideas forward. 
• In Excel, it helps analyze trends and create professional-looking data visualizations.
• Copilot is a tool that helps users focus on the 20% of their work that matters, reducing the 80% of time spent on busy work. 
• It simplifies tasks like summarizing email threads, drafting suggested replies, and preparing for meetings. 
• Copilot in Outlook and Teams can summarize key discussion points and suggest action items in real time. 
• In Power Platform, users can automate repetitive tasks and create chatbots. 
• GitHub data shows that users report increased productivity, satisfaction, and reduced time searching for information.
• Copilot also creates a new knowledge model for organizations, harnessing the vast reservoir of data and insights. Business Chat works across all business data and apps, saving time searching for answers.
• Copilot enhances skills and enables quick mastery of new commands in Microsoft 365. By using natural language, users can unlock rich functionality, fundamentally changing how people work with AI and with people.

With natural language

With the Copilot System, Microsoft is uniquely positioned to deploy enterprise-ready AI. Copilot is more than just OpenAI's ChatGPT, which is integrated into Microsoft 365. It's a robust processing and orchestration engine that works behind the scenes to integrate the power of LLMs, like GPT-4, with Microsoft 365 apps and your business data in the Microsoft Graph, which is now accessible to everyone via natural language.

Business Chat

Business Chat, a brand-new service announced by the researchers, is another first of its kind. Business Chat integrates with the LLM, the Microsoft 365 apps, and your data to let you do things you couldn't do before. It includes integrating your calendar, emails, conversations, documents, meetings, and contacts. With simple commands like "Tell my team how we updated the product strategy," it can compile a report on the morning's events from your meetings, emails, and instant messages.

New skills

The fundamental talents of Copilot are game changers for productivity: Using your specific business material and context, it can produce, summarise, analyze, collaborate, and automate. But it does not end there. Copilot understands how to command apps (for example, "animate this slide") and collaborate across apps, such as converting a Word document into a PowerPoint presentation. And Copilot is intended to teach new skills. Copilot, for example, may learn how to link to CRM systems of record with Viva Sales to extract customer data — such as interaction and order histories — into communications. Copilot can do increasingly complicated tasks and inquiries as it learns about new domains and procedures.

Conclusion

The researchers will add Copilot to their productivity tools in the following months, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, Viva, Power Platform, and others. They will provide further information about pricing and licensing soon. Researchers unveiled Dynamics 365 Copilot earlier this month as the world's first AI Copilot in CRM and ERP, bringing next-generation AI to every line of business.

Everyone has the right to find meaning and purpose in their job, and Microsoft 365 Copilot can assist. To meet their consumers' unmet demands, we must move rapidly and responsibly, learning as we go. The researchers are now testing Copilot with a small sample of consumers to gather feedback and refine their models as they scale, and they want to extend to a larger group soon.

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