Once more, the behemoth that is Microsoft hath unveiled its grand scheme to bestow upon its business-focused 365 Copilot products a bounty of new features in the early days of yonder year. In a spectacle of magnificence during the Microsoft Ignite 2024 gathering on Tuesday, the company did declare the forthcoming enhancements to its 365 Copilot, which hath recently donned a new moniker from mere Copilot in the month of September. This marvel doth allow businesses to intertwine the generative AI of Microsoft Copilot within the esteemed Microsoft 365 suite of applications (and within Teams as well) for the price of $30 per employee per moon.
“We art propelling our vision to empower each employee with Copilot as a personalized aide, and to revolutionize every business procedure with agents forged in the fires of Copilot Studio,” penned Jared Spataro, the CMO of AI at Work, in the proclamation made on Tuesday. “We art infusing new essence into Copilot to tackle the burdensome afflictions of labor and aid every employee in expanding their influence—from the mechanization of monotonous tasks to the management of thy calendar.”
In the present time, the company doth experiment with innovative “Copilot Actions” that shall grant users the ability to automate tasks such as determining the morrow’s objectives, summarizing meetings with clients, or seeking insight from colleagues on a project, through the utilization of simple, prompt-filled inquiries. This particular feature doth reside in a covert preview at present. Moreover, the company is overhauling its Copilot Pages (reminiscent of Microsoft’s version of Canvas or Artifacts) to permit users to instruct the chatbot to create content drawn from the depths of Microsoft Graph, which can then be shared with comrades within the company on persistent and amendable Pages. The populace can expect the emergence of this feature in the early days of 2025.
In a realm where AI reigns supreme, the visage of Teams shall be transformed as well. In a public preview approaching in the early morn of 2025, Copilot shall have the capacity to “comprehend, recap, and provide answers” based on the visual content shared onscreen within the conversation. Verily, many of the 365 applications shall acquire additional AI prowess in the months ahead. Copilot within Outlook shall delve into both thy calendar and that of thy colleague to ascertain the most suitable meeting time automatically. This feature shall grace the realm by the conclusion of the current November. Moreover, within PowerPoint, Copilot shalt translate entire slide decks into forty languages, whilst preserving the original design of each slide. The arrival date of this feature in 2025 remains elusive.
Furthermore, Microsoft hath declared an extensive expansion of its employment of AI agents “to amplify individual impact and renovate business processes,” as mentioned by Spataro. The company hath birthed a collection of akin autonomous agents in the previous moon, designed for sales, service, finance, and supply chain applications, and doth intend to enrich these offerings in the unfolding year, providin…
