Announcing Microsoft 365 Copilot common availability and Microsoft 365 Chat

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Announcing Microsoft 365 Copilot common availability and Microsoft 365 Chat


Today at an occasion in New York, we introduced our imaginative and prescient for Microsoft Copilot—a digital companion on your entire life—that can create a single Copilot consumer expertise throughout Bing, Edge, Microsoft 365, and Windows. As a primary step towards realizing this imaginative and prescient, we’re unveiling a brand new visible id—the Copilot icon—and making a constant consumer expertise that can begin to roll out throughout all our Copilots, first in Windows on September 26 after which in Microsoft 365 Copilot when it’s usually obtainable for enterprise clients on November 1.   

To summarize at this time’s bulletins, right here is the product line-up for industrial clients: 

  • Microsoft Copilot in Windows can be obtainable on September 26. It will empower you to create quicker and full duties with ease and reduce your cognitive load—making once-complicated duties easy. We’ve made accessing the facility of Copilot seamless because it’s all the time proper there for you on the taskbar or with the Win+C keyboard shortcut, offering help alongside all of your apps. Copilot in Windows will function the brand new Copilot icon, the brand new Copilot consumer expertise, Bing Chat, and can be obtainable to industrial clients without spending a dime.
  • Bing Chat Enterprise builds on Microsoft Copilot and provides industrial knowledge safety—so that you may be assured what you are promoting knowledge is protected and won’t leak outdoors the group. With Bing Chat Enterprise, chat knowledge shouldn’t be saved, Microsoft has no eyes-on entry, and your knowledge shouldn’t be used to coach the massive language fashions (LLM). Bing Chat Enterprise is out there as a standalone for $5 per consumer per 30 days and is included in Microsoft 365 E3 and Microsoft 365 E5.
  • Microsoft 365 Copilot is your AI assistant at work. It builds on Bing Chat Enterprise however is in a category all its personal. It contains enterprise-grade safety, privateness, compliance, and accountable AI to make sure all knowledge processing occurs inside your Microsoft 365 tenant—utilizing expertise Microsoft 365 clients have relied on for years. Microsoft 365 Chat is the brand new hero expertise for Microsoft 365 Copilot and goes far past easy questions and solutions. It combs throughout your whole universe of knowledge—all of your emails, conferences, chats, paperwork, and extra, plus the online—to unravel your most advanced issues at work. And it’s built-in into the Microsoft 365 Apps hundreds of thousands of individuals use on daily basis—Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and extra. Already utilized by tens of 1000’s of enterprise customers in our Early Access Program (EAP) together with clients at firms like Visa, General Motors, KPMG, and Lumen Technologies, Microsoft 365 Copilot can be usually obtainable for enterprise clients for $30 per consumer per 30 days on November 1. 

Microsoft Copilot industrial SKU line-up

Read on for extra particulars about at this time’s bulletins in Microsoft 365 Copilot, Bing Chat Enterprise, and Copilot in Windows.  

Microsoft 365 Copilot—your AI assistant at work 

In March, we confirmed you the way Copilot can unlock productiveness and unleash creativity within the apps that hundreds of thousands of individuals use on daily basis—Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams. Today, we unveiled a brand new, hero expertise in Microsoft 365 Copilot: Microsoft 365 Chat. You noticed a glimpse of Microsoft 365 Chat in March, then referred to as Business Chat, however speedy developments over the previous few months have taken it to a complete new stage. It’s a robust new functionality in Microsoft 365 Copilot that goes far past easy questions and solutions to tame the complexity, remove the drudgery, and reclaim time at work. Like an assistant, it has a deep understanding of you, your job, your priorities, and your group. It can discover no matter you want in your information (even the information you forgot existed), join the dots throughout all of your content material and context on the velocity of sunshine, and even combine with the apps you utilize to run what you are promoting. Preview clients can entry it at this time on Microsoft365.com or in Teams when signed in with their work account. In the long run, you’ll have the ability to entry it wherever you see the Copilot icon when signed in together with your work account.  

Microsoft 365 Copilot

Unlock productiveness and unleash creativity within the apps hundreds of thousands of individuals use on daily basis throughout work and life.

