Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh away: Copilot edition

Not satisfied with shoehorning Copilot into every crevice of Office, Microsoft is adding Office to the Copilot app, while also evicting the AI assistant from certain parts of Outlook. The plan is simple: give the Copilot app a prompt, and it will create an Office document (for example, Word) and let a user edit it in the appropriate Office application while keeping the Copilot conversation going. The document can be shared with other users too, who can use the prompt Copilot to tweak it. Albeit an interesting approach, we suspect the system's reliance on OneDrive, rather than that enterprise favorite, SharePoint, might put off some customers. The new feature is also only rolling out to Frontier customers in Chat and Cowork. There's also a question-mark over Microsoft's commitment. The company is quick to drop or deprecate technology when its attention drifts elsewhere. The ability to create a theme in Outlook with Copilot is an example. …