Microsoft is rolling out Copilot Chat to Phrase, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote for paying Microsoft 365 enterprise prospects.
Copilot Chat (brief for Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat) is the corporate’s AI-powered, content-aware chat that permits customers to entry AI brokers. Nevertheless, not like Microsoft 365 Copilot, which has entry to organizational content material, Copilot Chat solely works with knowledge from the net.
Whereas Microsoft says Copilot Chat is “included at no further price” for Microsoft 365 customers, this refers solely to Entra account customers with Microsoft 365, Microsoft 365 Enterprise, Microsoft Groups, and Workplace 365 licenses.
The checklist of licenses that can present entry to this newly added characteristic to Workplace apps is obtainable in this assist doc.
“Copilot Chat is safe AI chat grounded within the net—and now, it is accessible within the Microsoft 365 apps. It is content material conscious, which means it shortly understands what you are engaged on, tailoring solutions to the file you may have open. And it is included at no further price for Microsoft 365 customers,” mentioned Seth Patton, basic supervisor of the Microsoft 365 Copilot product advertising and marketing group.
“The second you want it, you possibly can pull up Copilot Chat in a facet pane of your file, and it will likely be prepared to assist proper the place you are working—which suggests much less copy and pasting, file importing, and switching apps.”
Patton mentioned that Microsoft 365 prospects may grant Copilot Chat entry to all their knowledge, not simply the at present open doc, in the event that they’re keen to pay additional for a Microsoft 365 Copilot license.
“A Microsoft 365 Copilot license unlocks probably the most highly effective model of Copilot Chat, reasoning over not simply the file or electronic mail you may have open, however your entire work knowledge—drawing from private and shared paperwork, emails, conferences, chats, and extra,” Patton added.
Beginning subsequent month till mid-November, Microsoft may also start mechanically putting in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on Home windows gadgets exterior the EEA area which have the Microsoft 365 desktop shopper functions.
Nevertheless, IT directors answerable for managing Microsoft 365 app deployments will nonetheless have the choice to decide out within the Apps Admin Middle.
In August, as a part of the identical effort to broaden Copilot’s attain to extra customers, Microsoft introduced that it might add Microsoft 365 Copilot brokers to the Edge sidebar, beginning in late September 2025, to allow customers to entry them whereas utilizing Copilot.
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