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12/1/24 •

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Microsoft Copilot, an AI assistant integrated with Microsoft 365, enhances productivity by automating tasks and providing support across various applications. While not available as a standalone app for Mac, users can access Copilot features through Microsoft 365 apps on Mac OS by ensuring an active subscription and installing the latest updates, or through the Copilot webpage in a web browser.

What is Microsoft Copilot?

• 00:01:03 Microsoft Copilot is an AI-powered assistant integrated with various Microsoft products, such as Microsoft 365, Outlook, and Teams. It's designed to increase productivity by automating tasks like drafting emails, summarizing meetings, and generating reports, leveraging advanced language models to provide contextual support within applications.

Copilot Features

• 00:01:31 Key features of Microsoft Copilot include automated task management, such as summarizing meeting notes or preparing reports, and enhancing productivity within applications like PowerPoint, where it can translate presentations and suggest templates, or Excel, where it offers data analysis insights. Copilot can also help with email and calendar assistance in Outlook.

Accessing Copilot on Mac

• 00:02:13 Microsoft has not released a standalone Copilot application for Mac OS. Instead, users can access Copilot functionalities through Microsoft 365 apps. To do so, users need an active Microsoft 365 subscription, install the latest updates of Microsoft 365 applications (like Word, Excel, PowerPoint) from the App Store, and then access the Copilot features within these applications.

Copilot via Browser

• 00:03:32 Users can also access Copilot through a web browser by visiting the Copilot webpage in a browser like Safari. Here, users can interact with Copilot using prompts to achieve desired tasks, such as generating an Excel sheet or drafting an email. However, Copilot cannot directly create or send Excel files, as it's integrated into Microsoft 365 applications.