Microsoft's Office Apps Now Have Free Copilot Chat Features (theverge.com)
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- News link: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/09/15/1751254/microsofts-office-apps-now-have-free-copilot-chat-features
- Source link: https://www.theverge.com/news/778272/microsoft-office-free-copilot-ai-features-copilot-chat
> Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote are all being updated with a Copilot Chat sidebar that will help draft documents, analyze spreadsheets, and more without needing an additional Microsoft 365 Copilot license.
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> "Copilot Chat is secure AI chat grounded in the web -- and now, it's available in the Microsoft 365 apps," explains Seth Patton, general Manager of Microsoft 365 Copilot product marketing. "It's content aware, meaning it quickly understands what you're working on, tailoring answers to the file you have open. And it's included at no additional cost for Microsoft 365 users."
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> While this free version of Copilot will rewrite documents, provide summaries, and help create slides in PowerPoint, the $30 per month, per user Microsoft 365 Copilot license will still have the best integration in Office apps. The Microsoft 365 Copilot license is also not limited to a single document, and can reason over entire work data.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/778272/microsoft-office-free-copilot-ai-features-copilot-chat
No thanks (Score:5, Interesting)
Do you offer refunds on products I don't want or need ?
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No. They tried that for OEM-licensed Windows on new computers where the purchasers wanted to run other operating systems. Didn't work then either.
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Still formally a thing in countries where OS reimbursement is mandated by law or courts, at least France. At random, the Windows reimbursement procedure for Acer: [1]https://www.acer.com/fr-fr/sup... [acer.com] For You get 13 to 69 € for Windows Home, 13 to 108 € for Windows 11 Pro, but you pay the shipping of the computer both ways, so likely not interesting financially. It's more a statement like people requesting their Apostasy certificate out of the Catholic Church.
[1] https://www.acer.com/fr-fr/support/alerts-recalls/reimbursement
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> Do you offer refunds on products I don't want or need ?
Indeed. Since we've added this feature for free your check for $0 should be sent to you shortly.
Re:No thanks (Score:4, Insightful)
Even @ $0 it is over priced and unwanted.
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If you didn't want it or need it, why did you buy it in the first place?
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I didn't, it was foisted onto me by my work.
"now have free copilot"? (Score:5, Insightful)
For some time, Microsoft has been shoving copilot into pretty much *all* of their apps, and then updating them in an attempt to force / beg people to make use of it.
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" shoving copilot into pretty much *all* of their apps" of course they are! Microsoft does what is best for Microsoft, not it's customers.
And it diverts attention from Microsofts real threat! Recall!
In order for Recall to work. Microsoft copies everything on your computer for their own internal use. Suggesting it is for the customers benefit.
Is the Office Assistant... (Score:2)
Is the Office Assistant like disco making a come back as Clippy II? Emphasis upon #2.
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
JoshK.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Assistant
Features... (Score:2)
...that no one wants.
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Been using OpenOffice for over a decade. What is this Microsoft Office of which people speak?
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> ...that no one wants.
It is the Microsoft Way!®
Good for the annoying stuff (Score:2)
All that busywork your boss makes you do...is a perfect job for AI. Or summarizing that agonizingly long email thread that somebody forwards to you and asks, "What do you think about this?" Or taking that text you wrote and making it more formal.
Personally, I find AI to be useful for taking some of the dumbest work tasks and making them go away.
Free because... (Score:2)
They couldn't get enough people to pay the monthly fee.
This is them trying to get people hooked, and then later they'll bring back the fees. It's called a loss leader.
Of course it's free! (Score:5, Insightful)
The data you provide will provide, will help us with corporate espionage.
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Clippy, we hardly knew ye.
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It's sort of like saying "All our hookers now come with free gonorrhea and syphilis!".