Event details
We are very excited to announce a Microsoft 365 Copilot and Bing Chat Enterprise AMA! Get answers to your questions around Microsoft 365 copilot and Bing Chat enterprise from our team of experts
*For questions about any details about the Early Access Program (EAP), please address them to your Microsoft account team.
For an overview of the recent Inspire announcements on the Copilot and Bing Chat Enterprise, check out this post:
How does it work?
We will have a broad group of product experts, servicing experts, and engineers representing Microsoft 365 Copilot and Bing Chat enterprise.
They will be standing by here -- in chat during the live hour -- to provide guidance, discuss best practices, and, of course, answer any specific questions you may have.
Post your questions in the comments early and throughout the one-hour event.
| Note: This is a chat-based event. There is no video or live meeting component. Questions and answers will appear in the Comments section below. Please post each question as a new comment |
217 Comments
- sconsidineBrass ContributorWill GitHub Copilot get wrapped in with MS365 copilot at launch or anytime in the future?
- Yana_Terukhova
Microsoft
there are no plans to do so at this point.
- LouisPCNBrass Contributor
What's the productivity gain should we expect per employee using Co-Pilot? Did you do any survey results based on the current group of company that has access. This data would help to sell the Co-Pilot to upper management which is asking why should we pay 30$/month.
- Someone449Brass ContributorIf they do ever share such a stat, they need to explain how they arrived at that number.
- KevinSherman
Microsoft
Great question. The answer really depends on the type of user we're talking about. To be clear this isn't because it's only going to lead to positive outcomes for certain employees, but the path to those outcomes differs based on which type of employee we're talking about. For salespeople, Copilot allows sellers to spend more time selling and less time responding to emails, crafting sales pitches, etc. But beyond that, it's also help those sellers create better emails, and create better sales pitches meaning they're not only talking to more customers but more productive with each. For executives, Copilot helps them stay up-to-date on the projects they care about but can't be intimately involved with, allows them to get the key outcomes of meetings they miss, and more efficiently get through overwhelemed inboxes. There are countless other examples, but for each of these scenarios there's more than enough ways to translate to bottom line value (e.g. if a seller closes x% more deals, a C-suite executive's time is worth $y/hour). We're working on more objective measures based on preview customers, and are always happy to chat with executives (and others!) about how to think about value vis-a-vis price.
- sconsidineBrass ContributorAre we able to license co-pilot to a subset of Microsoft E5 users rather than licensing to all users?
- Someone449Brass ContributorI was told the minimum buy-in for EAP is 200 users. Let's hope they're more flexible when it reaches GA.
- GabeHoFormer Employee
Copilot is a separate add-on license that can be added to specific users with the appropriate base license.
- sconsidineBrass ContributorWhat is the "Appropriate" base license? That is vague and does not help IT professionals in their upcoming budget cycles
- SkyukCopper ContributorMy customers are also asking if Copilot will need to be licensed for all or a subset - will there be a minimum entry level?
- Sarah_GilbertSilver Contributor
Welcome to the Microsoft 365 Copilot Ask Microsoft Anything (AMA)! This live hour gives you the opportunity to ask questions directly to the Microsoft team. Please post any questions in a separate, new comment thread on this event. Microsoft team- please introduce yourself on this thread to let the customers know who you are and what you do!
- KevinSherman
Microsoft
Hello! I'm Kevin Sherman, Director of Marketing for M365 Copilot. - nellodandreaCopper ContributorAre you going to check the questions which were posted or should we repost them ?
- GabeHoFormer EmployeeHello! I'm Gabe, Product Marketing Manager, Microsoft 365 Copilot admin readiness
- KathyFitzCopper ContributorDoes this bing chat enterprise review all of your emails and files or only data you upload to the chat?
- JaredAndersen
Microsoft
Bing Chat Enterprise doesn't have access to your files, emails, or work data in Microsoft 365 - unless you copy this information into the chat. Otherwise it only has access to information from the public web or that appears in your Edge browser (if you've granted the Edge sidebar permission to use page context).
- Martino80Copper ContributorWhat is the current coverage for people using Macs. Will they require Edge or will access via Safari be made available now or in the future
- JaredAndersen
Microsoft
Great question! We've announced that Bing Chat and Bing Chat Enterprise will also support other browsers soon. We do also have a version of Edge for Macs.
- Someone449Brass ContributorIf an employee uses Copilot to query for sensitive data hoping that someone left permissions open to everyone (e.g., "show me salaries for Jane Doe"), can IT pull an access log to see who viewed the data? If so, would the log show a generic log entry stating an anonymous person using BCE accessed the file or will it reveal the employee's unique AD user name?
- Tom_Moser
Microsoft
We're working on the logging and visibility around what users are doing in an organization with Copilot. In this scenario, would you expect that IT admins have a log of all prompts by all users in the organization? Or would you prefer that the service detects a sensitive question, then only logs information on that sensitive question?- Someone449Brass ContributorI would not want to see the actual prompts as that becomes quite a privacy issue. I would just want to see a log that Billy accessed Salaries.docx via an unspecified BCE query. I don't want a fully Orwellian environment.
- KyleBerwaldtCopper ContributorOrganizationally, how is Microsoft structuring support for CoPilot? Does Microsoft see this fitting in Enterprise Search? How should we position this capability internally? Anecdotally, it seems like there may be 'skills' or 'connectors' that allow CoPilot to learn from various other sources outside of just M365.
- GabeHoFormer EmployeeMore will be announced in future on support. On connectors, check out this article for more info https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/copilot/how-to-extend-copilot#how-to-make-your-graph-connector-work-better-with-copilot
- KyleBerwaldtCopper ContributorI have found while using the preview of Bing Chat Enterprise the chat will display ads to purchase something. Once it reaches production will those be removed?
- JaredAndersen
Microsoft
Since Bing Chat Enterprise is providing answers from the public web, some of the answers do contain ads. These ads are non-targeted and not tied to any information from your previous chats. - Someone449Brass ContributorI hope they do remove ads from what is a PAID service. I would expect ads only in a free service.
- PeterG40629Copper ContributorIs BCE generally free of charge for E3/E5 users or will it be changed to 5$ too in the future? The wording on the blog in this repect can be interpreted in different ways. This is the blog post from Microsoft I'm referring to: "Bing Chat Enterprise is rolling out in preview today and is included at no additional cost in Microsoft 365 E3, E5, Business Standard and Business Premium. And in the future, it will be available as a stand-alone offering for $5 per user, per month."
- JaredAndersen
Microsoft
Bing Chat Enterprise will be available at no additional cost for users with E3, E5, Business Standard, or Business Premium licenses. This will still be the case even after the product is out of preview - it's not intended to be a temporary measure. The purpose of the $5/u/m stand-alone license is for customers not licensed for Microsoft 365 who want to be able to purchase a license.- AaronCouchIron ContributorOne very important distinction we've discovered at my org is that you need to have the "Microsoft 365" licenses and NOT the "Office 365" licenses in your tenant. Unless you're reading the fine print really closely, this can be an easy oversight.
- Someone449Brass ContributorI read it as meaning that BCE won't work for those without an E3/E5. However, in the future, you can add on BCE for those who lack such a license for $5 per user per month. That would be cheaper than giving them an E3/E5 license.