Guide: The Differences between Copilot Services

The Copilot brand is now widely used across all Microsoft products. This can make it difficult to understand the differences between Copilot offerings. Below is a simple guide on the different Copilot offerings and their functions.

Microsoft Copilot Chat (Available to all Students, Faculty, and Staff with a DMU Account)

An AI-powered conversational assistant similar to Chat GPT, designed to help you with a wide range of tasks and is a great option to experiment with Generative AI. Available Here.

Microsoft 365 Copilot (Currently being tested at DMU)

Copilot integrated into your office apps. This version of Copilot also increases file size and quantity limits in Microsoft Copilot chat.

Copilot in Windows

The Microsoft 365 Copilot app Has replaced the Office 365 app in Windows.

You can search for the Copilot App in your start menu and right click to pin it to your task bar.
Microsoft Copilot chat is available right from the app by clicking the Copilot button on the left navigation menu.

GitHub Copilot

GitHub Copilot is an AI-powered pair programmer developed by GitHub (owned by Microsoft) in collaboration with OpenAI. It assists developers by providing autocompletions and code suggestions while they write code.

Power Platform Copilot

Microsoft offers Power Platform Copilot for low-code/no-code development tasks in Power Automate and Power Bi. These AI options provide suggestions and answer questions for app development and analysis.

Copilot Pro for personal accounts

Similar to the features in Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft sells access to Copilot for a monthly fee to private individuals.

Additional "Copilot" Tools

In addition to the tools listed above, Copilot helpfully says that Microsoft also offers:

Copilot Studio: A dashboard for data tracking and managed integration with third-party solutions like Workday and ServiceNow.
Copilot for Sales: Empowers sales professionals with AI assistance.
Copilot for Service: Designed for role-based service tasks.
Microsoft Security Copilot: Helps protect at machine speed and scale.
Dynamics 365 Copilot: Enhances experiences within Dynamics 365.

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