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Announcing Microsoft 365 Copilot Early Access Program and the 2023 Annual Work Trend Index

In March, we introduced the world to Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work. We’re excited to share the next step in our journey as we bring Copilot to more customers and introduce new capabilities. We’re also releasing new data and insights from our 2023 Annual Work Trend Index on how work is changing in the era of AI.

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Image shows a scale with survey results in purple and green circles — With the balance of work hours spent communicating, 68% of employees say they don’t have enough uninterrupted focus time during the workday. With the balance of work hours spent communicating, 68% of employees say they don’t have enough uninterrupted focus time during the workday.

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Image shows survey results in green circles — The data reveals an urgent need to make meetings effective — people reported ‘inefficient meetings’ as their number one productivity disruptor.

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Image shows survey results in a large circle — Amid fears of AI job loss, managers were 2x more likely to choose ‘increasing employee productivity’ than ‘reducing headcount’ when asked what they would most value about AI in the workplace.

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Image shows survey results in bar graph form — Asked to imagine work in 2030, people we surveyed said they’d most value changes that saved them time — like producing high-quality work and learning new skills faster.

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Image shows survey results in an illustrated head and brain — "Analytical judgment,’ ‘flexibility,’ and ‘emotional intelligence’ topped the list of skills leaders believe will be essential for employees in an AI-powered future.

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Gif shows suggested ideas in Copilot Whiteboard — Copilot in Whiteboard supercharges your creative brainstorming by suggesting ideas based on prompts you give, generating even more ideas, and populating ideas into sticky notes directly on the whiteboard.

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Gif shows content being summarized with Copilot Whiteboard — Drive teamwork forward by summarizing with Copilot in Whiteboard, which gathers the content from your whiteboard and automatically creates a Loop component summary. Share out this Loop component in Teams chat, Outlook, Word for the web and other whiteboards to save time on follow-ups and focus on next steps.

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Gif shows Copilot in Whiteboard organizing sticky notes — Save time organizing ideas and run more effective meetings by discovering key themes from your brainstorm with Copilot in Whiteboard. Copilot in Whiteboard will organize your sticky notes into thematic columns and uncover insights from the ideas on your whiteboard.

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Gif shows Coaching by Copilot in Outlook — Copilot in Outlook brings new AI-powered coaching tips and suggestions to help you write more effective emails.

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Gif shows a user asking for and receiving a company overview in Copilot OneNote — In OneNote, Copilot will use your prompts to draft plans, generate ideas, create lists, organize information, and help you quickly find what you need.

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Gif shows Copilot OneNote bringing in additional information to a request and summarizing it — In OneNote, Copilot will use your prompts to draft plans, generate ideas, create lists, organize information, and help you quickly find what you need.

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Gif shows Semantic Index for Copilot in teams answering a user’s request for a specific sales report — Semantic Index for Copilot in Teams enhances Copilot results and enterprise search in Microsoft E3 and E5.

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Gif shows Copilot rewriting text in a PowerPoint presentation — Rewrite with Copilot improves your PowerPoint presentation.

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Gif shows DALL-E, OpenAI’s image generator, being used to add images to a PowerPoint presentation — Using DALL-E, OpenAI’s image generator, PowerPoint creates images uniquely designed for your story.

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Gif shows Copilot in Loop summarizing content — Copilot in Loop helps your team stay in sync by quickly summarizing all the content on your Loop page to help keep everyone aligned and able to collaborate effectively.

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Gif shows the language chat interface being utilized with Copilot in Viva Learning — Copilot in Viva Learning will use a natural language chat interface to help users create a personalized learning journey including designing upskilling paths, discovering relevant learning resources and scheduling time for assigned trainings.

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Gif shows user finding relevant learning experiences in Academies in Viva learning — Academies in Viva Learning enables organizations to curate role- and line-of-business- specific learning experience.

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Microsoft 365 Copilot in Teams meetings
Microsoft 365 Copilot in PowerPoint
The Semantic Index for Copilot explained
Work Trend Index video short

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