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Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2: Pages, Python in Excel, and agents
We are introducing Wave 2 of Microsoft 365 Copilot innovation, with three key updates. From enterprises to small businesses, they help Copilot get better every day. Nearly 1,000 customers have given us direct feedback on Copilot, and we’ve made more than 700 product updates based on that feedback.
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New agent capabilities in Microsoft Copilot unlock business value
Microsoft Copilot is already helping individual employees boost productivity, creativity and time savings. With the announcements at Microsoft Build 2024, we’re delivering an entirely new set of capabilities that unlock Copilot’s ability to drive bottom-line business results for every organization.
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Microsoft and LinkedIn release the 2024 Work Trend Index on the state of AI at work
For our fourth annual Work Trend Index, out today, we partnered with LinkedIn for the first time on a joint report so we could provide a comprehensive view of how AI is not only reshaping work, but the labor market more broadly.
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Bringing Copilot to more customers worldwide—across life and work
Continuing our vision for Microsoft Copilot to bring the power of generative AI to everyone across work and life, we’re expanding availability and purchase options for individuals and organizations and bringing new value to Copilot Pro subscribers.
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Introducing Microsoft Copilot for Finance: Transform finance with next-generation AI in Microsoft 365
We’re announcing the public preview of Microsoft Copilot for Finance, a game-changer for finance professionals and the newest role-based extension of Microsoft Copilot. Microsoft Copilot for Finance is a momentous leap forward, specifically crafted to revolutionize the daily grind of well-known financial processes.
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Expanding Copilot for Microsoft 365 to businesses of all sizes
We are updating our Microsoft Copilot product line-up with a new Copilot Pro subscription for individuals; expanding Copilot for Microsoft 365 availability to small and medium-sized businesses; and announcing no seat minimum for commercial plans.
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Microsoft Copilot for Sales and Copilot for Service are now generally available
Microsoft is dedicated to helping organizations transform the way people work using secure, enterprise-grade AI capabilities, no matter which business applications teams depend on. Starting today, you can seamlessly integrate role-specific Copilot capabilities into Microsoft 365 applications and popular customer relationship management (CRM) and contact center systems for sales and customer service professionals.
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Introducing Microsoft Copilot Studio and new features in Copilot for Microsoft 365
At Microsoft Ignite 2023, we are announcing new innovations across Microsoft Copilot—one copilot experience that runs across all our surfaces, understanding your context on the web, on your PC, and at work to bring the right skills to you when you need them across work and life.
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Announcing Microsoft Copilot Studio: Customize Copilot for Microsoft 365 and build your own standalone copilots
At Microsoft Ignite 2023, we’re excited to announce Microsoft Copilot Studio, a low-code tool to customize Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 and build standalone copilots.
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Improve your presenting skills with additional platforms and new features for PowerPoint speaker coach
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How IT is transforming the employee experience at Microsoft
Millions of people rearranged their lives to work from home and on the frontlines in 2020. Among those millions were the thousands who work right here at Microsoft—and our challenges aren’t so different from yours. How do we stay connected, informed, and motivated as we transition to the new hybrid work reality?
Hybrid work is here. Are you ready?
To succeed in a new world of work, leaders need to embrace extreme flexibility. Here’s how.
Flexible work is here to stay: Microsoft 365 solutions for the hybrid work world
At Ignite this week, we're announcing many new features and capabilities to help everyone thrive in a new hybrid world of work.
Upcoming commercial preview of Microsoft Office LTSC
At Microsoft, we believe that the cloud will power the work of the future. Overwhelmingly, our customers are choosing the cloud to empower their people—from frontline workers on the shop floor, to on-the-go sales teams, to remote employees connecting from home. We’ve seen incredible cloud adoption across every industry, and we will continue to invest
How partners are fueling growth and innovation on Microsoft Teams
Teams not only enables you to meet, chat, call, and collaborate with your team, but it also serves as a platform that brings together the apps and workflows that help you get your work done.
Microsoft Viva: Empowering every employee for the new digital age
Even before COVID-19 turned our lives upside down, a new generation of digital tools was opening up new possibilities for the future of work. What we didn’t expect was that this future would arrive almost overnight last March, as millions of businesses around the world responded to the pandemic by moving to remote and hybrid
Windows 10 in cloud configuration: The cost-effective, secure, and simple solution for the new digital workforce
From remote and hybrid employees to frontline workers in the field, empowering everyone with the secure solution for cloud-optimized devices.
The evolution of mobile productivity, even when we’re a little less mobile
What’s the one essential you’d go back home for if forgotten? Maybe it’s your mask. But also, your mobile phone, right? Your personal organizer, your digital wallet, your instant camera—your mobile device has become the most essential tool you use to stay connected to the people and things that are important at home, at the office,
From breakout rooms in Microsoft Teams to AI in To Do—here’s what’s new to Microsoft 365 in January
This month, we're announcing the general availability of highly requested features Tasks publishing and Breakout rooms in Teams along with new capabilities in Teams and Microsoft 365 services.