More room for the people behind education. Cowork for EDU brings education-focused workflows to Copilot Cowork—from preparing substitute handovers to assembling accreditation evidence. Explore: msft.it/6013aaw6W #AIinEducation

Last week we started rolling out interactive slides in PowerPoint, and I wanted to share more about why I think it will transform your presentations when you can explore ideas together with your audience. With interactive slides, you can use Copilot to synthesize context and data to create dashboards, timelines, or other slides you can click through to highlight insights and tell your story. Read more in my blog update: techcommunity.microsoft.com/…

Look at these amazing cookies inspired by OneNote and Copilot Notebooks ✨ Props go to our amazing team admin for ordering these for the bake sale. #MicrosoftLife

Today we’re taking another step toward our vision of an agent for every person and every process. Last month, we started rolling out Autopilot. Today, Copilot Studio is taking the next step with persistent agents in Microsoft 365. This means each agent can have its own account, so people can email it, add it to a Teams chat or channel or mention it in Word, Excel or PowerPoint. Business process memory carries all the teamwork and context forward in the next cycles all while IT stays in control. The first capabilities begin rolling out in preview today, with more planned. aka.ms/persistentagents/blog

New in Copilot Studio: Agent accounts + agent memory + agent triggers = a big step forward for teams automating business processes. Now agents built with Copilot Studio can get their own identity, use it to interact across many surfaces, remember context and improve across those interactions, and kick off work based on events and schedules, not just chat messages. This goes way beyond a personal productivity assistant. For example: A Budget Coordinator agent can now review every new cost line item overnight, tag the right owner in the spreadsheet on transactions that look like they need more scrutiny, drop a summary into your group Teams chat and respond to three emails about invoices while you're on the train into work. BudgetCoordinator has its own secured access to data and interacts and responds as itself (not a maker or end user). It remembers what it was told and the preferences of people who interact with it. A Project Manager agent can collect status from multiple signals and people, remember it all and update the report accurately, be mentioned in a comment and respond to it, and know to send the right updates to stakeholders every day at 5pm. "ProjectManager are we on track for milestone 3?" "ProjectManager mentioned you in a comment" Check out details and demos here: microsoft.com/en-us/copilot/…