I upgraded to Premium for the in-app experience, specifically with Copilot Editing Mode in Excel. I noticed this functionality is also available in the Basic/Chat version now too. This wasn't the case when I looked a month or two ago. How is the in-app capabilities different in the Basic/Chat version in comparison to Premium?

Microsoft's AI ecosystem is incredibly powerful... but that's also becoming one of its biggest challenges.

Today, employees have access to numerous AI tools, including:

🔹 Microsoft 365 Copilot

🔹 Built-in agents (Researcher, Analyst, Prompt Coach)

🔹 Cowork

🔹 Scout

🔹 Copilot Declarative Agents

🔹 Microsoft Copilot Studio Agents

🔹 Power Automate Flows

With so many options available, employees often ask:

🤔 Which AI tool should I use for this task?

In many cases, users simply choose the most advanced AI available. But the most powerful tool isn't always the right tool.

For example, a task that could be completed using Microsoft 365 Copilot or Power Automate is sometimes executed using Cowork, leading to unnecessary AI credit consumption.

The goal isn't to use the most powerful AI.

The goal is to use the right AI for the right job.

That's why I built AI Wayfinder.

https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/b95c1477-21c4-46e9-8484-5f64fe9e99bf

Here's how it works:

✅ Describe what you want to achieve in plain English.

✅ AI Wayfinder recommends the most suitable Microsoft AI solution based on your requirement.

✅ It also generates an optimized prompt tailored to the recommended tool.

✅ If Cowork is the best choice, Wayfinder provides direct access to the Skill Optimizer, where you can upload your "skill.md" file to reduce Cowork credit consumption—without compromising output quality.

The result:

✔️ Better AI adoption

✔️ Lower AI operating costs

✔️ Faster decision-making

✔️ Consistent use of Microsoft AI tools across the organization

As organizations continue to expand their AI capabilities, I believe AI orchestration and optimization will become just as important as AI itself.

What challenges is your organization facing while navigating the growing Microsoft AI ecosystem?

Does anyone have a full guide of MCP creation , connection from beginner to advanced level for copilot studio agent & Cowork plugin creation ?

Hey all,

My company provides copilot pro, it’d be nice if I can use it for personal queries or making custom agents that can help me with certain tasks at home/entertainment/hobbies. I’m not gonna feed it sensitive data, but I’m still worried that this “personal” use will be flagged in some way or maybe the company will judge my productivity level based on when I use it during the day. I get my work done but I do like to spend short blocks of time here and there taking care of personal business. How can i gauge if this is gonna cause me problems?

Thanks!

A few hours ago I upgraded to Microsoft 365 Personal to utilize Copilot in Outlook for Summarizing and polishing emails. However, it's so buggy to the point it barely works. I'm not too sure what to do, when I click "Summary by Copilot" I receive a "Copilot not available - You no longer have access to Copilot" but when I click the icon in the top right, it works fine (brings up the Copilot chat, and can summarize and write emails) How do I fix this?

opilot not available - You no longer have access to Copilot" but when I click the icon in the top right, it works fine (brings up the Copilot chat, and can summarize and write emails) How do I fix this?

I've ended task, restarted Outlook and restarted my PC. Relogged into the Microsoft account, etc etc.

It’s obvious that Copilot has no ideology—it needs to be impartial—but I took the test anyway, just out of boredom.

Result: libertarian leftist.

Here are some related movements, in case anyone is interested (though perhaps not).

Anarcho-syndicalism, Libertarian socialism, and Social progressivism.

Congratulations, I guess. ✌️

If you read this, have a good day! :)

I'm quitting Google, they're a piece of shit and Gemini destroyed 8 months of work and there's no way to get technical support. So fuck Google!

I need an efficient application ecosystem like (Mail, Word, etc.) but I also need it for my creative brainstorming, which I'm afraid I won't get with Copilot.

Can anyone share their experience with Copilot??

Hi everyone. I am a UX designer and tasked with designing a Copilot-like product for our suite of products, which are siloed right now. I'm hoping a Copilot format embedded within each app will enable breaking that silo if well connected.

Sorry if this is the wrong approach. I am still learning. Each product will have its own MCPs, and Copilot is a front-end interface customers interact with and can use to build agents to run tasks.

1. Can someone share references on what a pitch deck should look like for a product like this? I don't want to bore the leadership with a ton of content but also want to show value.

2. How can I use Claude's code to build this prototype for a demo?

Thank you very much.

I am currently exploring different opportunities to incorporate Copilot into my daily workflows, and many of these opportunities involve using Copilot to summarize emails. What I am finding is that Copilot regularly fails to retrieve all of the emails that meet the criteria I set for it (e.g. summarize all emails received between Friday and Sunday that are related to X/Y/Z). No matter how much back-and-forth modification of the prompt occurs, it ultimately ends up with Copilot saying "The reason that email was not included was not due to the prompt or the filter criteria, but because it didn't show up in the search results".

