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Teams Who Bot Deprecated, Replaced by Copilot?
We just started getting this message in the Teams Who Bot app: Who bot is being deprecated and will be replaced by Copilot https://aka.ms/m365copilotadoption in December 2023. Please check with your...
We are in the same boat here. Having this replaced with very little notification is upsetting. Then the cost of CoPilot which is $30/month/user ensures that this very basic feature is behind a paywall of at least $108,000 for a company with the minimum of 300 user licenses. My organization is just under that amount. Yes, I have read that this will be available to SMBs at some point but it is being removed in one month. Before this is available to most consumers and most cannot afford this cost.
The cost of CoPilot around the same as what we pay for our E3 license. We are a well known and established company but we cannot afford to pay this much for unproven technology that frankly no one will use to the extent that it is being pushed by Microsoft. It requires training and end user knowledge just to have this be useful. We don't have that type of time, money, or resources to devote to this. This will backfire on Microsoft. Don't give in to this cost so Microsoft sees needs to lower or include some basic features for all licensed customers. Basic copilot features with existing security context on what files or data a user can see need to be included with all base licenses if you are going "replace" something that was included in the past.
Very disappointed in this Microsoft.
The cost of CoPilot around the same as what we pay for our E3 license. We are a well known and established company but we cannot afford to pay this much for unproven technology that frankly no one will use to the extent that it is being pushed by Microsoft. It requires training and end user knowledge just to have this be useful. We don't have that type of time, money, or resources to devote to this. This will backfire on Microsoft. Don't give in to this cost so Microsoft sees needs to lower or include some basic features for all licensed customers. Basic copilot features with existing security context on what files or data a user can see need to be included with all base licenses if you are going "replace" something that was included in the past.
Very disappointed in this Microsoft.
