30 01732 759725 Microsoft to extend Microsoft 365 Copilot to enterprise customers from November 1 q September 21: Copilot enhancements to Bing and Edge The availability of Copilot in Microsoft Shopping is announced, enabling users of the Bing search engine or the Edge browser to find what they’re looking for more quickly. When requested for information on an item, Bing uses generative AI to ask additional questions so that it can narrow its search and provide more tailored recommendations. Soon, users will be able to use a photo or saved image as the starting point for their shopping. On this day Microsoft also released enhancements to Bing Chat, which, when built into the Microsoft Edge sidebar, enables web users to ask Bing complex questions about the pages they’re viewing, and to Bing Chat Enterprise, which Microsoft describes as many companies’ entry point into generative AI. Introduced in July for Microsoft 365 users and now available in the Microsoft Edge mobile app, Bing Chat Enterprise offers commercial data protection features, including the deletion of chat data, and new Image Creator and multimodal visual search capabilities that allow Bing Chat Enterprise users to create images using AI and use images to search for information. w September 26: Copilot for Windows included in Windows 11 (version 22H2) One of 150 new features in the latest Windows 11 update, Microsoft Copilot in Windows (in preview) includes the new Copilot icon, the new Copilot user experience and Bing Chat (see above). Accessible via the taskbar or with the Win+C keyboard shortcut, Copilot for Windows provides assistance with apps, helping users to carry out everyday tasks faster and to a higher standard. The new Windows 11 update also brings AI-powered enhancements to apps such as Paint (background removal), Photos (automatic background blur feature to make the subject of a photo stand out and photo search by subject matter and location), Outlook for Windows (advanced AI writing tools) and Clipchamp (auto compose). e November 1: Microsoft 365 Copilot General Availability Already used by tens of thousands of enterprise users at Visa, General Motors, KPMG and Lumen Technologies, as part of Microsoft’s Early Access Program (EAP), Microsoft 365 Copilot reaches general availability for enterprise customers on November 1. Microsoft 365 Copilot offers enterprisegrade security, privacy and compliance; integration with Microsoft 365 Apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams); and what Microsoft calls a new hero experience, Microsoft 365 Chat. This goes beyond simple questions and answers, combing emails, meetings, chats, documents, the web and more to gain a deeper understanding of the user’s job, organisation and priorities, so that it can find answers to complex work problems. To help people get the most out of Microsoft 365 Copilot and adopt AIenhanced working habits, Microsoft has also announced Copilot Lab. Once this is generally available, it will be integrated into Microsoft 365 Copilot and accessible via a website to all Microsoft 365 Copilot users. To find out more about these developments and stay up to date with future releases, please visit www.microsoft.com In March, Microsoft whetted people’s appetites for its Copilot ‘everyday AI companion’ by demonstrating how someone could use it to boost productivity and make better use of features within Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams and other Microsoft apps. Imagine the time you could save by asking your computer to summarise email threads in Outlook; compose messages in your own writing style; edit and rewrite paragraphs; add a table to a document; find and highlight key data within a spreadsheet; add a formula column in Excel; and do much, much more. Now, with the integration of Copilot into many of its apps and the launch of a new visual identity, Microsoft is putting in place the building blocks to create what it hopes will become a consistent Copilot user experience across Windows 11, Microsoft 365, Bing and Edge, available via an app or with the right click of a mouse. As Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft Corporate Vice President & Consumer Chief Marketing Officer, writes on the official Microsoft blog: “With the convergence of chat interfaces and large language models you can now ask for what you want in natural language and the technology is smart enough to answer, create or act. At Microsoft, we think about this as having a copilot to help navigate any task. “We have been building AI-powered copilots into our most used and loved products – making coding more efficient with GitHub, transforming productivity at work with Microsoft 365, redefining search with Bing and Edge, and delivering contextual value that works across your apps and PC with Windows. “Today we take the next step to unify these capabilities into a single experience we call Microsoft Copilot, your everyday AI companion.” The roll-out of Copilot and its capabilities across Microsoft applications, including Outlook, Word, Excel, Loop, OneNote and OneDrive, is an on-going process, but the following three dates are noteworthy milestones. Copilot roll-out gathers pace AI
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