Jared Spataro

So she's here to talk about the new Copilot Home experience.

So Jared Spataro announced a few weeks ago, uh, the new changes that you'll see as part of the Home experience for Copilot.

So we're gonna show you a video first that might look a little familiar to you, but before she joins us, we're gonna take a look at that new experience.

[upbeat music] I don't know about you, but I was getting into it this morning.

Um, and, uh, I think you had...

I think Jared Spataro had a great blog post around this, uh, just a couple weeks ago, and it's gonna be a big part of kind of some of the announcements over the next couple months.

But really, what, what the goal of kind of like the Super App kind of vision is, is really a single, single app for kind of how you leverage AI that's built for kind of your work, right? And so there was a couple different things that came together as a part of this announcement.

So number one, there was kind of actually a, a merger of kind of what today, if you come to Copilot, you can either kind of chat with Copilot, which is, it's kind of a, usually it's a modality.

Start with what happened.

On Friday the 25th, Microsoft published a post from its marketing chief for AI at work, Jared Spataro, introducing what it calls the new co-pilot.

One app, three tabs.

The first tab is called Home.

'Home is where you get your bearings, keeping you grounded and moving forward.

Review recent activity, get suggestions on what Copilot can help with, and pick up right where you left off work,' explains Jared Spataro, Chief Marketing Officer of AI at Work at Microsoft.

The Code tab is the surprise addition to the so-called Super App, and not one you'd typically associate with an app designed for knowledge workers.

It will let anyone create an app, tracker, dashboard, or automation and share the results with colleagues as cloud-hosted internal apps.

How do you not just kind of make your old process faster and maybe more efficient? How do you actually make it better and deliver greater value? And that's something that I think is going to become probably the most important aspect of what really differentiates organizations that really pull ahead with AI versus those that get more efficient but don't really differentiate themselves.

So when I interviewed Jared Spataro last time you issued the report, there was this blocked agency concept, right? So somebody trying to go beyond their, you know, the what's now possible kind of conversation and getting blocked by jobs, roles, and responsibilities, functions, somebody else's decision-making ability.

How do you loosen that? Yeah.

that is such a great question and you know one of the things that was in the work trend index which i think might have been the report you were talking to jared about was that actually many people think the barrier to success is you know that individuals are anxious about ai or that they haven't learned enough about ai but in fact what we found is that it's these organizational issues that you drive that are holding things back more than individual adoption And so one of the things we're doing is really thinking about how do you change the whole system? So, for example, in one of our software engineering teams, they have now moved to eliminating the specific job titles for some of our colleagues so that they are no longer kind of stuck with or wed to their old job design.