Employees can now toggle between ‘Work’ and ‘Web’ Copilots

On Monday, Microsoft added a toggle for Windows users that allows them to switch from the consumer version of Copilot to the commercial alternative for Microsoft 365 subscribers.

The Copilot switch is only available to users who work in organizations with Microsoft 365 licenses and can be identified by toggle between “Work” and “Web”.

As it would indicate, the “Work” tab in this new Copilot experience is the Microsoft 365 powered version of the pre-generative artificial intelligence while the “Web” tab represents the more general version of the AI freely accessible to Windows 11 users.

Like how Microsoft Edge operates with both consumer-grade and enterprise email accounts assigned, the “Work” version of Copilot enables more enterprise-focused prompting like “Tell my team how we updated the product strategy,” or employees can use it to update status based on meeting schedules, email, and Teams chat threads.

Copilot for Microsoft 365 utilizes the M365 graph to pull in information from various productivity suites to a centralized search query to help boost employee “creativity in Word, analyzes data in Excel, designs presentations in PowerPoint, triages your Outlook inbox, summarizes meetings in Teams – whether you attended or not – and so much more.”

Another advantage of Copilot for Microsoft 365 over its publicly available counterpart is enterprise-grade security and compliance built in. Copilot for M365 adheres to Microsoft’s Customer Copyright Commitment to help defend customers and pay for any adverse judgments if they are sued for copyright infringement for the use of the AI.

Copilot for M365 comes with a surcharge of $30 a month per user in addition to the price of a M365 subscription license.

Microsoft also opened access to Copilot for M365 by removing its arbitrary 300-seat purchase minimum and granted admission to Office 365 E3 and E5 customers.

For the entrepreneur or business-oriented FOMO head, Microsoft also offers Copilot Pro which is a step up from the general consumer version of Copilot for Windows but doesn’t require the same M365 license to access a similar set of enterprise-like features for $20 a month per users.