Copilot for Microsoft365 is now for everyone!

Welcome back to #CopilotYourDay! Last week, we started with a general overview of Copilot. And today we have an amazing announcement!

Exciting updates

Satya Nadella just released the latest blogpost and announced that there will be no more licensing restrictions.

Copilot for Microsoft 365 is now also accesible for small businesses and education

The updates include:

1. Copilot for Microsoft 365 is now generally available for small businesses with Microsoft 365 Business Premium and Business Standard Customers can purchase between one and 299 seats for $30 per person per month.
2. Removing the 300-seat purchase minimum for commercial plans and making Copilot available for Office 365 E3 and E5 customers (A Microsoft 365 license was previously required).
3. Commercial customers can now purchase Copilot for Microsoft 365 through our amazing network of Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider partners.
4. Last month, we also announced eligibility of Copilot for Microsoft 365?for education faculty and staff.

Now is the time to Copilot Your Day - This week, let's dive deeper into M365 Copilot.

Basic knowledge

M365 Copilot is available with an additional licensing fee of $30 per user per month on top of the E3/E5 or Business Premium / Standard licensing. It is important to have a proper implementation plan to ensure long-term usage of the licenses.

Are you ready to take-off?

Since the general availability for Enterprise customers on November 1st, I have had many conversations about how to get started with M365 Copilot. One of the most important aspects is being Copilot-ready. Although today's newsletter is not about adoption, I would like to highlight the importance of readiness. I discussed this topic in more detail a few weeks ago in my expert blog. Copilot: Are you ready for take-off? | Campana & Schott (campana-schott.com)

M365 Copilot in your Flow of Work

When we talk about M365 Copilot, most of us think about boosting productivity. But how does it work?

Architectual View on M365 Copilot

Let's start with a basic understanding of the Copilot architecture.

M365 Copilot is built with tenant isolation in mind, ensuring that your company can only access its own content and that your actions have no effect on the service of another company. Access permissions remain unchanged, and Copilot only analyzes data for which the user has at least read permission. It is also possible to exclude certain data sets from the semantic index.

M365 Copilot directly in your apps

Now that we have a basic understanding of M365 Copilot, let's take a look at where we can integrate it into our workflow.

M365 Copilot is always just one click away, directly integrated into your productivity tools.

Once your organization has added M365 Copilot to your user account, you will see a new icon in the taskbar of all the different productivity tools.

• Word
• Power Point
• Excel
• OneNote
• Outlook

Furthermore, it is also integrated into Teams as a single chat and as a team extension for 1:1 chats.

All the apps, as well as the M365 chats, are your starting points to leverage your productivity with M365 Copilot.

Any other updates? Of course!

Today we’re announcing the availability of Copilot Pro, a new subscription ($20/pupm) that delivers the most advanced features and capabilities of Microsoft Copilot to individuals looking to supercharge their Copilot experience. Whether you need advanced help with writing, coding, designing, researching or learning, Copilot Pro brings greater performance, productivity and creativity.

Copilot Pro provides:

1. A single AI experience that runs across your devices, understanding your context on the web, on your PC, across your apps and soon on your phone to bring the right skills to you when you need them.

1. Access to Copilot in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote on PC, Mac and iPad for Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscribers.
2. Priority access to the very latest models – starting today with OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo. With Copilot Pro you’ll have access to GPT-4 Turbo during peak times for faster performance and, coming soon, the ability to toggle between models to optimize your experience how you choose.
3. Enhanced AI image creation with Image Creator from Designer (formerly Bing Image Creator) – ensuring it’s faster with 100 boosts per day while bringing you more detailed image quality as well as landscape image format.

The ability to build your own Copilot GPT – a customized Copilot tailored for a specific topic – in our new Copilot GPT Builder (coming soon) with just a simple set of prompts.

New Features

Source: Bringing the full power of Copilot to more people and businesses - The Official Microsoft Blog

1. Copilot GPTs – Copilot GPTs let you customize the behavior of Microsoft Copilot on a topic that is of particular interest to you.? A handful of Copilot GPTs will start to roll out beginning today with specific purposes such as fitness, travel, cooking and more. Soon, Copilot Pro users will also be able to create their own Copilot GPTs using Copilot GPT Builder. Stay tuned for more on this experience as we get closer to availability.
2. Copilot mobile app – The Copilot mobile app is now available for Android and iOS. The Copilot app gives you the power of Copilot on the go as your Copilot queries and chats will roam across your phone and PC. The Copilot mobile app includes the same capabilities of Copilot on your PC including access to GPT-4, Dall-E 3 for image creation, and the ability to use images from your phone when chatting with Copilot. Download the app from the Google Play Store or the Apple App Store.
3. Copilot in the Microsoft 365 mobile app – We’re also adding Copilot to the Microsoft 365 mobile app for Android and iOS for individuals with a Microsoft account. This new feature is rolling out over the next month. Access Copilot right inside the app and easily export the content you create to a Word or PDF document. Download the app from the Google Play Store or the Apple App Store.

Stay tuned!

In the upcoming weeks, we will dive into the different apps and their specific use cases. Please keep in mind that you can submit your questions or ideas/interests: Add your questions and ideas

See you next week ??????

Pascal