

All of the recommendations, suggestions, proposals and brainstorming it does are to help you and your workers move things along quicker. However, and like any assistant, it's not you. It is literally an assistant that will perform these functions. It will suggest better formulas in Excel, propose better wording for an email, make a proposal look more professional with better formatting and graphics and offer ideas for emails, policies, memos and other communications. I want to be clear here: Copilot will do all of the things above just by asking it. You and your employees will need training not only to understand how to use Copilot but where it can be used. Teams and Dynamics users can have Copilot "listen" to meetings, write up a summary, create tasks and email next actions to participants. Excel users will be able to ask Copilot to list trends based on data in a spreadsheet, add new spreadsheets by diving into existing data, generate graphs and charts, apply color coding and perform what-if scenarios.

It can turn a proposal - or any document - into a PowerPoint presentation, add new slides based on your needs and create speaker notes. In Word, it will create a proposal based on the notes you took in OneNote, customize it to look like your previous proposals and add in artwork or visuals that you request. Microsoft and ChatGPT are one.Ĭopilot will save significant time for your users who learn it.

Microsoft is also the "exclusive provider" of Azure's backend infrastructure, products and programming interfaces on its Azure platform. Although Microsoft doesn't share the specifics of its relationship with OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, it's been reported that the software giant - which has invested billions in the what was once an open-sourced company but now is turning to a for-profit model, will be entitled to 75 percent of the OpenAI's profits until it recoups its investment after which it would have a 49 percent stake in the company. Make no mistake, this is ChatGPT, but taken to another level. Hopefully this will be in our hands by the end of 2023 but given the amount of scrutiny it will receive I wouldn’t be surprised to see Microsoft push general release into early 2024. At that time, the company said a general release will be in the "coming months" but realistically I'm betting that it will take at least four to six months to complete this testing and rollout the features to Microsoft 365 users. In June 2023, Microsoft expanded the availability of the product to an "invited" list of about 600 customers. The videos the company released look exciting but these were done in very controlled environments using very limited data and examples. Microsoft launched Copilot in March 2023 and made it available to a select number of large enterprise clients.
