Summary
Microsoft’s Copilot Pro is a $20 monthly subscription offering AI features in Office apps, enhanced image generation tools, and access to the latest OpenAI models. The service provides improved image creation through Designer using AI models and offers text generation and data visualization capabilities in Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook. While some features like email summaries in Outlook are highly useful, others like text rewriting may not significantly enhance writing quality. Copilot Pro shows promise for Microsoft’s AI initiatives, especially with image generation advancements, but may need further enhancements to justify the subscription cost.
Highlights
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I’ve been using Designer to experiment with images, and I’ve found it particularly impressive when you feed it as much detail as possible.
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Like the image generation, the paragraph rewriting can be a little hit-and-miss, introducing different meaning to sentences by swapping out words. Overall, I didn’t find that it improved my writing. For someone who doesn’t write regularly, it might be a lot more useful.
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Copilot in PowerPoint is equally useful if you’re not used to creating presentations. You can ask it to generate slides in a particular style, and you’ll get an entire deck back within seconds. Designer is part of this feature, so you can dig into each individual slide and modify the images or text. As someone who hates creating presentations, this is something I will absolutely use in the future. It certainly beats the PowerPoint templates you can find online.
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Overall, I think Copilot Pro is a good start for Microsoft’s consumer AI efforts, but I’m not sure I’d pay $20 a month just yet.