Microsoft 365 Copilot Is it Worth the Money? The Ultimate Pro’s & Con’s Guide!

In this session, I take a long hard look at Microsoft 365 Copilot and ask the question, is it actually worth the money? In addition I’ll also discuss the pro’s and con’s of using it. With so many AI tools now in the market we have to consider security & compliance as well as how much POI will it bring. So, not only will I take a look at what Copilot is and how it works, I’ll also offer pro’s and con’s as to why or whit might not be suitable for your business.

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00:00 Introduction
02:35 How to get access to Copilot?
03:42 Prompting with Copilot
04:36 Generating Graphics with Microsoft Designer
04:52 Microsoft 365 Copilot integration with Microsoft Word
05:46 Microsoft 365 Copilot integration with Microsoft Teams
07:01 Microsoft 365 Copilot integration with Microsoft Powerpoint
09:25 A quick word about Copilot Pro
10:09 Important thoughts on Security & Compliance
11:19 Comparing Microsoft 365 Copilot with Chat GPT & Others
12:37 Microsoft 365 Copilot Pro’s Vs Con’s
16:07 Conclusions

[.Golden]

I use Copilot every day. I really like it. It makes my job much easier. It is like having a personal assistant without paying a ton of money for an assistant.

[FreshSecurity]

11:30 It is worth checking the OpenAI Privacy Policy... If you are on the Consumer or Free plan (like most people), you need to actively opt out of OpenAI using your data to train models (section 2). If you have an Enterprise plan, your data remains private by default.

[Iammillion]

So far very usefull to me, it helps allot with issues I have being an IT professional thank you for Sharing.

[robintaha]

CoPilot is like paying for a uninvited intruder in to your home to get in your way, second guess your every move, and invade your privacy. There is a very intricate, complex, ever changing procedure to get it to leave. But it will return and continue with interrupting you, right when you are trying to be productive.

[jackchou]

Thanks for sharing Andy, very good insights here.

[edwarddesposito]

If you already have office 365, does any other Ai really make sense practically? How much or little would other AI options integrate into a workflow? Are you forced to copy and paste content out of your 365 document into the AI tool, edit, and then copy back? Can you save out of that other AI tool as a document directly to your one drive?

[nickglanfield]

thanks really useful - currently at 15% discount - so might try it for 1 year and see if it does make the difference...

[lorinkundert]

I like copilot on other peoples computers, I like absolute privacy.

[RussellRiker]

Thanks. we are being asked a lot of the same questions here at work this past week. I just wish I could try it for a month, but have to buy it for a year. 😡

[tochangeornottochange]

What apps are not integrated with Copilot?

[Mushama]

Way too expensive until it is better. And it will be. But not at the moment. Total lack of integration to the actual document data.

[johnscoggins]

Copilot is not as good as a human assistant in real time and should not be relied upon for business decisions. Copilot's information is limited and therefore should be cross-checked with other sources. Copilot is in its early stages and should not be relied upon to deliver information to be used in decision-making. One cannot trust that the information provided by an AI assistant is factual.

[IhsaanS]

No, absolutely not. $360 a year just for a widget? You mean copy and pasting between 2 windows can save me hundreds of dollars?

[Naisan]

Another con is also the language - It's not very good for other languages than English.
So anything where it has to either listen or handle languages other than English, it's a very poor output - Like transcribing a Teams meeting, or as you showed taking a text and finding if there's any tasks that needs to be done. Not very good.

Meaning that if you work with anything but the english language, the usefulness is severely diminished.

At least that's my experience, being danish.