Microsoft has announced the general availability of Microsoft 365 Copilot, a digital companion designed to streamline tasks across Bing, Edge, Microsoft 365, and Windows. The new Copilot icon and user experience will first roll out on Windows on September 26, followed by Microsoft 365 Copilot for enterprise customers on November 1.
Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot and Chat
Microsoft has unveiled its vision for Copilot, a digital companion designed to streamline your life. It aims to create a unified user experience across Bing, Edge, Microsoft 365, and Windows.
What’s New?
The first step towards realizing this vision involves a new visual identity for Copilot and a consistent user experience. This new look and feel will start rolling out first in Windows on September 26, followed by Microsoft 365 Copilot for enterprise customers on November 1.
Microsoft Copilot in Windows
Microsoft Copilot in Windows is designed to empower users to create faster and simplify complex tasks. It’s easily accessible on the taskbar or via keyboard shortcut, providing assistance alongside all your apps.
“It will empower you to create faster and complete tasks with ease and lessen your cognitive load—making once-complicated tasks simple.”
Bing Chat Enterprise
Bing Chat Enterprise builds on Microsoft Copilot and adds commercial data protection. It ensures that your business data is protected and will not leak outside the organization.
“With Bing Chat Enterprise, chat data is not saved, Microsoft has no eyes-on access, and your data is not used to train the large language models (LLM).”
Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft 365 Copilot is your AI assistant at work. It includes enterprise-grade security, privacy, compliance, and responsible AI to ensure all data processing happens inside your Microsoft 365 tenant.
Microsoft 365 Chat
Microsoft 365 Chat is the new hero experience for Microsoft 365 Copilot. It goes beyond simple questions and answers, combing across your entire universe of data to solve your most complex problems at work.
What’s Important to Know?
Microsoft 365 Copilot will be generally available for enterprise customers for $30 per user per month on November 1. It’s already being used by tens of thousands of enterprise users in the Early Access Program, including customers at companies like Visa, General Motors, KPMG, and Lumen Technologies.
Stay tuned for more details about Microsoft 365 Copilot, Bing Chat Enterprise, and Copilot in Windows.
From the Microsoft 365 Blog
