Office 365 is a cloud-based suite of apps and services centered around business productivity. Microsoft 365 is a bundle of services including Office 365, plus several other services including Windows 10 Enterprise. Office 365 is a cloud-based suite of productivity apps like Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and more. Let's break down the differences: The Short Version It got even more confusing when you learn Microsoft 365 includes Office 365. In fact, a lot of people already inadvertently called Office 365 by the name Microsoft 365, so it’s easy to see how the two products were confused. The name was similar to the already existing Office 365.

The confusion started out like this: Microsoft in 2017 introduced Microsoft 365, a bundle of existing products under one license, geared towards businesses.

The GPT-4 Large Language Model (LLM) that parses, understands, and creates human-readable text.There is a lot to be said for consistency in product names, but when you have dozens of products with multiple versions of each, similar names can get confusing fast.

Microsoft Graph and all your organization's content and context in it.

The Office apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, etc.),.

The Microsoft 365 Copilot system combines three technologies:

In addition, apps can use the Microsoft Graph API to connect to the data and enhance your productivity while on the Microsoft platform.

For those unfamiliar, Microsoft Graph is the single-point source in the cloud of all your data across all the apps you use in Microsoft 365. You can imagine it as an old-generation Clippy dressed up with next-generation AI.Īccording to Microsoft's announcement, Copilot brings together the power of large language models (LLMs) with your data in the Microsoft Graph and the Microsoft 365 apps. It's a chatbot, not dissimilar to the one you are already used to in Bing and ChatGPT. Microsoft 365 Copilot is an AI chatbot assistant that works alongside your emails, documents, meetings, and the new Business Chat service.

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