Meet Microsoft Copilot: AI Inside the Tools We Already Use
We have looked at how to ask AI, where it helps, its limits, and how the main AI assistants compare. Over the next few posts, we will focus on one of them in depth: Microsoft Copilot. For organisations that run on Microsoft 365, it is often the most practical place to begin. What Copilot is Microsoft Copilot is an AI assistant built for work. It sits inside the tools many of us use all day: Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Instead of learning a new system, we ask for what we need in plain language, and Copilot does the work inside the app. A useful way to think about it: the browser made the internet usable for everyone, and the smartphone did the same for apps. Copilot aims to be the everyday interface for AI at work. Our existing systems stay the same; what changes is how we interact with them. What it can do • Summarise: long email threads, documents, chats and meetings. • ...