Copilot Chat vsus. Microsoft 365 Copilot What's the difference?
While their names sound similar at first glance - Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat - they differ in several aspects. And more importantly, one can't be without another. What is Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat? First since first. Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat is also called Copilot Chat. Copilot Chat generates answers based on web content, while Microsoft 365 Copilot is also grounded on users' data, like emails, meetings, files, and more. Since January 15, Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat is available for everyone. Everyone in organizations. Also customers with a Microsoft 365 Business Basic subscriptions can enjoy using Copilot Chat securily. The screenshot below shows how Copilot Chat looks like and highlights its main capabilities. Note that EDP - Enterprise Data Protection is available. What is Microsoft 365 Copilot? Microsoft 365 Copilot is an add-on available for specific Microsoft 365 Subscriptions: Microsoft 365 E3, E5, A3, A5, and Business Standard & Premium. It includes Copilot Chat in addition to other Copilot features: Microsoft 365 Copilot also includes a chat grounded on users' meetings, emails, chats, and documents. It integrates into Microsoft 365 apps, like Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, and more. It brings the capability to create agents and additional Copilot management features such as SharePoint Advanced Management and Copilot Dashboard. The screenshot below shows how the Copilot chat experience for those users who got the Microsoft 365 Copilot license. Note that EDP - Enterprise Data Protection is available here too. Copilot Chat can be pinned in MS Teams and MS Outlook as App. How can I access Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat? Copilot Chat is nowadays accessible via m365copilot.com using your Entra account. In contrast to Microsoft 365 Copilot licensed users, Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat users cannot see, by default, Copilot Chat pinned on the Microsoft 365 homepage. Microsoft 365 Copilot Administrators will have to pin the chat in the admin center so it is easy for Copilot Chat users to access it. What's the difference? There are some aspects, such as licensing requirements, subscription fees, data sources, or access to organization content, that determine the differences between Copilot Chat and Microsoft 365 Copilot. I have listed it in the screenshot below. 👇 Image showing a 3-column table: Aspect, Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, and Microsoft 365 Copilot.
How to remove Copilot from showing up on web-based apps?
Hello, I predominantly use Outlook through the website via Chrome. I also use OneDrive, Excel, and Word through Chrome quite often. I had a tech person walk me through removing Copilot from my computer's apps - the actual programs - but it's still showing up on my website uses. I do not support AI, AI is absolute trash, and I want Copilot completely eliminated from everything I use. I am tired of having to close the Copilot 'summary' that automatically pops up at the top of all my emails. Is there an easy way to completely eliminate this, or am I doomed? Thank you!Copilot Chat vsus. Microsoft 365 Copilot. What's the difference?
While their names sound similar at first glance, Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, they differ in several aspects. And more importantly: one is built on top of the other. What is Copilot Chat (Basic)? First things first. Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat is often simply called Copilot Chat. Copilot Chat (Basic) generates answers based on web content, while Microsoft 365 Copilot (Premium) is also grounded on users' data, like emails, meetings, files, and more. Since early 2025, Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat has been available to all users in organizations, becoming the entry point to AI assistance for many organizations. Copilot Chat (Basic) is the foundational Copilot experience available at no extra cost for everyone with an eligible Microsoft 365 plan, including: Microsoft 365 E3 / E5 Microsoft 365 A3 / A5 Microsoft 365 Business Standard & Business Premium Copilot Chat (Basic) is secured, compliant, and it does not required the full Copilot add-on license. Copilot Chat (Basic) is able to ground responses on: Public web content. Content explicitly shared or work data manually uploaded to the chat by the user. On-screen content or content displayed on-screen in apps like Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. When it comes to agents, Copilot Chat (Basic) offers these features: You can create your own declarative agents grounded on public web content with Agent Builder. You can use agents built by your org grounded on organizational data with the pay-as-you-go method. There are Microsoft prebuilt agents available like Prompt Coach, however Microsoft premium prebuilt agents like Researcher or Analyst are not included. The screenshot below shows how Copilot Chat looks and highlights its main capabilities. Note the Upgrade button, meaning this is not Microsoft 365 Copilot, but the Copilot Chat (Basic) experience. Note that EDP (Enterprise Data Protection) is available in Copilot Chat (Basic). What is Microsoft 365 Copilot (Premium)? Microsoft 365 Copilot (Premium) is a paid add-on license that builds on top of Copilot Chat and unlocks Copilot's full power. It is available for selected Microsoft 365 plans, including: Microsoft 365 E3 / E5 Microsoft 365 A3 / A5 Microsoft 365 Business Standard & Business Premium With a Microsoft 365 Copilot license, users get everything Copilot Chat (Basic) offers, plus much more: Data grounding: Microsoft 365 Copilot (Premium) includes Copilot Chat grounded on web and/or on user's Microsoft 365 data like emails, meetings, chats, and documents. Office apps: It integrates deeply into Microsoft 365 apps like Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, and more. The integration includes features like Edit with Copilot allowing Copilot to adjust live your documents or email based on your prompts. Custom agents: It brings the capability to create your own declarative agents grounded in organizational data and/or web data. You can create agent either using Agent Builder or Copilot Studio. MS prebuilt agents: Premium prebuilt agents like Researcher and Analyst are included in Microsoft 365 Copilot (Premium). The screenshot below shows the Copilot chat experience for users who have a Microsoft 365 Copilot license. Note that EDP or Enterprise