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CoPilot - General Release
Hello all, Excited to start working with CoPilot. It appears this is not generally available at the moment. Is there a release date planned for this? Thanks - Euge
Microsoft has left one crucial detail out of most of their marketing and documentation surrounding the 365 Copilot licenses. The $30.00 add-on license will require the customer to have a minimum of 300 E3 or E5 licenses, and the customer must purchase a minimum of 300 Copilot add-on licenses. Therefore, it will cost a customer a minimum of $9000.00 a month to try out this service. No trial offers at this time, and smaller organizations are out of luck.
- It's only in the release, with the time it will be improved and cover all Businesses (I hope)
- Need to add to that its on an EA, which has a minimum seat count for E3/E5, so you can buy it on CSP and I think the EA minimum is 500 seats of M365
Jasa76
Is there any official Microsoft information regarding this minimum seat requirement anywhere? It is really frustrating not being able to report back internally WHY officially this isn't possible for SME after we went through the steps of purchasing E3 licenses..- If you look through the community posts someone has posted a screen shot of the documentation showing the 300 minimum. Also it has to be on EA not CSP.
- While it’s true that the current requirement is for a minimum of 300 seats, it’s important to remember that this is likely an initial strategy for the product launch. The high seat count could be due to the computational resources required for Copilot.
However, Microsoft has a history of adapting its strategies based on market feedback and technological advancements. Therefore, it’s plausible that they might revise this requirement in the future, making Copilot more accessible to smaller organizations and partners.
