What is Microsoft Copilot?
Microsoft Copilot is Microsoft's AI assistant and spans several variants: a free consumer version at copilot.microsoft.com and the paid Microsoft 365 Copilot integrated into the Office apps Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams. The assistant answers questions in chat, searches the web, summarizes documents and meetings, generates images, and offers advanced reasoning modes. For organizations, Microsoft 365 Copilot accesses permitted work data via Microsoft Graph. The product is available on web, Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, and in the Edge browser.
Best for
Microsoft 365 users and organizations wanting AI directly inside Office apps and Windows.
Strengths
- +Deep integration into Microsoft 365 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams) and Windows.
- +Free consumer version available with chat, web search, and image generation.
- +Enterprise data protection with GDPR and EU Data Boundary compliance for Microsoft 365 Copilot.
- +Access to permitted work data via Microsoft Graph for context-aware responses.
Privacy & data
For Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft states that prompts, responses, and data accessed via Microsoft Graph are not used to train the foundation models, with encryption and GDPR and EU Data Boundary compliance; in the free consumer version, conversations can be used for model training by default, though users can opt out.
Learn more about Microsoft Copilot
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Sources
- www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot/for-individuals
- www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot/for-individuals/features
- www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-copilot
- www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-copilot/pricing/individuals
- support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/what-s-the-difference-between-microsoft-copilot-free-and-copilot-in-microsoft-365-cfff4791-694a-4d90-9c9c-1eb3fb28e842
- learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/copilot/microsoft-365-copilot-privacy
- www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot/for-individuals/privacy