CoPilot for Microsoft 365 - Is It Worth $360?!

Microsoft has finally released CoPilot for businesses with under 300 users, and I've bought a license!

In this video, you're going to watch over my shoulder as we take a first look at the power of CoPilot for Microsoft 365

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00:00 Introduction
01:19 Cost of CoPilot
02:26 How to Buy CoPilot
04:35 CoPilot for Outlook
08:43 CoPilot for Word
10:39 CoPilot for PowerPoint
12:53 CoPilot for Excel

[spencerfromit]

As a fellow service provider here in the United States, this was an excellent video, and a wonderful explain on how copilot works, looking forward to rolling this out to some of our clients here in the states

[andyprice]

Really good video, just starting using CoPilot and this was helpful.

[driver]

Summary of email threads and summary of unread in inbox are amazing. Saves tonnes of time.

[DEFACTO]

Excellent content Jonathan, with engaging delivery too.

[daelra]

I'd be interested in how customisable CoPilot is? Can we have style guides/templates for the types of formatting/images we use? Picking on Powerpoint here as an example but the same sorts of questions would apply to all the MS apps we might consider CoPilot for. We would hate to use stock images in PowerPoint for example, and our presentations follow strict style guidelines. We have our own library of images we can choose from. Can we use CoPilot to guess which of those images makes the most sense? Also, most of our PowerPoint presentations are data/chart heavy. How can PowerPoint help us create charts from say a bunch of Excel tables that follow the same formatting, etc? It's easy to bash together the bones of a PowerPoint presentation, it's presenting the the detail in a cohesive manner that takes the effort. How does CoPilot help with the detail and how easy is it to train it so it doesn't look like an LLM did it??

Potentially, for use the best use of AI would be to convert say an Excel workbook to PowerPoint or take the detail out of a PowerPoint presentation to summarise in an email.

It would also be interesting to see if CoPilot makes its way to SharePoint. Creating a nice SharePoint front end without needing coding experience would be great. And file management is always a pain. If we could have better AI tools to do fuzzy searches, find duplicates, help identify dead files, etc., that really would be worth the money. What sort of scope do we have to train CoPilot on company data and if so what sorts of safeguards do we have that none of that leaks outside the company?

[theguydan]

Interesting. Thank you for this summary

[franciscomorenoreina]

Great video! Thanks for show us how to works copilot

[frederickh]

Does Copilot have the ability to assist in diarising a meeting using shared calendars?

[giftysingla]

can you show me if we can use Copilot in teams app on Team channels and files residing on it

[brightideasagency]

Nice overview Jonathan! Are you now finding the summarization in Word is working? I was seeing this as working, but have been seeing the same as you.

[orphelinsresilients]

Thank you for your work. What about Onedrive and Onenote integrations ? Did you have a chance to test it ?

[swfc_clips]

the whole point of this is that it can have access to your corporate data, all your emails, files in Teams, OneDrive, Sharepoint etc, and pull that information and give you responses specific to your organisation. These demos and quick tests are fine but i really dont think show the actual best use cases. I really want to see how it will work in proper environments with real data, asking it to summarise real documents, or collate data from multiple sources etc. I know its difficult to show that on a video and keep privacy of your actual data etc, but that is the biggest feature for enterprises i think and what the money is on. $30/mo for an executive who is paid many times that per hour is peanuts if it saves them time.

i just worry that all these examples and demos ive seen are in such clean environments or with sample files that are designed to give the right output.

i know you are just showing an example, but i would love to see things like "reply to this tender request based on this repository of information about our companies services" or something like that, and see how it actually does. If that can get even half way to a good output it is a time saver

[Hennessy-]

So what's your opinion: for someone who already has a GPT4 subscription is it worth the money purchasing copilot?

[AbhijitVerekar]

I’ve paid for it and downloaded the latest apps and I don’t have the copilot options on any app. I have also assigned myself the licenses :(

[acmtix]

My customers have asked me not to use CoPilot when creating documentation for them due to security risks and low quality documents being generated. Annual basis license is a killer for such an unnecessary piece of software.

[driver]

Hmm. You forgot to mention that an EA, enterprise agreement had to be in place to get copilot before. Minimum up front buy in of 300 licenses yes. But to be eligible you had to be 2500 licensed users either E3/5 licenses and an EA that you can only have with 2500 users or more. Out company got the first licenses issued in Europe after those bars were lowered supposedly 😁

[xbon]

As an indivudual only cost 20 and is monthly. Very useful as an individual who profits off AI, at least for me.

[jonathan-]

I thought of replacing chat GPT with this, but I'm unsure if it's really worth 30 bugs a month. Would like to try it one month but seems not possible

[martondemeter]

I have a small business with 5 people in our team including myself.
So it means, that we need to buy it 5x360$ / year? :DDD

Thats brutal...

[GiovannaAguilar]

Too expensive. I already pay for Chat GPT