Data Protection also applies here How can I access Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat? Today, Copilot Chat is accessible via https://m365.cloud.microsoft or https://copilot.cloud.microsoft using your Entra ID (work or school account). One important difference in day-to-day experience: Users with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license typically see Copilot prominently surfaced across Microsoft 365 apps. Users with Copilot Chat only may not see it pinned by default on the Microsoft 365 home page. To improve discoverability, Microsoft 365 Copilot administrators can pin Copilot Chat via the Microsoft 365 admin center, ensuring that users can easily access it without friction. Especially convenient is that if you use the M365 Copilot Chat app on Windows, you can open Copilot using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + C. What’s the difference? The differences between Copilot Chat and Microsoft 365 Copilot mainly come down to: Licensing Data grounding (web-only vs. personal work data) Integration depth within Microsoft 365 apps I’ve listed the key differences in the comparison below. 👇Introducing Themes by Copilot in Outlook
Copilot in Outlook now helps anyone with a Copilot enabled subscription or commercial license create unique and personal themes powered by AI. Outlook is also releasing new non-Copilot powered themes to make Outlook more beautiful and approachable. We are thrilled to unveil Themes by Copilot in Outlook, which harnesses the power of generative AI to help people create unique themes that reflect their personal preferences and style within their Outlook experience. Pairing well with the transformative ways Copilot in Outlook enhances your emails, this marks the first instance of dynamic AI-generated theming in productivity applications. For many, Outlook is the app that they use daily, and these innovations will help make their Outlook experience even more welcoming and inviting. These AI-powered themes are accessible to all users with a Copilot Pro consumer subscription and business accounts with Copilot enabled, starting today, November 7th. Themes by Copilot in Outlook will be available on our mobile iOS and Android apps, Outlook for Windows, Outlook on the Web, and Outlook for Mac. Take a look: Just as you might accent your desk with a candle or photos, spruce up your office with artwork or plants, or prefer the window seat on a plane, we believe that beautiful, personal digital surroundings will enhance your overall Outlook experience. How you, your personality and your tastes are represented in an app plays a significant role in how you engage with it and how it makes you feel. But your app shouldn’t only reflect the colors or lighting that you need; the artistry of imagery can connect with you, represent you, and inspire you. Over the past year, we’ve released a set of beautiful static themes with abstract imagery that caters to a variety of colors and lighting styles. Image themes now reach more surface area of the app for a truly immersive experience. Today marks an especially innovative step in our personalization journey because we’ve leveraged the best aspects of generative AI to bring imagination, surprise, and your unique context into personalization. With Themes by Copilot, you can take yourself to every corner of the world by building a theme inspired by any of the over 100 curated destinations available, or create a theme based on your own location. This personalization becomes magical when it evolves over time, considering your unique context or your own personal touch along the way. If you choose, you can make your Themes by Copilot dynamic by selecting how often you want it to update – every few hours, every day, weekly, or monthly. If you’ve enabled location permissions in Outlook, the My Location theme will bring you imagery uniquely inspired by your locale, dynamically updating for you as you head out the door on a trip or vacation. Similarly, a dynamic theme based on the weather would be updated to reflect the current weather conditions where you are. Every Copilot-generated theme automatically comes with a fun accent color, and you can further tune your theme to be in a realistic, oil painting, or cartoon style. To help you shape your theme, we created a guided experience that is easy to use, responsible, and fun. Copilot-powered themes are available in the languages that Outlook supports. No two Themes by Copilot in Outlook are the same. Every creation is unique, dynamic, and exclusively yours -- an experience only available on Outlook. Themes by Copilot will be available to be turned on in Appearance Settings in Outlook. Beneath the Themes by Copilot header, select a topic thumbnail to generate a unique Copilot-powered theme in one click or launch the custom theme tile to create your own with a topic, style, and refresh cadence of your choosing. You can always change your theme in Outlook Settings. Themes by Copilot in Outlook builds upon the strong base of Copilot functionality already available in Outlook. Whether it’s getting help with drafting a mail, summarizing a long thread, or getting coaching on your emails – Copilot in Outlook is a great way to write better emails while saving time. For work accounts, there’s also the addition of Prioritize My Inbox by Copilot, which will be available in private preview for commercial customers in late 2024. Prioritize My Inbox is designed to help people manage their entire inbox by analyzing the content of messages given the context of their role. Themes by Copilot in Outlook is yet another step on our journey to infuse the power of Copilot into Outlook. We can’t wait to see what you create! Additional Outlook Themes for Everyone For those who do not have Themes by Copilot, we have released a collection of new non-Copilot powered themes, designed to make the platform more beautiful and accessible for everyone. Over the past year, we've introduced a variety of new image themes across Outlook for Mac, Outlook on the Web, the newest Outlook for Windows, and Outlook for iOS and Android. Beyond a basic color, you can now choose from vibrant imagery with hues of deep green, red, or purple to fit your mood or the vibe you’re going for. To choose a new image theme in Web, desktop, Mac or mobile, just navigate to Appearance Settings to pick the one that represents you best! It is our goal that today these themes bring joy, creativity and a bit of whimsy to your day. It’s just another way that Outlook is looking out for our customers to help make their experiences uniquely theirs. We are excited to hear what you think!
