With Copilot now embedded across Windows, Office, and Teams, Microsoft essentially turned the entire productivity stack into a conversation. Your documents, slides, emails, and chats are no longer just places you work; they’re training data for the assistant sitting quietly in the corner, waiting for you to ask for help or accidentally trigger it.
The interesting part isn’t that AI can summarize meetings or draft emails – we’ve all seen the demos. It’s that the default pattern of work is shifting from “open a tool, do a task” to “ask the system to do the task with you.” That’s a subtle but massive change in how people think about their jobs.
Of course, this only works if organizations clean up their data, permissions, and processes. Copilot can’t fix a messy SharePoint site or a decade of random file-naming habits. It just reflects them back, politely, in natural language.
If your workday becomes a series of prompts, what new skills matter most? And how do we make sure “AI-powered productivity” doesn’t just become a fancy way to generate slightly better status reports?
Related article: The Verge
