In 2024, Microsoft 365 Copilot changed the way people the way people find information, create content and collaborate with their team, saving people time and enhancing productivity. It was just over a year ago that the product was rolled out to eager customers. Your feedback has been crucial in shaping the product as we rapidly rollout updates and new features.
Relive the year with us and read more about some of the features that made 2024 the year of Copilot. These are just some of the most exciting and impactful features we launched.
Without further ado, here is the Microsoft 365 Copilot Year in Review:
January answered your requests for more control in Copilot in Teams while still leveraging the benefits of Copilot assistance during meetings.
February brought an improved experience to your favorite place to use Copilot – Microsoft Teams – and brought you Copilot in the Windows Desktop for the first time.
- Copilot for Microsoft 365 capabilities now available in the Windows desktop
- Introducing the new Microsoft Copilot experience in Teams
March ushered in actionable insights in the form of the Microsoft Copilot Dashboard, powered by Viva Insights, to maximize the value of your Microsoft 365 Copilot investment.
April enabled more personal experiences by offering new ways to learn and more available languages. We really do want to know where you were April twenty-ninth.
- Copilot Academy generally available
- Copilot in Viva Engage generally available
- New supported languages in M365 Copilot: Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Korean, Norwegian (Bokmal), Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, and Ukrainian
- Multi-turn conversation with Copilot in chats and channels
In May, a new unified experience for teams to collaborate on projects was introduced, integrating to-dos, tasks, plans, and goals with the new Microsoft Planner.
June introduced several changes to be mindful of information management. Intelligent call recap provides AI-generated notes and action items that allow us to focus on the conversation.
- Copilot Deployment Kit in Viva Amplify generally available
- Teams meeting organizers can manage access to meeting artifacts such as meeting transcripts, recordings, AI-generated recap, and Copilot
- Customize Copilot-drafted messages in Teams
- Teams meeting organizers can manage who can record and transcribe meetings
- Explicit consent for recording/transcription in Copilot for Teams
- Intelligent call recap for Teams
- Transcription Management in Microsoft 365 Copilot
- Teams meeting recordings will be saved to meeting organizer’s OneDrive for Business
- Tenant-wide policy for permission to download meeting transcripts and user-level controls for who can view and edit meeting transcripts
- Meeting organizers can manage access to meeting artifacts such as meeting transcripts, recordings, AI-generated recap, and Copilot
- Explicit consent for transcription in Teams meetings
July continued to build on the enhanced and personalized Copilot experience including speaker recognition so we can all participate, regardless of where we are working. If you haven’t already, create your voice profile in the Teams desktop app.
- Speaker recognition and attribution in Teams Rooms enabling the unique value of Copilot
- New supported languages in M365 Copilot: Traditional Chinese
In September we rolled out Microsoft 365 Copilot wave 2, where we introduced a whole new way to work with Copilot. We brought together web + work + Pages as a new design system for knowledge work, which included advanced data analysis in Microsoft Excel, dynamic storytelling gin PowerPoint, managing your inbox in Outlook, and more. We also added new guidance in our Service Trust Portal for security, regulatory compliance, and privacy information.
- Microsoft 365 Copilot now has the latest model, GPT-4o, and enhanced orchestration
- Microsoft Copilot with enterprise data protection
- Announcing Copilot Pages for multiplayer collaboration
- Expanded controls for managing the availability of Copilot in Teams meetings
- Microsoft Copilot Academy now available to all Microsoft 365 Copilot users
- Expand Copilot’s knowledge with 50 million items of external data via Microsoft Graph connectors
- Generate images and use pre-built agents with Business Chat
- Add visuals to Word and PowerPoint documents with Microsoft Designer in Copilot
- Microsoft 365 Copilot Risk Assessment Quick Start Guide
- Microsoft 365 Copilot Transparency Note
- SharePoint Advanced Management - Data Access Governance report on content shared with 'Everyone except external users' in last 28 days
- New supported languages in M365 Copilot: Welsh and Catalan
- Copilot in OneDrive generally available
- Summarize content over a specific period of time with Copilot in Teams
- Copilot in Excel now generally available and Copilot in Excel with Python now in Public Preview
- Copilot in PowerPoint Narrative Builder
- Prioritize my inbox by Copilot in Outlook
In October, we doubled the number of available languages and introduced agents to make it easier and faster than ever to automate and execute business processes.
- Scaling your team like never before with Copilot agents
- New supported languages in M365 Copilot: Bulgarian, Croatian, Estonia, Greek, Indonesian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Serbian (Latin), Slovak, Slovenian, and Vietnamese
November was Microsoft Ignite, our annual event for developers, IT professionals, and partners to showcase the best of what’s next for Microsoft. Copilot and agents were the star of the show, and we rolled out the Copilot Control System with more tools for IT Pros to maximize business value.
- Introducing Copilot Analytics to measure AI impact on your business
- Create from file with narrative builder for Copilot in PowerPoint
- Draft agendas and schedule focus time with Copilot in Outlook
- Copilot on OneNote Canvas
- Copilot in Viva Amplify
- SharePoint Advanced Management: Enterprise Application Insights for SharePoint sites
- Integration of Glint and Pulse results into Copilot Dashboard
- Introducing new agents in Microsoft 365
- SharePoint agents generally available
- Copilot in Viva Glint generally available
- Bing web search query citations for users
- Web search query logging
- Allow web search in Copilot
- Microsoft deployment blueprint: Address oversharing in Microsoft 365 Copilot
- Announcing Microsoft 365 Copilot includes SharePoint Advanced Management capabilities
- SharePoint Advanced Management - Restricted Content Discovery (RCD)
- SharePoint Advanced Management -Permission State Report
- Data Security Posture Management for AI (DSPM for AI)
- Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for Microsoft 365 Copilot
- Oversharing assessment in Data Security Posture Management for AI (DSPM for AI)
- GenAI risk detections in Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance
- Risky AI usage detections in Purview IRM
- New supported languages in M365 Copilot: Indonesian and Serbian (Latin)
December isn’t over yet, and we’ve already shared new features to enhance user-centric experiences, new admin controls, and more security and governance innovations.
- Ground prompts on local files in Business Chat
- New drafting with Copilot experience in Outlook
- Copilot on OneNote for Mac and iPad generally available
- New Copilot adoption metrics and completing total actions taken
- SharePoint Advanced Management - Restricted Access Control (RAC) policy insights
- SharePoint Advanced Management - Enterprise Application Insights
Thank you for making 2024 the year of Microsoft 365 Copilot. Your dedication and feedback were key to our success. We’re incredibly excited to see what 2025 holds and to continue this journey together.
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