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Copilot Chat

Copilot's chat window for business users. It draws on web knowledge and files you give it; with the paid licence it can also use your organisation's work data.

Which capability it is

The same thing at other vendors

ChatGPT
Chat · a Work toggle beside it
Claude
chat — Cowork merged in (rolling out)
Gemini
Chat — the Chat and Task toggle
Mistral Vibe
Vibe Work · Vibe Chat (the docs say "Chat (legacy)"; retiring)

Details

Status
GA
Where you find it
Microsoft Copilot app; Teams; Outlook; the Edge sidebar
Part of
Microsoft Copilot app
Plans
eligible Microsoft 365 business licences, at no extra cost. Using work data needs Microsoft 365 Copilot.
Former names
Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat (2026). Microsoft Learn's "Manage Copilot Chat" (ms.date 2026-10-21) says: "Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat is now named Microsoft Copilot Chat."
Learn

Where we teach it

Your first real result is the module where people bring a task from their own week and get a usable result from the chat. It's in our one-day class, along with Name the parts, which tells a chat from a project, a skill, a connector and the other parts.

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