Microsoft Copilot Cowork Just Launched | Here's What You Need to Know - video Dailymotion

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Microsoft isn&#039;t messing around with this - and in my opinion it&#039;s one of the biggest mass adoption stories we will see this year.   This is a huge upgrade so be sure to check out the articles here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2026/03/09/copilot-cowork-a-new-way-of-getting-work-done/ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2026/03/09/powering-frontier-transformation-with-copilot-and-agents/ ____________________________________________   RESOURCES:  💻Analyst Builder - https://www.analystbuilder.com/  📖Take my Full MySQL Course Here: https://bit.ly/3tqOipr 📖Take my Full Python Course Here: https://bit.ly/48O581R 📖Practice Technical Interview Questions: https://bit.ly/46pDqqL  Coursera Courses: Google Data Analyst Certification: https://coursera.pxf.io/5bBd62 Data Analysis with Python - https://coursera.pxf.io/BXY3Wy IBM Data Analysis Specialization - https://coursera.pxf.io/AoYOdR Tableau Data Visualization - https://coursera.pxf.io/MXYqaN  *Please note I may earn a small commission for any purchase through these links - Thanks for supporting the channel!* ____________________________________________   BECOME A MEMBER -   Want to support the chann

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00:00What's going on, everybody?

00:01Welcome back to another video.

00:02Microsoft just made a huge pivot.

00:05They had been aligning themselves with OpenAI

00:07for the past several years,

00:08and all of a sudden they're like, it's Claude time.

00:11It is time to completely change what we're doing

00:13because OpenAI is not doing it for us.

00:15So they partner with Anthropic

00:17to bring us Copilot Cowork,

00:19which is essentially the exact same thing as Claude Cowork.

00:23And so in this video,

00:24we're gonna take a look at everything that they've announced.

00:26We're gonna take a look at one of the videos

00:27that they put out as a promo,

00:28and we'll talk a little bit about the cost and my thoughts.

00:32Now, to get us started, the CEO of Microsoft

00:34made this announcement on X the other day,

00:36and here's what he said.

00:37He said, announcing Copilot Cowork,

00:39a new way to complete tasks and get work done in M365.

00:43You hand off a task to Cowork,

00:44it turns your request into a plan

00:46and execute it across your apps and files,

00:48grounded in your work data

00:49and operating within M365 security and governance boundaries.

00:54Now, obviously this is a massive deal

00:56because they're gonna be releasing,

00:57basically, agentic AI to the masses.

01:00This is gonna be for the everyday person

01:02who uses Microsoft 365.

01:04Maybe not everybody,

01:06because as we see in their documentation,

01:08it's gonna be quite expensive.

01:10We can actually see it right here on their release.

01:12It says, Microsoft 365 E7 will be available May 1st,

01:16with a retail price of $99 per month.

01:19Now, this is gonna be all within the Microsoft ecosystem.

01:22It's gonna be able to connect all your apps,

01:23all your different tools and put it all in one place

01:26and use Cloud Cowork to basically go

01:28and do a bunch of awesome things.

01:30At least, that's what they're promising

01:32and what they're saying it's going to do.

01:33Now, I, myself, use Cloud Cowork all the time.

01:36I've been using it a lot.

01:37And so, I kind of know some of the downsides

01:39of using Cloud Cowork,

01:41and I'll talk about that later on,

01:42about just some of the issues that might pop up

01:45with something like this.

01:46But they have released this already to a select few

01:49who are in their preview version.

01:51We can see that being mentioned right here,

01:53where it says Cowork is being tested for a limited time,

01:55with a set of customers as a research preview,

01:58and will be available through the Frontier program in March.

02:02So, if you want access, you can get access.

02:04I will have links to the stuff that we're looking at

02:05in the description, by the way.

02:06So, you, if you want this Frontier program,

02:09and you wanna try to get in and get hands-on access with this,

02:11that is how you can do it.

02:12And they're basically collecting data, collecting feedback,

02:14to see what they can make better

02:16before they release it to everyone on May 1st.

02:18Here are some of the places that I think people

02:20will be using it the most,

02:21although it is in other tools as well.

02:24It's gonna be in Microsoft Copilot in Word,

02:26Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

02:29These are the tools that just your everyday person

02:31within the Microsoft ecosystem

02:33is gonna be living in and using all the time.

02:35They're also calling this Wave 3.

02:37I didn't know there was a Wave 1 or Wave 2,

02:40but if you click on this link,

02:41this Wave 3 terminology is everywhere.

02:43I didn't know about these other Waves,

02:45but this Wave 3 is probably their biggest one by far.

02:48I think agentic AI is kind of the future

02:50of where we were heading with AI.

02:52And so this in and of itself is a huge announcement.

02:55I'm talking probably one of the biggest announcement

02:57with AI that I've seen so far.

03:00The last one was just basically for information.

03:02Here's what's gonna be happening.

03:03Here's how much it costs.

03:04Here's some of the details.

03:05This link, which I will have in the description,

03:07is basically hands-on demoing of these features.

03:10Now, there's a lot of them.

03:11I'm gonna scroll down a little bit.

03:13We have one, clean up your calendar,

03:15reschedule meetings, and protect focus time.

03:17Build the meeting packet and align the team,

03:20generate the deck, document, and follow-up.

03:21We have three, four, and that's it.

03:24Now, I'm gonna show you this third one

03:26because I think this is the most relevant one

03:28and probably the most interesting one to watch.

03:31Imagine needing deep financial analysis on a company.

