Microsoft Copilot is a generative AI chatbot developed by Microsoft, based on large language models (LLMs).
Key Features
Document Creation and Editing
- Word: Copilot helps users draft, edit, and summarize documents. By providing simple prompts or instructions, Copilot can generate text, offer tone suggestions, and create outlines.
- PowerPoint: Copilot automatically generates presentations based on existing documents and adds suitable templates and images, helping users quickly create high-quality presentations.
Data Analysis and Reporting
- Excel: Copilot automates complex data analysis tasks, generates charts and reports, and provides useful insights and suggestions. It can also help users create formulas, reducing errors and improving report accuracy.
Email Management
- Outlook: Copilot assists users in managing schedules, replying to emails, drafting summaries and outlines, and offering appropriate tone and politeness suggestions. It also highlights key points in emails, helping users grasp content faster and respond more efficiently.
Collaboration and Communication
- Teams: Copilot helps users collaborate, share information, create tasks and plans, and provides relevant feedback and suggestions. It can also answer user questions in real-time during meetings and generate meeting notes and highlights.
Business Chat
- Business Chat: Copilot leverages LLM, Microsoft 365 applications, and user data to generate text content based on natural language prompts, such as status updates, project proposals, and market analyses, optimizing the content using data from Microsoft Graph.
Pricing
- Microsoft 365 Copilot: $30 per user per month. This price is in addition to an existing Microsoft 365 subscription. For example, if a user subscribes to Microsoft 365 Business Standard at $12.50 per month, they will need to pay an extra $30 to use Microsoft 365 Copilot.
- Copilot Pro: $20 per user per month, offering priority access to GPT-4 and GPT-4 Turbo services.
Subscription Plans
- Annual Subscription: Users can opt for an annual payment plan at $360 per user per year.
- Enterprise Customers: For enterprise customers, Microsoft 365 Copilot pricing ranges from $12.50 to $57 per user per month, depending on the chosen subscription plan and service level.
Free Trials and Other Options
- Bing Chat Enterprise: Customers with Microsoft 365 E3, E5, Business Standard, and Business Premium subscriptions can try Bing Chat Enterprise for free, with a future cost of $5 per user per month.
Use Cases
Document Processing
- Word: Copilot can generate drafts based on simple descriptions, helping users write copy, scripts, and reports. It can adjust the writing style to meet user needs, provide grammar and content suggestions, and even integrate content from other documents.
Data Analysis
- Excel: Copilot can automatically generate analysis reports, identify data correlations, propose hypothesis scenarios, and offer formula suggestions based on user queries. Users can edit and analyze data using natural language commands without mastering complex formulas or functions.
Presentations
- PowerPoint: Copilot can transform existing text documents into presentations, automatically adding images, audio, and other multimedia content. Users can adjust layout, text formatting, and insert animations using natural language, greatly simplifying the process of creating presentations.
Email Management
- Outlook: Copilot helps users categorize and respond to emails, generate email summaries, and offer reply suggestions based on the context. It can also automatically schedule appointments and remind users of future plans.
Team Collaboration
- Teams: Copilot can summarize meeting highlights in real time, suggest follow-up questions, and generate meeting notes. It also helps users share information, create tasks and plans, and provides feedback and suggestions in team settings.
Cross-Application Integration
- Business Chat: Copilot operates across multiple applications (such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams) and generates content based on natural language prompts. For instance, it can convert a Word document into a PowerPoint presentation or extract data from Excel to generate a report.
Market and Business Analysis
- Market Trend Summaries: Copilot can help users summarize market trends, supply and demand relationships, research academic articles, gather customer and competitor intelligence, and develop pricing strategies.
Personalized Experience
- Personalized Writing: Copilot can modify the writing style to meet user preferences and provide suggestions to strengthen arguments or correct errors, allowing for a more personalized writing experience.