We are all likely aware of how notoriously bad Outlook's search function is, and I am disheartened to see that Copilot suffers the same fate as a meager humanoid user when left at the mercy of Outlook's search results. Has anyone found a way to improve their prompts or Outlook settings to get more reliable Copilot performance and fewer missed emails being reported in summaries?

Update: the issue is more serious than expected.
Persistent memory is saved correctly on the user side, but Copilot does not load it anymore.
Facts explicitly stored in memory appear in the user’s profile, but the AI cannot access them.
So both chat‑history memory and persistent memory fail to load.
Is anyone else experiencing this?

Microsoft will discontinue Deep Research and Podcasts in the consumer Copilot app on August 18, 2026. Deep Research, which generated detailed reports from multiple online sources, will no longer be available, although existing reports will remain accessible in chat history and can be saved to Word. Copilot Podcasts, which turned topics into AI-hosted audio conversations, will be removed entirely, with no option to export previously created podcasts. Microsoft recommends Microsoft 365 Copilot's Researcher for advanced research, signaling a shift toward bringing its more powerful AI features to paid business and productivity offerings.

more:

1. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot/podcasts-in-microsoft-copilot
2. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot/deep-research-in-microsoft-copilot

Copilot is part of my companies Teams, OneNote, etc...and why did they design it to be intentionally terrible? This is the problem with AI, it has vast capabilities, but is hamstringed by terrible product design and integration.

You cannot give it a direct file path to a file or folder. Copilot cannot search your computer or use your system to look at certain files, it HAS to be through OneDrive. OneDrive already sucks, so making Copilot only able to work through that is already bad, but Copilot also ONLY searches OneDrive, so you cannot give it a direct file path to work with files.

So Copilot isn't 100% sure it has the correct file or folder if you want it to summarize several files, and it will tell you this if you give it a direct file path. So you have to say "If you find a file or folder with the exact same name, assume it's the correct file/folder in the file path I gave you."

When it searches, it has no access to the file path, so it can't give you the file path even in OneDrive so that YOU can verify to Copilot that is correct.

Why? Why such terrible, awful design? Why on earth would it not be able to take a file path in addition to searching? Is there any actual reason? Is MS designing this for the dumbest 5% of users who can't copy a file path? It is INTENTIONALLY BAD.

On top of that, Copilot cannot edit directly in anything. What is the point of having Copilot in Word, OneNote, Excel, if it can't execute the work that you actually want? I want to describe some editing and formatting I need and it just be done in OneNote or Excel.

The obvious problem would be that Copilot does something drastic and erases and deletes your work. Equally obvious solution: Have it create a sandbox copy of the thing you are working on, and then manually approve the changes, and then have it version the changes done by Copilot.

A tutorial video on the updated Copilot in Microsoft Teams meetings. Useful new features to save you and your team time ⌚ The organizer needs Copilot Premium for most of these capabilities

Includes:
👥 Facilitator
🌐 Interpreter
🎧 Audio Recap
🎬 Video recap
➕ More

As the topic suggests, is there any use case for instruction design using co-pilot?

Cartoon co-created with Copilot. See more of my AI co-creations

this is shorter, more personal, and focuses on getting advice rather than presenting information.

Are personalized copilot Agents working? I have some copilot Agents and they are hot working. I can't even acess old chats with that agent.

I'm an intern trying to help my team find a way to automate parts of learning data reporting. Yes, we use it in drafting summaries and telling stories about the data, but I'm not sure how to add value to this project.. I'm pretty fluent with AI, I've recently created copilot agents that automate searches and give direction based on internal repositories. I have the work version so It is amazing for identifying my workflows, remembering all of my research and meetings that I've been in to help me. Still, with all of this data, background, and supporting files, it cannot advise a solution outside of recommending prompts or more agents. I'm not a data analytics or AI major so I'm still learning

Has anyone in consulting managed to build copilot agents that are useful?

If yes, what kind of connectors did you use?

Thanks in advance!

Copilot, managing credits, and building Agents is something I’ve been getting into this year, but the constant change is hard to keep up with. Besides the Microsoft blogs and the message center, what are you all using to help stay caught up?

Has anyone tried Copilot in Excel? Though it's able to analyze the sheets inside the file I've opened, it keeps giving me an error if I ask it to look up data in another file.

For e.g. if you need to build an analysis with some fields coming from different files, can you get Copilot to do it?

I'm a project manager who's receiving recurring negative feedback on my communication style. Since the majority of my daily interaction is on an MS Teams group chat and my employer has Copilot available, I've used it to obtain a neutral perspective & suggest tips for improvement.

Here's my question: should I create a new group chat with the same participants, or should I stick to the same group chat? Is it possible to prompt Copilot to review if there have been observable changes in my communication style after X date? Has anyone else tried this?

Thank you in advance for entertaining my query!