Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft's artificial intelligence assistant integrated into Office products: Word, Excel, Teams, Outlook and PowerPoint.
- AI tools
- Microsoft
- Free basic plan / Copilot Pro €22 per month / Microsoft 365 Copilot $30 per user per month
What is Microsoft Copilot?
Microsoft 365 Copilot is a business AI assistant that can work with organisational data such as email, files and Teams conversations. It can summarise a Teams meeting, analyse an Excel workbook in natural language or draft a reply in Outlook. A Microsoft 365 licence is also required.
How can a business use it day to day?
Concrete use cases for entrepreneurs and knowledge workers:
Teams meeting summaries
Create meeting minutes, decisions and action items automatically after a meeting.
Processing Outlook email
Draft replies, summarise long threads and prioritise messages.
Excel data analysis
Use natural language, such as “show sales by product group”, to create a pivot table.
PowerPoint presentations
Draft a presentation from a Word document with a single instruction.
Writing Word documents
Create first drafts and content suggestions, and summarise text.
Video guides
See how Microsoft Copilot works in practice:
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SWOT summary
Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats — from an entrepreneur's point of view.
Strengths
- Built into Microsoft 365 products
- Can use company data through Microsoft Graph
- Enterprise data protection with the EU Data Boundary
- A more controlled option than a public ChatGPT workspace
Weaknesses
- Requires an additional Microsoft 365 licence
- Output quality is not always as sharp as the leading GPT models
- More constrained than the standalone ChatGPT product
- Administrator configuration is required
Opportunities
- A straightforward way for Microsoft 365 organisations to adopt AI
- Copilot Studio for building custom assistants
- Integration with an existing Microsoft technology stack
- Applicable to security-sensitive sectors such as finance and healthcare
Threats
- OpenAI Enterprise can address the same use cases
- Greater dependence on the Microsoft stack
- Pricing may be difficult for small and medium-sized businesses
- Updates may arrive more slowly than competing products
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