Jumpstart your Copilot Agents adoption with the Agents Starter Kit
Nick DeCourcy Nick DeCourcy

Jumpstart your Copilot Agents adoption with the Agents Starter Kit

There has been a head spinning number of changes to Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Copilot, and now Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat recently. The biggest is the introduction of agents for all Copilot users. With the new Agents Starter Kit you can learn all you need to help your organization adopt these new technologies and to start getting more from Copilot.

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Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat: FREE AI for All M365 Users
Nick DeCourcy Nick DeCourcy

Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat: FREE AI for All M365 Users

Microsoft is changing up the packaging of its free AI chat product again, but along with this comes additional improvements including the much awaited inclusion of Copilot agents (at least basic ones) for free at this tier. But what exactly are the differences you should look out for?

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Does ChatGPT 4o with Canvas beat Copilot in Word?
Nick DeCourcy Nick DeCourcy

Does ChatGPT 4o with Canvas beat Copilot in Word?

The release into beta of ChatGPT 4o with Canvas marks the first significant change in ChatGPT's UI since it was first released, and by adding a text editor to its product, ChatGPT is suddenly competing head-to-head with those using Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot in Word. But does OpenAI's vision for what AI assisted text creation should feel like beat Microsoft's, or has 30 years of developing Office and now Microsoft 365 taught them a thing or two that OpenAI still needs to learn?

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Copilot Pages: How to use this new canvas for multiplayer AI collaboration
Nick DeCourcy Nick DeCourcy

Copilot Pages: How to use this new canvas for multiplayer AI collaboration

With the release of Copilot Pages, the first new digital artifact of the AI age, Copilot users have the ability to collaborate on a persistent canvas while using Microsoft 365 Copilot's chat capabilities. But is this really something new? And is it built in a way that makes it more useful, either versus previous Copilot promises, or versus the tools currently available? We also look at ChatGPT 4o with Canvas to consider the future of this sort of tooling for AI users.

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Does Microsoft 365 Copilot pay for itself? Investigating AI's return-on-investment
Nick DeCourcy Nick DeCourcy

Does Microsoft 365 Copilot pay for itself? Investigating AI's return-on-investment

Understanding whether AI tools are worth paying for is an essential component of being able to make long-term decisions about this technology. But because of how these tools help us, it can be surprisingly difficult to pin down exactly the benefit they have. By thinking in broad categories of impact, we can start to think about how they deliver ROI so whether you're using Microsoft 365 Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini or something else, you can feel confident your resources are being used for impact.

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Copilot for Microsoft 365 hacked? How do we stay safe with AI?
Nick DeCourcy Nick DeCourcy

Copilot for Microsoft 365 hacked? How do we stay safe with AI?

Research by Zenity Labs shows certain issues with Copilot for Microsoft 365 that would potentially cause security concerns in some environments. These use Copilot as a new vector to compromise Microsoft 365 security and to manipulate users into providing information or greater access, as we have seen so many times with prior security issues.

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Top 5 Copilot for Microsoft 365 Gotchas
Nick DeCourcy Nick DeCourcy

Top 5 Copilot for Microsoft 365 Gotchas

Copilot for Microsoft 365 is an extremely useful tool for boosting the productivity and engagement of knowledge workers. But no tool is perfect and there are some things with Copilot where it is just frustrating that features are missing or work the way they do. This top 5 list of gotchas are ones you should look out for.

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