Microsoft Unifies Copilot, Agents and Office Workflows (Full Transcript)

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: and you should never be able to use it wrong. No matter what you need, you can start with this box and the right thing will happen.

[00:00:05] Speaker 2: Is the vision then that the whole Office suite would be kind of accessible through the Copilot app?

[00:00:11] Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely. Exactly right. We wanna bring the full fidelity of Office into the Copilot app.

[00:00:16] Speaker 4: Microsoft just unveiled a completely redesigned Copilot. I recently visited Microsoft where I got an early look at the new experience and sat down with the team behind it. But Microsoft didn't just change how Copilot looks. It's bringing chat, agents, app building, and even Office together into one experience. Let's start with Home. This is the new starting point in Copilot.

[00:00:41] Speaker 3: I've got Home here and Home is really bringing together the best of Copilot chat and co-work.

[00:00:47] Speaker 1: And you should never be able to use it wrong. Our goal is with this new Home tab that we talked about yesterday, to introduce this like single universal composer that is always able to route to the right thing and get you to the right place. Where no matter what you need, you can start with this box and the right thing will happen.

[00:01:02] Speaker 4: So instead of having to figure out whether you should use chat, co-work, or something else, the idea is that you simply tell Copilot what you want to accomplish and it figures out the best way to handle it. Next up is Autopilot. This gives you a personal AI agent that can keep working in the background even when you're not actively prompting it.

[00:01:25] Speaker 3: And Autopilot is a new concept here and a new assistant experience in 365 Copilot. And now Fern is coming back to me with some recommendations of routines that they can help out with. Because my Autopilot is with me, it's always on, it's learning, and it's gonna help me get things done. And they've come with three recommendations here, helping me with a morning brief, watching for important changes, and then helping me with suggested replies. Autopilot is WorkIQ connected. So the routines that are being suggested to me here aren't arbitrary. They're really catered to ways in which this Autopilot can probably most effectively help me.

[00:02:03] Speaker 4: You can also create your own routines for recurring work that you want Autopilot to handle automatically. And Autopilot isn't just limited to the Copilot app. You can also use it alongside your team in Microsoft Teams.

[00:02:16] Speaker 3: And I actually added Fern into the channel yesterday. And specifically, I wanted Fern to help my team get ready for this project launch. And I asked Fern to use the information that was in this channel to help us populate that document based on the templates that were already available in the channel. And so I had sent Fern a message. I at-mentioned Fern the same way that I at-mentioned all of my colleagues today. And you know what? Fern even responded.

[00:02:44] Speaker 2: And then one question on Fern, is it just looking at the content within the Teams channel? That's correct. Does it look beyond the Teams channel?

[00:02:50] Speaker 3: Within the Teams channel, when you add your Autopilot, it is scoped to just what's in the channel. Right? And I think that's really important. When Fern helps me outside the channel, their permission to any, you know, whatever it is that I'm permissioned to, right? Nothing more, nothing less. But when I add Fern into a collaboration space, then Fern can only collaborate around the content that's in the channel. So all of that permissioning and scoping we've taken care of for you. So Fern created the brief, and then we need to meet about it. So I actually asked Fern, I replied in our thread over here, just go find 30 minutes with a couple of folks from the team and you know, like magic, Fern was able to find some time, get something set up and actually booked us some time.

[00:03:33] Speaker 4: Next up is Code. And this takes Copilot in a completely different direction. Instead of creating a document or completing a task, you can actually use it to build your own interactive tools.

[00:03:46] Speaker 3: And Code is a place where I can bring my ideas to life and turn them into tools, right?

[00:03:50] Speaker 2: And one question, so I think a lot of times when people hear Code, they think, hey, I have to be a lot more technical to be able to use this experience. But it sounds here like Code is more if you wanna build some type of app experience or some type of, you know, interactive experience. But it sounds like it's kind of accessible to almost anyone.

[00:04:08] Speaker 3: Absolutely, you don't need to be a coder, you don't need to understand anything about Code, you just need to have an idea in your head, right? And give a little bit of instruction and then Code will help walk you through turning that idea into a real tool that you could use. I need something that sits on my screen that will just help me easily track all of the customer orders that I have. And then, you know, Code went back and forth with me around this. And the really cool thing is it created me this awesome little app, right? That little desktop widget that I wanted, and it's fully interactive. I can come in here, I can complete things, it updates as I need, it can write back to the systems.

[00:04:45] Speaker 1: The fact that with Code tab, we made hosting and sharing is the exact same as a Word document. The exact same flow I know from like hosting something in my OneDrive, adding someone's email address and hitting share, it just works. And there's one more big change.

[00:04:58] Speaker 4: Microsoft is bringing the Office apps directly into Copilot.

[00:05:02] Speaker 3: And actually we're bringing Office into the Copilot app experience as well too. So that's what I wanna show you here. And so I asked Copilot to help create a presentation for the Offsite. It's actually gone and done that. I can see here it's created this PowerPoint and I'm gonna click on it. And what you'll notice when I click on it is I get the full power of PowerPoint right here in the Copilot app. I can see here that my team is already getting to work on ideating around this PowerPoint presentation. I shared it with them as soon as Copilot built it. And the thing that I love here about the PowerPoint experience in Copilot is you'll notice a couple of things. I didn't tell it the slide I was on. It automatically understands the context of what I'm talking about.

[00:05:42] Speaker 1: The second they see full-blown Office in Copilot, they're like, oh my gosh. Because everyone is drafting in documents in AI and then everyone is hitting export. And then that branch is kind of severed forever and that thing is stuck in time. And so when they see full Office inside of Copilot, they're like, oh my gosh, I get it. I can collaborate with Copilot right here. But also if someone else has this exact same dock open in Word in the normal app, they can just drop in and do manual edits themselves.

[00:06:06] Speaker 3: It's not just about PowerPoint. We've got the full fidelity of Office. Here's a roadmap document that we were working on. We asked Copilot to help. I asked Copilot to help create a Word document output. And again, you see that same full fidelity experience, the ribbon, people collaborating. We can update it. It's got the context. And I'm just staying in this singular UX entry point.

[00:06:27] Speaker 2: Is the vision then that the whole Office suite would be kind of accessible through the Copilot app?

[00:06:33] Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely. Exactly right. We wanna bring the full fidelity of Office into the Copilot app.

[00:06:39] Speaker 4: For now, Microsoft is starting with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Of course, Copilot isn't the only AI assistant out there. So I asked Jacob, what gives Copilot a reason to exist?

[00:06:49] Speaker 1: These products really need a right to exist, kind of at their core. And the right to exist and kind of the core reason for Copilot, especially this unified Copilot, is to help people get things done. And what that means is like, we have to deeply understand your enterprise context. We have to understand your work data. We have to understand what it means for IT to accept a solution.

[00:07:09] Speaker 4: So there's a lot changing with Copilot, but I think the biggest shift is that Microsoft wants us to be more than just a place where you go to chat with AI. Instead, you can hand work off to an agent, you can build your own tools, and you can even work directly in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint all from the same place. And of course, this is still a very early look, but it'll be interesting to see how all of this comes together as Microsoft starts to roll it out. But I really like the direction. Instead of having to figure out which AI tool to use, you simply tell Copilot what you want to get done, and it figures out the best way to get there. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you in the next one.