Copilot Agents, Pages & More In Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2
Second, the Microsoft 365 app Copilot is improving quickly. Its users say Copilot in Microsoft Teams has transformed meetings forever and is the most valuable feature. We’re delighted to do the same for advanced Excel data analysis, PowerPoint storytelling, Outlook mailbox management, and more.
Third, Copilot agents make it easier and faster than ever to automate and execute business operations for you, letting you extend your team like never before.
Enterprises and small businesses help Copilot improve daily. Over 700 product upgrades and 150 new features were released this year based on that feedback. With GPT-4o and better orchestration, performance has increased greatly. Over two times faster copilot replies and nearly three times higher satisfaction. It created the world’s best AI feedback loop with Copilot. Copilot will continue to receive all the newest models and be improved based on your feedback, bringing new capabilities and models like OpenAI o1 with advanced reasoning.
Copilot Pages, the first AI-era digital artifact
Copilot is AI’s new UI. The process begins with Business Chat (BizChat), a single hub that integrates online, work, and line of business data into your workflow. BizChat combines your organizational content into a rich database of information and insight, letting you work with Copilot like a partner and converting every item into a reusable business asset. Iam thrilled to inform about Copilot Pages, a dynamic, persistent canvas for multiplayer AI collaboration.
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Pages preserves AI-generated material so you may modify, contribute to, and share it. Copilot lets you and your team collaborate in a page, seeing everyone’s work in real time and iterating with Copilot like a partner to add new data, files, and web content. This new work pattern is multiplayer, human-to-AI-to-human collaboration. Page availability begins today for Microsoft 365 Copilot subscribers and will expand in September 2024.
In upcoming weeks, Copilot Pages will be available to over 400 million users with a Microsoft Entra account, providing web grounding, enterprise data protection (EDP), and Pages. Microsoft Copilot is available at Microsoft.com/copilot and may be pinned in the Microsoft 365 app, Outlook, and Teams.
Powering productivity with Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft 365 apps function for millions worldwide. There, Copilot is already a daily habit, boosting productivity and saving time.
Copilot in Excel
Microsoft Excel is the front-end for all your business data, so people use it to work with it and get real value. Microsoft has announced Copilot in Excel’s general availability. Now you may work with non-table data. Its new talents allow more formulas like XLOOKUP and SUMIF, conditional formatting, and Copilot iteration on visualizations like charts and PivotTables to maximize Excel’s capability. Copilot in Excel now handles text as well as numbers.
Python, one of the most popular data-working computer languages, is now available with Copilot in Excel. Copilot lets anyone use natural language to forecast, risk, machine learn, and visualize complicated data without coding. It’s like hiring a skilled data analyst. Public preview of Excel-Python Copilot.
Copilot in PowerPoint
Nobody turns an idea into a polished presentation in one prompt. Now publicly accessible, Narrative builder in Microsoft PowerPoint lets you collaborate with Copilot like a collaborator to generate a superb first draft in minutes while maintaining creative control. Copilot generates an outline with topics you may change and refine to create a presentation draft from your prompt. Soon, you can ground your topics with files in the outline. Brand manager lets Copilot use your company’s template for enterprise-ready, on-brand presentations. Copilot will soon import SharePoint Organization Asset Library company-approved photos.
Copilot in Teams
The spoken and chat exchanges at meetings today are crucial. Copilot in Teams can now analyze the meeting transcript and chat to provide a complete picture. For example, you can ask Copilot if you missed any questions in a meeting, and it will swiftly examine what was spoken and typed in the chat to find any unanswered questions. With Copilot in Teams, no inquiry, idea, or input is lost. This feature usually launches in September 2024.
Copilot in Outlook
Everyone struggles with email overload. Now, Copilot in Outlook lets you rapidly get to the messages that matter by evaluating your inbox based on email content and role context, such as who you report to and which email threads you’ve responded to. No more reading long emails Copilot automatically summarizes each one and highlights why it prioritized it and top observations. Soon, you may teach Copilot your favorite topics, keywords, and persons, making such emails high priority. The public will preview these features in late 2024.
Copilot in Word
Microsoft Word commonly requires content from other documents and apps. However, finding and using the right information can take time and disrupt your writing. Later in September 2024, Copilot in Word will let you easily reference online data, work data like Word, PowerPoint, PDFs, and encrypted documents, emails, and meetings. It combines this information into your work flow so you can quickly write a good first draft. Microsoft made Copilot in Word a better writing buddy. A new, on-canvas start experience with suggested suggestions to jumpstart your creative process and inline collaboration with Copilot while you work on specific document sections are now generally accessible.
Copilot in OneDrive
Professionals keep their personal work files in Microsoft OneDrive, but we all spend too much time finding the proper documents or remembering which ones have the content we need. Copilot in OneDrive can swiftly reason over all your files to locate the information you need, making it easy to get insights, summarize, and compare up to five files with a clear, easy-to-read summary of the contents and differences without opening a file. OneDrive Copilot will be accessible by September 2024.
Copilot agents enable unprecedented team scaling
Introducing the general availability of Copilot agents. AI aides are called agents to automate and execute business procedures for humans. Simple prompt-and-response agents, agents that replace repetitious activities, and completely autonomous agents are all possible. You can do all this and more with Copilot agents by integrating agent power into your job. Copilot manages and orchestrates background agents for you. All Copilot agents are easy to operate and provide Responsible AI and EDP your data never escapes Microsoft 365 trust boundaries and everything happens within your tenant. Use pre-built agents like the new Visual creation agent to create AI-generated graphics, designs, and movies.
Its new, simpler agent builder powered by Copilot Studio makes building Copilot agents even easier.
BizChat
Anyone may simply create a Copilot agent in BizChat or SharePoint, unlocking the massive knowledge library in your SharePoint files. For instance, you could use agent builder to create an agent in BizChat, quickly connect it to SharePoint to load it with business process data, and instantly have a powerful knowledge resource you can share with colleagues in Teams or Outlook. Mention the agent like any other colleague to share new information and ask real-time inquiries. To develop a more powerful agent, you can tweak it in Copilot Studio to connect to a data source or conduct actions for you.
In the coming weeks, BizChat copilot agents and agent builder will be available to all customers. Copilot agents and SharePoint agent builder will preview in early October.
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