@phaZed I guess the key word in that article is "may".
I've got an office full of IT guys that live and die on Dell laptops that are plugged into docking stations with at least two, sometimes three monitors on it. We have a sister company in the building who's CEO has FOUR Samsung ViewFinity S95UA curved monitors attached.
There are at least 8 different monitor configurations in use over a population of about 50 people I'm aware of.
All of us use Copilot... none of us have had this issue.
You will also note, the feature you're looking at is Copilot for Windows, which is baked into Windows 11. This is in effect Bing Chat Enterprise rebranded. Organizations with E level M365 subscriptions can configure privacy into this form of Copilot to prevent information leaks and keep the bot trained on the organization itself. Everyone smaller is basically just using a Microsoft owned shared instance of ChatGPT 3.5. If you're comparing this copilot to the ChatGPT 4.0 available via OpenAI's website you will notice accuracy issues. However if you compare it to the free ChatGPT option it's quite comparable. I haven't noticed much of a difference from either system I've asked to do things.
As for getting it to automate production of your spreadsheets, THAT is called Copilot for M365, which went live November 1st. There are however... some HUGE glaring issues.
1.) It's only available to M365 E5 subscribers with an EA agreement.
2.) It's only purchasable via an organization with access to a Microsoft representative. (My company is managed, so we can sell it)
3.) It's priced at $30 / user / month.
4.) It has a minimum purchase of 300 users with an annual commitment.
5.) It only integrates with the current beta release of the Office applications.
Note point 5... the office suite didn't get the release that allows Copilot integration until just before Christmas, so early adopters after paying through the nose couldn't even poke at this until Christmas AND they had to expose their entire organization to the bugs attached to the preview versions of the M365 on premise and cloud software to do it!
Security Copilot is only available if you fork over $100,000 to get into the preview program. (yes, we have clients doing this)
But it's Copilot for M365 integrating with Power Automate that I'm most excited about, because it's that pathway that will enable me to configure my mailbox to trigger a flow that results in document creation when I receive a ticket from Autotask.
Not to mention the tools in Teams that have been announced, and the ones in Word... and the ones in Excel... Outlook...
Sadly, MS has hinted the minimum purchase won't reduce until the end of Q1, and even then it's only going down to 200 users. I don't think we'll see general availability of M365 Copilot until next year sometime, and even then I'm not sure Microsoft will allow subscriptions smaller than E5 to be upgraded to include the feature. Note, I said M365 E5 not O365 E5... you need the BIG package to play here.
The problem? Microsoft needs GPUs... and nVidia can't make them fast enough.
