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Starting in May, people using Microsoft 365 will be able to use Copilot, the AI assistant, to analyze their OneDrive files.
AI for OneDrive
Microsoft has in fact revealed in a roadmap dedicated to its office suite, spotted by Neowin, that the next AI capabilities for OneDrive would allow its users to ask questions and search for information about their files stored online.
“Copilot in OneDrive, which will be available on the web version, will allow you to ask questions and obtain information about files stored in a OneDrive account without having to open them,” Microsoft specifies in the roadmap. “It can also summarize one or more files. Copilot in OneDrive will work with the following file types: DOC, DOCX, FLUID, LOOP, PPT, PPTX, XLSX, PDF, ODT, ODP, RTF, ASPX, RTF, TXT, HTM, and HTML. »
Microsoft OneDrive is Microsoft’s storage space offered to users with a Microsoft account and which also allows direct use of Office online, the free version of the famous office suite.
- Downloads: 9
- Release date : 06/02/2024
- Author : Microsoft Corporation
- Licence : Free license
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Office automation – Internet – Productivity - Operating system : Android – Online service – Windows 7/8/8.1/10/11 – iOS iPhone / iPad – macOS
To obtain Copilot support, you will need to have a Microsoft Copilot license for Microsoft 365.
Copilot, Copilot Pro and Copilot for Microsoft 365
Launched last November, Copilot for Microsoft 365 uses artificial intelligence to help users of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Microsoft Teams and other applications in the suite. They can chat with the AI assistant, ask it questions and submit requests regarding their files. But the subscription costs 28 euros per month.
The subscription to Copilot Pro only costs 22 euros per month. If it can help you write and edit text, summarize documents in Word, generate formulas and analyze data in Excel, create presentations in PowerPoint, compose text in OneNote, and write Answers in Outlook, it doesn’t include AI-driven access to Microsoft Teams or let you work directly with your OneDrive files on the web.
Microsoft Copilot is a revolutionary chatbot that provides advanced image generation and multimodal image and text processing.
- Downloads: 78
- Release date : 05/02/2024
- Author : Microsoft
- Licence : Free license
- Categories:
Internet - Operating system : Android – Online service – iOS iPhone / iPad
Copilot is also available for free in a limited version. The AI assistant is accessible through its website, its icon in the Windows taskbar (on Windows 10 and Windows 11) and its applications on iOS and Android. However, the free version does not allow you to work directly in applications and with files from the Office/Microsoft 365 suite.
New in OneDrive
Microsoft has been trying to modernize its file sharing and synchronization service, OneDrive, for some time now, as evidenced by the new features announced last October.
Among the new features, a new design is being deployed. In particular, it will allow you to filter files by type, create new documents more easily and share them directly with the recipients you have chosen.
Source: ZDNet.com