Microsoft Launches Copilot Pro for Everyone, Introduces New Features

Microsoft announced last week that it’s extending its AI-powered assistant, Copilot Pro, to 222 countries, making it available to way more people globally. This comes following its initial launch in January.

Copilot was introduced as “Bing Chat” in Feb 2023 and was meant as a replacement for the Cortana virtual assistant. The quick release of Microsoft’s Copilot brings the company up to par with competition like ChatGPT, which has been available since November 2022. Copilot comes with the latest Windows 11 update, Microsoft 365 subscriptions (Windows and Mac), and the Edge web browser with Bing.

Microsoft introduced Copilot in late 2023 as a replacement for Bing Chat and Bing Chat Enterprise in Windows 11. It essentially merged these two products into one, called Microsoft Copilot. Originally only available to businesses, it was soon afterward made available to regular consumers.

Copilot Pro is included in Microsoft 365, offering additional features like generating entire PowerPoint slides from a simple chat prompt, rephrasing paragraphs in Word, summarizing documents, and replying to emails or creating new ones. Copilot Pro also appears in Excel for analyzing data and generating graphs.

Microsoft is also extending Copilot Pro capabilities to their free mobile apps in the coming months, including the Microsoft 365 app and Outlook for iOS and Android.