Microsoft has announced a new subscription plan that brings together the best of Microsoft 365 and Copilot Pro dubbed Microsoft 365 Premium. Up until now, both Microsoft 365 and Copilot Pro have been separate subscriptions, costing up to $12.99 a month for Microsoft 365 and $19.99 a month for Copilot Pro. Microsoft 365 Premium combines access to Microsoft’s Office suite …
Read More »Microsoft employees are worried customers can’t keep all of its Copilot products straight, but the company has a plan to address the confusion, according to audio from an internal meeting reviewed by Business Insider. In a recent all-employee town hall, a Microsoft employee asked how the company plans to make the fact that it has multiple Copilot apps less confusing …
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Microsoft is trying to make Copilot more approachable by giving the AI assistant an animated face to talk with. The experimental “Portraits” feature in Copilot Labs is currently available in the US, UK, and Canada, and provides 40 stylized human avatars that respond with natural expressions during real-time voice conversations. Announcing the new feature on X, Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa …
Read More »Microsoft Partners With OpenAI Rival Anthropic on AI Copilot Bloomberg.com Expanding model choice in Microsoft 365 Copilot Microsoft Claude is now available in Microsoft 365 Copilot Anthropic Microsoft brings Anthropic AI models to 365 Copilot, diversifies beyond OpenAI Reuters Microsoft adds Anthropic AI model to Copilot assistant, diversifying from OpenAI CNBC Source link
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Thomas Trutschel/Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Microsoft announces more Copilot features within Teams. AI agents will assist in Teams meetings and messaging channels. These features solidify companies adopting agentic AI tools to increase employee productivity. Productivity-centered AI tools for enterprises are becoming commonplace — a recent study hailed Microsoft as one of …
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Microsoft has begun rolling out the beta version of its AI-powered Gaming Copilot to Windows 11 systems for users aged 18 or older, excluding those in mainland China. Tagged as a “personal gaming sidekick,” Gaming Copilot will also be pushed to Xbox mobile app users on Apple and Android devices starting next month. To start using Gaming Copilot in the …
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Comment Microsoft suspects that a “transformative shift” is being driven in personal and enterprise computing by its Copilot+ PCs and an expanding Windows on Arm ecosystem. Copilot+ PCs? Customers just aren’t buying it – yet READ MORE Enterprise customers clearly don’t agree, or at least they didn’t in January, when analysts spoke of tepid sales figures. Many biz users felt …
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Have enough Copilot buttons in your life? No you don’t — have another one! This one pops up in the latest Windows 11 Insider Preview when mousing over an open app in your taskbar; it lets you share the contents with Copilot Vision. Want to know who is celebrating in that dogpile on the mound, or dig a little deeper …
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Next month, Microsoft will begin automatically installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on Windows devices outside of the EEA region that have the Microsoft 365 desktop client apps. The Microsoft 365 Copilot app integrates the AI-powered Copilot assistant with Microsoft 365 suite apps, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, as well as other features like Notebooks and AI agents. Redmond also …
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Microsoft is adding the free Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and agents to Office apps for all Microsoft 365 business users today. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote are all being updated with a Copilot Chat sidebar that will help draft documents, analyze spreadsheets, and more without needing an additional Microsoft 365 Copilot license. “Copilot Chat is secure AI chat grounded …
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