Microsoft 365 Copilot (aka. Coplilot for Microsoft 365) is already generally purchasable by enterprise customers since November 1, 2023 (as a paid add-on to M365 E3/E5; more below).
For Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscribers, the Microsoft 365 Copilot Release Date will be “in the future”. However, you can join the M365 Copilot Early Access Program, which gives preselected Microsoft 365 subscribers access to try early versions of Copilot in Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and other Microsoft apps. The program is free but is on an invitation-only basis. We expect Microsoft 365 Copilot it to be purchasable by Microsoft 365 Personal or Family subscribers earliest by the second half of 2024. Microsoft prioritize enterprise customers with this new Copilot, and are still figuring out their way to best provide and license it to customers.
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For organizations, Microsoft 365 Copilot is available as an add-on license, with Microsoft charging a price of $30 per user per month. Microsoft 365 E3/E5 are the prerequisite for licensing, with a minimum of 300 users. This means that Microsoft 365 Copilot can only be purchased as an add-on license if you have one of these plans.
No, Microsoft made it clear that there are no trials available for Microsoft 365 Copilot at general availability.
Since November 1, 2023, the Microsoft 365 Copilot includes Copilot in Word, PowerPoint, Excel (preview), Outlook, SharePoint (preview), OneDrive (preview), Teams, Loop, Copilot Whiteboard, Copilot OneNote (only available on Win32 desktops; all devices starting sometime during their fiscal year of 2025), as well as access to Microsoft 365 Chat (find more below). Also, with Microsoft Copilot Studio, you can build standalone copilots for Micrsooft 365 Copilot. Find Microsoft 365 Copilot feature details by Microsoft.
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Microsoft 365 Copilot is initially only be available through the Enterprise Agreement (EA), Enterprise Subscription Agreement (EAS) and Microsoft Customer Agreement – Enterprise (MCA-E) channels. Further details on availability through the Direct and Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) channels will be announced in the coming months. Microsoft 365 Copilot is initially only available through Licensing Solution Partners (LSPs). SCHNEIDER IT MANAGEMENT is your first choice for all Microsoft licensing as an registered LSP. Contact us for a free consultation and learn how to best implement Microsoft 365 Copilot in your organization.
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The Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption guide will be available for download soon. This guide will be a valuable resource for driving the adoption of Copilot capabilities within your organization.
Microsoft 365 Chat is a new, hero experience in Microsoft 365 Copilot (previously announced as Business Chat). Microsoft 365 Chat acts as a comprehensive assistant, delving into the vast expanse of your work-related data, including emails, meetings, chats, documents, and even web content. It possesses an in-depth understanding of you, your role, your priorities, and your organization. Rather than merely answering simple queries, it proactively assists you with complex or monotonous tasks.
Copilot will be integrated in the main Microsoft 365 Apps, such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams. Microsoft 365 Copilot works across the LLM (including GPT-4), the Microsoft 365 apps, and your data (Microsoft Graph) – your calendar, emails, chats, documents, meetings and contacts – and combines them to completely do tasks for you.
Using the new Microsoft 365 Chat (formerly Business Chat) feature of Microsoft 365 Copilot, you can type in a natural language prompt in any Microsoft 365 App and it will creatively do the task for you.
Example: In PowerPoint, you type in “Create a 15 slide presentation about the last quarters financial results using the [filename]”. Microsoft 365 Copilot will automatically create the full presentation based on your file’s content, structure it appropriately and it lets you make dynamic changes afterwards. For more info on how to prompt in Microsoft 365, read this Microsoft 365 Copilot Prompt Guidance.
With Copilot, users will make use of more features that are already available within Microsoft 365 Apps. As Microsoft puts it: “The average person uses less than 10% of what PowerPoint can do. Copilot unlocks the other 90%.”
Find an Microsoft 365 Copilot explainer video series from Microsoft on Youtube.
Will Microsoft 365 Copilot be trained with customers’ data?
No. Microsoft has made it clear that Copilot does not utilize customer data, including prompts, for the purposes of training or enhancing their models. They are of the belief that customers’ data belongs solely to the customer and therefore maintain the guarantees they have always made regarding the security and privacy of enterprise and commercial data, even in the age of AI.
Where does user’s data go and what does Microsoft see?
Microsoft’s dedication to data security and privacy within the enterprise remains unaltered, and Copilot automatically inherits the customers’ security, compliance, and privacy regulations for Microsoft 365.
Any information entered by a user, as well as the data retrieved from the prompts, and the resulting responses are kept within the Microsoft cloud. This is in accordance with Microsoft’s existing data security commitments. Find more info in the link section below.
Microsoft 365 Copilot embodies the integration of AI into Microsoft 365. By integrating LLMs with data in the Microsoft Graph and the Microsoft 365 apps, Microsoft 365 Copilot will help users complete tasks more efficiently and effectively. The tool is set to launch in November 2023.
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