Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat

On January 15th, Microsoft announced ‘Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat’ as a new product. This might sound strange to many of you for a variety of reasons, but we won’t go into the back-ground because none of it matters now! Basically, forget about the past!

This new product is basically taking the free version of Copilot and putting it into the Office.com portal. This free version was previously available for all M365 users by going to Copilot.Microsoft.com, but now they’ve moved it right into the M365 portal.

Side note—The Microsoft 365 portal is now m365.cloud.microsoft. We’re pretty sure they’ll start redirecting Office.com to this new location in the coming months.

Going forward, everyone will see the Copilot option in the M365 portal. If you have the full paid version, you’ll see the ‘Work/Web’ toggle at the top of the page.

The full paid version is still the only way to get Copilot in Teams and all the Microsoft Apps. It’s also the only way for Copilot to have access to all your company data directly, with the same security rights already in place. Copilot chat generates answers based on web content.

The full article announcing all of this has a handy chart for feature comparison. You can find it by searching for Copilot for all: Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat | Microsoft 365 Blog. – CMW