Microsoft 365 Copilot
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“Yes, with Enterprise M365 Copilot.”
“the current Enterprise version, with the poorly-named "GPT 5.6 think deeper" option, is very decent indeed.”
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“I switched from the Copilot IDE plugin to the standalone Copilot 365 app, where it could explain the principles behind every step”
“it’s been extremely useful to the non-tech folks at my work.”
Caveats and dissent
“Copilot is just not performing well.”
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“it contradicts all their other marketing about Copilot”
“where it would give me random word descriptions in Hebrew”
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“We're the team making Copilot indispensable.”
Threads where it came up
- Microsoft abandons personal AI chatbot race with Copilot reboot 2 mentions
- Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption is under 4.5%, only 1% use it weekly 2 mentions
- Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only 2 mentions
- Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas 2 mentions
- Why current LLM costs are not sustainable 1 mention
- Microsoft's MAI-Code-1-Flash Scores 51% SWE-Bench Pro with Just 5B Active Params 1 mention
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All comments 25
“Yes, with Enterprise M365 Copilot.”
“the current Enterprise version, with the poorly-named "GPT 5.6 think deeper" option, is very decent indeed.”
“It's a bit quirky in that it won't accept a lot of file formats, but appending .txt to the end works.”
“Copilot is just not performing well.”
“For example, Microsoft 365 Copilot.”
GitHub Copilot refuses to do any security testing or proof-of-concepts for exploits. While I understand why, we pay for Enterprise and I’m working on our proprietary code base. It’s incredibly annoying. I’ve actually had luck taking the analysis from GHCP and pasting it into our M365 Copilot and getting a useful poc to stick into my bug reports.
A recent funny story on this topic: https://idiallo.com/blog/what-is-copilot-exactly HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603231
“I can't see any value in it at all”
“MS are quite open about accuracy for the business offerings”
“it contradicts all their other marketing about Copilot”
“where it would give me random word descriptions in Hebrew”
“You want to take a look at Microsoft office, my bad Microsoft copilot 365”
“That’s Microsoft 365 Copilot” to you, buddy.”
“Chat is summarizing email messages even though these email messages have a sensitivity label applied”
“Copilot is technically unable to retrieve more than 24 email messages. Ever.”
“I believe you need to pay for an add-on called "Microsoft 365 Copilot"”
“I switched from the Copilot IDE plugin to the standalone Copilot 365 app, where it could explain the principles behind every step”
“they've spent renaming Office 365 -> Microsoft 365 -> Microsoft 365 Copilot”
“Only 1.8% of office subscription holders think it's worth paying for copilot.”
“I use ~~Office 365~~ the Microsoft 365 Copilot App online all the time”
“create a paper trail (in the event of future regulatory or legal class action)”
“It's like Microsoft deliberately engineered 365 Copilot to be as unhelpful as possible”
I think what people want in the long term is truly malleable software: https://manuel.kiessling.net/2025/11/04/what-if-software-shipped-with-a-software-engineer/
“Maybe Copilot could learn that I do this and just...do it for me”
“it’s been extremely useful to the non-tech folks at my work.”