🎙️ Three MVPs at the table, a Copilot button that nobody uses, and a token limit that’s already maxed out by ten in the morning. In this episode, Robbert joins us again, and you can tell immediately. There’s laughter, teasing, and above all a lot of substance about where Copilot, Cowork, and Agent 365 really stand today.
We dive into statements about licenses, costs, and why “GA” by no means always means that everyone understands what it does. The EU data boundary comes up too, including the nuance that legally it’s all a lot less black-and-white than is often claimed. We also look at how choices around models, auto modes, and “critique” make not just a functional difference, but a financial one as well.
Robbert explains how frustration with tokens led to a Purview capability map, Danny shares concrete Cowork use cases with Power BI and Excel, and Hakim discovers how far you can get with a vague prompt like “I’m going on vacation, help me.” Meanwhile, plugins, skills, connectors, and federated Copilot connectors fly past your ears.
The episode ends more philosophically than planned. About always being on, notifications, focus blocks, social media, and why AI is actually interesting for us as a way to bring calm back into work that never seems to end. Less noise, more thinking. And yes, sometimes just turn Teams off and Copilot on.
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