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If you're on MS stack, this is all stuff that MS 365 Copilot will already do for you, but with much better defined barriers around what it can and cant access.

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This is the first positive thing I have heard about copilot. You’ve found it genuinely capable?

Yes, if you work somewhere that is paying for the right add-ons, it can access all your stuff (messages, calendar, email, documents) and sythesise that all into helpful stuff like 'what am I supposed to be doing today?', 'what did I do last week (so I can fill in my timesheet)', what happened in that meeting I missed, etc. Under the hood its using whatever OpenAIs latest model is.

Assuming you are using the flagship copilot that is a $30 / mo add on to a 365 subscription, and maybe, maybe if Microsoft replaced CoPilot’s “brain” with Opus 4.5. In my experience, while flagship CoPilot does deliver value if setup correctly, it’s no where near as capable an “agent” as Claude. (And even though Open Claw is now model agnostic, there is a reason for its association to Claude. Despite it’s expense, I find Opus 4.5 works best.)

Every time I ask copilot in 365 to do something with calendar or email, it tells me it has no access but helpfully suggests I could paste some content in...

I check in once a month or so and get the same results.

I believe you need to pay for an add-on called "Microsoft 365 Copilot"

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365-copilot

Wouldja look at that. Thanks!

The naming of these things makes it all very clear, really.

Yes its clear as mud

I would be surprised if Copilot is even close to that

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