Summary: The author shares initial thoughts on Microsoft Copilot for 365, which is a paid version of Copilot that integrates with Microsoft Office. The free version of Copilot is already available in academic Microsoft licenses and offers reasonable value for mundane utility. In this admittedly simple review, the paid version is disappointing relative to other tools like ChatGPT Plus.
And this has been my own experience with Copilot (free with my institutional license; i.e. not Copilot 365) as well. I find it useful to do simple things like summarise webpages I’m looking at, but very limited for most of my use-cases.
I still think Claude is the best model for what I want to do.