Inside Microsoft’s big Copilot rethink
Nadella is betting that AI will change the way people work in the same way that Microsoft Office did in the ’80s and ’90s.“How did a multinational company do a forecast in 1981? You had interoffice memos and faxes and all of these artifacts that then just disappeared and you suddenly had an Excel spreadsheet in an email,” said Nadella. “We are the architects of a new frontier of work, using these new tools and capabilities.”Microsoft has spent the past few months fusing together its consumer and enterprise Copilot apps into a single unified user interface, with a goal to make Copilot as influential as Office once was.
- ▪Nadella is betting that AI will change the way people work in the same way that Microsoft Office did in the ’80s and ’90s.“How did a multinational company do a forecast in 1981?
- ▪You had interoffice memos and faxes and all of these artifacts that then just disappeared and you suddenly had an Excel spreadsheet in an email,” said Nadella.
- ▪“We are the architects of a new frontier of work, using these new tools and capabilities.”Microsoft has spent the past few months fusing together its consumer and enterprise Copilot apps into a single unified user interface, with a goal to
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