15 & 16 November 2023
Good Keynote: AI is driving a lot of innovation.
Microsoft Fabric in GA (25k instances already). New feature is 'Mirroring' - copy cosmos/SQL et al into Fabric. OneLake. Can bring lots of data from multiple sources into Fabric in near rela time.
MS Teams (320 million users): Bring everything to the user in one place, not just communications but a canvas for apps. Good place to build line of business applications. New teams app - way faster, easier to use. Teams Premium - intelligent meeting recap is working well, can integrate recap with copilot.
Copilots - needed for nearly everything you do. understand context of where you are. MS has hundreds of copilots.
Copilot Studio - Custom GPT's, can add plugin's to add your own data, can hook into an enterprises unique data.
Copilot for Service - allows agents to get information to provide support, looks interesting.
Personal thoughts: AI is going to be a mega trend that will influence the world hugely, there will be lots of weird decisions on the journey. Currently, it is mainly proving useful as another tool to help improve existing processes. AI helps me work faster and spend my time on exploration rather than bring base understanding together.
Part 2 Keynote:
Microsoft Graph gives the copilot context within an organisation. Use plugins to add enterprise data or Open AI GPT's.
Surface Pro Hub 3 released - looks good, rest of the hardware looks higher spec.
SharePoint Premium - improved knowledge and content management on SharePoint.
Copilot Studio - useful to build internal copilots. 1. Connect copilot to other systems using plugins or GPTs 2. create workflows 3. Controlled by IT.
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Mesh - Teams can join immersive experience/events, not sure what this means. GA expected Jan 2024.
Microsoft 365 copilot release to GA 1 November.
Why Copilot? MS are describing it as a productivity multiplier. Allows users to be more productive and more creative. Improves quality of work, avoids searching - as expected. Makes mistakes but is getting better.
Microsoft Copilot - Bing chat is just MS copilot
So when logging use Entra Id (Azure AD), get contextual enterprise information. Inherits security and privacy policies. ACL controlled. Includes MS graph and Apps.
Try it out: Copilot.microsoft.com - Chat data is not saved/stored by MS. Change from "web" to "work". Also available in Windows taskbar
Ability to use copilot to pull in information, show more graphs, get data. Good word example getting data from a pptx.
Great example of querying Excel using copilot, created a pivot table. Contrived but looks good, added rainfall from web to look at sales. Powerful.
Never thought of copilots for being a participant in a meeting - might us amazing. In teams meeting, takes real time notes, and pulls in info and summaries points for next meeting. Add as a collaborative partner, can visualize discussions on a meeting whiteboard.
Loop - flexible collaboration, now with copilot. Not my area but sounds impressive - i don't get it. People, working with people, now also working with copilot. Okay.
Copilot for Sales - looks promising. Hooks into existing CRMs.
Copilot for Service - working with customers, get data that is correct to solve customers problems. Concise summary, helps craft emails, updates CRM. Looks very interesting!
Viva - Microsoft copilot dashboard powered by Viva - not sure on this topic.
Summary: People using copilot don't want to loose it. AI is bringing big changes to many industries. Promise is to take the grind out of work - sounds great let's see. Copilot/AI will be a tool and shape how we work.
