Your Outlook inbox is about to get several Copilot AI upgrades for free - here's what's new

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As expected, Microsoft Build, the company's annual developer conference, featured artificial intelligence at center stage. The company's AI companion, Microsoft Copilot, received several upgrades, including ones that make the Microsoft 365 suite of apps much easier to use. 

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Copilot in Outlook

Reading, organizing, and answering emails are tedious and time-consuming tasks that are crucial to everyone's daily workflows, regardless of your industry or occupation. To help, Microsoft has added new Copilot features for Outlook mail and calendar that are now generally available to users.

According to Microsoft, Outlook is helping people find what they need quicker by generating summaries of search results and attached files within emails. This feature not only speeds up the inbox navigation process but also enhances your security as the summaries give you a glimpse of what's in the files before you open them.  

Users will also now receive summaries with relevant context and tasks related to the meeting topic before a meeting. Instead of scrambling to find the relevant materials yourself, Copilot can present them for you so that you are better prepared. 

Copilot Pages 

Copilot Pages, the feature that allows users to turn a Copilot response into an editable and shareable page, received several new features to make it easier to access, all of which are generally available this month. To start, Copilot Pages will be available on mobile. Users will be able to create or edit a page and then revisit it on mobile or the web later. 

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Users will also be able to transform Pages into a Word document with one click for settings that require traditional files. The Microsoft 365 Copilot app makes it easier to search and filter a list of pages through the Pages module. Lastly, Chat and Pages will feature interactive charts and code blocks as output options. 

Copilot Wave 2 is here

In April, the tech giant announced its Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2 Spring release, which included a Create feature that allows users to access OpenAI's model GPT-4o to generate AI images that follow company-approved brand guidelines, a Microsoft 365 Copilot app, and a Copilot Notebooks feature that allows you to add different aspects of your workflow, such as Word documents and PowerPoint presentations, to a notebook. These features are now moving to general availability. 

The Researcher and Analyst agents, which can conduct higher-level research and data analysis by leveraging existing OpenAI models, are rolling out this month to customers worldwide via the Frontier program. 

GitHub for Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams has long offered GitHub apps for developers to facilitate collaboration when sharing code. The GitHub app for Teams has now been upgraded to be faster, more intuitive, and with added features. It is generally available now. There were a lot more GitHub announcements, including its very own agent, which you can access here. 

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