It’s been rather good at the “office” side of things, and not very useful at doing the things we were doing with OpenAI tools. We too have found it rather good at summarising meetings, a very useful feature for any sort of Microsoft Teams meeting and much better than having some unlucky member of the meeting do it. Copilot has really shined for us, however, have been with PowerPoint, presentations in general and all sort of investor targeted material. I work in the energy sector, and we can’t exactly produce presentations and materials like a design heavy organisation might. So there are two consequences of this, one is that any internal presentation now looks good, which is basically a win-win for everyone. The other is how we’ve basically cut our external orders on design projects to a zero, which is a win did us and terrible for an entire business of graphic designers who target organisations like ours.
I’ve personally mostly used Copilot to make funny pictures after it became apparent that it wasn’t anywhere near the level of OpenAI products as far as behind useful in programming and technology goes. Well, unless it’s very Microsoft documentation related, then Copilot does well at pointing you in the right direction. Well, on the frontend side of things, it’s replaced all our payments to icon libraries, as it’s capable of producing all the icons we need very well. OpenAI can do this as well, but at a cost.
As far as the price goes. Copilot comes with our regular Azure and Office365 subscriptions, and similar to Microsoft teams it’ll be the obvious choice because of this. How will you ever justify paying for a competitor when your budgets show that you’re getting copilot for free? Well, you won’t in most organisations. I’m not a fan of this sort of monopoly, but it’s not like it will change unless EU or US regulation stops it.