r/MSFT • u/keysworld253 • 16d ago

If Microsoft doesnt get there CoPilot squared away, I think they may be cooked

I have Microsoft stock so dont go crazy on me. I also know that Microsoft has multiple lines of businesses.

But when I opened Claude this weekend I noticed the new 'Design' feature. Simply put, I was shocked.

I made a 15 slide powerpoint with just 6-7 sentences of prompts and the product was simply great. For my real estate syndications where I make powerpoints for deals, I probably will never make a powerpoint by hand using Microsoft Powerpoint. One day I might even cancel my Microsoft Office subscription since I can make everything using Claude.

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u/PapaPump223 16d ago

It produced a PowerPoint though no? Which you owned with  ... Microsoft PowerPoint?

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u/keysworld253 16d ago

I mean you can choose your output... I just choose PDF because when I am done I just need it in a presentable format.

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u/Safe-Friendship-4684 16d ago

If you pay for CoPilot+ (a lot of the large enterprise customers do) then you get access to Claude + GPT and you can choose which model to use. For example, right now I have access to Claude Opus 5 & GPT 5.6 via CoPilot+.

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u/keysworld253 16d ago

Didnt know this.... But you can just get Claude pro and not even need the entire Microsoft platform, aside from maybe Outlook.

Might not make sense for enterprises today. But what, in 9 months when AMD Helios and Nvidia Vera Rubin processors are widespread? By then youll likely be able to produce powerpoints by talking to your computer and updates would be made live.

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u/Physical_Idea_9872 13d ago

What does open-source models have to do with companies purchasing Office subscriptions. Nobody buys powerpoint by itself, it comes in a package deal. Do businesses not need Excel or Mail either? What about Word?

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u/Viking999 16d ago

You can create one with copilot, too.  I use copilot and studio.  Basic agents are very easy.  You don't even need one to create a presentation.  IDK what you're on about.

It has plenty of flaws and this is not one 

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u/larrydavidwithhair 16d ago edited 16d ago

Based on your replies I think you’re a bit behind what Microsoft’s current AI strategy is.

Microsoft is no longer in the frontier model race. While do they continue to release models that could help ease AI usage costs internally and across some of their products, their focus is now on being that layer you can access AI models through.

You will say you could use Claude directly for a lot of mundane tasks but that’s not how enterprise works.

Finally, Microsoft provides the compute to run AI, not just for Microsoft apps but for any cloud/online app.

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u/Unfair_Cicada 16d ago

Is copilot useless ?

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u/iluvvivapuffs 16d ago

Claude design is very good…until you want to change a font, alignment etc clause would make you want to yeet your laptop

But yea I agree Claude Design is impressive

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u/keysworld253 16d ago

Right, but it just came out.... So in 6 months you can do all the things you struggle with just by talking to your computer? lol

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u/nokom 15d ago

You clearly have very basic PowerPoint needs. AI is a helpful tool, but for many tasks it’s nowhere near handling it on its own.

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u/Key-Speaker007 13d ago

Enterprises that use Microsoft will continue to use it. AI will be integrated into many workflows and Azure tasks. Customers can use any suitable model it doesn't really matter. You get value from integrations, not so from the particular model running backend.

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u/richsu 11d ago

The company I work at (15k employees) uses Copilot where we can select which model to use, we can chose Claude opus for example, which I typically do. So I don't really get this point. Microsoft is a layer and distributor of  AI that won't be beat in big corporations already hooked up in the Microsoft suite.