​Microsoft is rolling out Copilot Chat to Phrase, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote for paying Microsoft 365 enterprise prospects.
Copilot Chat (brief for Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat) is the corporate’s AI-powered, content-aware chat that allows customers to entry AI brokers. Nonetheless, not like Microsoft 365 Copilot, which has entry to organizational content material, Copilot Chat solely works with information from the online.
Whereas Microsoft says Copilot Chat is “included at no extra price” for Microsoft 365 customers, this refers solely to Entra account customers with Microsoft 365, Microsoft 365 Enterprise, Microsoft Groups, and Workplace 365 licenses.
The listing of licenses that can present entry to this newly added function to Workplace apps is on the market in this help doc.
“Copilot Chat is safe AI chat grounded within the internet—and now, it is accessible within the Microsoft 365 apps. It is content material conscious, that means it rapidly understands what you are engaged on, tailoring solutions to the file you could have open. And it is included at no extra price for Microsoft 365 customers,” stated Seth Patton, normal supervisor of the Microsoft 365 Copilot product advertising and marketing group.
“The second you want it, you possibly can pull up Copilot Chat in a facet pane of your file, and it will likely be prepared to assist proper the place you are working—which implies much less copy and pasting, file importing, and switching apps.”
​Patton stated that Microsoft 365 prospects may grant Copilot Chat entry to all their information, not simply the at present open doc, in the event that they’re prepared to pay additional for a Microsoft 365 Copilot license.
“A Microsoft 365 Copilot license unlocks essentially the most highly effective model of Copilot Chat, reasoning over not simply the file or e-mail you could have open, however your whole work information—drawing from private and shared paperwork, emails, conferences, chats, and extra,” Patton added.
Beginning subsequent month till mid-November, Microsoft may even start routinely putting in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on Home windows units exterior the EEA area which have the Microsoft 365 desktop consumer purposes.
Nonetheless, IT directors accountable for managing Microsoft 365 app deployments will nonetheless have the choice to choose out within the Apps Admin Middle.
In August, as a part of the identical effort to increase Copilot’s attain to extra customers, Microsoft introduced that it might add Microsoft 365 Copilot brokers to the Edge sidebar, beginning in late September 2025, to allow customers to entry them whereas utilizing Copilot.
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