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Copilot Product Update – Some Pros And Cons
Following Microsoft’s recent announcement that it is expanding its Copilot product line-up to appeal to a larger range of businesses, we take a look at what this means and some of the stand-out pros and cons. Copilot In November last year, Microsoft, a major investor in AI through its partnership with OpenAI (ChatGPT’s creators) announced…
Read MoreA Dozen Ways Copilot Can Help Your Business
With Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant now embedded within the Microsoft 365 apps and services to help users save time and increase productivity, we look at a dozen things you can do with Copilot to help your business. Microsoft 365 Copilot Copilot fuses ChatGPT version 4 and Microsoft Graph. More specifically, Copilot is designed to integrate…
Read MoreCopilot Can Attend Meetings For You
Following trials, Microsoft’s AI assistant ‘Copilot’, which can even attend meetings for you, will be generally available to all Microsoft 365 Enterprise customers from 1 November. Copilot First introduced in March 2023 and rolled out as part free update to Windows 11, Copilot is an AI assistant that’s embedded within Microsoft 365 apps and services…
Read MoreMicrosoft Launches New AI Content Safety Service
Microsoft has announced the launch of Azure AI Content Safety, a new content moderation service that uses AI to detect and filter out offensive, harmful, or inappropriate user and AI-generated text or image content. What Kind of Harmful Content? The type of content Microsoft’s developed Azure AI Content Safety to filter out includes anything that’s…
Read More36 Cents per Chat Query Prompts $30 Microsoft Fee
Microsoft’s announcement of pricing for its AI productivity suite 365 Copilot shows its intent to monetise its AI, ending any expectations of free AI provision. Furthering Its (Monetising) Ambitions – Microsoft 365 Copilot & Bing Chat Enterprise Announced under the heading “furthering our ambitions”, Microsoft has released details of both Bing Chat Enterprise and Microsoft 365 Copilot…
Read MoreHow ‘Copilot’ Can Help Your Business
In this tech insight, we take a look at what Microsoft 365 Copilot is, how it is being used, and how it can help your business. What Is Copilot? Introduced in March 2023, Microsoft 365 Copilot is an AI assistant that’s embedded within the Microsoft 365 apps and services to help users save time and…
Read More1.5 Million Seat NHS IT Support Deal
Microsoft and NHS England have announced the signing of new five-year contract whereby Microsoft (via a major reseller) will roll out the Microsoft 365 cloud-based online productivity suite to 1.5 million NHS staff. Trusted Relationship Continues Coinciding with the 75th Anniversary of the NHS, Microsoft says the partnership, through a contract awarded to the reseller,…
Read MoreMicrosoft Miffed: Monumental Gaming Merger Muzzled by UK’s CMA
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has blocked Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of US-based video game holding company Activision Blizzard over fears of stifled competition in the cloud gaming market. What Happened? Back in January 2022, Microsoft entered a £68.7 billion deal to buy Activision, one of the most popular video games publishers globally. This…
Read MoreMicrosoft Drops Twitter From Advertising Platform
Following Twitter’s announcement two months ago that it will be charging a minimum of $42,000 per month to enterprise users of its API, Microsoft is dropping Twitter from its advertising platform. What Is The Microsoft Advertising Platform? The Microsoft Advertising Platform is a digital advertising platform that enables businesses to create and run advertising campaigns on…
Read MoreReduced OneDrive Cloud Storage
Changes to Microsoft 365 could mean less OneDrive cloud storage and could lead to Outlook being disrupted. Change In February, Microsoft announced that cloud storage used across Microsoft 365 apps and services would include Outlook.com attachments data and OneDrive data. Microsoft has warned that this change could reduce how much cloud storage users have available…
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