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Copilot can now connect directly with OneDrive, Google Drive, email, and other services.
The connectors are opt-in only and available through user settings.
The AI assistant can also now create and export documents via simple natural language prompts.
Microsoft has begun rolling out an update to Copilot on Windows that enables the AI assistant to connect directly with OneDrive, Outlook, Google Drive, Gmail, and other personal productivity apps. The news arrives just days after Copilot was upgraded with new memory adjustment features.
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Through the new connector upgrade, which is opt-in only, Copilot users can prompt the system in natural language to, say, summarize a work project timeline that was sent in an email by a colleague. The assistant will automatically search through your email to retrieve the requested information.
To grant Copilot access to their personal accounts, users can open settings, click "Connectors," and select which services they'd like the system to be able to interact with. Of course, you'll be sharing more data with Copilot by doing this, so think twice if you're not comfortable.
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