Microsoft 365 Copilot Now Available For All
On 15th Jan, Microsoft announced that Copilot for Microsoft 365 is now available for all organisations and individuals with no minimum seat purchase as well as Microsoft Copilot Pro for Microsoft 365 Personal and Family users.
What is Copilot?
Copilot for Microsoft 365 is Microsoft’s AI-powered productivity tool that integrates your business data with the Microsoft Graph and Microsoft 365 Apps. It works alongside employees’ core business apps such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and of course Microsoft Teams.
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Copilot for Businesses
Small businesses with Microsoft 365 Business Standard and Premium Business licenses can now purchase between one and 299 seats for $30 p/person per month. Microsoft has also removed the 300-seat purchase minimum for commercial plans and made Copilot available for Office 365 E3 and E5 customers.
Commercial customers can now purchase Copilot for Microsoft 365 through Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider partners such as Cisilion.
Copilot for individuals
Microsoft has announced Microsoft Copilot Pro, a subscription add on which is aimed at consumers/individuals. Available ‘soon’, people/families will be able to subscribe to Copilot Pro for $20 per month/per user, bringing the power of Copilot to everyone.
Unlike the free Copilot experience, Microsoft Copilot Pro will run like the Business version, serving as a ‘single AI experience’ across your devices and works from within the Microsoft Office apps.
Users will also get “priority access” to OpenAI’s latest AI model GPT-4 Turbo even during peak usage times, can choose between different GPT models in a later update, and get enhanced AI image creation. They will also be able to build their own Copilot GPT in the new Copilot GPT Builder with just a simple set of prompts.
You should still prepare though…
Whilst this makes it more attractive to organisations of all sizes and helps them “test it out”, my worry is this will just be treated alike a product and as such, organisations risk dabbling and not putting the effort into making this a success.
My advice is to still follow the adoption and readiness guidelines around data protection, life cycle management and governance and security to ensure that Copilot gives the best results, provides real ROI and drives real outcomes. For now though, the huge barrier to a pilot of Copilot is removed which in turn should help adoption, testing and business case development.
Adoption, training and change management is also super important..
I cover lots of this in my previous sets of blogs and articles here.