{"id":610650,"date":"2023-11-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2023\/11\/24\/meet-the-microsoft-tools-it-will-make-you-use-next-year\/"},"modified":"2023-11-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T00:00:00","slug":"meet-the-microsoft-tools-it-will-make-you-use-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2023\/11\/24\/meet-the-microsoft-tools-it-will-make-you-use-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Microsoft tools IT will make you use next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"> <strong>Microsoft really, really wants you to love Teams <\/strong>(ain\u2019t gonna happen at Enterprise World Headquarters) <strong>and is rebranding Bing Chat as Copilot <\/strong>as it rolls AI across its core Office products. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>We\u2019ve long contended two things about Microsoft that we think are particularly relevant <\/strong><strong>as we unpack the flood of announcements that made up last week\u2019s Microsoft Ignite event:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Satya Nadella has remade Microsoft<\/strong> into a fierce competitor (his being blindsided by recent events OpenAI notwithstanding);<\/li>\n<li>Like it or hate it, <strong>the operating system of big business is Microsoft Office. <\/strong>Not Windows. Not macOS, Android, iOS or ChromeOS. It\u2019s not Slack or Salesforce or (sadly) Google Workplace. It\u2019s Office. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>Microsoft made that clearer than ever at Ignite<\/strong>, last week\u2019s event for the IT professionals who will decide which tools you\u2019re going to be using in the months and years to come. <strong>Here are the highlights you need to know about:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>#1- Microsoft has officially launched <\/strong><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-loop\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Loop<\/a><\/strong><strong>, its <\/strong><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.notion.so\/\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Notion<\/a><\/strong><strong> clone. <\/strong>It\u2019s just about as ugly as Notion, if <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/11\/15\/23959801\/microsoft-loop-launch-notion-competitor\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">less feature-filled<\/a> \u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>\u2026before you dismiss it: Loop is a message from the future. <\/strong>You can designate specific components (think: a table of financial indicators, a paragraph of boilerplate, or a to-do list with people @mentioned in them) and pull them into Teams or other Office apps. If you update the component in Loop, it automatically updates wherever else you\u2019ve used it. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>Yes, the numbers will update themselves \u2014 everywhere, automatically. <\/strong>Imagine that at scale in a PowerPoint as the tech behind it (branded fluid) rolls out. Now imagine how many 100s of hours your team is going to save updating an IPO \/ M&A \/ board \/ investor presentation as the numbers keep changing and changing and changing\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>#2- Teams will redecorate your background. <\/strong>Didn\u2019t need that, but thanks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>#3- Teams will turn you into a legless, Meta-style 3D VR avatar <\/strong>using <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/mesh\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft Mesh<\/a>, a \u201csolution that enables your distributed workforce to connect like never before in a 3D immersive space, helping virtual meetings and events feel more like face-to-face connections.\u201d <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_0InCXA13L8\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Take an antinauseant, then watch, runtime: 1:01<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>#4- Microsoft is rolling its inchoate, half-baked planning tools into what looks set to be a <\/strong><strong>single, smart, streamlined app <\/strong>sometime early in 2024. Microsoft Planner will <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/11\/15\/23962052\/microsoft-planner-task-management-announcement-date-ignite\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">absorb To-Do, Planner, and Project for the Web<\/a> \u2014 and will include a Copilot AI integration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>#5- Bing Chat has been <\/strong><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2023\/11\/bing-chat-is-now-microsoft-copilot-in-potentially-confusing-rebranding-move\/\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">renamed<\/a><\/strong><strong> Copilot <\/strong>\u2014 and it\u2019s going to permeate everything from PowerPoint to Teams, Microsoft and Outlook. <strong>Copilot Studio <\/strong>is its version of the AI app store that OpenAI rolled out before Sam Altman got thrown under a bus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>Wait, wait: Where\u2019s <\/strong><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/copilot\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft 365 Copilot<\/a><\/strong><strong>? <\/strong>The full integration of AI into Microsoft\u2019s tools was announced months ago and is now rolling out to 600 big business customers around the world who (a) managed to get approved and (b) can shell out USD 30 \/ user \/ month for a minimum of 600 seats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investment bankers and research analysts are going to love the promise of Loop \u2014 but 3D legless Teams avatars? 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