Office was built primarily through acquisitions. As a result, they often suffered from a lack of integration and coherence. Various parts of Office have become similar over time, but I still consider Office not as integrated as Lotus Symphony. After all, Symfony components use the same code base.
The integration provides a single interface to users. These interfaces allow users to use the individual components needed to create spreadsheets that automatically update as new information arrives, or composite documents with photos and data.
When the recently announced co-pilot begins connecting all aspects of Office at some point, users will feel that the various components are more tightly integrated than ever. Since what people perceive is often reality, Office needs to feel better integrated, and possibly Microsoft needs to improve on Office’s inherent flaws. Thanks to this, the productivity of general users will be further improved.
another desktop overlay
Some tools, like cut and paste and spell check, have always worked relatively well in all parts of Office. Although the components themselves are separate, these tool overlays have created a perception of “integration that doesn’t require true integration.”
The generative AI on which CoPilot is based represents another overlay. Although technically separate, they are closely related components to parts of Office. At first everything will work the same, but later you can create more complex projects by calling other desktop components as needed.
The program’s built-in AI tells what to collect and how to complete the ordering method, which can be centralized and applied to all office products. This greatly simplifies and saves time the task of creating complex documents containing documents, web pages or other content that must be kept up to date.
rewrite the future?
The tasks that will be possible with the co-pilots are diverse. Imagine a report that automatically reflects the latest issues, a quarterly financial report that is automatically reviewed every three months, an article that automatically updates photos taken after an article is written, and content updates that provide readers the latest news in context. he.
For urgent situations, report forms can be generated so that only data values need to be updated. For example, it will be possible for AI tools to edit and revise pre-written articles based on information received seconds after the election results are announced.
Competitor analysis reports, including findings, can be automatically updated as new information is entered. Reports can include what-if scenarios to preview how specific internal or external events in the future will change results and recommendations. For example, imagine a situation where you want to convince someone that a decision they will make will be disastrous. Create a report highlighting the desired outcome, modify the parameters to include bad decisions, then show how the desired outcome changes.
A few years ago, I saw a company go bankrupt because of a bad decision. This could have been avoided if these predictive tools had existed at the time.
The key to improving productivity and consistency
This possibility gives an idea of the importance that generative AI will have in office suites. I believe the benefits are maximized by using generative AI as an overlay. Like the spell checker, it operates independently of individual desktop components and is invoked as needed.
Over time, Microsoft should evolve to allow users to create spreadsheets, documents, and presentations from a single interface, and eventually complex documents that are automatically created/updated from a single interface. only interactive interface. This is not a history limited to documents. It should also be usable in web pages, metaverse elements, scripts and news stories.
In summary, Office with Generative AI will be much easier to use and dramatically increase productivity. Early implementations of Co-Pilot are just a few. This is the starting point for changing not only the way users interact with their computers, but also the way they interact with others.
One may wonder if we are ready to accept the depth of the changes to come. But office changes would be welcome.
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