03:34That means scouring through dozens of web sources,

03:37connecting the dots, and turning it into something

03:40your team can actually use.

03:41CoPilot Cowork was built for exactly this.

03:45It begins with a research plan, determining what to investigate

03:49and where, grounded in your instructions to focus on facts,

03:53not opinions.

03:55It doesn't just find information.

03:57It pressure tests it, catching gaps before they become problems.

04:02Then it synthesizes everything into the financial story

04:05that ties it all together.

04:07Starting with a consulting quality report

04:10with a detailed company analysis and every source cited.

04:14Then it drafts the email to your manager

04:17with every artifact attached and ready to send.

04:20And as you drill into the spreadsheet,

04:22the full detail is there

04:24with the right protections automatically applied.

04:27The quarterly revenue trend, segment analysis, balance sheet, and more.

04:32This is CoPilot Cowork built for real work.

04:36So what it is promising right here is to basically go out

04:39and scrape the web and pull in data.

04:42Now, this is something that we've seen with ChatGPT.

04:44We've seen it with Anthropic, Gemini, all the different AI models

04:48and all the different AI tools out there.

04:50They do a lot of web scraping.

04:51They pull the websites in.

04:53They analyze and synthesize the data.

04:55So that is what it's promising it's going to do

04:57based only on facts and not opinions.

05:00So that's the announcement, basically everything that you need to know.

05:03But I'm going to give you my thoughts now.

05:04And I see this going in several different directions

05:07and I'm not sure which path we're going to be going down.

05:11And so I'm just going to give them to you

05:13and then let me know in the comments

05:14which path you think is the most likely.

05:16Now, to preface this, it's $99 per month per seat.

05:20So it's $100 per month for, you know, a user.

05:23Now, smaller companies, that's going to be, you know,

05:26quite a bit of money.

05:27For larger companies, that's a drop in the bucket.

05:29They'll pay for it if they're in the Microsoft suite

05:31because what's an extra, you know,

05:33million dollars a month or something for their employees.

05:35But option one is it just goes really well.

05:38Like people love it.

05:39The integration is super successful.

05:41There really aren't a ton of issues

05:42and it really boosts productivity.

05:44And there isn't a ton of downside.

05:47I personally think that's at about 10%

05:50of what is likely to happen.

05:51The next option would be option number two,

05:53which is power users love it,

05:55but your average person just doesn't understand it.

05:57They don't really find a use for it.

06:00And so they just don't use it.

06:01And so it's really just power users who are using it,

06:03who are already in the Microsoft ecosystem.

06:05And that's a good thing, right?

06:07But it's not mass adoption.

06:09Option number three is there's a big launch on May 1st.

06:12A ton of people go and sign up for it,

06:14but then they have just a ton of customer churn, right?

06:17Things aren't working right.

06:18There's a bunch of issues.

06:20It's expensive, but people want to try it out,

06:22but they find it doesn't really help their company at all.

06:24And so that would be option number three.

06:27Option or path number four is, you know,

06:29I think the funny one, which is they release it.

06:32And then within the first week,

06:33there's tons of stuff online, calling it microslop,

06:36calling it all these different things

06:37and having real use cases

06:39of just cowork doing random stuff, right?

06:42And it's a bad integration.

06:43It just doesn't work how it's supposed to work.

06:46And it goes really viral for being terrible

06:48and it just collapses.

06:50And then lastly, we have option or path number five,

06:53which is people just don't really sign up for it

06:56because they're worried about privacy.

06:57They're worried about security and regulation.

07:00And although it says it's all within, you know,

07:02Microsoft's ecosystem and all their privacy

07:05and all their security, people just don't trust it.

07:08And so they don't really sign up for it

07:09and it never gains any real type of adoption,

07:12even at that $100 price per seat.

07:15So in my personal opinion,

07:16I think we're gonna have multiple paths.

07:18I think the first path is that

07:19not an immense amount of people sign up for it.

07:22And it'll really just be for power users.

07:24I think that's gonna be how it starts, right?

07:26It's $99 a month.

07:27For a lot of companies, that can be quite expensive.

07:30Yes, you may be able to get more work done,

07:32but not every company just has that lying around.

07:34And so it's not gonna be like a mass adoption all at once.

07:37I think there's gonna be lots of kinks along the way,

07:40lots of issues, lots of little things,

07:42things getting deleted,

07:43things being sent out that shouldn't have been sent out,

07:45wrong data being pulled in from websites.

07:48And then over the years, over the next two, three, four years,

07:50it does start to get a lot better, a lot more secure,

07:53a lot more accurate with what it's doing.

07:56And then over time, it gets a little bit cheaper maybe.

07:59That's a laugh, that probably isn't gonna happen.

08:00And then there'll be more mass adoption.

08:03That's what I personally think is gonna happen.

08:05I think it's gonna be a mixture of a little bit of each.

08:07And over time, I think it will get better.

08:09Let me know what you think though,

08:11because maybe I'm wrong,

08:12but I've been using Claude Cowork myself quite a bit

08:15for the past several weeks since it launched,

08:17and I really like it, I think it's really good,

08:19but it is not 100% accurate by any means,

08:23which leads me to believe that it's not gonna be 100% accurate

08:26in Microsoft's ecosystem as well.

08:28With that being said,

08:29I hope you learned something in this video.

08:30It's really exciting for all these agentic AI stuff coming out.

08:34It's a lot going on.

08:35I'm trying to keep up with it myself.

08:37I'm trying to keep you guys updated as well.

08:39If you liked this video, be sure to like and subscribe,

08:42and I'll see you in the next one.

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