Enterprise clients ought to name their Microsoft account consultant to buy Microsoft 365 Copilot starting on November 1. EAP clients could have the primary alternative to deploy Copilot throughout their organizations when it’s usually obtainable. In addition, we now have expanded our EAP to a choose group of shoppers and small enterprise clients, and are excited to study extra as we scale. 

Over the previous few years, the tempo and quantity of labor have solely elevated. On a given workday, our heaviest customers seek for what they want 18 occasions, obtain over 250 Outlook emails, and ship or learn practically 150 Teams chats.1 Teams customers globally are in 3 times extra conferences every week than they have been in 2020.2 And on Windows, some folks use 11 apps in a single day to get their work achieved. Microsoft 365 Chat will assist everybody carry the load of labor.3 

Learn to work in a complete new method with Copilot Lab

We additionally introduced Copilot Lab to assist everybody study to work iteratively with AI and get probably the most out of Microsoft 365 Copilot. Just as clients turned to Microsoft within the shift to distant and versatile work, they’re counting on us to assist folks construct new work habits for a brand new AI-powered period of productiveness. And we need to assist. With Copilot Lab, you may study to show immediate into an awesome one, share your favourite prompts with coworkers, and get impressed as all of us discover ways to work in a complete new method collectively. Once it’s usually obtainable, Copilot Lab can be built-in into Microsoft 365 Copilot and accessible through an internet site to all Microsoft 365 Copilot customers.  

Unlock productiveness and unleash creativity with Microsoft 365 Copilot 

We’re persevering with so as to add new Copilot experiences within the Microsoft 365 apps. All updates can be usually obtainable for industrial clients in November until famous as “coming soon.”  

Copilot in Outlook helps you keep on prime of your inbox and create impactful communication in a fraction of the time.  
Now you may: 

  • Ask Copilot to summarize an electronic mail thread to get key info with annotations that provide help to shortly bounce to the supply of the summarized content material, and prompt motion gadgets, replies, and follow-up conferences.  
  • Choose “Sound like me” to match your distinctive writing model and voice whenever you’re utilizing Copilot to draft an electronic mail.
  • Follow a Teams assembly that you can not attend reside, immediately from Outlook by yourself time. When the assembly begins, Teams notifies members to file it. When the recording is prepared, Copilot notifies you in Outlook.  

Copilot in Word transforms each a part of the writing course of to make you extra artistic and environment friendly.
Now you may:  

  • Ask Copilot for a abstract of any doc to share as a recap or shortly rise up to hurry, and Copilot will now ship a extra in-depth bulleted summation with all the knowledge you want. 
  • Ask Copilot to “rewrite” a paragraph, then scroll by a sequence of choices to see what matches greatest. You can then alter the rewrite tone to make it extra impartial, informal, or skilled. 
  • Refine a immediate by asking Copilot to do issues like “make answer more concise” or “add a column in the table for the project owner.”  
  • Save time on formatting by asking Copilot to generate a desk out of your copy. 
Animation showing user selecting Copilot in Word to help visualize content from the Word document into a table and adding more details to fine-tune the table.

Copilot in Excel allows anybody to investigate and visualize knowledge like an information analyst.  
Now you may: 

  • Work with Copilot in Excel to assist analyze, format, and edit your knowledge to realize deeper understanding and insights. 
  • Quickly add a components column, spotlight key knowledge with a immediate like “make all cells red where the value is under 1000,” filter and type your knowledge, and ask inquiries to immediately uncover key insights. 
  • Use Copilot to entry superior analytics; create highly effective, skilled visualizations, generate forecasts, and save time sorting by knowledge with Python in Excel

Copilot in Loop unlocks the facility of shared pondering, serving to groups cocreate, keep updated, and choose up the place others left off.  
Now you may: 

  • Iterate with Copilot collaboratively as a staff, cocreating prompts and reviewing earlier interactions to edit and enhance on work collectively.  
  • Ask Copilot to generate a fast desk on the web page to assist set up staff initiatives. You can simply flip the desk right into a Loop part to share with teammates wherever they’re working—in Teams, Outlook, Microsoft Whiteboard, and Word on the net. 
  • Quickly catch up the place your teammates left off by asking Copilot for a abstract of a web page or asking open-ended questions like “What key assignments were made since I was last on this page?”  
  • Generate a recap for a teammate that you just’re handing work off to, to allow them to rise up to hurry on any updates or modifications.  
  • Save time writing code with Copilot-suggested Code blocks that pop up routinely utilizing the context of your work. 

