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Announcing People Skills general availability and new Skills agent

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John_Mighell
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Apr 23, 2025

AI that understands your business and your people

We are excited to announce the general availability of People Skills, a powerful new data layer in Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft 365 and the Viva portfolio of apps and services. People Skills is t...
Updated Jul 22, 2025
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Spinderok
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Apr 26, 2025

If I understand the licensing correctly, in order to have enterprise-wide access into this much needed capability, everyone needs either a Viva Suite License or Copilot? I'm confused why Viva C&C license doesn't count? It seems like this would be a natural tie in to Viva Engage community building. This should be an enterprise-wide capability. Just one more thing we have to track when training employees that while we are showing really cool stuff they may or may not actually get to use it.