{"id":86167,"date":"2023-03-18T13:54:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T17:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=86167"},"modified":"2023-03-18T14:44:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T18:44:35","slug":"introducing-microsoft-365-copilot-a-new-era-for-ai-and-google-workspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2023\/03\/18\/introducing-microsoft-365-copilot-a-new-era-for-ai-and-google-workspace\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot&#8221; + &#8220;A new era for AI and Google Workspace&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/reinventing-productivity\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-86171 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Microsoft-CoPilot-March2023.jpg\" alt=\"Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot \u2014 your copilot for work\" width=\"50%\" height=\"50%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Microsoft-CoPilot-March2023.jpg 687w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Microsoft-CoPilot-March2023-150x90.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 687px) 100vw, 687px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-heading-1 x-type-center\" data-grid=\"col-12\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/reinventing-productivity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Copilot &#8212; A whole new way to work<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from news.microsoft.com<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Copilot in Word<\/strong>\u00a0writes, edits, summarizes and creates right alongside people as they work.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Copilot in PowerPoint<\/strong>\u00a0enables the creation process by turning ideas into a designed presentation through natural language commands.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Copilot in Excel<\/strong>\u00a0helps unlock insights, identify trends or create professional-looking data visualizations in a fraction of the time.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Copilot in Outlook<\/strong>\u00a0can help synthesize and manage the inbox to allow more time to be spent on actually communicating.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Copilot in Teams<\/strong>\u00a0makes meetings more productive with real-time summaries and action items directly in the context of the conversation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Copilot in Power Platform<\/strong>\u00a0will help developers of all skill levels accelerate and streamline development with low-code tools with the introduction of two new capabilities within Power Apps and Power Virtual Agents.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Business Chat\u00a0<\/strong>brings together data from across documents, presentations, email, calendar, notes and contacts to help summarize chats, write emails, find key dates or even write a plan based on other project files.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/16\/introducing-microsoft-365-copilot-your-copilot-for-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot \u2013 your copilot for work<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from blogs.microsoft.com by Jared Spataro<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>\u201cToday marks the next major step in the evolution of how we interact with computing, which will fundamentally change the way we work and unlock a new wave of productivity growth,\u201d said Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO, Microsoft. \u201cWith our new copilot for work, we\u2019re giving people more agency and making technology more accessible through the most universal interface \u2014 natural language.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S7xTBa93TX8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/blog\/2023\/03\/16\/introducing-microsoft-365-copilot-a-whole-new-way-to-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot &#8212; A whole new way to work<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from microsoft.com by Colette Stallbaumer<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Copilot is integrated into Microsoft 365 in two ways. It works alongside you, embedded in the Microsoft 365 apps you use every day\u2014Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and more\u2014to unleash creativity, unlock productivity, and uplevel skills. Today, we\u2019re also announcing an entirely new experience: Business Chat. Business Chat works across the LLM, the Microsoft 365 apps, and your data\u2014your calendar, emails, chats, documents, meetings, and contacts\u2014to do things you\u2019ve never been able to do before. You can give it natural language prompts like \u201c<em>tell my team how we updated the product strategy<\/em>\u201d and it will generate a status update based on the morning\u2019s meetings, emails, and chat threads.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/workspace.google.com\/blog\/product-announcements\/generative-ai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>A new era for AI and Google Workspace<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from workspace.google.com by Johanna Voolich Wright<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6DaJVZBXETE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As we embark on this next journey, we will be bringing these new generative-AI experiences to trusted testers on a rolling basis throughout the year, before making them available publicly.<\/p>\n<p>With these features, you\u2019ll be able to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>draft, reply, summarize, and prioritize your Gmail<\/li>\n<li>brainstorm, proofread, write, and rewrite in Docs<\/li>\n<li>bring your creative vision to life with auto-generated images, audio, and video in Slides<\/li>\n<li>go from raw data to insights and analysis via auto-completion, formula generation, and<\/li>\n<li>contextual categorization in Sheets<\/li>\n<li>generate new backgrounds and capture notes in Meet<\/li>\n<li>enable workflows for getting things done in Chat<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here\u2019s a look at the first set of AI-powered features, which make writing even easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Copilot &#8212; A whole new way to work &#8212; from news.microsoft.com Copilot in Word\u00a0writes, edits, summarizes and creates right alongside people as they work. 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