Copilot in OneNote helps you keep organized, ready, and able to take motion.  
Now you may:  

  • Gain deeper insights in your notes by asking complete questions like: “What are the pros and cons of this process?”   
  • Quickly generate summaries of your OneNote content material. 
  • Type just some sentences and get a Copilot-generated paragraph, bulleted checklist, or organized part. 
  • Make your writing clearer and more practical with a fast Copilot edit. 

Copilot in Stream helps you discover the insights and knowledge you want from a video—within the Microsoft Stream internet app or anyplace Stream movies work throughout Microsoft 365 apps—in seconds.  
Now you may:  

  • Get a fast abstract of the video with a transcript of the related spots it’s good to overview.  
  • Ask Copilot open-ended questions—“What was the discussion outcome?” “How did the site walkthrough go?”—to shortly perceive outcomes and key factors. 
  • Ask Copilot to determine when folks, groups, or subjects are mentioned, then bounce proper to that time within the video. 
  • Ask Copilot for prompt follow-ups or actions from a video you missed.   
Stream in Copilot

Copilot in OneDrive helps you discover all of the insights and knowledge you want—with out ever opening a file. 
Now you may: 

  • Ask Copilot open-ended questions associated to a person file or get a abstract of the content material.

Bing Chat Enterprise—be assured utilizing generative AI at work 

In July, we launched Bing Chat Enterprise. As organizations undertake AI, they need to be assured that their knowledge is protected. Bing Chat Enterprise provides industrial knowledge safety, guaranteeing that delicate enterprise knowledge is rarely seen by anybody, that the queries are by no means saved, and consumer enter is rarely used to coach the inspiration fashions.  

Today, we additionally introduced that Bing Chat Enterprise is now obtainable within the Microsoft Edge cellular app and we’re bringing help for multimodal visible search and Image Creator to Bing Chat Enterprise. Boost your creativity at work with the power to search out info utilizing photos and creating them whereas defending delicate enterprise knowledge. 

Bing Chat Enterprise is already a part of Microsoft 365 E3 and E5, Business Standard, and Business Premium, which implies greater than 160 million folks have already got entry.

Copilot in Windows

In May, we introduced that Copilot was coming to Windows 11. Copilot in Windows—in preview beginning September 26—empowers you to create quicker, full duties with ease, and lessens your cognitive load—making as soon as difficult duties, easy. We’ve made accessing the facility of Copilot seamless because it’s all the time proper there for you on the taskbar or with the Win+C keyboard shortcut offering help alongside all of your apps, on all display screen sizes at work, faculty, or at dwelling.   

And we’re empowering IT admins with controls to resolve after they deploy Copilot in Windows to their enterprise and who has entry. To assist deliver Copilot to extra folks throughout extra organizations, we’re excited to announce that Windows 365 Boot and Windows 365 Switch will even be obtainable on this replace, making it simpler than ever to get a full, safe, customized Windows 365 Cloud PC with Copilot—on any gadget. Microsoft was just lately acknowledged as a Leader in Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Desktop as a Service (DaaS).

Building responsibly  

As we deliver Copilot to clients, we’re guided by our AI ideas, Responsible AI Standard, and many years of analysis on AI. And our Copilot Copyright Commitment means clients may be assured utilizing our Copilot companies and the output they generate with out worrying about copyright claims.  

Learn extra

To study extra about Microsoft Copilot, examine all of at this time’s Copilot bulletins on our Official Microsoft Blog, and for all of the blogs, movies, and belongings associated to at this time’s announcement, please go to our microsite. You can study extra about Microsoft 365 Copilot on our help web page. Go to WorkLab to study extra in regards to the artwork and science of prompting.  


1 Data represents prime 20 p.c of customers by quantity of searches throughout M365 companies, emails acquired, and despatched and skim chats in Teams, respectively 

2 Microsoft annual Work Trend Index 2023: Work Trend Index | Will AI Fix Work? (microsoft.com) 

3 Data displays the prime 20 p.c Windows units by app quantity per day 

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