January 2025
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CHAPTER 16Copilot Wave 2 Features
One of the challenges with new technology like Copilot for Microsoft 365 is trying to keep pace with the speed at which Microsoft releases new product features. As we were in the final stages of publishing the book, Microsoft made another wave of announcements during their September 16th Copilot “Wave 2 Event.” These announcements were significant enough to warrant this chapter, which helps address some of the most impactful changes to the product, while also covering what Microsoft sees as the future of humans collaborating with AI.
In this chapter, we will cover the relaunch of Copilot Chat as “BizChat,” which is the first step in Microsoft’s investment toward more agentic AI collaboration. Next, we’ll go through some of the changes to using Copilot for Microsoft 365 with Outlook, Teams, PowerPoint, and Excel, which, as part of the event, were made generally available. Finally, we’ll end with a look to the future with Copilot agents and Microsoft’s vision of semi-autonomous AI within your workflow.
BizChat, aka Copilot Chat
Chapter 6, “Microsoft Copilot Business Chat,” introduced Microsoft’s GenAI-powered chat product, which supports a ChatGPT experience over your organizational data or web searches. With the Wave 2 rollout, this chat experience has been rebranded as Business Chat (BizChat), as shown in Figure 16.1. The vision for BizChat is that it will serve as a central hub where business data, web data, and other non-Microsoft 365 data ...
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