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Microsoft Copilot

What Microsoft Copilot calls each of the thirteen capabilities on this map.

01Chat

Ask a question. You explain the background every time.

The chat window
Copilot Chat Copilot Chat (formerly Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat)
Private or temporary chat
temporary chat
Inside your other apps
Copilot Chat in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNoteEdit with Copilot in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNoteCopilot in OutlookCopilot in TeamsMicrosoft Copilot Chat in the Edge sidebar Copilot in Outlook · Copilot Chat in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote · Edit with Copilot (paid) · Copilot in Teams · Copilot Chat in Edge

02Context that sticks

Save your documents and instructions once. It remembers them.

A workspace that keeps your material
Copilot Notebooks Copilot Notebooks — paid licence (one page disagrees)
Memory across conversations
Copilot Memory Copilot Memory — on by default

03Get connected

Let it see your email, calendar and files.

A connection to your other tools
Microsoft 365 Copilot Connectors Microsoft 365 Copilot Connectors (Microsoft also writes "Copilot connectors")
Add-ons from a directory
Agent Store

04Let it work

It works through a job or on a schedule.

Something that runs on a schedule
Scheduled Prompts Scheduled Prompts — paid licence
An agent that works through a job on its own
Copilot CoworkResearcherAnalyst Copilot Cowork — GA, paid licence · Researcher · Analyst — paid licence
Working on files on your own computer
None — Cowork works on OneDrive and SharePoint

05Build & share

Turn something that works for you into a tool your whole team uses.

A saved method it follows
skills skills — inside Copilot Cowork, paid licence
A custom version you build and share
Agent BuilderCopilot Studio agents, built in Agent Builder or Copilot Studio
A document or app it makes for you
Copilot Pages

Every step is a fine place to stop if it does the job.

Where the plan changes the answer

The free Copilot Chat that comes with business Microsoft 365 covers chat, Pages, and Copilot Chat in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. The paid Microsoft 365 Copilot licence adds work data, Researcher, Analyst, Edit with Copilot, Scheduled Prompts and Copilot Cowork. Copilot Notebooks is disputed: one Microsoft page says paid, another says Copilot Chat users get a limited version.

Not established yet

Copilot Notebooks licence; plan rules for Copilot Memory.

Every Microsoft Copilot name we found

Agent BuilderAgent StoreAnalystCopilot ChatCopilot Chat in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNoteCopilot CoworkCopilot in OutlookCopilot in TeamsCopilot MemoryCopilot NotebooksCopilot PagesCopilot StudioDeclarative agentsEdit with Copilot in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNoteFrontierMicrosoft 365 CopilotMicrosoft 365 Copilot ConnectorsMicrosoft CopilotMicrosoft Copilot appMicrosoft Copilot Chat in the Edge sidebarResearcherScheduled Promptsskillstemporary chatWord, Excel, and PowerPoint Agents

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