Microsoft has updated the Copilot experience in Teams with an improved UI, more intelligent prompts and a detailed chat history.

The upgraded experience for Copilot for Microsoft 365 subscribers rolled out on Monday, February 12.

While retaining the same general functionality and content access as the previous version of the service, the new benefits include refined prompts tailored to user needs, including personalised details such as a user’s colleagues, scheduled meetings, and relevant files. Other notable features include the ability for users to see their Copilot chat history and access a library of prompts through Microsoft’s Copilot Lab.

Abby Schilbach, Product Marketing Manager at Microsoft, wrote in an accompanying blog post:

It’s better than the current Microsoft 365 Chat in Teams. The new Copilot in Teams is easier to find, to use, and has better functionality for a better experience.”

This update will grant subscribers who leverage Copilot in Teams the same Copilot experience as users enjoy in microsoft365.com, Bing, and copilot.microsoft.com. 

If users have Copilot for Microsoft 365 access, the new app will be automatically pinned above Teams chats. Users only have to open Teams and choose “chats,” they should see Copilot as signalled by its logo.

What’s Been The Copilot Story So Far in 2024?

Microsoft is doubling down on Copilot this year as its flagship AI product.

Last month, Microsoft removed the seat minimum for Copilot for Microsoft 365, opening up its enterprise-targeting AI-powered productivity tool to businesses of any scale.

When Copilot for 365 launched in November, it was restricted by a 300-seat user minimum, which alienated many SMBs. Priced at $30 per user per month, that was an extra minimum expense of $9000 a month.

Whereas a Microsoft 365 ME3 or M35 license was previously required, Microsoft 365 Business Standard or Business Premium subscribers can now buy Copilot for Microsoft 365 at $30 per user per month.

Microsoft also launched Copilot Pro in January, a $20 per user per month subscription targeting Microsoft 365 Personal and Family consumer users.

Copilot Pro involves a unified AI interface that operates across various devices, extrapolating a user’s online context, PC usage, and app interactions. Critically, it affords AI-powered features in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote on PC, Mac and iPad for Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscribers while offering priority access to OpenAI’s latest models, beginning with OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo. Copilot Pro allows users access to GPT-4 Turbo during peak times for faster performance.

As part of Microsoft’s campaign to transform 2024 into the “year of the AI PC”, a new Copilot key will ship on various new PCs and laptops designed by Microsoft’s partners. The key will grant immediate access to Windows Copilot with one button press.

The key will be located between the “Alt” and left arrow keys on the new keyboards and represents the first change to the PC keyboard since the Windows key was added in 1994.

Finally, in significant 2024 Copilot news, Microsoft launched Android and iOS apps for the service. The Copilot mobile app is functionally similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT mobile version, involving a clean interface in which users can write prompts to ask questions, summarise text, draft emails, blogs and documents. Users can create images by utilising its DALL-E 3 image creator technology. The app encompasses access to one of OpenAI’s latest LLMs, GPT-4, which users have to pay for access to via ChatGPT.



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