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Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft's AI assistant for work. It ties into Microsoft 365 data and apps such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams.
Which capability it is
- The chat window (Conversation surface)
- Inside your other apps (In-app assistant)
The same thing at other vendors
The same thing at other vendors
ChatGPT
ChatGPT for Word / Excel / PowerPoint · ChatGPT for Google Sheets · ChatGPT browser extensionChatGPT for PowerPointChatGPT for Excel
Claude
Claude for Excel / PowerPoint · Claude for Word · Claude for Outlook · Claude in Chrome (beta) · Claude Tag in SlackClaude for PowerPoint
Perplexity
Comet browser · Perplexity in Slack
Grok
Grok for Outlook · Word / Excel / PowerPoint · Grok tab on X · Shared Bots in SlackGrok for PowerPointGrok for ExcelGrok for WordGrok on X
Meta AI and Muse
Meta AI inside WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram, Facebook · Muse in WhatsApp
Mistral Vibe
Mistral Vibe for VS Code · Vibe Code Web for Slack — coding only
Details
- Status
- GA
- Where you find it
- Microsoft Copilot app; inside Microsoft 365 apps
- Part of
- Microsoft 365
- Plans
- The full product needs the Microsoft 365 Copilot add-on licence. Copilot Chat comes with eligible Microsoft 365 plans.
- Admin must turn it on?
- An admin assigns licences.
- Former names
- Microsoft 365 Copilot (2026). Microsoft Learn's "Manage Copilot Chat" (learn.microsoft.com/en-us/copilot/manage, ms.date 2026-10-21) says: "Microsoft 365 Copilot is now named Microsoft Copilot". The mid-August 2026 rollout date (Message Center MC1454108) comes only from a secondary source.
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.