Microsoft's Copilot: A Frustrating Flop in AI-Powered Productivity

If I were replying to this thread in August 2024, when it first started, I would have wholeheartedly agree.

Not so much anymore.

Things have changed quite a bit. I'm not saying Microsoft Copilot is perfect, far from it actually, but I've been teaching on Copilot long enough to know that it has gotten better significantly.

Case in point: I used to use Gamma.App or Claude to create my PowerPoint decks for my presentations. Now it has finally gotten to the point where it's making very good-looking presentations from scratch and letting me update existing slides or add additional content with great results consistently. Definitely a game changer, and no additional licenses of additional software required. 

Below is a scenario I recorded after one of my Copilot workshops on Copilot in PowerPoint.

Also, a big reason I would tell any organization leader to tell their employees to use Copilot is Enterprise Data Protection. You never know what your employees are putting in ChatGPT or Claude or even Deepseek. Getting amazing results at the expense of your data leaking into places you don't want it to go is not a trade-off that's worth it IMHO.