Microsoft Copilot

2025

Phil Fersht cites Microsoft Copilot summarizing emails and setting reminders as an example of a single-task agent.

“even like Copilot, you can use Copilot right now to summarize your emails and remind you to do things.”

Phil Fersht · Will AI Agents Replace Your Entire Workforce in 2025? | CXOTalk #876, 0:05:19

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Liu cites a tweet about a customer whose main AI strategy was Microsoft Copilot but who could show no measurable return on it.

“somebody saying, like, I'm talking to a customer who, uh, you know, who is, you know, saying Microsoft Copilot is their main AI”

Howie Liu · From No-Code to AI-Powered Apps with Airtable’s Howie Liu, 1:09:23

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AIM Labs demonstrated a vulnerability in Microsoft Copilot called EchoLeak, in which a crafted email caused Copilot to exfiltrate information.

“They did demonstrate a vulnerability on Copilot. Call they called it Echo Leak. So basically, it's the same RAG concept. You send an email, Copilot is just a big RAG.”

Donato Capitella · Dealing with increasingly complicated agents, 0:20:55

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The EchoLeak researchers bypassed Microsoft Copilot's regular-expression filtering of markdown syntax using a cleverly crafted markdown form.

“the guys found a way around it to bypass the regular expression that copilot was using.”

Donato Capitella · Dealing with increasingly complicated agents, 0:22:00

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Myers says Microsoft Copilot includes agentic workflows, such as an Excel bot, that FP&A teams can use.

“They actually have an Excel bot as an example, which helps you, you know, really rapidly, uh, enable and use Excel and and helps FP&A teams, frankly, get their analytical work done.”

Marie Myers · AI Agents in Finance with HPE's Chief Financial Officer (CFO) | CXOTalk 914, 0:27:38

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OpenAI released an Instant Checkout feature, and Microsoft Copilot and Google have comparable agentic commerce offerings.

“OpenAI released instant checkout, Microsoft Copilot has a solution, Google has a solution.”

Maia Josebachvili · What is agentic commerce? Stripe’s CRO of AI explains., 0:07:12

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Yoav Naveh says the second wave of enterprise AI adoption was widespread use of assistants such as ChatGPT, Copilot and Claude, with the employee still responsible for the work.

“I think the second wave came into play with kind of a very high adoption of assistance.”

Yoav Naveh · Managing AI Agents at Scale Across BFSI Operations - with Yoav Naveh of Reindeer AI, 0:03:04

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Yoav Naveh says that when he asks most financial organizations what they are doing with AI, they often answer that they gave Copilot to all their employees.

“And in most organizations, still, you're asking what they're doing. Like, oh, we gave copilot to all of our employees.”

Yoav Naveh · Managing AI Agents at Scale Across BFSI Operations - with Yoav Naveh of Reindeer AI, 0:06:38

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At his previous organization, Baldwin's team deployed about 150,000 Copilot licenses to boost personal productivity.

“we deployed at scale, you know, o 150,000 co pilot licenses um, across the organization to really boost personal productivity.”

Andy Baldwin · The CIO Agenda for AI (with IBM Consulting), 0:04:06

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Baldwin cites Copilot and IBM's Watson Orchestrate as tools that provide new user experiences while still accessing legacy source systems.

“you're seeing the power of tools, you know, of like Watson Orchestrate, in that you can have a different user experience, but still access the source system.”

Andy Baldwin · The CIO Agenda for AI (with IBM Consulting), 0:51:13

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Winters says Microsoft Copilot customers wanted proof tied to their existing workflows rather than small daily time savings.

“we don't necessarily care if I'm saving people five minutes of time a day. So really show me on paper something that's tied to my existing workflows”

Kellen Winters · Proving AI ROI in Pharma Marketing - with Kellen Winters of Novartis, 0:04:16