Good luck finding competent Copilot help, warns Microsoft MVP

Copilot is so new that most people who claim to know about it know… not a lot. From The Register:

If you want to implement Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistants, don’t expect the software giant’s channel to be much help – they’ve scarcely had a chance to use it, never mind develop meaningful expertise in the tool. That’s coming from Loryan Strant, an independent consultant and longtime holder of Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) accreditation.

In a post titled “How to Identify Copilot Bullsh*t,” Strant opens with the observation that Microsoft has made it hard to understand which Copilot to consider. “Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365” is the product’s official name, after Microsoft changed it from “Microsoft 365 Copilot,” but also offers “Microsoft Copilot” – the new name for Bing Chat.

There’s going to be a lot of gold-rush mentality for the next little while. Something that happens when the biggest software company in the world pivots all its products toward AI.

Read the article here.

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